The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-09-04

last three weeks is expected tomorrow, to push
gin as intended Tuesday, Sept. 18th. Mr..
Bcckford has been successful in raising among
his relatives, sc;,ool-matcs at Yale, and friends
in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York
City, a considerable SUM for the building, and
further will probably erect cottage for his
own use in Plat 8.
Two ca: loads Of brick have arrived and
eight others are on their way for the residence
of Mr.. W. J. IIorsley on Poplar l!;il.
Mr. d. {. Williams. living within mile of
Big Stone Gap, is the originator CT the at
tempt to cultivate ginseng, and has one Of the
only two known ginseng farms in the world,
(the other being in Lee county near by Mr.
Williams has in at present an acre and half,
rich shaded soil, which he sowcd with seed
and planted with roots, propagating very
rapidly. In three years the plants come to
maturity and Mr.. Williams says that by
judicious system Of cutting and digging, the
plants can be made sclf-perretua;ins. As the
dried ginseng is worth here $50 per pound, a
profit of several thousand dollars per acre can
be realized from its cultivation. Ginseng
finds its sale in China almost exclusively,
where it is used rs medicine, and to be burned
as incense in its temple.
The Big Stone Gap Crate & Mantc COM
rany made run of castings amounting to 400
lbs in about an hour Monilay afternoon.
Sleeping cars are now running through Big
Stone Gap from Louisville TO Norfolk direct,
and are proving a great convenience to this
section.
Mr.. j.. l.. Jennings superintendent of the
Water Works is kept busy putting pipes into
dwellings, and business houses. He has lad
experience in this business from Alaska to
Mexico, and SAYS that nowhere else has he ever
seen so pure water supply. 1t is 80 pure that
DR.. Shelton, of the drug-tirm Of Shelton Il Co.,
says it will stand the nitrate of silver test
(Which some of our gentlemen will under
stand, that is to say some nitrate of silver be-
ing dropped into it, it remains perfectly pure.
1t would turn cloudy or milky it there were any
mineral salts, dccaycd or organic matter init.
As Il matter Of fact the head of the system is
above the last house on the river Or any other
possible source of contamination, flowing, rs it
does, from a primeval forest in a sandstone
formation. 1t is very light and pleasant to The
taste, and has 10 effect upon the drinscr, ex-
cept that if hc has been accustomed TO lime Or
other impurities, their absence will be noticed
temporarily, and negative effect produced.
The Louisville & Nashville is still delivering
from 100 to 200 cars of freight per day to the
Norfolk & Western. One engine came down
Tuesday with Al cars and a caboose, IL train
1900 feet long.
Friends of the Louisville & Nashville. notice
with pleasure the rapid rise in value of it's
stock from 60 odd La few weeks ago to II and
over this week.
Dr.. a. j. Hoback is moving this week from
his tent quarters to one Of the Gootloc cottages
on the corner Of Giley Avenue and West
First street.
There were $40 arrivals at the Central Hotel,
and AL at the Inferno during the month
of July, total of $50 people; in August there
were 343 at the Central and 3l4 at the Inter-
mont, total 657, which indicates a good travel
for months usually considered dull.
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Several members of the l.. S. Geological
Survey are encamped at the North end Of the
Gap, working up the geology Of this section,
the topography of which was takcn BY other
members of the force some six years ago. Tie
dcvcoplncntin these parts is thus attracting
the notice of the government, and hence these
researches, one object of which, it is UNDER
stood, is to study the formation and locate The
anticinal in which natural gas is generally
found AS compliment, the sheet containing
the geology and topography of the territory of
which our place is the center, Will be called the
Big Stone Gap sheet.
Few men in Southwest Virginia keep more
closely in hand with the industrial development
of the South than does Col. John C. Haskell,
President of the Virginia, Tennessee Caro-
lima Steel Iron Co., which has such large
holdings hereabouts, and he has recently
shown his faith by his works in buying for him
self and friends in New York City tract ofcoal
Nand, just through the Gap, in which Gov.
f0amphell, of Ohio, was interested, and he was
here again yesterday to buy another boun-
dairy for other friends. Such things indicate
the development that is bound TO come to us
little later.
The Valley Street Railway bridge at East
Fifth street would have been in use for trains
before this, but the iron men unfortunately
furnished cast iron parts where wrought
pieces were necessary, hence the delay.
| The traiIs of the Valley Street Railway
are now housed in their new car shed On East
| Fifth streef The enpnp and two cars which