The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1892-12-08
The CONDITION
OF Affairs at Big
Stone Gap.
Everything Encouraging.

! After two years or moro OF great imam
cal depression the country:over, and i'll this
new community particularly, the down
grade has finally been reached, and the
ascent up the hill Of prosperity begun. IN
no other place Of its size perhaps has
there been such splendid set OF young
| men,-vigorous, brainy, indastrions--as in
Big Stone Gap, and nowhere else have
they stuck SO together as band of broth
ers as here. TO their intelligence, nntir-
| ing zeal and unwavcrinS confidence in this
place and its destinies, has been due so
much Of the credit of preventing wreck
and disaster, and establishing instead
oofideNce aud victory.
It's matter of congratulation that
every enterprise of any magnitude started
here is still growing stronger. 1t is a
matter of congratulation that, though The
hands of our best friends and those most
aLle to mako large developments and do
proat benefits TO this section, especially
the Virginia Coal e. Iron Company and
the Virginia. Tennessee g. Carolina Steel
l. Iron Company, have been tied, and they,
by perhaps no fault of their own, have had
to remain quiet, YET one coal ana coke
plaut with guaranteed Out7u of 500 tons
dailyhas been started-by a man who has
built 500 ovens elscwhcrc-work on which
is going on actively, and two other large
leases have been made with work to he
begun in the early fgtMFG. II IA & matter
of q4NgtaiHiqtion that the Appalachian
Steel 4 Iron Company has made such
success Of lts Furnace here, and turned
out such an excellent quality of iron as
or "American Scotch, that it will,with
the manufacturing o;cokc at this point,
complete its other other ffA.!FFHaef WhIeh is now
ming iepins lonc, aud in addition TO its
lease on 800 acres Of land, which it is
now working, is securing additional lands
of the same kind, so as to insure the con-
tinued production Of thu Neatest approxl-
mat.oN to charcoal pig yet turned out IN
the South. 1t is matter of conSratula-
ton that the large shipments Of pGn.ar
walnut and ethes !i@a.hl$s4!ss 90 Hamburg
Bremen, Glasgnw and liverpool and an
application Of lumber king 70 put in
twenty-fou sawnills on one large tract
of land here shows the estimation in which
practical people hold our unriyal}leHT ffor:
es{s III MAIe''sF Of esaNssA'N'at'op that
the working man here is busy as is evil
lenced by tbs posting of NOTICES calling
for more laherefsi that avtpy aTc'''"s
house in the piace Is occupied with cry
ing demand for more; that travel and the
patronage of the hotels have doubled or
threblcd the last few weeks, and that al
most every citizen e finds ..a hi. circumstances
getting easier and caster ana that the
whole community should be in Il hopeful,
almost bouyant frame Of mind. The COM
ing of railway magnates and the building
of additional railroads here arf promised
as deye|opmHnF Rnlalgas, ana one gentle
man, who has RECENTLY raised s''0oo,pno
in Europe ENr an industrial enterprise,
stands ready TO build i60 miles Of railroad
here from the North upon reasonable
guarantee of freight traffic assured.
The past, then, is behind us with its
memories and hl.ittsF esparsanaes, ihe
prvseat is satisfactory; and the future is
brmful Of reasonable promise Of material
development and prosperity. Patience
and press onward!