Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-23


University OF Virginia, pantops academy, |
ard the Miller Manual school, The pre- |
sent population OF the city and suburbs 10
eight thouaand~-an increase OF over one |
hundred per cent. In the last i've years
and the industries in successful operation
are three planning mills, an extensive wine
cellar. two ssah-, blind. ana dcor-iaetories.
cultural machine-shops, btick-works, -FOUR
mills. drug factories. woollensnills, knit
tsng-mills. and various other enterprises.
The city has telephone exchange, street
car lines, and two fourishirg banks, and IL
IN the heart Of the grape growing section
OF the State. Recently there has been
great increase m value of real estate. Az
Charlottesville the Chesapeake and Ohio
crosses the Virginia Midland, connecting
with ii for the South ola. the Danyille sys-
tenn.
CITY OF THE IRON CROSS.
Basic City is the first entirely new city
on the Chesapeake and Ohio line west OF
tho Biue Ridge. It's location III reference
to the great ore horizon Of the western
slope OF that range. has already been re-
ferred 10. Although Basic City was only a
wear old on the 9th Of last month. 1t Is
hive Of life and industry. Stores and
/ dwellings have gone up as ii by magic,
4 fine hotel has been opened, population mas
poured in, and the following are numbered
emong its enterprises erected, erecting.
/ and secured: A hardware-Inanufacturln
company. car-works, school-furniture iec-
tory, paper-fabrigue company, sash,
blind. and door-works. match-factory,
4 knitting-factory, blast furnace (buildinR),
/ crate-factory, brick-works, cigar-factory,
! water works, eleetric-light plant TIM and
sheet-iron works. normal school. Nego-
tiations are pending for several other large
plants. Waynesboro',. lust oevond BASIC,
1 = -. a 80 ha font Rgo7c (i1fV
the Chesapeake and Ohio crosses the
henandoah-Valley branch Of the Norfolk
and Western system.
| THE QUEEN OF THE VALLEY. 81
! Staunton, the queen Of that great gra-
| nary, the Valley, is 1876 miles from Rich
| mond and the junction of the Chesa-
| peake and Ohio with the Valley Branch OF
/ the Baltimore and Ohio. Staunton IS the
| seat of the Western Insane Asylum, OF the
| Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute, Of several
| OF the largest female seminarles IN the
| South, and its industries consist OF brass
goods factory, wagon-works, hourinR-mllls,
| furniture-factory, shoe-factory, fannie acid
| works, sash, blind. and door-tactory,
| planning mills, feed-mills, iron-works, ice
factory, and variety OF smaller enter
prises. A. magnificent new hotel IS IN
course of construction, and numerous
handsome private residences and stores
have been recently erected. The city
| drains rich back-country and ENJOYS q
fine and increasing wholesale and retail
trade.
Goshen is the depot of large iron fur
mace (the Victoria and is rapidly building
up. Here real estate has also made rapid
advances.
THE ALTOONA OF THE SOUTH.
As President Ingalls,, of the Chesapeake
and Ohio, has aptly remarked, Clifton
| Forge is the Altoona of the South" IT is
a place that throbs with vigor and life day
in and day out. III any one has an idea
| that the Chesapeake and Ohio is not a
great system conducting an enormous traf-
fc he has only TO visit Clifton Forge TO
| have that idea disslpated. At all hours OF
| the day and night the miles of track in the
company's yards are occupied by heavy
| trains awaiting the signal to move east OF
west over the main line or down the James
| River division. and as fast as one train
leaves another rolls III to take it's place.
Clifton Forge is the end of the
| James-River division of the main
stem and the beginning of the. Hunting
ton division. and is the seat of the new
| and mammoth workshops of the company,
which are practically completed, and
which will give employment TO hundreds
OF skilled mechanics in addition 70 those |
already in the service of the company.
! This plant covers acres and represents a !
value of about half million dollars, and its |
payroll. added to those OF the Richmond, |
Huntington. and Covlngton (Ky.) shops, |
will distribute S2,000,0 900 annually. AT |
West Clifton Forge, which is al extension |
of old Clifton Forge, the railroad company |
is building a beautiful modern hotel |
overlooking jackson river, and in every |
direction in both sections the greatest |
activity in building prevails. In the list |
of enterprises exclusive of those belong |
ing to the company are large woollen- |
mills (completed), stove and steel-range |
factory (erecting), a commodius hotel |
(erecting), planning mills in operation, |
eleetric-light plant (bullding), sash, blind, |
and door-factory. The railroad company |
are building spurs TO open up adjacent |
property, new depot is under construc- |
ton. and negotiations are pending for /
number Of plants.
Low MOOR.
Low Moor is equi-distant between |
Clifton Forge and CoYington, and is one OF |
the foundations of the revival of the pig |
iron interests after the war. Its furnaces |
and coke-ovens constitute an industrial |
centre in themselves and are recognized |
by shrew d businessmen and capitalists as
the nucleus of large town. The prospect |
of other industries at Low Moor has given |
solid value to real estate there.
covISGToN.
Covington. the junction of the main
trunk and the Warm-Springs Valley road,
and which, as has been heretofore shown,
is in the heart of one of the richest mineral
fields in Virginia, is adding to long-es-
tablished trade a telling line of industries.
Among those now located and under con-
struction are q 125-ton blast furnace, a
foundry and machine-shop, large brick
plant, q steam laundry, a rolling-rnill, a
houring-mill, and lumber and planning
mill. Covington has a national bank with
line of individual deposits amounting TO
S125,00 and has Just completed model
modern hotel. From Covington the Cam
den line will be extended to the Potts
Greek ore section. Coyington, Millboro,
and various intermediate points are i'm
portant cattle shipping depots.
CHARLESTON, W. VA.
Charleston, the capital city of West Vir-
GINA, has population Of about l,0O0
and is the doorway Of the great coal and
coke regions. 1t is the seat of large salt
industries an extensive timber trade, and
is rapidly taking advantage Of the pro-
ducts Of the mines and forest to make it
self prominent in diversity of manutacto-
ries. All around Charleston are the finest
character of clayst tor bricks, thing, and pot
terry, and sand for glass, and it is the natural
market for prolific wool-growlng section.
At Kanawha City, Hinton, Anderson, st.
Adams, and various other points east and
west, the spirit OF Improvement infused
by the road is manifested in the way of
building and developing the resources of
the adjacent country, while at Hunting
ton are found another large repair plant of
the road and the prophecy of another
great railway city. A little further on are
Ashland, with its great steel-works, and
Stone City, with it numerous quarry inte-
rests.
ALONG THE JAMES AGAIN.
Let the reader now return to Richmond |
and take another brief glance along the
James-River division. For miles above
Richmond the road passes through great
beds of building and monumental granite, |
which IN quality and beauty has no supe-
rior. aud which has been used in the con-
struction of some of the finest Government |
buildings at Washington. Although these |
beds have been worked for generations, no
perceptible impression has been made |
upon them, and it has been well said it |
would be impossible to give an adequate |
view Of their extent.
LOGAN CITY AND GRKENwAY.
At New Canton across the r1ver from |
Rearoo c,wkv oauaY, rnsiao from, D,cbv.nrlA |