The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-01
VIRGINIA NOTES.


The Bentonvillc Mining and Land
| Company has been chartered. The
| company owns 1000 acres of land, 500
acres Of which are especially adopted
for building sites and are near tho Nor
folk and Western station at Benton
vile.
a contract has been signed whereby
the Berryville Land and Improvement
Company secures for BcrrYville branch
| of the Wartield Manufacturing Com
pany,of Baltimore. Engines of all sort,
are to DC madc and employment given
to about 800 workmcn. Work OH the
plant is to begin at an early day.
The James River Steel and Iron COM
pany has been chartered at Richmond.
The objects are to hold. own, sell, lease
and work iron and coal lands, and to do
other business as provided in the char
ter. The capital stock is to be not less
than 100000. The officers are: L. A.
Saunders, president; l.. L. w. Maryc,
secretary and treasurer. Directors:
1rIhe president and II. i. Taliaferro,
Thomas Whitehead and George w.
Mayo, of Richmoud; ii. II. Barclay,
Buena Vista; Il. ID. Davis, Lynchburg;
Morton Maryc, Alexandria, and Thor as
Dunlop, Triford.
At Big Stone Gap the Iron Range
Company has been Incorporated.
It. is proposed by Baltimore parties to
establish tannery at Graham.
1t is reported that an English syndi-
cate has bought the Eureka manganese
mines at Stanley for 100000.
AT the regular annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Peak Creek Coal
and Iron Company, which was held at
the Swansea Hotel on the 27th day of
January. 1891, the following officers
and board of directors we're elected for
the ensuing year, viz: Geo. w. Var
hrougo, Of Danvillc, Va. presidents; T..
L. Kindred, of Roanoke, Va, Weep rcsi-
dent; L. l.. Grasty, of Danville, Va,
secretary and treasurer. Directors:
Geo w. larbrough. president cx oftico.
e. L. Kindred, j. T.. Moore. F. l..
Grasty, JAS. Gemmell, j. X. Miller.
two-thirds undivided interest in the
thousand-acre tract lying across the
river from Big Stone Post. southwest of
plat l, taking in Wallcn's Ridge and n
part of the Wild Cat Valley. was sold
Wednesday to satisfy the creditors OF
John and Walter Preston. The pur-
chascrs were John Is. Payne, Sr.. Lex
inrton. KY; Mary Preston, Norfolk,
Ky, and NJ. f. Ewing. Owensvillc, Ky,
the consideration being $4,000. II is
the contemplation of the company to
develop the iron ore which, it is
thought, will he found i'll abundance on
these lands The remaining onc-third
is owned by the South Appalachian
Land Company.
The circuit court at Lexington has
granted charters to tho following COM
panies: The Virginia Tanning Com
pany: Capital. $4,000 to $500
Otiicers-W. III. Ii. lynn. Staun-
ton, president; L. NJ. kooyher. Mid
dlebrook, vice-prcsident; j. r. Nc
Cutchnn, MiddlcbroolS, secretary and
treasurer. Directors James Bum
gardner, Jr.. and j. a. tauvcr. in
addition to the officers. Location and
Office. Glasgow, Va. The Grca5 South
rrn Stove Company. Capital, 500. COO
Oniccrs-W. 5. Whitman, president;
Hon. Geo. Ii. Holiday, vicc-prcsidcnt:
a. {. Whitman, S, cretary: j. T..
Whitman, general manager, all of Iron
ton, Ohio. Location, Glasgow, Va.
Mineral City talks of having acid
works established there.
Tho stockholders of the Elkhorn Val
ley Coal Land Company have organized
by the election of the following dircc-
tors: Constant A. Andrews. president;
Russell Sturgis, secretary; Clarence An
drews. treasurer; and Messrs. Calvin s.
Drice and Edward Smith. The property
owned by this corporation consists OF
coking coal lands on the line OF the
Norfolk and Western railroad.
The Senate Wednesday passed the
bill to authorize the Norfolk and West
ern Railroad Company to bridge tho
Tug Fork Of the Big Sandy river at
certain points
The greatest gold mine sa,e ever
taken place in the State has been ef-
fccted by General Manager Flanagan
for the Mineral City Company this
week. The celebrated Slate Hill mines,
prope:ty of the company, WAS sold to ].
j. Weicher, Of Apan, Mexico, D. c.
King, of San Francisco. Rush Field
and y. NJ. Button, of Chicago. for the
sum of fifty thousand dollors. This
will start forwith to open up the above
named mines, covering some four-and-a-
half miles of the famous ores of the
gold fields of Louisa.
Pulaski News: Our charcoal irons
arcet be tested with view of estab-
lishing chain factory here. They are
said in advance to be- exactly the thing
needed. Most Of the iron for chain
making has been imported.
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