Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-02-04
Stauntot, Spectator.
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 4th, 1881.
Stanton.


PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT
"A CHARMING SKETCH OF TOWN AND |
COUNTRY.
Staunton is fairly in the race for growing
and substantial development. Many of her
citizens and hundreds of friends all over
the country are on the lines leading to a
safe and prosperous career for her, and
courage and confidence mark the course of
every movement adopted. Mr.. NJ. Erskine
Miller, the President of the Staunton De-
velopment Company, and Mr.. Reeves Gait,
who holds the same relation to the Staun-
ton improvement Company, lead the way
their organizations and inspire their as
sociates with zeal and energy in the good
work. The building companies follow
close after and individual effort has become
a fixed progress in the prospects of the,
goodly young city which, as centia
town of the Valley, is building up trade
and widening the avenues Of commerce,
laying solid foundations for q city in the
interior of unprecedented growth. Staun'
ton has command of the finest situation
imaginable for the utilization of the re.
sources Of wide expanse Of surrounding
country-a section of the richest soils and
Of hills and mountains loaded with the
richest minerals. Look seriously for few
minutes over the long roll of her men who
have 80 literally responded to the call of
the adjacent country, where furnaces and
factories and commercial and financial
growth were to be introduced, and mark
the decided and vitalizing stimulants they
furnished, and the fine returns which have
come home to them for their public spirit.
This manifestation of enterprise and the
trial of results inspire renewed confidence
in the opportunities at home. Superior
business houses and handsome residences
are going up. Additional homes for the
men and their families who are to drive the
machinery and execute the well-planned
system of artizan. work and labor employ
ment are in the order Of q wise provision
for the future, and it is we'll that the ex-
perienced from without is applied with its
profits to push forward home enterprises.
The times are suspicious for great
growth and an enduring prosperity for
Staunton. The Touring mills going up,
and the larger in capacity and outfit soon
to follow, betokens bright future for the
grain growers of Augusta county, and all
our adjacent Valley country, which is the
foremost in the State in the production of
the valuable cereals from which breadstufs
are manufactured. The Bodley Wagon
Works, which Mr.. Miller has secured
among the first of the instalments of plants
introduced through the Staunton Develop
ment Company, is an illustration OF the
reversed order of the day. The imports
and the exports in that leading interest in
agriculture and home transportation
changes sides. Heretofore we have main
tanned large importation all taken up by
local sales and no export. Hereafter it
will be mammoth export as well as sales
to our dealers and no importation. Ana
lyze and apply these results and note the
difference soon to be realized.
So it will be in many other pursuits, and
this, following the efforts already made in
other manufactures for export,) to be sue
ceeded by innumerable varieties as facto-
ries and workshops shall spring up all
along the belt railroad line of the Staunton
Development Company and in other local.
ties will begin to tell new story OF
Staunto1, and bind closer the affections
and the energies of her citizens in her
prosperous future.
How nobly our representative in Con-
gress, Mr.. Tucker, is filling up his plans
for the city of his home and for the people
to whom he is bound as with hooks of
steel, and at the same time, in every posi-.
BILE manner, caring and providing for tie
interests of his constituents who embrace
almost every phase of industrial snd COM
mercial enterprise, and the largest of
values in agricultural and live stock pur-
suits.
We repeat, the times are suspicious for
the exercise 81 VIII and energy, and for'|
success only requires the application Of the
old, familiar, and wise ipjunotion-"A
long pull, strong pull, and pull all
together"
Decidedly the most beautiful and inter.
esting book we have seen that has been is
sued by any city or company, descriptive
Of city, or other locality, is that issued by
the Staunton Development Company
The matter was prepared by Hon. Armi-
stead C. Gordon, and written in terse and
lucid style, making it as interesting as
novel, though it contains the simple facts
of history and things Of the present as they
exist, with foreshadowing of the bright
future. 1t is we'll illustrated with large
number of engravings, copied from photo
graphs by Edmund Berkeley, of buildings
and scenery in and around Staunton. 1t
was designed, illustrated and printed in
fine style on heavy double-calendered and
toned book paper, by the Southern Publish
ing Company Of New York. 1t is Of great
interest from the beginning to She end. In
the beginning is given the interesting
history of the Scotch lassies, "Betsey
BeIl'' and "Mary Gray" for whom the
two eminences near Staun.on were thus
named by early Scotoh-Irish settlers. 1t
then gives the history of the first settle.
ment here, the laying off of the grounds for
the town, tie character of the great Valley
IN which it is situated, its genial climate,
fertile soil, healshfulness, pure water, rich
mineral resources, transportation facilities,
and general advantages for business or
home comforts. Get copy and read it.
Nancy Churchwell, colored, who died in
Norfolk, Va, last week, was reputed to be
one hundred and three years old.
Representative Mckinley and Senator
Spooner are mentioned among the possible
successors of Secretary Window.