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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-01
THE rI11Es: IoHlloeD a TUEsDA 1901.

lie last enterprise at Norfolk Is the
Norfolk Heat, Light and Power Com:
raEy. Iney arc. erecting a plant on Water
Street, and will employ some s3o0,00o IN
electrically heating and lighting Norfolk
Mr.. w. D. Pender is managing this en-
terprise for Philadelphia capitalists
couple of months.
COLD STORAGE.
The Norfolk Cold Storage Company have
piped the business district within the past
year and Norfolk business men have
cold storage in their stores whenever re-
CURED A large investment was made
in this enterprise. Business generally
hereabouts has prospered exceeding dur
ing the year now closing. Merchants
are very well satisfied especially with
the holiday trade, which is generally adj
mitted to have been the best ever mad
here. Norfolk is creeping up among. the
bigger cities, and when the various towns
in Norfolk county are consolidated, which
contamination Will probably not long pc
DELAYED. this will be the largest city In
Virginia.
A GENTLE HINT.
Richmond would do well to look ABOUT
and see if there is not something she can
annex. for Norfolk and Portsmouth are
smiling at each other across the Eliza
beth. and there arc signs that a marriage
license may be issued to parties mere
abouts when the Legislature meets Soon
er or later all these towns about this mar
Dor will be one.
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HARRISONBURG.
An Increase in All Times Over thu
Previous Ycnr.


1TARRISCNEURG. VA, Dec. "i-Spe-
Notwithstanding has shared in the
general prosperity during the past year.
All business has been III advance OF 1889.
No business failure has occurred In al
most every line OF business there have
been additions. Another national bank
has been established. and is prospecting.
Another large -four and feed mill has
been Quilt and is in operation. A new
cigar factory has been opened, and sew
cral additional grocery and general mer-
cllandiSe stores have been opened; also
a new and large drug store.
A number of desirable dwellings have
been built, and there has been an ap-
preciable increase in the value of real
estate. The rate Of corporation taxes
has been slightly increased, owing to d
Ing the year The rate OF county taxes
has been decreased. There have been no
fires occasioninE mentionable loss, which
fact is largely due to the very efficient
fire department and its abundant supply
OF water.
The railroads have done a. larger bust
ness than for some years previous. The
express companies have also had an in
creased business.
Negotiations are pending for an carly
extension of the Chesapeake and West
ern railroad from its terminus in the
Western part OF the county through the
mountains into West Virginia.
The census report. made public recently.
shows an increase in Doulation for Har-
Tisonburg several points OF per cent.
greater than the increase of her neigh
boring sister cities.
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Independence

ISpecial Dispatch TO Inc ilA'eS-'
INDEPENDENCE. VA, Dec. IL ~, MS
town has nad u good business year. nero
has NOT been :. single failure in business
an1 M vollIue of trade has been greater
than in any previous year. one ne" Store
pas been opened since the year began
All of the old merchants have added 10
their stock.
In october the Bank of Cirayson was
organized with Columbus Philips as pres
dent. / y. Waugh. vice-president ami
p l. I.undy. cashier. This institution.
opened up in the room in THE, east eElo OF
the courthouse on November lst and Is
doing 1t first rate business
Mr.. e. l.. Lundy is having large
building erected on Main street on tiia
sita of the old Lundy and Dickey stord
house. which was burned in January
1897. which will be used for store-noasa
and bank.
The building is to be IS feet front and
100 feet deep. with cellar.
The I'd of this month the Supervisors
of Cirayseu decided TO have tire-pfons
vaults built to the courthouse for tIa
records of the County and Circuit Courts.
and awarded the contract TO Mr.. b. NJ
Smith, of Washington, D. e Ihey are
to cost 3,100, and are 10 lie Completed
by June list, IDOL
1t is rumored that q railroad VIII Dc
built during the year 1901, commencing
AT n point on the North Carolina extern
sion OF the Norfolk and Western, thenca
west via independence TO the famous
Bel!ou Copper Mines in -Asae county N
c. Should this be done it would be OF
tucalculable value 10 Independence as IL
would make her the distributing poins
for a large section of country in Vir-
sinia, as we'll as in North Carolina.
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ALEXANDRIA INDUSTRIES.
The Southern Railroad to- Make Elk
tcnsive improvements,
Especial Dispatch to The Tines

ALEXANDRIA, VA, December 81
During the past year Alexandria has add
ed several new industries and has made
considerable progress. though not as
many as in former years
What promises to be 81 big industry is
the manufacturing OF the Kuhu Formal
dehyde, which is d disinfecting machine.
The owners claim that the government
has signifsed their intention of adopting
them, as has many of the large railroad
and steamboat lines. The machine Is now
manufactured here, but on q small scale
at present. and promises to develop into
a big industry.
The Carson Spoke Company. situated
at New Alexandria south OF this city, is
doing thriving business. and their goods
are being shipped to foreign lands
Inc Baritese MIL which for some time
has been dormant. recently opened under
more suspicious circumstances.
The wholesale firm of Messrs. Chas.
King & Son opened canning factory,
which has proved a big success. and it
is more than probable that many more
will be opened here before long
AleXandrisins have become deeply inter-
estexs in the proposed memorial bridge
and many representative citizens have
worked indefatiSably to secure the pas
sage OF the bill. If the bridge is ever built
II will undoubtedly help this city
There is also a movement on foot among
the UIcAiiOt4S cL LIZ i'SIl''ts~5'
League to secure an appropriation OF S9e-
SEQ for the enlargement of the Trostotfice,
which it is claimed is entirely INADEQUATE
fer the many purposes it is now used
The coming of the new year VIII De
marked by extensive improvements
which the Southern Railway Company
contemplates making here. 1t Is the
cou9Danv,s intention to also erect u new
depot.
Many sales OF real estate have been
made during the past year and the value
| of it has not deprecated by any means.
Many small firms have also started
and are doing we'll Alexandra IS eA-
caffenrlv situated for a manufacturing
city. with deep haroor and excellent rail
road facilities.
The new year will be one Of unusual ac-
tiyity
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THE FOURTH LARGEST.
Roanoke Gives Evidence Of Substap-
iiaI Improvement.
Especial Dispatch to The Timcs.)
, >-HLrT- " Dac 81 No oily


ROANOKE, VA. Dec. 31.-No city in
the State has made more solid progress
n the last year of the nineteenth century
,han Roanoke. In population the census
returns place it as the fourth city in
the State.
1t is the largest city in the richest
section of Virginia AS to wealth, Roam
oke is not a ricA city. if numerous men
Of wealth determine that, but take the
population, nlal aid man. and few pla les
can SHOW such an even distribution OF
wealth. This is shown in the large number
Of improvements in homes made during
the year. over 400 permits having been
issucl for improvements to dwelling homes.
While no large buildings have been
erected IN 1900 permits have been issued
for the erection of ia dwelling houses, at
a total cost of $1l2.I0O Work has also
been commenced on St Andrews Church,
vhict. vii! cost $1l0,902 Another Church
costing $4,000 has been erected.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad mas
built a large addition to its frog and switch
department. watch gives employment TO
several hundred men. The Roanoke Street
Car line has just been equipped with new
cars. one of the beSt-cqulpped hospitals
in the State has been established at
cost of so 600; the city has expended S9o,-
ono IN street and sewer improvements:
new bank has been established. and pest
of all. machinery has been ordered Tor a
cotton MILL which will be IN operation
about the latter part of April.
Merchants report the best year IN their
experience.
me iobbing business is steadily improv-
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CHRlSTlANSBURG.
Center Of 4 Fine Section Where People
Pay Their Way ms They Go.

Especial Dispatch TO The Times.
CHRISTLANSBURG,V VA, Dec. $1-This
IS one of the few towns on the railroad in
Southwest Virginia that was not struck
by the boom several years ago when this
entire section Of the State was wild over
speculation.
The progress during the past twelve
months has been more marked tnan that
OF any previous year in the last decade.
Probably the most notable Improvement
of tie year was the putting IN OIL an
electric-light plant by the Town Coun-
Gil and after the first OF January the
streets business houses and many resi-
dences viii be lighted by electricity. The
progressive Council has also kept up the
work begun two years ago, by putting Shil-
ilowie yifrified brick on the sidewalks
of all the streets in the town, SO that noE
one can go anywhere in the principal
parts of the town and have city side
walks 10 walk over.
The most notable event in the business
line was the opening of Il large retail
DRY goods store by j. Kyle Montague &
Sons, on the corner of Main and Depot
Streets, the list of October, and, as Nj
Montague was once before in the same
business at The same stand, and enjoyed a
Very large custom, his old customers
Immediately began to flock back to him.
and he now enjoys very large trade.
il addition TO the wholesale grocery OF
Aaron Graham & Co.. which was estab-
lished some six years ago. another one
was launched in the carly fall by Messrs-
Walters, Dillon & Hairless and was build
ing up a fine custom, but Graham & Co.
recently bought out the latter firm and
is preparing TO erect a large warehouse
at Cambria. in order 10 consolidate both
concerns and to be The better equipped to
supply an increasing trade
All the merchants report a good custom
during the past year. and their holiday
trade has exceeded all records One strik-
Ing feature of their trade of the last 1e"
years ever that of former ones is the
fact that such a large per cent of their
customers dc not ask for credit. but pay
as they purchase. either III cash or pro-
duce, so that the loss on bad account
has been reduced to the minimum.
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lEand substantial Improvement In every de-
PAL tment 5ot dts business and trade. The
receipts from taxes were larger than ever
before Tie municipal authorities nave
contracted for a new eectric-l.ght plant,
bysswnf 1.-THE city will be lighted by cleo
tricity genera ted by the most modern
ma ch1nery. This is in addition to the gas
works, owned by the city. The City Coun-
eli has just determined on q system of
sewerage and street paving. and It has
also recently improved the courthouse
grounds and surroundings.
There are several snoe factories here,
which employ large number of hands.
The Washington Wooden Mills have re-
Gently changed owners and has taken on
new life. Its fabrics find a ready market.
The flour and meal mills Of Freder-
icksburg are crowded with orders. Here
is located one of the largest silk sac-
tories south OF the Potomac, which gives
steady employment to a very large num-
Der of operatives, composed largely of
girls and boys. The fou,:dries, including
Hunters Plow Works, w. D. Williams
foundry and the Southern Foundry, are
still in the lead, and have had a prosper
Gus year, though the former has had to
mourn this year the loss Of its head and
founded in the death of Charles +. Hunt
er.
The rim, wheel and spoke factories and
fourishing condition. and the large pickle
factories furnish the tables Of many 4
hotel and restaurant with the best picked
products.
From the two large sumac mills here,
suInac extract of the best make is shipp-
ed for dying purposes to the worlds mar
kcts.
Many new structures have been erected
in the residential portion of the city
and on business streets. In one of the
business buildings the Conway, Gordon
and Garrett National Bank has recently
located, and in another the city POST
office, fitted up with appliances, furniture
and fixtures of the handsomest and most
modern design, which render it one Of the
best-eQu:pped in the State, has been es-
tablished.
One of the new enterprises which will
be in operation early in the new year, is
4 large plant for manufacturing prepared
bricks of a superior quality. the capacity
Of which will be about 10000 bricks per
day.
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OANVILLE.
Glorics i'll Good Streets. E1ctlIen,
Rapid Transit and Manufactures.
iSnacIal Disna: .-1 II &c Times

Especial Dispatch 1Ec Tlmes)
DANVILLE, VA, Dec. 3t-The past year
has been to Danville continuation OF the
previous year from a business standpoint.
The work on the streets, which was begun
last fall. has been completed, giving the
city one of the most beautiful business
and residential thoroughfares in her Main
Street" that can be found anywhere in
the State. The new depot. which was
completed during the past summer, is a
handsome edihce.
The street railway ran its first car
across the bridge on July 4th The rail-
way is unexcelled by any in the South
The American Tobacco Companys new
cigarette plant has put hundreds of girls
to work and brought Il large weekly pay
roll into the city. The pants factory
known as the Moratock Manufacturing
Company, is doing a flourishing business,
though yet in its early stage The pay
rolls Of this concern are also large
The knitting mill has steadily improved
in its quality and quantity Of it's output.
and will also undergo improvements very
shortly.
The Postal Telegraph Company's line.
having reached this city, is q great help
to business interests. giving new life to
both the old and the new companies.
A Y. NJ. c. A., having become extinct
several years ago. is being reorganized
and it is proposed to erect q handsome
building with gymnasium and every
modern convenience
During the past year Danville celebrated
its growth by q great Street Fair and
Carnival. under the auspices OF the Elks,
whose influence is greatly felt in this COM
munity
Though the tobacco record, from a loose
leaf standpoint, has somewhat fallen short
of the previous year. which was a record
breaker, the eyes OF the financiers and
business men are turning to cotton fac
tories and various other enterprises.
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men about the terminal OF piers.
The city expects to do about one nun
bred and fifty thousand dollars worth OF
paving during the year; four additional
school buildings will be erected and two
new engine-houses. The fire department
Will be enlarged. and it's ability increased
by the addition of two new engines and
other equipments Several churches, now
in process of construction, will be com
pleted early in the year. A new electric
railway and a new electric light co. will
be in operation before the end of the first
year of the twentieth century. new
planning mill is being built and other small
industries will probably be located, to
give employment to a certain class of
labor that has not, heretofore, been ac-
commodated on the peninsula.
And, best Of all, there is a solidity
about the city that has not been noted
in years gone by that augurs well for
the future.
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Adversely and Success.

Especial Dispatch TO The Ttmcs-)
HnLSVILLE, VA. Dec. I--The year
1900 has not been u decidedly prosperous
wear for the people OF Carroll county. In
fact. prosperity and adversely have al
ternated with each other to such an ex-
tent that il would require q pretty close
balance of accounts TO determine accu-
rately which preponderates. Whilst the
weather continued cool until very late in
the spring. IL was nevertheless quite IA
vorabie to the planting out OF spring
crops. The result was very large crops
of corn, oats. buckwheat, potatoes and
cabbage. June and July were unusual
Iv wet months. so much SO that farmers
could scarcely find opportunity to tend
their crops. The cloudy rainy weather
caused the corn stalks TO shoot up so
RAPIDLY that they did not mature we'll and
consequently were too tender To Withstand
the succeeding hot suns that preEaiied
during the months OF August and SepseIn-
Der. On the list and 22d days % NO
yember fell the greatest Hood th1t ever
visited this part OF the country IL the
memory OF the Oldest inhabitant- On
Sunday night, November 2fst, the rain
came down in torrents. but on Moiaay,
the I'd, from ~ ~ 10
NJ. it fell in great sheets EVery
creek in the county flooded every foot OF
bottom land along its banks. and swept
away the last vest!ge OF corn. oats. nay,
fences and everything.
MANY persons think TIE loss In farm
products caused by this Hood TO be about
Is per cent of the products OF the en-
tire county.
Now. TO compensate to some extent
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A HUSTLING MOUNTAIN CITY.
Rad ford Becomin Distributing and
NIanutacturing Centre.
Especial Dispatch TO The Timcs.)


RApTORD. VA. Dec 3l.-The industrial
review Of the city of Radford for 1850
reveals. a healthful growth. Builders nave
been busy. and all the resident work
men. besides some from other places,
have had steady employment throughout
the entire year, erecting substantial prlch
business houses and comfortable homes
Eadrord opened during 1900 two up-to-
date hotels-one, ''tne Norwood in the
F,ast-End of the town; the other, The
West-End Hotei,' in the West Ward
These hotels are steam heated and mod
ern in every respect.
The depot force has been increased
because of 90 per cent increase IN the
amount OF freight and express handled.
The wholesale business, commenced TINS
wear. for the first time, has proven
.suci.es.s and Radf0sJ. rs becoming "a
distributing point FOR the furtner South
west and the coal fields of West Nlr-
gina.
What is known as the country trade"
has more than doubled since ~. To $
such trade as comes from several miles
out in the country and from the surround
ing counties of Floyd. Pulaski and Giles
brought here in wagons. They come in
loaded with all kinds of country produce
and fruits, and take back family supplies
ard stock for small country stores. Ihls
trade is largely dependent upon good
roads and Radfords Board OF Trade mas
been paying considerable attention to all
roads leading to town.
The electric company. organized by Dr.
George W. Miles, is just completing a
large power plant on Little river, two
niles south of the city, with the view
of furnishing light and power at cheap
rates The>company offers power free for
one year to factories. and thereafter at
50 per horsepower. This is very low
rate and is already bearing fruit.
Bradford is now making at the Crane
furnace $50 tons OF pig-iron per day. at
a greater profit per ton than any furnace
i'll Virginia, except one.
More city taxes We're paid in before the
penalty of December than for any year
previous; also back taxes on lots hitherto
purchased by the State are being paid
and property redeemed.
City warrants are at par: tax rate is
low. and money in the treasury.
Taken altogether, Radford is in a
healthful, vigorous stage of growth,
AT least four-ffths of the child popu-
lation attend the Sabbath schools. The
membership of the churches is away above
the average in proportion to population;
Sabbath observance is good, the day is
quiet and al! the wheels of business cease
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CHASE CITY.
4 Comparatively New Town That is
Taking the Lead III Business.
fSneclal Disnatch to Thc Times !

Especial Dispatch to The Times)
CHASE CITY, VA. Dec. 31.-Tnis town
has made material advancement i'll the
closing year of the century.
The Chase City Cigar and Cheroot Com
pany. an enterprise of only two years
standing, report an increase OF nanufact-
ured articles and sales of 100 per cent
over the previous year. Shipments are
made TO a dozen or more States Of the
South and West. a charter for the COM
pany mas been applied for.
The Carolina and Virginia Telephone
Company erected lines here This year and
commenced operation i'll May.
On December LIST connection was made
and the town placed in communication
with tWenty-nine towns over tie same
lines in Virginia and North Carolina.
More than a score of new residences
have been built here during the year, and
some Of them of imposing appearance.
Several large brick store houses and
buildings for The mechanical trades have
been erected. The railroad company built
n nice reception-room with separate apart
ment5 for White and colored.
The proprietor Of the Mineral Hotel and
Barnett Hotel says this has been more
profitable year than the one previous, and
that the sales OF mineral water have in
creased 10 per cent.
AS a market for leaf tobacco Chase City
ranks Wi III the first OF Southside Virginia.
TIC warehouse books show over three
millions of pounds sold here in 1899 From
the LIST of August of this year to this
date there have been sold over one mil
lion six hundred thousand pounds of the
new crop The crop of 1900 is p per cent.
less than previous years, but, notwith-
standing, the sales here for 1860 have eX-
ceeded 1889 fully 20 per cent.
The Method!sts now have in course of
construction a new church at an estimated
cost of S2.Soo
During the next year town hall will
be erected: a lot has been bought and plan
already drawn by w. c. West, OF Rich
mond, architect.
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Culpcpcr.
ts,ec,a, Dispatch 10 The rimes.)

Special Dispatch 70 The Times)
CI5Ip1cPER. VA, Dec 2l.-If improved
conditions evidence prosperity, then Eul-
pepper may We'll pc content with her sur
rou:1dings Within the last year. in ad-
dition TO the Farmers and Merchants,
Bank, long established. there haze been
two national banks-The Second National
and The Culpeper National added-aN do
ing good business and contributing 10
q cheaper rate Of interest
several private residences have been
erected. and the new Masonic Temple
nearing completion viii De an armament
to the city, a thing OF JOY forever to the
fraternity. a new enterprise-lightins The
town s,y eiec,ricity-is receiving support,
both among itas citizens Of the town and
Council. and promises in the near future
To be one OF the co.,reniences. at least to
the public.
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ing 1901. The new firms have begun bust
ness here III the last few months a new
graded school building has been erected
the Methodists have completed a mica
home for their preacher. said to be the
best in the FarmvilIe District. and othe,
dwellings, have been erected. Every
building at White Hall is occupied ant
the demand is for more houses. Tive
gold and copper properties near this plac,
have been sold to New York parties. and
it is believed that mining operations a,
both of these properties Will be begun In
4 very short while.
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I,ayvrenceville.
fsnsc,ol ptspatch to The Times,

r..vRENCEVILLE. VA, Dec 81
BRUNSWICK county is in avery prosperous
condition. The seaboard AIRLINE Rail- way
1as~ coustructst: its riain lire through the
county. and vita it come timber dealers .;
Who paid a great many Of the citizens good
nrices for their timber; and, consequent
", there were many Improvements hiHaue
Bantist church has been erected dur
in the past year and additions have
hasn made 10 the buildings OF bota no