The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-09-11
'COME SOUTH! YOUNG MAN.

UVMu DVU1U! 1UUNU HAM,
President Harrison, OH his tour through
the South, after having seen the Won
d..ini @rnwi!, OF Lynchlmrg. Bedford
| Cay. lin#i.kc, Salem, Hadford, Pulaski
W,ilcviIIc and Abingdon and the indus
trial development in progress along the
line of the Norfolk s. Western Railroad
and viewed the country of Southwest
Virginia, said in his speech to the people
of Bristol, Va:
"My Fellow Citizcns:-I have found not
only pleasure, but instruction in riding
to-day through the portion Of the State
of Virginia that is feeling in @ very strik-
ing way the impulse of new development.
1t is extremely gratifying to notice that
those hidden sources of wealth which
were so long unobscrycd and so long un-
used are now being found, and that those
regions, once so retired, occupied by pas
toral people, having difficult access to the
center Of population, are now being rapid
ly transformed into busy manufacturing
and commercial centers. In the early
settlement of this country emigrants
poured over the Alleghanics and Blue
Ridge like waters over an obstructing
ledge, seeking the fertile and attractive
farm regions of the great West. They
passed unobscrved these marvellous hid
4 ;nb j. inn
brought into use.
Having filled those great basins of the
West they are now turning back to Vir-
ginia and West Virginia and Tennessee
to bring about the full development and
production for which time is ripe and
which will surprise the world. 1t has not
been long since every implement Of iron,
domestic, agricultural and mechanical,
was made for you in other States. The
iron point Of the wooden mold board pillow,
with which the early farmers here turned
the soil, came from distant States. But
now Virginia and Tennessee are stirring
their energies to participate in a large
degree in mechanical productions and in
the great awakening of American conf
MERGE and American influence which will
lift the nation to place among the ma.
tons of the world never before attained.
"What is to hinder us when we have
secured the markets Of our own States
that we shall reach oWt and enter into
successful competition in the markets of
other parts of the world: say what is
to hinder this people; possessing by the
Providence of God, all the elements Of
material wealth; endowed with genius
and energy unsurpassed among the ma
tons of the earth, shall again have OH the
great seas IL merchant marine flying the
flag of the common country and carrying
its commerce into every sea and uphold
ing its honor in every port?
Il am glad to-day to stand Tor this mo-
mcni among YOU and to express my sAn-
pathv with any and every interest that
lcnd- to develop YOU as a people. J am
glad = -iand with YOU Oh one common
platform ui resi- Get tor the constitutions;
differing as sumo Ut us may do in our
opil4ious as 10 VIVA, the law should he and
how it should he applied; having in view
one cunnIon devotion Of obedience to The
Law as the majority of our people, b.
their own representatives, make it,
Il shall carry away trUm here It re-
newed impulse to public dut:; Il new IN
spiratiun as II citizen, and that too, of Il
country whose greatness is only dawnins.
And now let me express to YOU the
pleasure shall have in every good that
can come to you as a community and to
each ofyou as individuals. May peace,
prosperity and social order dwell in all
your families, and the fear and love of
God in every home"
COME TO VIIGINIA-Thc coming wool
growing; agricultural and iron producing
section of the United States.
Come via Merchants and Minors
From Boston Steamship Line, via Norfolk, Penn
and : sylvaIia K. H., via Norfolk or Wash
New England, ing,on, Harrisburg; Baltimore Il
Ohio X. r.. via Shenandoah Junction.
From y. Y, Come via Old Dominion Steamship
y. j. Line, via Norfolk, Pennsylvania r..
. Penn. r., via Norfolk, Washington, or
Del. Harrisburg; Baltimore Ohio X. 4:
g Md. via Shenandoah Junction.
From the Come via Pittsburgh, or via Chat:
West lta,iooga, or via Columbus apd Ashland
For all information, maps, reference
books, pamphlets, etc. descriptive of the
wonderful mineral and agricultural re-
sources Of the States of Virginia and
West Virginia, apply to Agents Of the
Norfolk & Western railroad, 300 Wasl7
ington, Street, Hoston; a0a Broadway,
New Work; ABA Pennsylvania Avenue,
Washington, D, c.; 81 East, State Street,