The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-03-10
A CLIFTON FORGE ENTERPRISE.
A Strong Business Firm Organized
CAPITAL 100000.

A CLIFTON FORGE ENTERPRISE.
A Strong Business Firm Organized.
Capital 100000.
There was effected in Stanton on
Saturday last, a very important business
organization for Clifton Forge and this
entire section of country. 1t is composed
OF J. G. Carpenter, Clifton Forge, Presi-
dent; Isaac Witt, Staunton, Vice Presi-
dent; j. III. Spotts, Staunton, Secretary
and Treasurer John Donovan, Clifton
Forge Manager, and the following
DIREcToRs:-J. G. Carpenter, l. Witt,
A. Bowling, G. A. Holt, B. E. Eakle, Jno
M. SPOTS. Jno Donovan and Mr.. Harri
son of Alabama.
The capital stock is to be 100000
one-third of which has been paid in, and
all of it will be if necessary The bust
ness of the organization is to be that of
a wholesale grocery, including flour,
feed and everything relating to man or
beast The charter is liberal in its pro
visions, and allows the purchase of real
Forge will be headquarters, and while
the firm will occupy the Carpenter build
ing on Church street and the rooms in the
Nettleton building, gently leased by
Bowling, SPOTS & Co., they will be ems
braced in the same concern and will con-
stitute one house. The establishment is
emphaticaliy Clifton Forge enterprise.
The officers will reside here their means
will be invested here, and their business
transacted here, drawing to this place
an immense trade and accommodating
from this point all the industries and
demands within a large surrounding
area of country. The gentlemen con-
shutting the Company are all men of
means and business experience. j. c..
Carpenter is known as an enterprising
and successful contractor and business
man generally Mr. Witt is one of the
largest and most sagacious dry goods
merchants in Staunton is of the firm of
Witt s. Holt, proprietors .of Roller
process Touring mill and has been iden-
titled for the past 30 years with almost
every movement for the promotion of
the interests of Stauuton. Mr.. SPOTS is
of the firm of Bowling. SPOTS " Co.,
wholesale grocers, Staunton, and is an
excellent business man; Mr. Bowling is
the proprietor of a Roller process flour
ing mill on Middle river; in the Staun-
ton Milling firm, and is the senior mems
Der of the wholesale house of Bowling,
Spots & Co Mr.. Holt is a partner of
Mr.. Witt in the Touring mill at Stauu-
ton, and is safe, intelligent business
man. Mr. Eakle is known throughout
this entire section as one of the most
progressive young business men in the
State He has been largely interested
in the business interests and progress of
Stanton, and is now Manager of the
Interlnont Hotel, and the Coyington
Land Company, Covington, Va. He is a
regular hustler in business, and no
amount of work seems to ever tire his
energies or abate his arlor. John Don
ovan is also well known to our people
He is trained accountant, a sagacious
and safe director and Manager, and
thoroughly equipped for the duties that
will be assigned him in this important
enterprise Mr.. Harrison is stranger to
us, but the fact that he is one of a firm,
constituted of such men as we have men
toned, is sufficient guarantee of his high
character. There is not one of them
who has not been successful; whose in
tegrity is not of the highest order anc
whose capacities will not be equal to the
comprehensive plans upon which the
organization is predicated.
The VIRGINIA's claim, so frequently
urged heretofore, that Clifton Forge
must become an important center for
wholesale trade, is thus verified. Whole
sale houses in other lines will follow
until there will concentrate here a mag
nitude of business unequaled outside OF
the large cities of the State.
The spring will open auspiciously fol
Clifton Forge, and the interests of her
people Population will increase, bust
ness enlarge, building progress, and the
proportions of a live, progressive, wealthy
city soon be reached.