The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-05-14
industrial News.

Industrial News.
d 1t is stated that the FarmviIle Goa
: and Iron Company is having plans pre-
h pared for an iron furnace.
:" Bedford City has decided by a popular
; vote to issue $4,000 worth of bonds fol
street improvements.
The Farmers Manufacturing Com.
| pany have located at CORTLAND, in
Southampton county, a barrel and box
factory at cost of $4,000
The Harrisonburg Land and Improve
ment Company has secured a steel plant
from the North, which will employ 400
hands,
Lynchburg has adopted the Edison
system of electric traction and has or
dered eight cars for its three miles of
double>track road.
The Fincastle Land and Improvement
Company has laid off it's property into
lots and manufacturing sites, and w.
II. Haymaker, of Salem, did the work,
| The Commonwealth Realty Company
has contracted to erect and operate
cotton factory on the land of the Eliza
beth Land and Improvement Company,
in South Norfolk
The Radford Lumber Company has
been organized with H. L. Kirk, presi-
dent, and g. b. OFT, secretary, and will
erect a planning mill. Authorized capital
stock $500, 900.
1t is reported that the Richmond and
Danville railroad will shortly extend it's
Manassas branch westward from Stras-
burg to the coal fields of West Virginia,
about fifty miles distant.
| A. Boissevain, the head of a rich bank
week purchased seventy-five shares of
Buena Vista Stock, and instructed his
agent to procure twenty-five shares
more.
The Front Royal and Riverton I'm
provement Company has decided on
plans for the iron bridge to connect
Front Royal and Riverton. 1t is to be
about l 300 feet long and will probably
cost $4,000.
The Norfolk and Western railroads
Clinch Valley division, opened April 9th,
to Norton, Va. where it connects with
the Louisville and Nashville. President
Kimball went through on his private
car on the first train.
The contract for the Fincastle railroad
was let to contract April Sth, to the
Roanoke and Botetourt Construction
Company, and work was begun May LIST,
and win be completed in twelve months.
The hardware factory at East Rich
mond will be operated by the Richmond
Hardware Manufacturing Company, in
corporated with capital stock of $685.
600. The machinery of the plant will be
removed fIom Buffalo, N. Y.
Lexington, North Carolina. has secured
a right of way and depot site for the
Roanoke and Southern railroad, without
expense to the company if it is decided
to build the road via that town on its
southern extension.
The Business. Mems Association. of
Norfolk, is in correspondence with two
fish table factory, and the other a
plant for the manufacture of patented
articles in iron and wood.
E. D. Swift is reported as securing
contract to build the railroad for the
Rockbridge Company. 1t is to connect
by circuit, Glasgow proper with the
mines and powder mill, and the new ins
dustries being located in Arnold s valley.
About three hundred hands are at
work on tho Pulaski Land Improve
ment Company's factory. A large num-
Der are working at the Dora furnace
also. The rolling mill has quite num-
Der engaged. Street grading has com
menced with a number of hands.
Richards is to have a bank with the
following board of directors George r.
Dunn, of Norfolk; George Mccall and
s. Powell Griffith, of Richlands; and H.
c. Stuart, James Peery, and J. III. Gill
lespie, of Tazewell county, and Evans
R. Dick, of Philadelphia.
The Virginia Vitrifed Brick and Sewer
Pipe Company has closed the contract
for forty acres of land at Chilhowie sta
ton on the Norfolk and Western rail
road, and will, we understand, erect
works at once for the manufacture on a
large scale of brick and sewer pipe.
The Clarke Tin Mining Company is
making preparation to go right along
with the work of developing their prop
erty near Berryville. The exposures
thus far made warrant the inference
that there is an inexhaustible body OF
the tin-bearing rock in the tract. The
tin hill is $500 feet above the surround
ing tract.
The Bristol Building Company was
organized recently at Bristol, Tenn,
with capital of $1500O0. 1t has secured
$40 lots upon which 1t will erect build
ings. Captain R. B. Bourne. of South
west Virginia. is president, and j. K
Fulton, secretary and treasurer. In two
hours after the formation of the COM
pany, $4,000 worth of the stock was
taken.
Heavy capitalists of Baltimore, Salem
and other places have decided to estab-
llSD h DeSSemef steel WORKS IN NORTH
Winston. Fhe Roanoke and Southern
Railroad Company will build branch
line from Walnut Cove to Danbury, in
order to give the steel company con-
| nection with the great iron mines of
Surry and Coke counties.
At recent meeting of the Central
Land Company of Buchanan, Va, it
was decided to increase the board of
directors to thirteen. The resignation
of Joseph D. Weeks, vice-president and
general manager, was accepted NJ w.
Bryan, j. T. Engleby, and L. H. Cooke,
of Roanoke, were elected to the board of
directors.
| The new steel bridge at Radford is.
being rapidly constructed. The fourth
| span is in place. The long span, or the
third one, which is 105 feet long, re-
quired the building of difficult false
work, so called. This has been done
I nd bo xuorlr Of h,il1;pr. h.,