The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-24
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.

ready to operate soon. Mr.. Figgatts
yard, in Craig City, is making u large
number OF bricks daily. Messrs. Litsch
" Reynolds are also making brick in
| West End, while Messrs. Howard 4
Clarkson arc making extensive prepara-
tions on the Junction land.
1t is reported on good authority that
w. l.. Royal, Esq, of Richmond, will
visit England shortly in the interests of
Iron Cato. Mr.. Royal is counsel for
the foreign holders of Virginia bonds,
and has an extensive and influential ac-
quaintence in England.
The Central Land Company. of Har-
risonburg, chartered about year ago
by Judge Mclaughlin, has been lately
re-organized with an authorized capital
stock Of S75O,000 and will in the future
be known as the Central Milling, Manu-
featuring and Land Co. The officers of
the company are as follows President,
w. r. Craig, Staunton; vice-president,
nj. V. Richards, general land agent OF
the Is. IL .R. r., Baltimore; secretary
and general manager, n. L. Funkhouscr,
Harrlsonburg; treasurer, Geo. III. Grove,
Harrisburg, Pa. Directors: John Paul,
+. ). Thomas, a. II. Wilson, w. ii.
Richard, n. IL. Whitesel and A. p.
Funkhouser. of lIarrisonburg; Geo II.
Grove, j. X. Snavely and John IIoltz-
niger, of Harrisburg, Pa. w. Z. Craig
and 5. Brown Alien, of Staunton; NJ. V.
Richards, Of Baltimore, Md: William
Malone. of Petersburg; Alvin H. Martin,
of Portsmouth: E. w. Lands, of Read.
ing, Pa; John w. Click, Bridgewater;
John G. Watts, Tazewcll C. H.: w. o.
taker keedysvillc, Maryland. The
company owns large area of mineral,
timber and TOWNSHIP real estate, and
Will in tho fnt A..
development of its property on large
scale.
The Clifton Forge Wooden Mills Com
pany was re-organized on Tuesday last.
in the election Of thc-following officers:
President, II. p. Bowles; secretary and
treasurer, IL. llarman; directors, the
above, and j. l.. Duncan. T.. II. Sergeant,
OF Newark, n. j., and Il. NJ. Ncttle ton
MIR. Sergeant was elected general mana
ger. Operations will commence at once
and enlarge as soon as the additional
machinery ordered arrives and is placed
| a position
Messrs. Howell Il English, engineers
| in charge of the survey Of the proposed
railroad from Shenandoah to Harrison
burg, have completed their work Tho
report, including grades, statement of
distance, estimates of construction,
AN"oh'iAioJ Vi iouINi GU, WIS StnU III TO
tho proper authorities yesterday. or
this report we know nothing except
that it is very graft ying in the fact
that 1T demonstrates that the grades are
much easier than expected, and that the
route is through n section so prolific as
| to afford guarantee of furnishing n
large business to the proposed line of
| ranSportation.-Shcn Herald of
Progress.
Tho Rocky Mount Loan and Trust
Company has been organized with Col.
G. III. II. Greer, as president and James
c. Greer secretary and treasurer. The
! authorized capital of the company is
$4,000.
The Max Meadows Land and I'm
provcment Company are arranging to
publish an illustrated work of their
town.
The board of directors of tho Shenan-
doah Land and Improvement Company,
at meeting held on Saturday morning
last, elected Mr.. VIM. H. Reese, for
merly of Franklin, Pa, but for several
years past a citizen of Washington ID.
G., secre tary- treasurer of the company.
Mr. Reese comes very highly recon-
mendcd.
The work of grading the road bed of
| 1uc l. lHCdS'lc rdlltOau Is DclnE carried
on vigorously, md good Roadway is
being made. Tho heavy cut about Il
milc-and-a-half from this place will be
finished in a few days. Over two miles
have been graded.
The rolling mill at Shenandoah has
made considerable progress during the
last two weeks. One of the best IS
inch 3-high bar mills Of the Lloyd Pooth
Company, Youngstown, Ohio, has Just
been erected by Mr.. James McFadden,
who represents that firm; also fine To-
inch guide mill, pair shears and one
improved hat-saw. A few months more
will witness the manipulation of iron in
its various forms at this place.
The excavation being made for the
approaches to the bridge of the West
Shenandoah Land Company is proceed
ing satisfactorily, and the preparations
| for the beginning of the stone work are
| going ahead. We are pleased to learn
that the contractors for the iron work
have already began work upon their
part of the contract, and that there is
no longer doubt that the work will be
all done on schedule time-Septembc .
f. c. Root e Co., ars opening extcn-
sive coal mines at Tacoma, Va, on the
Clinch Valley division of the Norfolk
and Western.
| BEAL RELEASED.