Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-14
$taunto1t Spectator.
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY IA
Look To The Interior.

realizing VALUES Vi tHt WdtCHl ulACo'
and care with which they have looked
to the interior possessing the resources
of charging business intercourse. Thu
truth is as manifest in the smaller anC
the remote places from seacoast an6
foreign shipping points, as it is in the
full and browning realization to the
cities by the sea and on tide water.
Staunton is. of course, in the class Of
inland trade, and there is not on the
map of Virginia a location which has
passed up from retail place to q
firmer position as a wholesale center Oh
the lines for which there have been op
portunities of growth. The accomplish
ments of few years in the past in the
wholesale departments have been as
signally successful, and as highly salts
factory as in our varied and full retail
pursuits. A walk along our principal
streets, Notwithstanding many months
and years of general financial pressure
furnish much for reflection and the as
surance of a bright career. In solid
and elegant buildings, private residen-
ces, as well as store-houses and hotels,
our city is bearing the palm in these
times of depressed trade and financial
troubles that have come over all the
country.
In solid and proSre ssive manufactCr,
ing interests, there is no point in tie
State which has made the advance in
the milling interests which has been
vouchsafed to Staunton, and in the
remoddling of the old burr-mills OF
Augusta county, into the new and uni
versally adopted methods of manu-
featuring flour.
Leaving unmentioned for the pres
ent. many other features of our en-
larging opportunities for conducting
general trade, enough have been ad-
verified to, to stimulate effort and to in
spre hope and courage in the onward
course of a high destiny. Look to the
interior" is a good motto. 1t is as old
as commerce itself, and never failed to
achieve telling victories when pointed
in the right direction, with the objects
steadily pursued.
Staunton, like. all trade centers in
their beginning, founded its progress
ON wagon trade. That method of its
intercourse with the interior has been
fruitful in the highest degree, and
should ever be cultivated s.aLd guarded
at every point. Our energies Should
be applied as rapidly as possible in
the new and progressive order, when
ever and wherever practicable, for
there is not a soil cultivator, nor mer-
chant or manufacturer in the interior
who does not desire this cooperation
with them, to gain such advantages.
Like the local interests which induce
us to look to the Interior" the oppor-
tunities for practical effort in that di-
rection are also many. We have long
had railroad advantages East and
West, but between the North and
South, only of recent years, and only
partially SO to Staunton, and more
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county.
According to the teachings of com
mercial progress, t. say nothing of the
volumes in which political economy
treats OF the interest and meth DDS of
intercourse between nations and peo-
Piles, the free and full exchange of the
commodities of distant sections of
country with each other is the solid
foundation upon which great and
enduring prosperity to all is built. A
great longitudinal line of railroad
passes along the eastern side of Augusta
county, furnishing the means of ship
ping our products of breadstuff, and
hay especially, into the sections of
country where tobacco and cotton are
the staple products. 1t is more profita-
BILE there for the soil cultivatorsto main
tain, in their advancing methods. their
system of production, and buy of us
the commodities we produce. We can
not produce cotton and tobacco, but
we can and do produce, in annually-in-
NiOoclAS hay,
and other articles essential to the in
habitants of warmer climates, and
which they need in constantly en-
larging quantities.
The Norfolk & Western Railroad, a
progressive enterprise full of life and
energy, has recently pushed out three
branches from it's main trunk across
southside Virginia and far into the in
terror of North Carolina, all the way
across the tobacco belt and far into the
cotton fields, not content with one or
two, but is engaged in pushing the
third of the penetrating lines south
ward. One of these lines strikes and
passes across the large watershed of
the Tennessee, the Yadkin, the New
and the Dan rivers, and then
toward the east the wide valley of the
Dan is crossed by the two lower lines,
and all strike the prolific Yadkin Val
ley country from source to center, and
bring the ports of Wilmington, N. G.,
and Charleston, S. c., in close associa-
CioH' All tho upper Iduhlu Fallev
country has been lately opened out by
railroads in which the Norfolk and
Western lines will be in close associa-
ton. There, and on the watershed re-
ferred to, as the Pulaski extension to
Mt. Airy, N. c., is moving on to Ash
vile, is the finest region for the pro-
duction of the rich yellow leaf tobacco
upon which the sun shines.
We have written enough by way of
introduction to the general subject for
one installment, that will furnish OPP
portunity sufficient for Staunton and
Augusta county producing their two
thousand barrels of flour per day, and
with many thousands of tons of surplus
hay and all for export, to take care
full survey of the new field and closely
Look to the INTERIOR" and what
should be done to come in close con-
DoctiOD with If