Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-04-13
Oar Milling Interests.

the soldiers are made to "touch elbows
and in this way the most doubtful
victories are won. This principle OF
action is as applicable in civic and in
dustrial, as in military affairs.
Our milling interests are entitled to
be considered, the solid compact line
OF strength behind which there is
power, if properly united. to make
Staunton in proportion to opportunl-
ties second to no center of interior
commerce in Virginia, if not in any
part of our whole country. This view
is rational, as will readily appear if we
consider well the situation and, being
SO, it is just and proper, and presents
features of general business prosperity
for the accomplishment of which every
citizen should feel it a bounden duty
to put forth every energy.
A superior wheat-market and pros
porous milling pursuits lead up to the
establishment of numberless progress
sive investments in manufacturing and
mercantile advantages that bring in
comparable strength to the trade
center where they exist. The two
the grain market and prosperous
milling-are closely associated; indeed,
are inseperable.
As much as has been written of them
and as positive as are the proofs of the
advantages of Staunton, with her pres
ent and growing milling interests
being in the center of a great grain
producing section of country and pos
sessing first-class opportunities as
wagon OF railroad transportation sup
plies facilitates for the movement OF
crops, vet the half has not been told OF
the stimulating powers such advan-
tages confer upon all our business
interest. Being now ON the high road
featuring flour, like that which made
Rochester, New York, and Richmond
Virginia, the first of localities on the
continent fifty and forty years ago, and
st. Louis aat later date, it is her
province, though she does not aspire
to become Minneapolis of this day, to
win a distinction as eminent as that
for which the wheat of the Lake shores
and interior of New York, and the
James River Valley of Virginia, and
the fertile fields of the central west
furnished the groundwork in the de
cades referred to.
S+annto, 3,oa. co1jfu not inferior TO
perhaps in advance Of any other center
of trade in Virginia, and moving up to
an eminent position in the milling bust
ness, has already, as to costs i'll delivery
of grain, become to the producer OF
wheat the best market in the State
Per capita, too, it has attained pc
sition among the first Of the cities III
solid financial institutions, if indeed il
is not the first in that classification.
Around Staunton on the lines OF the
three railroads which pass through
Augusta county, the old mills are
being reftted with the improved pro
cess of manufacturing -four, and thei1
owners becoming Observation-Disclosures,
and thus buyers of wheat. Stauntol'
is the financial center of all these pro
gressive and auxiliary forces, and the
profits of all in a large measure are ad
ded directly TO the increasing wealth OF
the place.
To the men engaged in the milling
interests at Staunton and in Augusta
county we can point with the highest
degree of pleasure They are building
up prosperity in all their business re-
lations, and are pillars of strength in
their communities. From long ac-
quaintence and close study as the
duties of conducting a business news
paper has furnished wide opportunities
for devoting attention to the great in
dustry of milling, We cannot call to
mind any more generous or just to the
producers of grain, or who conduct
their invaluable pursuits upon higher
planes in liberal dealing, than the mill
ers of Staunton and Augusta county,
In the front rank of our Industrial de-
veloplnent they have opened wide OPP
portunities for industrial and assOci-
ated effort in all departments of trade.
Benefactors of our agricultural inter
ests, to their high credit it can be said,
that no locality can present more
cordial and sympathetic relations, or
more confiding and generous inter
course, than is daily manifested be-
tween the merchant millers and the
grain-growers of this section of coun-
try.
Our brands of flour are known all
over the country-none stand higher
or are more eagerly sought for. To the
South a new trade is opening through
the facilities that new channels Of
transportation are bringing into ex-
istence. In meeting this new demand,
we state what we know to be a positive
truth, that our brands of flour are
preferred. From Lynchburg to Bristol
is about two hundred miles. That di-
vision of the Norfolk and Western rail
road, and the Shenandoah Valley
division of the same great rail
road, connect at Roanoke At three
p,ints-Lynchburg, Roanoke and Pu-
laski-the Norfolk and Western have
as many lines penetrating far down
into North Carolina, and forming ad-
ditional connections for entering
through these lines immense sections
Of our Southern country. Staunton
has wisely moved in the matter of a
direct connection with the Norfolk and
Western at Stuart's Draft, within ten
miles of our city. In view of all the
interests involved, that connection will
be of the highest consideration to the
immense trade in flour and other
products of'our soil and our commerce
generally that can be built up in all
the wide Southern country referred to.
Let us not weary in this matter. The