Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-25
KILLED CITY.


up hill going down hill Anosnes ssosy
sh.s Aha mules In coming down hill ne
ouently caught their hind feet In tnes
shirt-collars. Be that - IL may cefss,n =
| il that old Lynchburg has ~ much n'n 70
the square-foot Is any city IN snc onpn'
but, paradoxical - 10 may seem, p1vk.
here has never been an up-niii oas'
Lsnchburg Is essentially city Of profrs
and pretty girls. Of heaithtuiness ana ssn6
| turesQue surroundings, OK rahrosos
For many wears Lynchbur9 was contens
to grow rich on manufacturing ,ooaccvs
| Int about n decade ago she concludeu 70
| diversity her interests. To conclude Win
the Isynchburg people has always been -
act, and that they acted vigorously on mn
conclusion is attested abundanty W
suits.
| THE SITUATION TO-DAY.
| Lynchbure is to-day still o giyst tobacco
market. handling between forty and nifty
| millions Of pounds OF the weed apnuaiys
| but during the period named there -
/ been tremendous expansion OF the wnoie.
sale trade, banking interest, and ministries
| other than tobacco-factorics; There So
| now nearly fourscore wholesale houses ~
| the place, whose aggregate sales run up %
nearly 100000 annually. and among wnas
nlsnts arc a large cottop-mill, two iron-
| furnaces. rolling. mill. machinery ana
| iron-pipe works, zinc-reduction WORKS.
barytes-mill. ice. factory. drug-mills, ex-
| tract of tan-bark factory, tertlnzer-,
wagon, carriage. and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ment-works, cannery, bone-mlii' spokes
and stave-factory, sumac-mii, orsss-
| foundry. marble-works, &c.
| RAILROADS AND POPULATION.
Here concentre the Richmond and Dan.
| vile. the Chesapeake and Ohio. the Norfolk
and Western, and the Lynchburg and Dur
ham railroads, and the population OK
| Lynchburg and suburbs 10 in the neighpor-
| hood of 10000. In addition 20 the, private
schools th9rs are ten public schools. Inc
churches number twenty-four. and there
| are three thriving daily newspapers PAD
lished in the place.
EXPANSION,
Considering the Typographical and other
| conditions here there could be only one
| outcome Of this. The business and manu-.
featuring expansion and the increase OK
population demanded an expansion OF ter
| ritory. A difficulty had to be met-or
rather TO be bridGed-and Lynchburg
| bridged IL. Northwest of tho old city and
| separated from 1t only by Biackwater-
| creek chasm. through which tho Blackwa-
ter runs TO join the James, y
a magnificent unbroken plateau. The
1
sand acres of land, has been made
an addition 70 Lynchburg, and. is called
| Riyermont. and moro beautiful place Tor
residences is not to DO found in oil Vir-
GINA. Riyermont, named for its magnif-
cent view of tho James. which skirts 10
for some distance. IL TO be connected with
the old town by magnificent iron bridge,
now building, which joins the main street
! of Lvnchburg with boulevard eighty
feet wide with nine-foot sidewalk, and
contract has been let for doublo-trsck
electric railroad TO cross the bridge and
extend along this boulevard Tor three anu .
quarter miles. This railroad will bo con-
tinuation Of the electric line on the nam
thoroughfare in Lynchhurg. an
Riyermont has been laid OF in lots hfty
by one hundred and fifty feet. and the
streets graded and prepared for thorough
system of sewage. Tho water supply OK
tho addition will be abundant, as tho re-
servoir capacity of Lynchburg is $500 900.
and can be Increased indefinitely. Three
blocks from the Riyermont abutment OK
the bridge property sold at public auction
d few days ago for $500 per front foot.
MINERAL SURROUNDINGS.
| Lvnchburg ~ centre or an immense
iron area, and her railroads give herunsur-
passed facilities for reaching the great coal
measures of the State. These also give her
unsurpassed facilities for shipping manu-
featured products all over the country.
But besides her iron. thore arc in eloso
proximity TO her large deposits OF manga
ncse, barytes. kaoline, tale, marble, granite,
sandstone, cement-rock, &C., ana thon-
sands of acres of land covered with poplar.
oak hickory, pine, and other valuable
| wood supplies for manufactured, Every
kind of hard wood OF the section abounds
right on the Riyermont property.
THE CLIMATE.
The climate of Lynchburg il delightful.
! The places suffers mo extreme wet or dry; "
cyclones and billiards are unknown. and
it enjoys great immunity from cold.
| Calculations made upon an accurate
! basis derived from the meteorological
Bureau in Washington prove that tho
average temperature, day and night. tor
the winter months of December. January,
aud February Is 1924; for tho spring
months of March, April, and May, b6.23;
for the summer months OF June, July, ana
August, 7l.37, and for the autumn months
| of September, October, and November,
SO. 25, and that the average temperature all
| tho year around is 1929.
On the RiYermont addition are nume-
| rous superb sitesfo manufacturing plants.
and the natural advantages OF location arc
to be supplemented by the completion or
belt-line of road connecting the Norfolk
and Western system with tho Chesapeake
aud Ohio road. This belt road passes d.
rectly through the Riyermont addition.
FREE SITES, &C.
Il At Riyermont the mcst liberal induce
ments in tho way of free sites and financial
, aid are offered to ell frst-class manufac-
turing plants to locate on the. property.
, but before any contract is made the fol-
: lowing questions have TO be answered:
Nature of business, capital to be en-
ployed, amount of business per annum,
number of hands TO DO employed. aud
whether male or female: state II new ms
chinery is to be used or an existing plant
moved; amount of land or acres or door
. space required for accommodation OK
plant; size and character of buildings To
be erected; are your employees generally
. persons of family! Before any contract -
closed the best OF references as 10 business
responsibility must DO forthcoming.
One of the great improvements 70 be
located at Rivermont Is Randolph Macon
: College for females. This institution has
secured an endowment Of $4,000 aud has
entered into contract 10 erect college
building to cost 100000. which Is 20 ba
completed by September, 1893, and which
! will be one of the handsomest buildings
architecturally in tho South. The college
authorities have also agreed 10 build pro-
fessors' houses at an estimated additional
cost of $780, GOO. Ii Is designed to make
! this institution the wonen's college OF tho
, South. Another Improvement Is hne
hotel which will be. put up at great cost
and be kept in the best style.
Those interested in promoting the de-
velopment of Rvermont will spare no ex.
pense in putting the property in condition
TOR building at once. All grading and
street construction will, as before stated,
be on the most permanent basis. 1t must
be patent to all visitors TO I.ynehbnrg thai
in the very near future there will be. .
great overflow in population from the old
city. and it is equally patent that River
! mont must not only catch this overflow,
J but get entirely new population. The lase
4 | decade has been but tho commencement
, Of Lynchburg's industrial development.
railroad development. and general busi-
ness development.
, Than the society Of Lynchburg there 4
a none more delightful, and the business Of
) the place will naturally crowd residences
over upon the Rivermont plateau aud
really increase values in the addition. In
deed, the Rivermont move has had tho
effect OF stimulating values in both the old
town and the new already. Rivermont y
in fact just what Lynchburg needed--was
: necessity as well for her present as fog