The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-05-15
"COME SOUTH! YOUNG MAN. .

President Harrison, on his tour through
the South, after having seen the won
dcrful growth of Lynchburg, Bedford
City, Roanoke, Salem, Radford, Pulaski,
Wythevilc and Abingdon and the indus
trial development in progress along the
line of the Norfolk & Western Railroad,
and viewed the country of Southwest
Virginia, said in his speech to the people
OF Bristol, Va:
my Fellow Citizene:-I have found not
only pleasure, but instruction in riding
day through the portion OF the State
of Virginia that is feeling in very strlk-
ing way the impulse Of new Development.
1t is extremely gratifying to notice that
those hidden sources Of wealth which
were so long unobscrved and so long UNI
used are now being found, and that those
regions, once so retired, occupied by pas
| toral people, having difficult access to the
center OF populations, are now being rapid
| " transformed into busy manufacturing
and commercial ccnters. In the early
settlement OF this country emiSrants
poured over the Allcghanes and Blue
| Ridge like waters over All obstructng
ledge, seeking the fertile and attractive
farm regions Of the great West. They
passed unobscrvcd these marvellous hid
den stores OF wealth which are now being
brought into use.
"Naying filed those great basins OF the
West they are now turning back to ' lr-
gina and West Virginia and Tennessee
10 bring about the iull development and
production for which time is ripe and
which Viii surprise the world. 1t has not
been long since every implement OF iron,
domestic, agricultural aud mechanical,
was made for YOU in other States. HE
iron point ol the wooden .nold board p!ow,
with which the early farmers here turned
| the soil, came from distant States. But
now Virginia and Tennessee are stirring
their energies to participate in large
degree in mechanical productions and III
the great awakening Ut American COM
mcrcc and American influence which VIII
| lit the nation TO place among the ma
tons Of the world never before attained.
hat is to hinder us when We have
secured the markets of our own States
that We shall reach oNt and enter INTO
successful competition in tic markets OF
other parts OF the world: say what is
to hinder this people; possessing by the
Providence of God, all the elements OF
material wealth; endowed with Il genius
and energy unsurpassed among the ma
lions Of the earth, shall again have on the
great seas i merchant marine tying the
flag OF the common country and carrying
its commerce into every sea ard uphold
ing its honor in every port!
II am glad to-day TO stand 10" this mo-
nent among YOU and 10 express my sym
pathy with any and every interest that
tends TO develop YOU as Il people. AIN
glad to stand with YOU Oh one common
platform OF respect for the constitution;
differing is some Of us may do in our
opinions as to what the law should be and
how it should be applied; having in view
one common devotion of obedience 10 the
law as the majority OF our people, by
their own representatives. make it.
Il shall carry away from here re-
ncwcd impulse to public duty; a new i'll
spration as Il citizen, and that too, of
country whose greatness is only dawnlnS.
| "And now let me express to YOU the
pleasure | shall have in every good that
can come to YOU as a community and to
each Of YOU a. individuals. May peace,
prosperity and social order dwell in all
your families, and the fear and love Of
God in every home.
CONE TO NEclHIA.-The coming wool
growing; agricultural and iron producing
section Of the United States.
Cone via Merchants and Minors
Err. | in
and ,yiyallia X. H., Via NoriolE. .: Wash
New England. ngton. or Harrisburg; Hnltimor. Il
lOhio Il. r., Via Shenandoah Junction
From \. y. Come via Old Dominion Steamship
~ j. Line Via Norfolk. Pennsylvania K.
Penn. L.. via Norfolk, or Washington. or
:. Del. Harrisburg; Baltimore X Ohio H. H.
" NJ. via Shenandoah Junction.
From the Come via Pittsburgh. or 'ia Cha:,
Yves. ttanooga. or via Columbus aid Ashland
For all inturmation maps, reference
books, pamphlets, ETC. descriptive Of The
wonderful mineral and agricultural re-
sources Of the States Of Virginia and
West Virginia, apply TO Agents OF Tie
Norfolk & Western railroad. 3!.W Wash
insion, Street, Boston; 305 Broadway.
New York 1913 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Washington, y. c.; 81 East, state Street