Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-05-08
STlUAIOl'S SPRIIG
OF 1891.
$435,575 SPENT IN BUILDINGS, FACTO-
RIES AND development IN
THE LAST IL MONTHS.


THE LAST IL MONTHS.
WHAT HER DEVELOPMENT COMPANIES
HAVE BEEN DOING-REMARKAB AND
SUCCESSFUL WORK OF THE STAUNTON
DEVELOPMENT COMPANY-FACTORIEs
FREIGHT RAILROAD. STREET RAIL
ROAD, INDUSTRIES BUILT AND BUILD
ING-WHAT PRIVATE CONTRACTORS
HAVE BUILT AND ARE BUILDING-A
FINE BUSINESS SLOWING FOR THE
QUEEN CITY OF THE VALLEY-A QUAR-
TER OF A MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF
BUILDING DONE HERE IN THE YEAR
AND MAKING A HALF MILLION DOL
LARS SPENT IN AND AROUND sTAUN-
TON DURING THE TWELVE MONTHS.
&C, &C, sc.
Staunton is as busy this pretty May
morning as a bee hive. Buildings are go
ing up, new street-car lines are being built,
and properties are being improved, every
workman is busy, the stores are thronged.
the sidewalks are crowded with people, on
the two railroads, from the North, South,
East and West, ten passenger trains about
one for every two hours-are rushing in OF
going out. On her streets her cars are
passing every five minutes. Along the
railroad front twenty smoke stacks of man
ufactures are sending up their smoke. 1t
is scene inspired with activity.
The winter has been a bad one, a desper
ately bad one, but it has not stopped pro-
gress. Around the edge of the city on the
Staunton Development Company's proper
ty, labor has been unceaSing and in spite of
weather factories have been reared, machin-
cry put in, railroad built and endless
work been done.
There has been, and is. no let up in
Staunton and it's suburbs. Inside the cor
porate limits during the year ending May
LIST, $205, 575 worth of building work was
done, and on it's edges 100000 expend-
ed in building factories for industries. If
to this be added the money expended for
street railway and freight railroad build
ing done On the suburbs Of the city which
was $4,000, it makes a grand total of
ss435, 575 spent in the activities of progress
in and around this city in twelve months.
Nearly a half million dollars A signifi-
cant incident of this progress is that of all
the buildings erected in Staunton, business
OIL residence, in this twelve months, every
one was rented from garnet to cellar be-
fore it was finished.
This expenditure of money and energy
has changed the whole face of the country
adjoining Staunton in one short twelve
months.
MENT COMPANY's ENTERPRISE AND
EXPENDITURES.
What would strike the observer most,
especially an observer whose home is in
Staunton, is the change that has come over
that section of territory owned by the Staun-
ton Development Company and adjoining
the city on the East. For while Of the
2276 acres of land owned by the company
some lies on the South, N orth and West of
the city, its planting Of industries has been
confined to that lying on the East
where the two great railroad lines form an
angle. The change in this angle since last
Spring has been simply marvellous. Stand
ing On the hill near the State Institution
for the Deaf, Dumb and the Blind, on which
it is contemplated to erect great hotel
and which overlooks this angle, the view
gives the spectator an idea of what the
company has brought about; what it is do
ing, and what it is preparing to do.
THE LINE.
In sight there ale four hundred men busy
at work. Almost at his feet he sees the
Y railroad built by the company over two
miles long. which is nearly finished and
will be ready for the rails by the last part
of this month. 1t starts out from among a
nest of industries already in operation, the
Witt u Holt Touring mill, plaster mill, fer
tilizer factory and SO forth, and makes its
way East from the B. & 0. road. 1t pene-
trates the property for over mile and then
after passing the Kroder works where the
tail of the I lies. makes it's turn for the
Chesapeake & Ohio road which it strikes near
the great Bodley wagon works. With this
I line and the lines of the B. & o. and G. &
o. through the company's property there
are about twelve miles Of railroad front
which can be occupied by industries. This
is an extent of railroad frontage for ship
ping purposes not approached by any other
improvement company in Virginia, and
when it is remembered that from any point
Oh this frontage, tidewater at two points
and any market in the United States, East.
West, n orth OF South, can be reached, its
great advantage becomes apparent. The
ibtaunton Development Co. built this Y line
itself in order that it might have the right
hereafter to give any new road the right of
Through this angle is seen a rapid stream
of water, Lewis creek, which will be of
great value for drainage purposes. 1t is
crossed by the Y line Oh a bridge near the
Kroder works.
THE INDUSTRIES IN THE ANGLE.
From the rolling plain below the specta
tor who stands On what. for geographical
location. may be called the Hotel Hill
comes the sound Of SAWS and hammers and
the calls of workmen, from many points.
Looking down into the plain, be
sees a gang of men handling large
boiler, which has just been unloaded from
aB. & o. train, and is being hauled to the
Kroder Brass and Curtain Pole Works a
few yards off. These works occupy several
buildings, the first of the series being up
and rooted in. This building is about 22t
feet long and two stories high. Othe1
buildings are to follow in which the casting
and other work is done. The line rpnI
right by the door Of the main building
These works will employ from $50 to 20!
skilled mechanics.
To the right OF them are the Mamie
Works of Campbell & BiXby, removed hers