Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-02-05
A BUSY TOWN.
Factories Running Ahead on Or
: ders "A Building Boom Grow
ing Trade and Population, ETC.,

"Stuart's Draft has more bushes
for its size than any point along th
In. g w. Ry. between Roanoke an
= Hagerstown.n This was the uDqual
fed statement of merchant of tbs
place to correspondent Of the SPEC
TAToR who happened Ia the town
few days since. And further sal
| he Il am prepared to prove the truth
fulness of that assertion 1t seem
that the merchant in question when II
Roanke had visited the Offices of the n
g. W. and having made the statemen
above quoted, challenged an official t
disprove its accuracy. Reference to th'
books of the company soon proved thu
assertion to be correct Acceptins
therefor, this statement, as fact The
correspondent for the SPECTATOR be
gan to look about hin for the causes
| which must exist to produce such ef
feet. These were apparent at glance
there Was a stave and heading tac
tory, large milling company, a chai'
| factory, a barrel factory, two large
| stores and two blacksmith shops, Add
ed to the trade which these insure is
the large and valuable patronage which
com IS from rich surrounding agrl
Cultural section; trade that finds
ready and profitable market there.
Radiating from the town ia all direc
tion is stretch of fertile farm laud,
aud vista of handsome homesteads not
to be excelled in a county noted as the
most wealthy in the Stare.
From near by emiuence the writer
louKed out oyer the town aud its Pic
turesque surrouudings-why was thls
vast spread of meadow lands ever call
ed a draft-Stuart's Draft? A natural
question and Que not answered till l
CHANGED upon the learned professor u
the school house; Prof. W, T. Camp
bell. who says That the name was more
given years ago to the
old pustotflce which was then located
a mile and half from the preseni
town, the home place of once. H. Fox,
where indeed WAS u narrow valley or
draft. Wh.n the railroad came, the
postoff1ce was moved to the station,
but retained the name, a name which
suggests no meaning to busy town.
by level sweeps of op-u
farm country. If it must be Stuart
then why not StuartvilIe, Siuartt
or Stuart's Valley, for val
ley it is most beautiful. and meadow.
there are abundant and broad and
fertile.
THE INDUSTRIES.
But whats in a name" and what |
matters that, when towns people are
busy and prosperonsp The first IN
dustry that claimed my attention was
the Valley Stave and Heading Fac |
tory, A j. Young, a Staunton man,
the Manager, and s. J Howe, the Fore
man. The plant is employing four
teams that haul the stave billets to the
factory from the W. w Eastman fims
Der tract. recent purchase and located
near Barterbrook. Besides the billets
Tor slaves, large quantity OF white
and black oak bark, is pealed and
stacked on the yards ready for ship
ment. About so cords of billet wood
and 500 900 flushed pieces in slaves
aud headings are also in stock. The
product finds ready market in PENN
,ylvania. Maryland, Virginia and West
Virginia A number of men are fur
nished profitable employment.
The Stuart Draft Milling Co is
another industry that affords profira
Ole employment and brings to the place
much neiguborhood patronage. Its of
icers are j. Blackboard Patterson,
President, @. Fl CohrOn, Gen'l Mama
ger, and &. M. Kefauver, s cretary
md Treasurer. Two hundred barrels
If -four per day is output and the
nil is running night and day-30 days
ahead on orders.
Near by is tue barrel factory of y.
E. Young. turning out from rs to 100
barrels per day. Recently large ware.
DOM has been added to the factory In
which is stored and packed TO the roof,
barrels for both -four and apples. Tue
hoop poles which form no small part
If the industry s needs are secured In
The immediate neighborhOod and are
elected from the sapiing growths OF
hickory, white oak, dog wood and
maple, using from 600 to 100 per
month.
Up the track bit is the chair fac
DRY Of j. Frank Smith-Foreman In
charge J. Frank Phillips Here we're
urned out during last year 3. ZOO chairs
q cane and split bottom aud three
tyles in rockers. The chairs are sold
Principally to points along the N q
". and g. s. o Rvs. and in West Vir-
mia and Lyucnburg The factory
90 has had ready sale for its entire
output and at present is running ahead
N its orders, having shipped about 800
,haiis during January.
OTHER BUSINESS.
As general Index To The volume OF
;raffic done here, the figures given by
& W Agent w. l. RAIDER, are con
elusive. He reports freight business
If from 10 to rs cars during January
he incoming and out going freight
,nough the last month is always con
,idered dull month in freight bust
ness.