The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-10
A WAVE OF PROSPERITY
MANY IMPORTANT ENTERPRIsESoS
FOOT IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA.
New Railroads Building and iurh"ee' ~
go Into Blast-The Schools oil nr'''"'
Opening With Enlarged Numbers

BRISTOL, TENN. Sept. 9.-Speciai'-a
| new era OF prosperity seems to have en-
tered this section OF the South.
Work on the Holston Valley raiiroaa'
which was suspended more than year
ago. owing TO the failure OF memoer
OF the Wiley Boom & Lumber Co, has
been resumed. and it is more thah hAeis
that trains will be running on THIS ro~u
inside Of ninety days.
Mr.. A. f. Wiley, who came here sew
eral years ago from Grand Rapids. Men,
a leading member Of the firm. finally sue
ceeded in interesting a well-known banker
and lumber dealer in Grand Rapids IN the
enterprise, and work has begun Win
large force of hands.
This road. the grade of which was
completed before work suspended. VIII ex-
tend but TO the famous mountains over
looking Shady Valley, where the noteu
magnetic iron was discovered before TIE
war
The object OF the construction Of the
road was to haul timber 10 the whey
Boom & Lumber Co., the large plant N
the eastern suburbs OF the city. Ihey
have purchased more than twenty thous-
and acres OF the finest timber lana IN
Tennessee.
The cost of the road will be about
$1,000 a mile. There is no danger OF
second suspension of work, as there is
much money h<ffnd IT,
This ros.. nay yet reach into this Shady
iron ri.>,e and supply the Bristol furnace
With large quantities of ore, which they
Will use possibly in the near future. as
there is strong talk OF this furnace going
into blast as soon as IL gets out OF
court.
The furnace has been idle for two years
or more. and has been in litigation since
that time at great expense.
1t was constructed at a cost or $780,
0o0 and built principally by foreign capi-
talists.
The capacity is three hundred tons per
day. There will be no lack Of iron-ore
when this Holston Valley railway. Bristol,
Ehzabethton and North Carolina railroads
go into active operation
The building Of the Il. * II. railroad 10
the iron furnace was due largely 10 Ben.
l.. Dulaney. OF this city. who Is known
to capitalists and investors throughout
the country. Mr.. Dulaney and John IA.
Caldwell recent cashier of the National
Bank. have associated themselves together
for the purpose of bringing capitalists
and investors from the North to this Sec
ton.
Mr.. II. b. Ballard Tburston the new
owner Of the Mammoth furnace OF Big
Stone Gap. Va, has been in Roanoke fos
a few days making arrangements for adj
ditional coke. He stated that Il is his
intention to run the furnace so as 20
turn out its fullest capacity, which will
be about one hundred tons per day. He
says that so far he has been unable 10
get sufficient coke to run on fun time,
and besides the iron mines have been so
operated that sufficient ore could not be
kept at the furnace. Both of these fea-
lures will be speedily remedied. and ad-
ditional men will be put TO work so that
the only thing that Is likely TO stand
in the way OF running the furnace at IT'S
full capacity is a lack Of coke. Owing to
the strike in the Pocahontas regions II
has been impossible to get coke from that
source
The Virginia and Tennessee Coal & Coke
Companies are constructing large numbers
of coke ovens near Big Stone Gap. Va,
and IL is possible that within three months
they will be turning out large quanti-
ties
The Dorchester coke ovens belong 10
the Dorchester Coal and Coke Company.
ana. 1T the MINUS Oh HAtifANs
receiver. are now being operated. and
Mr.. Thurston will doubtless find that
within a very few weeks he will have
all of the coal and coke at hand neces-
sary 10 run the furnace on full time
There is a special demand among foun-
dries for the Big Stone Gap iron. as
your CORES oondent is informed, It being
superior ore for foundry purposes lne
bro IN and red ores in the mountains
throughout Southwest Virginia is very
abundant
The twenty-seventh session ~ Sui
Inns Female College opened Saturday TN
der more favorable prospects than for
three or four years, Or. ID. $. HearOn, !
who has been a successful Christian edu-
Gator in Southwest Virginia for twenN
years. has associated with him this year !
Rev. Eugene Blake. who was eminently !
successful In building up a fine school AZ |
Princeton. ". Va. large number OF |
young ladies are here already from va
rious parts Of Virginia. West Virginia. |
Kentucky, and Tennessee. Tonight. the |
alumnae OF the college rendered grand |
reception 10 the new" girls
H. Eugene Parsons, OF the Boston Con-
seryatory Of Music, who has done more /
for eievating music in this city than any |
man or woman who ever taught in the
city. is assisted in the college this year
by Miss Moody. Of Georgia.
Professor Charles r. Pepper. OF the
Of Virginia has charge Of the
chairs of French and German.
The other members of the faculty are
Mrs DR.. d. s Hearon. Miss Josephine
Forest, Nashville University; Miss Mary
Lawson. Vanderbilt University. and Miss
Aladge Bigam
The Southwest Virginia Institute will
open next week. Two hundred boarders
are expected.
King College has also le { spleadld
beginning.