The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-03
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.

DR.. j. r. Gildersleeve, president oil
tho Tazewell Court House street cal
line, was at Bluefield last Saturday to
| see tho officials of tho Norfolk and
| Western Railroad Company in refer
ence to laying the track of their line on
| the railroad companys land at tho de-
pot. The question, however, could not
be settled at Blueiield, but was referred
to tho higher officials at Roanoke.
The Buena Vista Plaster Company,
which has long been making agricul-
tural lime on the Saltville branch, about
milo from Saltville, has commenced
the manufacture of calcino plaster,
! which business they will rush on large
scale.
Two or three new cases of varioloid
have developed at Bristol. Something
ought to be done in this matter. There
is probably no danger of tho disease
spreading to any great extent.
The Doe River Wooden Company. the
Watauga Woolon Mill Company, of
Eliza be thton, Tennessee, and G. H..
Lewis Woolen Mills, of Bristol, have
CONT ined and applied for a charter as
the Elizabethton Wooden Mills Com
pany. The capital stock of the new
concern will be $4,000.
Articles of incorporation of the
Greensboro Coal and Mining Company
have been issued, with an authorized
capital stock of 100000, in shares Of
500 each. This company owns land in
Stokes county, N. c., near Walnut Cove,
part Of the valuable GOAL bed in that
section, and it proposes to develop the
same at once.
Giles county farmers claim that their
last years crop Of tobacco, which they
have on hand, is the best they have
raised for years. With good prices for
tobacco, we can't see why the farmers
should complain so much.
Two Norman preachers landed in
Pearisburg this week and made applica-
tion to the school board for permission
to use the public school houses to preach
in. That permission, however, was re-
fused them and the last seen Of them
they were vending their way on foot
toward the railroad.
The annual catalogue of Washington
and Lee University for 1S9091, is just
out The total number of martriculates
for the session is 22S, from twenty two
States and territories. OF the depart
ments attended mathematics has 1913;
Latin 1O2; modern language %; general
and applied chemistry 81; geology etc,
SO: history SO; moral philosophy Ga;
natural philosophy 49, applied mathe-
mates 80; elocution 10; law SO.
There was large meeting of business
men of Smithfield, held in Young Mems
Christian Association building last
Wednesday. Il. 5. Thomas was made
pointed secretary. Mr.. Thomas, in as
& I'M ~ nh cta cd that m oh
of the meeting was to confer with the
committee from Chunkatucl1 now pres
ent as to the ways and means by which
they could procure railroad through
that section. 1t was the unanimous
opinion of those present tina. a road from
Richmond, passing along the south side
OF the James River, touching the num-
erous towns along the route, including
Smithfield and Chuckatuck, connecting
at Portsmouth. or Norfolk, would do
large and paying business.
Richards is 20 have bank with tho
following board OF directors: George X.
Dunn, of Norfolk; George Mccall and
S. Powell Griffith. Of Richards. and II.
c. Stuart, James l'eery, j. II. Gillepsic,
of Tazcwcll county, and Evans L. Dick,
of Philadelphia.
The roof of the big hotel at Goshen is
being put on and the immense building
is beginning to assume magnificent pro-
portions. and will be an ornament to the
town. Everything is moving steadily
forward, and all kinds OF business is
brisk.
The West Lynchburs Furniture Com
pany, located On Allegheny avenue,
West Lynchburg, has just been put in
operation. This il not by any means
the largesS furniture factory in the
country. but it is commodious in size,
and will take rank among the promin-
ent ones. The factory building is $50
feet long by 80 feet wide, with an L Sc
feet by "a feet.
A Pennsylvania syndicate has just
closed the contract for the immediate
erection of twenty-five residences in
Basic City. Work will begin at once on
three houses which will cost when
finished about 81 900 each.
All the machinery for tho match
factory at Basic City has arrived and is
being rapidly put in place. Cars loaded
with machinery, paper for boxes, sticks
and other material are now standing on
the belt line, awaiting removal to the
factory
About seven miles of track has been
LAID on the Craig Mineral branch of the
Chesapeake and Ohio near Eagle, Va,
and the grading on the entire twenty
seven miles has been finished to near
New Castle.
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