The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1892-01-15
"COME SOUTH! YOUNG MAN.

President Harrison. On his tour through
the South after having seen the won
derful growth Lynchburg, Bedford
CITY. Roanoke, Salem. Radford, Pulaski.
Wytheville and Abingdon and the indnsd
trial development in progress along the
line OF the Norfolk Il Western Railroad,
and viewed the country of Southwest
Virginia. said in his speech to the people
of Bristol, Va:
"Mv Fellow Citizens:-I have found not
only pleasure, but instruction in riding
to day through the portion OF the State
of Virginia that is feeling in a very striE-
ing way the impulse of new Developments
1t is extremely gratifying to notice thaf
those hidden sources Of wealtb when
were so long unohserred and so long un-
used are now being found, and that those
regions, once so retired, occupied by pas
toral people having difficult access TO tie
center of population, are now being rapic-
" Transformed into busy manufacturing
and commercial ccnters. In the early
settlement OF this country cm!grants
poured over tie AlIeghanies and Blue
Ridge like waters over an oDstructin3
edge, seeking the fertile and attractive
farm reeions OF the great West. They
passed unobscrved these marvellous hid
den stores of wealth which are now being
brought into use.
"Haying filed those great basins OF the
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cinia and West Virginia and Tennessee
to bring about the full Development ana
production for which time IS ripe &nd
Nhich will surprise the world. 1t has not
been long since every implement OF ron
d oinestic, agricultural and mechanical,
vas made for YOU in other States. The
iron point Of the wooden mold board pio",
with which the early farmers here turned
tho soil, came from distant States. but
now Virginia and Tennessee arc stirring
their energies to participate in large
degree in mechanical productions and in
the great awakening of American com.
mercc and American influence which Will
lift the nation to place among the ma
tons Of the world never before attained.
"What is to hinder us when We have
secured the markets OF our own Statcs
that we snail reach oEt and enter INTO
successful competition il the markets Of
| Their parts OF the world: | say what IS
to hinder this people; possessing by the
| Providence of God. all the elements OF
| material wealth; endowed with Il genius
and energy unsurpassed among the ma
tiuns of the earth, shal! again have on the
grea, seas a merchant marine lying the
| "A q, n M
lis commerce into every sea and uphold
ing its honor in every port?
81 am glad to-day to stand for TINS mo-
ment among sou and to express my sym
pathy with any and every interest that
tends to develop you as people am
glad to stand with YOU on one common
| platform OF respect for the constitution;
differing az some of rs may do IN our
opinions rs to what the law should be and
how it should be applied; having in view
one common devotion of obedience to the
law as the majority Of our people, by
their own representatives, make it,
II shall carry away from here a re-
ncwed impulse to public duty; new IN
spration Us a citizen, and that too, OF
country whose greatness is only dawnlng.
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pleasure | shall have in every good that
can come to you as Il community and TO
each Of YOU as individuals. May peace,
prosperity and social order dwell III all
YOUR families, and the fear and love Of
God in every home
COME TO mGlNIA-Ihe coming wool
growing; agricultural and iron producing
| section of the United States
Come via ilrrchan> and Minors
From Boston Steamship Line, VIA Norfolk, Penn
ana sylvauia K. H.. VIA Norfolk, q VAST
New England ingon. Harrisburg: baltimore Il
Ohio L. r., VIA Shenandoah Junction
From y. VT Come via Old Dominion Steamship
y j. Line. via Norfolk. Pennsylvania l..
Penn H.. via Norfolk. or Washington, or
Del Harrisburg; Baltimore Ohio l. L.
- Nd via Shenandoah: Junction.
From Tie Come via Pittsburgh. VIA Chat
Wcsl itanooga, or via Columbus and ashland
For all information, maps, reference
books pamphlets, etc. descriptive Of the
wonderful mineral and agricultural re
sources of the States Of Virginia and
West Virginia, apply to Agents OF the
Norfolk & Western railroad, 300 Wash
ington, Street, Boston; BOB broadway,
New York; ,4333 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Washington, d. c.; 81 East, State Street,
Columbus, Ohio, or General ONCE,