Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-30
inc the favorite for such new enterprises.

ing the favorite for such new enterprises.
With the advent of so much expansion at
the present time, and that to follow in the
natural course of things, all to be added to
the former existing conditions in the demand
of that new country, so to speak, for bread
supplies and food for beasts of burden and
live stock generally, remembering that such
products are not of the established staple crops
there, we have in view a rich opening for our
-four and hay especially, which claims the
highest consideration at our hands. Briefly
stated, there is in the great valley of the Yad
kin river and adjoining country of North
Carolina, and down to the coast, new Situa-
ton III growing commerce in which StauntOn
and Augusta county enterprises can fill a wide
space. Not only with our products of flour
and hay, but in man. other essentials of sub
sistence and manufactured values, we can fig
ure In the great moving intercourse between
the countries of different productions to a de-
gree of inestimable value. To all this wide
section OF country, the large western adjunctss
of which are just beginning to be opened
with improved transportation facilities, we
should remember that for our advantage, as
considered in that light, the Norfolk and
Western railroad is having a busy time in
opening out new channels of commerce.
Away upon the sides of the great water
Sheds where the Ldsh-hoJy, evergreen growth
weaves its intricate and marvellous sheet of
interlacing twigs = there where the head
springs of the Tennessee, the New, the Yad-
kin, and the Dan rivers burst forth. and in
connection all the way down to the coast,
this great line of local and distant commerce
seems to invite US to avail ourselves of its op-
portunities for our great good. The staple
products of this country are tobacco and cot
ton. Its tobacco is mainly the fine golden
leaf which has been the base of so much ex-
pansion and prosperity at Danvllle, Virginia,
and any number of marts of trade along the
border of Virginia and North Carolina.
Leaving the southern field. we must have
word or so in reference to our locality as view
ed in trade interests with the country of diff
ferent productions An examination along
the Norfolk and Western railroad in Rocking
ham Augusta and Rockbridge counties will
show that alithe old burr mills are now equip
ped with the roller methods for manufactur-
ing -four New mills of first grade have also
been erected They are all of the class known
as merchant mills. the proprietors buying
wheat. These milers are men of enterprise
and energy and are rapidly building up good
trade along the southern lines and connec
tons of the Norfolk and Western railroad.
notably IN North Carolina. Combining the
view to Augusta county, not adjacent to the
Norfolk and Western there are also the new
methods going on in remodeIing the old mills
into those of the modern style. These mills
in the main, particularly all those in the
northwest sections of the county. find their
trade connections at Staunton.
Now, take Staunton itself, with its NAM
producing capacity of -four. and look
over the map of the county, including Staun-
ton. and see the vast extent of territory with
out direct facilities for entering the field of de-
mand opened and widening out south of our
location
Of the Augusta county hay crop exported,
there are statistics available for reference for
the years ended 30 June, 1884, to same date in
1889. There were exported from the several
depots of the three railroads passing through
the county aggregated in tons as follows -