The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-16
SOUTHWE EST VIRGINIA NOTES.

'iuthH StcPPiHS StOHeS dC All street
crossings.
The New Castle Hardware and Manu-
featuring Company's planning mill.
or so ago, has been rebuilt; the new
machinery has arrived and it is now at
work again. The dry kiln was rebuilt
and resumed operations a few days after
it was consumed by the flames.
The stone work for the bridge across
Craig's creek on the Junction Land and
Improvement Companys property at
New Castle Is progressing nicely and is
being done in Il neat and most sub
stantial manner. Mr.. Litch has the con-
tract Tor the stone work and the job will
commend him as thorough, pains
taking workman.
An oil we'll is being sunk in Crump's
bottoms, w. Va, near the channel of
New river. a Pittsburg company have
charge of the enterprise. y depth of
over two hundred feet is said to have
been reached.
Soon after the discovery of gold in
this State in 1S2S, several mines in the
counties of Orange, Spottsylvania,
Louisa, Goochland, Fluvanna and Buck
ingham were worked with more or less
profit, but owing to the want of suitable
machinery and tho presence of sulphur,
most of them were abandoned. The
virginia mine at the hcadwaters OF
Mine run was worked by New York
company, and they obtained $1,000 pr
week, which was scarcely half of what
the orc contained, but owing to the
want OF proper machinery and the pre-
sence of sulphur during the CONNER
clal and financial crash Of 81 the mine
was abandoned. The White Hall mine,
in SnOtt w ~ nj ,vhicI,
about the same time, was what is called
pocket mine, and there being no sui
phur to hinder amalgamation with
quicksilver, has been worked with more
or less success at different intervals
since that time, and from the best eSti-
mate OF competent Judges at least ST.
00O, 900 have been taken from that mine
Not many months since nugget was
taken from it worth nearly $500. These
two were the first mines discovered in
tho State. Recently some of these gold
mines have been worked with improved
machinery, and are said to be paving
100 per cent. upon the capital invested.
The slate mines of Buckingham, which
are thought to contain the best roofing
slate in the United States, are now
being profitably worked.
The Advance says that the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railway Company have
brought their pilc-driver to Basic City
and are cxpending $4,000 on subway
on Augusta avenue in that town.
Major John a. Throckmorton died in
Culpeper county last week. lie entered
the Confederate army rs private in
the Sixth Virginia Cavalry and rose to
rank of major in that regiment.
Frank Gilmer has sold his farm.
'Bridgeland," in Albemarle county, to
l.. w. Cox ~ Co., for $1,000
Interest is being aroused in this sec
ton of our State to develop the sulph-
urctted pyrites deposits, which are be-
lieved to be, if not quite as extensive,
equally valuable and capable of furnish
ing The necessary ingredients in the
manufacture of tho commercial fcrtili.
zers. Two OF these deposits are now
successfully worked, and yielded during
the month of February. as shown by
Official report. upwards of 5000 tons of
sulphurets, which were exported from
Mineral City, the nearest depot on the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad to Balti-
more, Cleveland, Ohio Duluth and other
| places for extraction. Besides sulphur
these ores yield Il large percentage of
gold. Companies are being formed to
work other places of equal value, and
general spirito of inquiry is being aroused
for the development OF our untold
mineral wealth. Gordonsvillc ,Sun-
Herald.
Major llotchkiss represents a syndi-
cate of New York capitalists which
have purchashed immense coal areas in
West Virginia in the counties of Wyom-
ing. Nc Dowell, Mercer, Raleigh, Fay
ettee, Greenbrier, Nicholas, Summers,
Webster, and Pocahontas. The coking
| Goa Is Onnd those a
to be of the finest quality, and the guam
tlty many times greater than the ia
nous Connellsville deposits in Pennsyl.
vania. This syndicate proposes to
build railroad to connect with the
road now being built from Charleston
up the north bank of the Kanawha
river, so as to give them an outlet for
| their coal and coke by the most direct
route to the sea board. The outline of
this railroad, as drawn by Major IIotch-
kiss, passes through the counties CT
Fayette, Nicholas, Webster, and Poca-
hontas, in West Virginia, and High
land, Augusta, Rockingham, Albemarle.
| Greene and Orange in Virginia, to Cor
louisville. Major IIotchkiss states that
! the syndicate already have sufficient
capital to build this road as far as Shcn-
| dun. From Shendun to tide-water by
the most direct route would lead to Cor
louisville, and from thence to some point
on the lower Chesapeake Bay in Mid
dlescX county. The road would pene-
trate the Blue Ridge at Browns Gap,
and would pass through Greene county
and the lower edge of Madison, before
| striking Gordonsvillc. There is a pro-
ject for narrow guage road from Cor
louisville to Madison Court House. Mad
ison county people claim that that
county is ready to vote S75,0 sub
| Scription to such n road. which would