The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-01-15


Some uneasiness is experienced by the
people of Clifton Forge about the loca
ton of the depot of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway at that point. lit is said
that the plans are all matured for the
erection of u $4,000 depot building q
half or three fourths of q mile from the
present town of Clifton Forge and near
ly opposite the new hotel being erected
by the Company on the banks of Jack
son river, and that work will be conf
menced on it at once. 1T does not follow
because of the selection of this site that
the 5000 or 1900 people, comprising the
present limits of Clifton Forge, are to
be ignored, and their necessities, i'll this
respect, dsregarded. AS rule railroad
corporations do not do business in that
way. 1t is their policy as we'll as their
duty to consult the convenience of com
munities, so as to impose as little incon-
venience as possible, consistent with the
business success aud welfare of the road.
Hence there need be no apprehension
that Clifton Forge proper Is to be ne
elected or the interests and convenience
of the people overlooked. The Com
pany will, we have no doubt, while per-
sisting in their present plan to erect Il
new depot at the point named, at
the same time give Clifton Forge equal
accommodations, and administer to their
wants. 1t would be anomalous if this
was not done. and would argue the alb
sence of business sagacity not often
found in railroad management. 1t has
been, under its present intelligent and
public-spirited management, the policy
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to
encourage all lines of business and all
locations where Improvements are con-
templated or in progress along its route,
and this will be the policy in the future.
We have perfect confidence in President
Ingalls, and those associated with him,
who control the policy of the Chesa-
peake and OHIO Company, and are salts
fed that competent depot accommoda-
tions will be furnished, not only to
Clifton Forge proper, but to every point
where business exists or there is an as
surance of business.
The Clifton Forge Company has al
ready secnred several important indus
tries, and others are in contemplation
which will largely add to the volume of
business that is now transacted there.
We confidently expect great activity in
building as soon as the weather settles
and out door work is tolerable. This
will Include the entire plat of the Cliff
ton Forge Company. Desirable sites are
available for furnaces and factory
plants, and the advantageous relations
of these sites to the mineral deposits
tracing the attention of iron men, who
recognize Clifton Forge as naturally
adapted for Industries of that kind.
We have full faith in the liberal pur-
poses of the Chesapeake and Ohio Com
pany; in the improvements that are
being projected at Clifton Forge, and
the boundless resources of the section
tributary to it, as Il center OF BUSINESS.
We are sure the railroad CONF. i will
render earnest, honest assista!-s. - all
enterprises, the establishment {: ?;ich
will give business to the road, an sill
assure such encouragement as vii? i
fly every organization in appropriafing
it's resources to the improvement and
development of that and all other local
tiles touched by the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway. Cooperative effort is
what is wanted, and this, we believe, to
be the policy of the railway company,
as it should be of all the organizations
which have been Or may be formed in
that section.