The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-07-30
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staunton improvements.

SCaunIOQ improvements.
I. We briefly referred last week to pub
/! lie mee;ia1 :. largely attended, held III
Stanton to consider proposition for a
new modern hotel, and also the question
of additional railroad connections. The
Hotel ought to receive the support OF
| every public spirited citizen who is able,
financially, to render aid. 1t requires
no argument to demonstrate this. There
is but one recognized hotel in the place.
There are several first class boarding
houses where ample attention and ans
pie accommodation for the number OF
visitors they are capable OF entertaining,
can be had. But in the flush season of
trade all OF them combined are not suf>
ficient to meet the aemandg. The Hotel
proposed h e Altemonte-is to be
erected in the eastern suburbs of the
city, on an eninence commanding
magnificent view of the picturesque
scenery that spreads out in every direc>
ton, and where health and pleasure
; would be assured to as great degree as
at any of the mountain resorts Of the
State. 1t would be reached by the
street cars, affording easy and convent
ent approach and supply a greatly felt
want in this part of Virginia.
The railroad question should interest
all the people of Augusta county from a
different standpoint The proposed line
is from Stuart's Draft, on the Shenan-
doah Valley railroad, to Staunton, a
distance Of about eleven miles. This
would open up to Staunton a trade that
accommodate very valuable timber sec
ton, where the best white oak, hickory
and walnut in this part OF the State are
found. 1t would give a southern market
direct for the hay, the flour and other
farm products, which now go that
way by circuitous and costly route
and would tap the richest and most
valuable mineral district in the county.
The Norfolk and Western will no doubt
meet the committee appointed to push
the matter in a liberal spirit. 1t would
give that progressive road a direct en-
trance into Stanton, with terminal ia
cilities assured by the Staunton Devel
opment Company, to share in the large
trade that comes there, and be an I'M
portant factor in developing a now iso
lated part of the county.
We can conceive of no lateral road
that would contribute so certainly Or
more largely to the interest of the Nor~
folk and Western than this proposed
connection, and we have no doubt the
intelligent committee, appointed to rep
resent the meeting, will lay all the facts
before the authorities of the Norfolk
and Western, in such a way as to com
alton. O. K. Lapham, Reeves Gait, J.
A. Fauver, P. B. Sublett, Michael Kivli-
CHAN, Henry Hutchinson, John SPOTS,
J. H. Blackley, John W. Todd, c. S.
Baker and J. H. Powell, constitute a
group of business men that is capable of
presenting valuable information to the
railroad people, and SO enforcing the
suggestions of the meeting as to make
it almost certain that favorable re-
Spouse will be had. This connection is
what Staunton needs, and needs badly.
1t is factor essential to her trade and
ought to be obtained without delay.
With this connection consummated
and then a road reaching to North River
Gap, in a Northwest direction, tapping
the coal and iron of that locality, the
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give vigorous vitality to this central city,
and assure an industrial locality, unsur
passed IN advantages by any other town
in the South.
1t is important that both these sugges
tions should be taken up in earnest by
the people of Staunton and the county,
and pushed to favorable conclusion.