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


of industrial enterprises.
The Republicans of Virginia espe-
cially, who favor protection to home in
terests, must come together, and united
as one man lock shields for the contest
of 1892. We have been warned of the
issue and to prepare for it by the decla-
rations made by Mr. Cleveland and other
Democratic leaders We would be false
to principle and false to the best inter
ests of Virginia if we should not heed
the warning, and address ourselves to
the conditions it imposes and the Eeces-
timent will carry Virginia in 1892, if
those who believe in it are united in it's
support at the ballot box. And this is a
duty that cannot well be avoided with
out qualification. The VIRGINIAN, so
long as its present management controls
in its power to bring together the es-
tranged, so that an aggressive and in
vincible phalanx may be presented to
free trade in any and all of its phases.
Clifton Forge.
The indications point to active opera
!: ~. 4
is more favorable and Spring approach
es. There are a number of buildings
under contract and in process of con
struction, among them large brick
banking and business house, about 100
feet front, and three stores, by E. NJ.
Netteton, President of the Allegheny
Bank at Clifton Forge, and a large brick
edifice now under roof by james A.
Frenger, designed for offices. These
buildings are centrally located in the
new addition to the town.
The Board of Directors of the Clifton
Forge Company were in session last Tues
day. They concluded contract with
W. S. Whitman, of Ironton, Ohio, for a
Stove and Range factory and foundry,
to work over one hundred hands. Work
upon the buildings will be commenced
as soon as possible.
The dummy line and the new hotel
| project were under consideration, and
the General Manager directed to pro-
ceed with their construction. Other
matters of interest were talked over,
among them furnace, which is how in
contemplation by parties with ample
capital and large experience in that line
Clifton Forge is to be an important
industrial centre in the near future. The
Chesapeake and Ohio Development
Company has done a great work for that
locality. The Clifton Forge Mining and
Development Company are opening a
| fine body of iron ore on the Charter Oak
property. which will add greatly to the
wealth of that section.
Iron Gate, Glen Wilton, Bessemer
Low Moor Covington, and indeed thai
whole district, promises active opera
lions in the early Spring. Capital is
coming in, and population will do SC
too, if there are houses to be gotten fol
people to live in. The building compa
MES will supply them in the Spring, we
hope and expect
snow and Gold Weather.
The weather during the last week OF
ten days has been unusually wintry fol
Virginia. The two feet of snow that fell
December II, after melting and sinking
considerably, was covered Christmas day
with another snow about a foot deep
The cold temperature and fine dry snow
gave Christmas day in Staunton almost
the exact characteristics of December
day in the northern parts of New York,
Michigan and Wisconsin. Bright crisp
atmosphere and shining snow made Fri
day in Staunton similar to a February
day in the northern sections mentioned,
though in the latter, the mercury on such
a day would stand about 40 degrees low
er than Staunton's temperature last Fri
day Of about % degrees above zero.
J. f. Tannehill, the ice dealer, has been
putting up tive-inch ice from the fair
ground lake since last Friday. On ac-
count of the snow, ice has been too rough
for good skating. The nights this week
have been cold enough to freeze over
again the water from which the first ice
has been removed. Some good ice was
put up before the snow of December II.
The temperature of Sunday morning was
perhaps the coolest of the winter SO far
about Is or IS degrees above zero
Nearly every night the mercury falls to
about 20, but during the day the sun
melts the snow in the roads. There has
been considerable sleigh riding for pleas
ure, but very little hauling upon runners
of any kind. The street cars in Staun-
ton were started last Wednesday, after
having been out of use, ON account Of
snow, for about one week. The princi-
pal roads of the county are now fairly
well broken for general travel.
1t Pays.
There is no better investment for a
business man than to have neat and
attractive place of business. In the
larger cities we find it the prevailing
rule, that Office and business places are
made neat, attractive and comfortable
1t is essential to the comfortable trans
action of huCinacc for tho bucinocc mon