The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-17
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NEWS.

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The buildings for this purpose will be
\ erected as soon as the weather permits
The number of employees will be about
100 and tho capacity of the factory about
1000 pairs of shoes per day.
The site was selected last week by
President Ross and Mr.. j. A. Champ
Tor large brick factory on the develop
ment company's property at Basic City
1t is to be located in the Mulberry Hill
field alongside of Mr.. A. Il. Barclays
orchard. Mr.. Champ has purchased two
brick machines. The one for manufac
turing ordinary brick which will manu-
facture from $4,000 to $4,000 daily, and
the other q press brick machine to manu-
poets to manufacture 5000, 900 brick this
year and give employment to large
number of hands.
Work has commenced on the residence
of M. M. Martin, president of the Ma
tural Bridge Park Association. Others
will go up in the spring. Arrangements
are being made for a big season this
summer. regular line of stages is to
be put on between the bridge and the
Rockbridge Alum by way of Licking
ton.
The work of extending the Peters
burg and Asylum railway to Matoaca,
in Chesterfield county, is to be pushed
as rapidly as possible. 1t is estimated
that the cost of the extension will be
about 100000.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company are to erect a splendid new
! depot building at Buena Vista which
will cost probably $4,000 or $4,000.
The house will be built of Buena Vista
sand stone, and the grounds are to be
handsomely laid off and ornamented.
This will be an elegant building, and is
J designed to be used as q union depot for
the N. 81 W., L. tS O., and b. & o. rail
roads.
Arrangements are being made for tho
construction of street car line around
the western suburbs of Staunton. 1t is
to begin at the city pump house, to pass
westward along one side of Gypsy Hill
Park, through the lands of the Park Ad-
dition Land Company Of w. ID. Gray and
(. OF p. A. Baylor thence southwark
through the land bought recently by
Capt. Il. ID. Ransom from j. e. Guy, and
thence eastward to West End through
the lands of the West Staunton Land
Company, of II. d. Peck and Of Capt.
Hoover and j. a. Hanger. Land is to be
! donated by property owners along the
line, and the road is to be built and
operated by the City Street Car Com
pany
The Rockbridge Company, at Glasgow,
has now thirty houses under contract
and in process of construction. The
Glasgow Manufacturing Company has
the contract for twenty of these, and
Messrs. Thomas & Bethel have con-
tracts for the remaining ten. The Glas-
gov Development Company is now
| building ten houses and contemplates
making contracts for the erection of
4 others, among them large brick store
house, with three stories, on the corner
OF Eighth and Anderson streets.
Work will soon be actively commenced
on the bridge across tho James river
and on the railroad running up through
Arnold's Valley to the powder mills be-
You'd Glasgow. The engineers have been
for some time making preliminary OBJ
servations, and on yesterday surveys
were commenced. The work will be
pushed forward with tho utmost dis
patch, and by early spring, if the
be completed. The machinery OF the
powder mills will soon be ready for
shipment. but, owing to it's great weight,
1t cannot be brought in until this road
and bridge is completed.
Luray's military company is gather
ing force with a nice list Of names.
Il The bridge force of the Norfolk and
Western railroad is busy toward the
north end of the line.
Real estate transactions at Shenan-
hdoah are reported good and improving.
i Passenger and freight traffic on the
4 Valley branch of the Norfolk and West
ern is picking up.
The Pulaski Land and improvement
1 Companys forty-room hotel will bc
4 completed by May. a frst-class man
ager is wanted to run it as a S2-a-day-
house. Henry Taylor, superintendent,
I at Pulaski, can give particulars.
4 A project is on foot for establishing
4 big sheep-raising farm in Botetourt
county, near New Castle. The idea is
Il to purchase about 16. 600 acres of land in
Botetourt, known as the Barclay tract.
The promoters of this scheme say they
expect to stock this place with 1000
4 sheep, and begin sheep raising with
Il most approved methods.
The first nlckle ore ever shipped from
North Carolina, and without doubt also
4 from the Southern States, was shipped
Il from Murphy via the NJ. e N. Ga. rail
q road on last Monday by Col. Henry e.
II Cotton. 1t will be sent to metallurgical
Il works in New York city to test its rich
a ness by actual smelling process. This
n ore is the silicato carbonate and oxide
HI OF nickel.
II The Pocahontas Coal Company denoted
Y a carload of coal to the Benevolent AS
/ ISOLATION of Lynchburg to be distributed
Iamong the poor of that city during the
I recent cold weather, and the Norfolk
a and Western Railroad Company de-
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