Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-03-16
CRAIGSVILLE DOTS.
Further Particulars Regarding
the New Industries There.
IMPROVEMENT IN ROADS.
The Empire Steel and Iron Com
pany Working a Large Force in
Their Limestone Quarry--Other
Items of Interest.

Cra1Rsvllle, March 13.-Since my
last letter from this place month ago,
marked progress has been made at the
big Cement Works. From the car
windows in passing, the change was
very perceptible and when I visited
the works its recent progress was even
more apparent. Every building save
the big ware room is now under roof,
the latter not having yet raised it's side
walls. A great deal of brick and car
penter work has been accomplished.
and vast amount of concrete founda-
tions raised. On these much of the
heavy machinery has already been
mounted. including $50 horse power
engine for the electric dynamo that
will furnish both light and power to
the plant. Much additional railway
track has been laid. and the commissa-
fy and company's Office buildings are
well advanced. All this has been ac-
complished during the worst month of
winter weather we have had. With
spring now at hand and open weather,
Manager Lewis intends to push the
work vigorously to an early compile
tion. 1 was much impressed with the
order and systematic smoothness with
which the various shifts of men moved
about in the several departments OF
abor.
Another matter of interest that I |
'ailed to mention in my former letter,
and by the way a very considerable
industry, is the limestone quarries
operated here by the Empire Steel and
ron Go. This company owns seven
urnaces, two of them in this State,
me at Shenandoah. the other at G osh-
N. The limestone quarried in such
arge quantities here is shipped to the
after furnace, just 13 miles west of
ere, where it is used for fuxing pur-
oses. The quarry lies just east of the
own and faces against high range of
ills. Here the sound of blast and fall
ng rock is heard throughout the day.
\ side track from the G. s. D. road
ashs In train of empty cars every day
nd pulls out loaded one. Two hun
red and twenty five tons is the daily
hipment and its output gives en-
loyment to a large force of men. Mr..
f. W. White. an Ohioan, is in charge
the work and very courteous and
apable man. In the slang parlance of
1e day, he is called "a HUSTLER" but
is men all like him and SO do the peo- {
lie in the community.
CIaigsville is about to have a new
ounty road. 1t is to run from the
lain road through the new town of Y
ortland to the highlands above the
yer and from there along the sides of
le hill country 23 miles to Wallace's t
I'LL and the Rockbridge line. The
'ute along the river as at present is to /
abandoned. Surveyor McCutch- r
1 has staked off the route and thei
ght of way has been secured. The g
1pervisors haYe been petitioned for a 8
lfficient appropriation to impr ove the
ltire road from Buffalo Gap to this b
ace and for the building of the new v
ad from here as above described. 8
be new road is a foregone concl l1sion t
I'd it is expected construction work
i'll begin by the first of April. This {
a long needed improvement and will.
hen completed, be Of much service to e
great many property owners. a
The Messrs. Dinkle, Of Valley Mills,
wing bought the Lewis Robertson
ace near here, moved in last week
Id will make this their future home.
w. Webb, who formerly rented the
ace, has located in Rockbridge, near
ellis Valley.
An Odd Fellows lodge was instituted
re Friday night with forty
embers.
j. b. Miller is erecting a new stable :
the rear of his house.
ii. ID. Bennett was away on busi-
'ss several days; s;slast week, in the :
stern part OF the county.
w. ii. McCutchan, near Estaline, is,
I'd has been for some time, quite i'll. :
}. d. Youell, an aged gentleman liv- :
G on the Pond Gap road near here,
i'll from complication of diseases. :