The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-25
VIRGINIA NoTEs.

| The fifty-siX pounE steel rail is being
taken up to be replaced by sixty-seven
pound rail. Rails to replace the ones
now in use have already been shipped
here and to Port Republic. The heavy
| traffic on the road demanded it.
A now map of Virginia is in course Of
preparation by Mr.. r. c. Mckinney, the
son of Governor Mckinney, who is on
the United States Geological Survey.
He is assisted by one of his associates
on tho survey, and their opportunities
! for obtaining reliable data are unexcep-
tionl.
1t is said to be the intention of the
Norfolk and Western railroad author
tiles to replace as far as possible and as
early as the work can be accomplished
| all their trestles with steel bridges
capable of carrying a much heavier
weight than the present wooden struc-
lures, and that the carrying capacity Of
all the bridges along the old Shenan-
doah Valley railroad line will be in
creased so as to enable the management
to run heavier engines.
The Damascus Land and Enterprise
| Company, Of Glade Spring, mot last Fri
| day in Abingdon and voted fifty thous-
and dollars TO the A. c. s. R. R., and
| right of way through their lands.
The earnings for the year 1890 of the
| Richmond and Danville railroad were
S2,454, sol, increase 1854, 211; of the Vir-
ginia Midland S7S5, 079, decrease S14, 900.
The Norfolk and Western railroad
authorities are requiring all persons
al, ny their lines. V. railroad-who
in any way occupy their property or
right of way to movc off it.
Tho Mineral City Pilot having fallen
heir to the outfit Of the old Louisa Ad-
vance, new paper has lately been estab-
| bearing the name of the Louisa County
News, and now old Louisa county has
two live, energetic weekly journals
within six miles of each other, and
doubtless they will look we'll to the in
! tercsts, not only of their respective
| towns, but of the county at large.
Basic City Advance: A syndicate Of
this city has purchased the Nlundy prop
erty, in Greene county, on which petrO-
leum was discovered some time ago, for
the handsome sum of 50, 600 cash, and
1000 and 10 per cent of the output Of
all coal and minerals found. AS far as
examined the oil is of superior quality.
The estimated wealth or the Virginia
Coal an Iron Company is as follows:
Samuel Dickson, 100000; John S.
Wentz, S50O,0O0; A. w. Leisenring,
81 ZOO, 900; M. S. Kemmerer, 81 ZOO, 900;
John c. Bullitt, 81 ,O0O,O 900; e. B. Leis-
enrieg, S3,OOO,OO Robert H. Sayre,
$4,000. 900; Samuel Thomas, 1900, 900.
Total, S16.000,oO0.
A company has heen formed at Shen-
dun to manufacture on q large scale a
fire and waterproof plaster. 1t will be
known as the Fitzgerald Patent Plaster
Composition. Capital, $4,000. The
contract for the building has been
closed.
A charter has been granted the Pitts
burg Southern Railroad Company to
build broad gauge road into the in
terror of West Virginia via Warrington,
making Clarksburg the terminus for
| Waynesboro and Washington railroad
in Pennsylvania.
Col. f. d. Hazcn, commanding the
| West Virginia division, Sons of Vet
Grams, U. S. A., has issued general
order fixing the date of tho annual en-
campment at Buckhannon. The en-
campment will be help on April 90 and
| 23-at the time of the G.. A. Il. encamp-
mcnt at the Same place.
Messrs. w. l.. Jones and Harry
Cushwa have been officially notified
| that their properties on the northwest
corner of King street and Maple avenue
| had been sele cted as the site for the
public building at Martinsburg, w. Va.
Hon. John Il. Thurman, of Bedford
City, died Saturday last. Mr.. Thurman
was a leading lawyer, had represented
the county in both branches of the
Legislature. and had filed many places
of trust and honor.
The contract has been signed by Mr..
w. S. Ficklin, of Charlottesville, for a
new street railway. 1t is proposed to
start the line at the Chesapeake and
Ohio depot, the present terminus of the
| Charlottesville and University street
railway, and run to Moore's creek, by
way of Belmont" Monticello avenue,
and Avon street, terminating at Tho
Grove" where will be laid out an attrac-
tive park and pleasure-ground. Work
on the line is agreed to commence as
soon as the wea Their will permit, to be
completed in ninety days after the work
begins. 1t is also agreed that the road
shall be operated for four years, cars to
be run at regular intervals, including
! Sundays, which is not done now. When
this limo is built Charlottesville and
vicinity will havo three street car lines,
one Of which is to be turned into an
electric line at an early day.
Mr.. Edward Corbett, of Washington,
has contracted to build large patent
process flour mill near Rio station near
Charlottesville. The mill will have a
capacity of seventy-nve barrels of flour
per day. and the contractor agrees that
it shall be second to none on tho mar.
kct. Tho mill will commence opera
tons by June 1st, and will be under the
management of Mr.. William Thacker
Hon. j. Il. Wingfield is president, Mr.