The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-07
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NEWS.

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perfected the organization for National
bank with $4,000 capital. The stock is
all taken.
There are now moro people around
hero Dragging about their babies than
Tor many years. Our young friend, r..
says he puts his in the middle to sleep
for fear the rats will carry it otf.-Cor.
Luray Times.
The street committee of Staunton was
authorized by the city council, at its
meeting Tuesday night, to contract with
a. NJ Vaiz for tho construction of
stone bridge over LOWS Creek noar tho
southern end of New street. The work,
which is to be hurried to completion as
rapidly possible, will consist Of about
225 cubic yards of rubblc masonry.
Quarrying limestone for the founda-
tions of the Bodley wagon factory build
ings, near tho factory site east of
Staunton, is being carried forward
vigorously, and the work of building
Stables and lumber sheds has been COM
menced. A force Of about forty mon
is at work. Laying stone upon tho
factory foundation is to be commenced
this week, and will be hurried forward
as rapidly as possible. The Bodloy
company has large trade TO supply,
and, to avoid loss OF time, will ondeavor
from Wheeling to Stanton.
The unwilling of the Confederate
monument at Luray will take place on
June 1st
The stockholders Of the Buena Vista
Co., will hold their annual mooting on
Z the 18th instant.
The Buena Vista Building and I'm
provement Co.. bankers, report an in
Of in, f1,A,,
deposits during the past ten days.
An important branch of the Chcsa-
peako and Ohio railway, some fourteen
miles long, has recently been completed
from near Coalburg, Kanawha county,
w. Va, up Cabin creek and it's Raccoon
fork to the mines OF the Cabin Crock
Coal Company. now operated by the
Stevens Coal Company, which COM
menccd the shipment OF coal from the
Acme mine on tho Sth Of Dccembcr 1890
and from the Keystone mine Jan. 5, Is L
The Goals from this particular portion
OF the Kanawha field have been found
by actual test to be the very best gas
coal now known, and it is confidently
expected that the shipments from the
two mines already opened will soon
reach thousand tons day. We have
sent for the data OF Il full description OF
this important Cabin Creek basin and
its Goals which we will soon present to
the IT aders of the N WIS. 1t will interest
many people to know that these special
gas GOALS were d scovercd by Major
Jed. Hotchkiss nearly fifteen years ago.
-Shendun News.
Tho mombrrs of the German Reformed
Church in Basic City have organized
themselves into an active working body
and will at once take steps looking to
the erection of n handsome church ut
this place. Tho first meeting Of this
body WAS held in the Normal College
chapel two weeks ago.
The Graham Land and Improvement
[ Company, at the home Office in Philu-
delphia, has confirmed the donation of
twenty-five acres of ground granted hy
it's agent, Mr.. r. l.. Wright, Jr., to the
steam tanncry. The ground selected is
! in the Meek meadow, beyond and south
OF the furnace reservation.
~ In the past few weeks hundreds OF
of tho East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia and Georgia road havo been sus-
pended indefinitely and the dccapitating
process still progresses. Operators
mostly those on the night turn, Office
clerks, check clerks, yard masters, yard
conductors, and great many others
have been Released Tho cut down
is general, extending over the whole
line Fully thirty thirty per cent. of
the employees have been slaughtered.
EX-Unitcd States Senator n. Camden,
J Senator German, of Maryland, and other
capitalists interested in tho Baltimore
and Onio railroad, have just completed
deal for tract Of 70, 600 acres of coal
and timber lands situated near Coving-
ton, Va. The West Virginia and Pitts
burg, the line now being constructed
through the center of the State by Cam
den in conjunction with the Baltimore
and Ohio, will then be extended from
Williams River, its present terminus,
south so miles to Covington. When
completed the road will make through
ZINE from the Virginia ore fields to Pitts
burg.
At meeting of the Basic City town
council Monday the streets were form
tally accepted from the Mining, Manu-
featuring and Land Company, and will
thereafter be worked by the town.
Tho buildings of the School Desk
Manufacturing Company, at Basic City,
are nearly completed. and large mum
per of the hands employed in their con-
sltruction have been laid Off
1.-THE Ornamental Wood Works. at
Waynesboro, have started up. Some
forty hands are at work operating ten
machines. Balusters, mouldings newell
posts, hand ratings, corner blocks,
rosettes, screen work and scroll work,
;portico columns and spindlcs, mantles,
table legs and furniture trimmings are
the specialties.
A number Of gentlemen interested in
Bradford are investigating the coast of
81 gas plant with view to forming a
sconpany at an early date for the pur-