Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1891-10-27
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turing and Improvement. Company, to
take place on Wednesday and Thurs
day, November 4th and 5th, 1891.
OF all the development enterprises
begun in our beautiful valley during
the past two years, few have shown
such evidences of stability and vital
ity as this.
Less than eighteen months have
elapsed since the organization of the
G. M, NJ. & 1. Co. Only a year ago
the real estate purchased by the COM
pany consisted of farming lands, di-
vided into fields by post and rail or
worm fences, with here and there
tpatches of timber and fields of wheat
lately reaped. Now mark the change
which twelve months of we'll directed,
active work has accomplished. Streets
and avenues connecting the old town
with the new one building on the north
side of the B. & o. R. R. tracks,.
and intersecting each other at con-,
venient intervals, have been opened
and graded, some of them paved and
bordered by sidewalks, extending
several miles in the aggregate. A
belt line Of railway connecting the
B. & o. with the N. & w. has been
built and is in operation, whilst along
It's mile of length various manutac-
turing plants have been erected and
are now in full operation, so that
to-day the hum of active industry is
heard where one short year ago the
whistle of the partridge or the cry of
the pIoughman to his team were about
the only sounds to disturb the rural
solitude.
That this statement is not over
drawn will appear to any one who
will take the trouble to cross the b.
& o. R. R. at Mildred or George
streets and extend his walk for a half
mile toward the north, or until he
reaches the Belt Line. Here he will
find the Shenandoah Brass and Iron
Works, the Vulcan Road Machine
Works, the Farrin Boiler Works, the
Charles Town Glove Factory and the
Charles Town Brick and Tile Works,
all running on full time; and if he
takes the trouble to inquire of the
several superintendent he will find
that all these establishments have or
ders far ahead and are looking for
ward, in the near future, to an in
crease of the number of hands en-
ploYed and to the enlargement Of their
capacity of production. Between the
Belt Line and the B. & o. on George
street is located the Goetz Harness
and Saddle Factory, substantial
brick block, three stories high and
40 feet long, with large brick en-
CINE and power house attached, an
enterprise with an established bus
mess and capacity for employing from
$50 to 200 hands. And on the line
of the N. & W.. located on the Col
ston land, will be found another brick
factory, that of Messrs. W. F. & t.
P. Lippitt. All of these plants are
engaged in the manufacture of ar
ticles for which there must be an ever
increasing demand. They are off,
cered and directed by men of intel
ligence, skill and energy, many of
whom have come from distance, at
tracted by the advantages offered at
Charles Town by its proximity to the
populous eastern centres and the sea-
board on the one hand, and the " NeaC
South on the other; its excellent
railroad facilities making it important
as distributing point, and thus af-
fordtng excellent opportunities for
the increase of business and the en-
largement of their connections. In
addition many comfortable dwellings
and several business buildings have
been erected or are in course of cree
ton Oh the company's lands. A large
proportion of those completed are al
ready occupied, and it is not prob
able that any of them will be long va.
cant. The Company's handsome Of
fee building, of stone and brick, three
stories high, and the elegant new
Hotel Powhatan arerapidly approach
ing completion, and before the com
pany has reached its second ami
versary both of these buildings will
be occupied and in use for the pur-
poses for which they were designed.
We may judge of the future by the
past, and judging by the experience
Of the past twelve months, very few
years will elapse before the new town
will contain a population larger than
that given Charles Town by the CEN
sus of 1890. The effect upon the old
town of this enterprise is apparent in
the fact that no dwellings are unoc-
cupied or store rooms vacant within
the corporate limits, notwithstanding
the further fact that more houses have