Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-09-11
A HIVE OF INDUSTRY.
Rapid Development Along the Chesa.
peapeake- W estern Extension.
SHAUNTON,

Ii anyone is inclined to underesti
mate the development of the section
OF country contiguous to the extension
OF the Chesapeake-W estern Railroad,
a trip mp the line to North River CAP
will etfectually dispel all doubt.
twenty or more carloads of timber
leaving North River Gap every week
I-hemlOck and other soft woods for
the Hagerstown factories, and car
stuff for the Pennsylvania Railroad
and carload after carload of bark and
cord wood, all demonstrate that the
Chesapeake Western has tapped a new
field, whose resources have not yet
been drained away-indeed, not yet
fairly developed.
Last Thursday Register reporter
made trip up the line and found the
freight business of the road to be con-
stantly growing and SO far as outward
appearances go, the company is in a
thriving and prosperous condition
Cars loaded with bark and cord wood
lined the sidfngs at Harrisonburg.
much OF the former being delivered
direct to the Houck Tanning Co. in
| Harrisonbnrg.
The improvements which have re-
Gently been made at Messy Creek make
IL a typical pleasure resort. The new
dancing pavilion will be a source of
| satisfaction always fer the devOtees of
TerpsichOre. The bathing beach with
| rs bottom as smooth and as sandy as
the seaside beach itself-One deep
enough for the grOwn-up folk, and one
shallow enough for the little fellows
Is lasting delight to those who love
the water. The boating, the fishing,
and the tete-a-teteS in the many shady
and secluded hooks for those who are
sentimental are not the least of the
attractions of the place. All in ali,
there is not another resort in many
miles that can offer the variety of
pleasures and attractions afforded by
Messy Creek Park. The Chesapeake
Western people are doing everything
to make it AN attractive spot and they
are masters in the art of tickling the
popular fancy in that direction.
AT Mt. Scion the reporter found
many things which go to make up q |
scene OF activity and enterprise. Hun |
dreds of logs containing thousands of |
feet OF the finest lumber. waiting to be |
loaded. showed that the trees of the |
forest are being turned into money at |
Mt. Scion and accounted in part for |
sundry well lined pocket books in that |
vicinity.
At North River Gap the J. G. Stiegel
Lumber Company and the firm of |
Click " Dixon and several other par
ties are running in all at least a half.
dozen sawmills and the Stiegel Lumber
Company likewise has had big force
OF hands peeling bark.
The firm of Click & Dixon is a new
one. ID. L. Click is the senior member
and has just transferred half interest
in his business to Major Dixon, who
was formerly identified with one of
the largest lumber camp in West Vir-
ginia. ths%-'e
The operations in numbering, forest
~, and the general quickening OF en-
terprise throughout the section tribu-
tary to the Chesapeake Western is an
object lesson at our very doors-on a
small scale, perhaps, but still complete
and iIuprassive-of what railroad en-
5erprise intelligenily projected and
sapssbly managed will do for the unde-
Veloped natural resources of rich
territory like the Messy Creek section
of West Augusta. Rockingham Reg
ster. h