Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1899-09-29
The Iron Furnaces in Southwest
Virginia to Start Up.
SEVERAL NEW RAILROADS
General Prosperity Makes His
appearance in East Tennessee
and the Old Dominion--ANum
OF Improvement Contemplated.

/ Ihe Virginia Iron, Coal land Coke
Company. ofsfsristol, will put the Bris.
toi iron furnace in operation within a
IeW days. This furnace has beer i'm.
ipF5ved and added to until it's daiIv
capacity is 200 tons.
| Ihe iron furnace at Big Stone Gan
Va, has justgone into the hands of its
recent purchasers. E. L. Harper & Co.
Tor the Union Chain and Steel Compa
ny, OF New York. The plan is to re-
pair this furnace as early as possible.
with view to having it operated az
early as December 1.
The Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke
Company is contracting for the erec-
ton OF nearly a thousand new coke
ovens on the various properties owned
In Southwestern Virginia and Eastern
Tennessee. The contract has been '1et
for the building of 800 at the Tours
creek coal mines, in Wise county, Vir-
glnla, 800 at Coeburn, Va, and 500 at
Looney's Creek mines, near Big Stone
Gap. The coke will all be used by the
company in the ID iron furnaces it |
controls in that section, An addition |
al 81 miles Of new railroad is also in |
contemplation from Big Stone Gap to |
the Tours Creek mines.
work Is progressing rapidly on the |
extension OF the Virginia and South
western Hallway into the mountains
OF Carter and johnson counties, Ten
nessee, where an abundance Of rich
hematlte ores has been found.
The Dodds Lumber Company, COM
posed of foar Dodds brothers, from
Southern Ohio, has purchased q tract
OF timber land in Johnsea county, Ten
nessee, on the Watanga river. The
comaEaa3 Is establishing a lumber mill /
there and will manufacture oak for the
export trade.
Among the companies recently or.
ganlzeS to operate in this section are !,
the Helen Maude Iron COMPANY. the
Blue Mountain Mining Company, both
composed Of New Jersey capitalists, t
and the Black Mountain Coal and +
Coke Company, which will develop
coal lands IN Lee county xs Virginia.
The aggregate capital OF these comma
nies is about $350.Oo0.
A new railroad from Cranberry to
Ainvi!ls. N. G., a distance of Is miles,
has just been completed. This road /
IS known as the Linville River Rail-
way. 1t was hGiss by Chicago capi-
taliats, VINO are arranging to manu-
faetpre pine lumber on a large scale OBJ
Linv.lle river.
The Empire Ln-,nber and Mining
eo'apano, A. j. Dull, of Pennsylvania,
president, will let the contract within
few days for tho construction of a
railroad from Shady Valley, Johnson
county, Tenn, across the Holston
Mountain, southwest to Big Creek
Park, where it will connect with the /
Holston Valley Railway for Bristol.
This company is now clearing the
graund and building an artificial lake
in Shady Valley, preparatory to the es-
tablishment there of large lumber |
plant with daily capacity OF about
100000 feet. The company owns in
that valley 1900 acres of as fine timber
as may be'found in the South.
Major A. d. Reynolds, of Bristol, has
purchased of the Roam Mountain Iron
and Steel Company 81, ,OO0acres of valu-
able mineral and timber lands in
Mitchell county, North Carolina. lying
a few miles south Of the famous Gran
berry magnetic iron mines. This prop
efty abounds in magnetic, chrome and
specular iron ores. OF the whole area
"a, 900 acres are finely tlmbered.