The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1892-03-18
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The cont actor liias put up about one
hume red feet OF sFc lie at she furnace and
work ia prog essing on the stock honse,I
ecases aud cast house. The stone rnasons
have COMPLETED their work and gene, the
ovens and smoke stack are being dried
ont, SO that everything promises we'll fer
the beginning Of making pig iron. 4
Tie grading on the tran,-road TO THE
ore barks, on the Preston tract,is about |
completed, and the wofkmen arc now pre- |
pairing to putin long side track con-
meeting with the s. A. 8 Q. railroad.
All the mining hitherto done has been
'by stripping. The furnace people are
now drilling the first entry on tho Preston
land, in o quarter where, there is too
much top to be removed.
IS Five cars OF orc have been shipped from
the stidham openings near tho wooden
mills.
Messrs. Sudeth and Mcnteiro have made
q contract, with. the Graham Furnace, to]
furnish two cars of ore per day. This ore
is now being stripped by air. Monteiro
One vein begins about quarter OF the
way up the side of Wallen's Ridge, and
has been traced to the top into the Pres
ton land. ~
DR. Carter and the vcstrymen Of the
En;scopal church, were photographed on
the foundation, last week and the photo
rraph together with copy of the Posi-,
mans and pamphlet Of the improvement
Company. with other material, thas would
prove interesting to posterity, will be de-
posted later on in a tin box when the
corner stone is laid.
The section Of the country will soon
have in the "Four Seasons" at Harrogats
a hotel that will please the most fastids,
Gus, and bring here number Of people OF
wealth, who will be SO charmed With the
climate and advantages that Big stone
Gap will reap NO inconsiderablc benent
therefrom. The house is about complet-
ed: eight miles of carpeting and seventy
car loads of furniture, have been received;
and the opening will occur some time next
month. Already two or three hundred
rooms are said to be engaged and mem
bers of the Vanderbilt, and other fami-
lies. members Of New York's 400 are ex-
pected. The company has some slx or
seven miles of MacadamiEed road and has
recently bought, for park purposes, some
two thousand acres Of land at two hun
dred dollars per acre. There will be
service of two trains per week from Now
York, Pullman's throughout, run through
Big Stone Gap on special schedule, when
will put this place prominently before
these distinguished visitors.
This gives occasion to say that the tram
service of the l.. l. N. railroad has not
given its friends the satisfaction that
thew usually receive from that great cor
poration. IT now takes fourteen anu a.
half hoyrs to run the 275 miles between
louisville and this place, which is only
nineteen miles an hour, absuraiy $40"
speed for these days of fast travel. lime
is killed by long stops at Corbin, Aidalss-
borough, Shawnee and other points. ms
train should easily take breakfast at NOT
ton at or s o'clock.
? From Louisville to Norfolk via the l..
n. and n. & w. is said to be only six
miles longer than by way Of the Q. & o:
and with easier grades, and the l.. & n
might. therefore, well be competitor
not only in point Of accommodations but
also Of time. This is especially true 60
ing East, as The L. & N. is almost invaria-
bly on time. Going West the L. & n has
been handicapped Ivy the n. Il ". being
almost always late in making connection
train service might be devised thai
would, if put in operation in May, divide
the Summer travel with the o. 0. A
speed of from thirty TO forty miles ar
hour would seem feasible.
The extension, Also of the day service
rrom Shawnee to Norton and return would
accommodate many people. True the
dill times have not given full traffic to the
trains at present in service; but revvine
business would remedy that, and both en-
telprses and travel be stimulated there
BY. Let this great road, which, beyond
al Others in the South, has done most tic
advance its development, and which has
consequently, the most friends among its
people, lead in giving the South and es-
pecially this growing section of it, the
same kind of service Shat IS found in the
North aud West.
a gentleman, who il interested in one
of the model horse farms, near Louisville
has asked the condition of the ground
here during the winter, his idsa being tc
inquire into the probable proftableness
of having the people here establish win
ter race course such as are now found at
New orlcans and Guttcnburg, n. j..
where races are run at any time during
the winter. This project would harmon
ize well with the establishment of the
Fair elsewhere spoken OF.