The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-11
soUTHw EST VIRGINIA NOTES.

General L. l.. Lomax, the president
OF the Virginia Agricultural and Me-
chanica1 College, ut Blacksburg, has
rendered his resignation to the board Of
visitors. which has been in session in
Richmond since Tuesday. The resig-
nation was accepted, and the board ap-
pointed Messrs. Vawter, Venable and
Fitzgerald committee to recommend
his successor. General Lomax Is q
West Pointer, and was elected to the
presidency by the old board appointed
by Governor Lee. In accepting Gem
eral Lomax's resignation the new board
spoke in the highest terms Of him. The
disposition of tho new management
seems to be to make radical changes in
the conduct of Blacksburg College.
John l.. Saunders, Esq, has sold to
Adams Bros. & Payne, of Lynchburg,
Va, forty-four acres Of clay land near
Chflhowie, for the sum of SI3,5 Work
will be commenced at once on a plant
for the manufacture Of tile sewer-pipe
brick and all kinds Of hollow-ware.
Superior magnetic ores have been re
Gently discovered in the counties of AL
bernardo, Nelson and Fluvanna which
experts declare will yield very high
percentage of iron. The vein is eight
feet thick at the opening, and extends
over considerable area. company
has been organized and mining oper-
atoms Will be commenced at once. The
ore is Immediately on the line OF the
Richmond and Allegany railroad.
Prof. Pumpelly. geologist of ability
and wide reputa ton. made a personal
examination Of the upper Potomac field,
and says: Il should put the minimum
figure of 1000, 100000 tons the amount
{r1b do 81 III -.
in the upper Potomac and Stony river
BASIN In the Elk Garden region in
the 14-foot or big vein and the smaller
veins, 1t Is estimated there are 1OO,-
000,0o0 tons of workable coal. In the
Roaring creek field Prof. c. White.
State geologist for West Virginia, re-
ports there arc fully 1GO, 900, 900 tons OF
mercantile coal of splendid quality
for cooking purposes. The big yein
coal Of the Elk Garden region is known
all over the country as equal to the best
steam and smithing Goals in tho mar
ket, and com ands ready sale at top
prices. The upper Potomac coal is all
largely used for steam purposes, but is
especially adapted for blacksmithing
and coke, being one of the purest Goals
mined anywhere.
Two new passenger coaches for tho
arrived at Walnut Cove, and will be put
In use when trains begin running
through to Martinsville.
The different committees that have
charge OF the preparations for the an
nual meeting of the German Baptists, or
Thinkers, at Hagerstown next juno, are
getting ready to begin operations. On
Monday they expect to commence the
construction OF the large tabernacle in
which the services arc to be held and for
which most Of the lumber has already
arrived. Quite number of large build
tngs will have to be put up before tho
meeting, and for this reason the com
mittee finds itself obliged to begin work
early. Information coming from differ
ent parts of the United States indicates
that the meeting this year will be an
unusually large one.
Bluefield is to have S25, 1000 roller
process flour mill, with capacity of
100 barrels per day.
At a meeting of the real estate men
OF Farmville, Il permanent exchange
was organized, to be known as the Farm
vile Real Estate Exchange, with the
following officers for the ensuing year:
President, w. l.. Patterson; secretary
and treasurer, c. c. HAZEL. Directors:
S.,W. Paulett, r. Is. Berkeley, w. p
Venable, w. L. Patterson and C. C.
HAZEL. Executive committee: II. b.
Campbell, r. B. Berkeley and A. s..
Herndon.
The remains of mastodon have been
discovered near Edom, Rockingham
county. They lay scattered over an
area of about fifteen fect by seven OF
eight, and were situated at the base of
an outcropping ridge of argilaceous
limestone with an appearance of verti-
cal dip. AT first the massive bones wore
not recognized as belonging to an ami
NAL. He said, in fact, that he did not
know what they were, and thought lit
tie about them. The subsequent I'M
earthing of portion of one tusk and
some teeth revealed their true character,
but all those parts which had been re-
moved were heaped upon the side of the
excavation and left there. There they
remained until the attention of DR.. nj.
5. Zirkle was attracted to them by ru-
mors of some remark able and myster-
ious objects which had been dug ND in
his neighborhood. 1t is to this gentle
man that the National Museum will be
indebted for the specimen when itcomes
to be mounted, and it was by bis care
that all those parts by which 1t was
identified were preserved.
Thomas Carmichael, of the we'll
known house Of Dent, Palmer G. Co., of
London, with several associates is at
present in this country for che purpose
of examining copper properties in East
Tennessee with a view to purchasing.
MIR. John Allen, the London representa-
tive of Wells, Fargo & Co., is one of
the party.
A short distance from Mount Airy,
North Carolina, the present terminus of