The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-04
THE CHESAPEAKE
AND WESTERN
The First Train Passes Over North
River Bridge.
BUILDING FOR HEAVY TRAFFIC.
Way Strike the Chesapeake end Chic a;
Stanton Instead of Coming to Cor
donsyi!s Rockingham
Horse Show.
BUILDING FOR HEAVY TRAFFIC.
isrecsal Dispatch to Tho Times

HARRISoNBURG, VA, Oct. S.-Ihc
work on the fourteen-Inile extension Of
The. Chesapcake-Western Company is
nearing completion. The roadbed Is
ready Cor the railing, for the ties and the
track and The steel bridge at brldsc-
water, spanning North River, is COM
pletcs.. The first train crossed over last
week. The laying OF the rack WIN ny
pushed along as rapidly as circumstances
permit and il = expected by the man
:i.cment that trains VIII be run into
,orth River Gap by the middle or last
OF October. The road is said 10 be IN
The AnGs OF Lac Seaboard Az Line COM
bination.
AT Stoke City. the western terminus
of the road an immense Saw-mill, with
:: capacity of 250.0CO feet of lumber per
day is being pui up; tramwaSs are being
constructed throughout the timber region
of North River Gap, and mineral inter-
cSts of that section are being developed.
The company is preparing for heavy
traffic on .-.e road. as SHOWN by the fact
that tncy.are using the heaviest of steel
bridges and the eighty-pound steel rails.
-Four or five engineering corps are en-
gagged in the mountains Of West Virginia
surveying with a view of further eXten-
Sions OF the road
Along part Of the road built several
years ago new switches are being put in
and provision being made Tor .ieavy
freight traffic.
EyAPoRATING PLANT.
The l4arrisonburg Evaporating Com
pany. which is a branch of the Genesce
Fruit Company, of New York. is now
being run at its full capacity. About
three hundred -usheis of apples arc being
caily converted into dried fruit. They.
The company, employ about thirty people
and their payroll is about one hundred
dollars per week. Besides this they pay
out some rec hundred dollars per week
for apples. using sue apples only as are
unit for market.
The proGuct of the establishment is
Shipped from here to New York from
which place it is exported to foreign
markets.
The higher grade schools throughout
the county have begun their session with
good attendance. Shenandoah Institute
has increased its capacity by the adGi-
ton OF n handsome new building during
School has also put up new building
and Bridgewater College is contemplate
ing a like move.
HORSE AND COLT SHOW.
The race track of the Rockingham
Horse and Colt Show Association is about
finished. The contractors expect to have
the track ready for driving purposes with
in two weeks. When completed it Will
be one Of the best race courses in the
country. The entire course is either a cut
or a fill, and on il Will be put two feet OF
aluvial soil, Which Will make it as fast
as the fastest of Virginia tracks. The
grand stand. which Will have a seating
capacity Of $50 people, is conveniently
planned and strong.
Entries are coming in almost every day.
The finest horses of the Valley will be out
in force.
There will he a number of buyers from
northern markets on the ground. Farm
ers and others of this section anticipating
this demand for good horse flesh, are pre-
pairing to bring their surplus stock 10 The
show.
A NEW RAILROAD RUMOR.
\ prominent official of the Chesapeake
Western Company. which is building the
fourteen-nie extension of the Chesapeake
and Western Railway. from Bridgewater
west, remarked 10 "A Times correspondent
yesterday that there might be such p
thing as his company. instead of building
cast of Elliton. building from Bridgewa-
ter to Stanton, and there connecting
with the Chesapeake and Ohio. and thus
securing an outlet to deep water at Nor
folk. He stated that the Chesapeake and
Ohio from Stanton east 10 Richmond
had very little traffic on it comparatively
speaking. and that such a step would save
them the necessity of tunneling the Blue
Ridge Mountain and building into Cor
louisville. This course would give them n
Meeting link OF only twenty miles or less.