The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-25

LYNcHBURG, April 24.-[Spcciall-
Lynchburg is not built upon as many
hills as historians credit old Rome with,
but she has sufficient number to merit
the title of "Hill City," and to give
all the elevation desired and insure
perfect natural drainage, delightful
breezes in summer and the develop
ment of the muscles OF pedestrians at
all seasons OF the year. This is an old
town, it is true, but ideas and resolves
are taking possession of tho people and
they are preparing for an industrial
boom that will knock the croakers and
old fogies of their feet, and wheel
Lynchburg into line with the aggressive
and progressive Industrial towns of the
South.
Tho principal agents in booming
Lynchburg are the Rivermont Land
Company, named for the old Daniel
homestead, where Virginis's distin-
guished senior Senator first saw the
light, and the West Lynchburg Land
Company. We shall reserve the plans
and purposes of the first named for
future references, and confine ourself
to the last and oldest, for reasons which
will appear hereafter.
When we say that LYnchburg is being
doomed we do not mean that it was
dead town until the boom took hold of
it. Far from it. Everybody knows
that the city has made rapid progress
since the war in tho requirement of
manufactures. 1t would require moro
space to enumerate them than THE
TIMES can spare.
Suffice it that there are 1853 enter
oriseS here that employ skilled and un-
skilled labor, and these include cotton
mill, two furnaces, three iron foundries
one brass foundry, one zinc reduction
works, one paint works, thirty tobacco
factories, two machine shops, one gas
and water main foundry, two box fac
tories, one nail works, one merchant bar
mill, three carriage and wagon works,
one agric ulJural implement works, one
shoe factory, one furniture factory, the
largest in the South, one engine and
machine works, an electric street rail-
way and arc and incandesent lights
The Washington Zinc Reduction
Works were erected by John III. Bart
lett, of Roanoke city, at cost of 500,
600, and are supplied with material from
the celebrated Ronsack zinc mines
The furniture factory. when completed
will have cost 100000 The plant of
the Valley Engine and Machine Com
pany will cost S125, 1000. These three
important industries are located on the
lands of the West Lynchburg Company,
and the shoe factory and cotton mill on
adjoining tracts. In addition the COM
pany is starting steam brick works, and
has magnificent hotel, with ITO guest
chambers, nearly completed. The Nor
folk and Western Railroad Company's
belt line supplys these industries with
free raw material and conveys their out
put to the markets of the world.
The electric street railway runs by
the new hotel and through the lands Of
the company, and brings the stores and
banks OF the city within easy distance,
say less than ton minutes ride. Many
new residences have been erected in
this particular section of the town, and
1t is intended to interest building and
investment companies in it to the ex-
tent of an expenditure of many thou
sands of dollars during the approaching
summer.
Lynchhurg is tho junction of three
great railway systems, namely, the Nor
folk and Western, Richmond and Dan
vile and Chesapeake and Ohio, and
also the Lynchburg and Durham, which
provide all the transportation facilities
needed for great manufacturing
| center. The West Lynchburg Company
offers free manufacturing sites, with
cheap coal, iron, lumber, cotton, hides
and other raw materials Mt hand With
these inducements and advantages it is
safe to predict that manufacturers, who
are not slow to appreciate good thing,
will incline favorably toward the Hill
City, and that in a few years it will be
second Pittsburg. People seeking a
pleasant home will find here all they
can reasonably desire in tho way of
pure water, equable climate, society,
churches and schools.
Mr.. r. w. Crowder, of Basic City, has
been secured by the West Lynchburg
Land Company as manager of tho sale
of lots advertised in The TIMES for Nav
Is, 10 and 90, and has entered upon his
work with the skill of n veteran. lie
receives all corners courteously, talks
only business in his Office and displays
admirable judgment in the matter of ad-
vcrtising. lie has under consideration
several propositions to conduct sales in
other States, and the success which is
predicted for him here will create de-
mand for his services throughout the
South
Several columns Of interest to your
readers could be written about Lynch
burg, but it is so well and favorably
known that it is not necessary.