The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-05-17

ton Is Milling the country with oho-
mess unrest, and unless something is
quickly done in regard to the tariff,
the responsibility will in a large
measure rest on the Democratic
party.
Something About Dig Stone Gap.
Amid thc gloom Of business de-
preston, which appears to be resting
over SO many sections Of the country,
the condition and outlook for the Big
Stone Gap region should afford pc
culiar qualification to the people and
friends of this country. The histo-
ry of Big Stone Gap particularly
presents a striking exception to the
rule, which generally controls boom
towns. We have experienced with
terrific emphasis the reaction result
ant from inflated values and crazed
speculation. We have gone through
tho throes of a most disastrous. and
demoralizing money panic. We
have had this community placed IN
the category OF "mushroom' and
"paper" towns, and the danger sig
nal to capital has been placed at our
very gates by some OF
our alleged friends. And
vet unfayorablc and we'll nigh fatal
as these conditions would have prov
ed to almost any other new town, Big
StoneGap has never..Aaggcd nor way
cred in asserting and proving that 1t
has right to live, to grow and to
prosper. In its population, in its
internal development, there has been
"a steady conservative, healthy
growth. The coal and iron fields
and the Lumber interests in the ter
ritory adjacent to it is being devel-
opcd; slowly it may be, but with i'm
mediate prospects for heavy opera
tions. It's furnaces are, and, with
slight intermissions, have been, since
their completion, in full blast. Cap
ital, timid aud hating as it is IN
times of depression, is casting its in
curing search lights upon this sec
ton, and all signs point to large IN
ycstments here within the next few
months. Labor instead Of stalking
idle and disconnected in our midst,
find ready employment, and there IS
a constant demand for more of this
important commodity. And why is
this? We need not look far beneath
the surface for the reasons. 1t is be-
cause we not only advance the barren
claim, but actually demonstrate to
the world that our material advan-
tages are such, the close onjunction
of our iron, coal. limestone, water and
timber are SO striking and SO exeep
tional that the time must come in the
necessary logic Of events when
those advantages will be utilized
and developed. Deferred though it
be, it must come, and when it does,
there will be no mightier industrial
center in the United States than the
Big Stone Gap region.
1t is because our people are an in.
telligent class, and have the courage
of their convictions. 1t is be-
cause they refuse to surrender claim
which they have already proved. If
this had been only "mushroom"
community, our streets would have
long since been deserted, and people
scattered. But amid all their dis
couraging surroundings they have
held on to this place WITH a tenacity
born only of supreme faith, faith
founded on rock. A drawer, and
we repeat, more intelligent band,
never joined common cause looking
to grand industrial achievements, than
the one constituted by the people of
Big Stone Gap. a fruition of hope,
a reward Of intelligent constancy
awaits US. Let us keep our faces to
the future.
Our Supreme Court Judges.
a very entertaining article upon
the Judges Of the Supreme Court of
the United States appeared in the
Richmond Times Of May 9th. A