Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-04-22
Mt. Elliot Springs
and
Sanitarium Company.
Prospectus Of Incorporation
Being an Interesting Account of what
the Company Purposes.

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this city last week for the purpose of
further developing the Variety Springs
property. is officered by the following
James r. Taylor, Jr.. president;
F. H. Lewis, vice president; L. A.
Connell, secretary and treasurer. Di-
rectors. N. G. Watts,E M. Harman,J. &.
r. Gregory. H G. Eichelberger, Jos.
A. Glasgow, DR.. Glasgow Armstrong,
and DR.. j. B. Catlett, of StauntoD, l.. A.
Connell, Macon, Miss John Critcher.
Jr Alexandria, Va. and F. H. Lewis,
Mgr. Va. Portland Cement Co.
READ WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION.
This Company is formed for the pur
pose of establishing and conducting a
|Summer and Winter Resort and Ner-
vous Sanitarium in this community
and State, and to sell and ship Mineral
Waters. Having selected Variety
Springs, Augusta county, Va, because
of its excellent mineral waters, alti
tude, convenient and sanitary location,
this property admits of profitable en-
largement and offers good invest
ment to all.
OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY.
Having acquired Variety Springs,
both real and personal property. for the
reasonable sum of sixteen thousand
dollars, it is now intended to further
establish and enlarge the buildings and
business by rem0deling present hotel
and buildings and the erection of 9th
lers, to equip and establish in portion
of it Nervous Sanitarium, and so
conduct aud manage the business as to
Increase its capacity, enlarge ITS profits,
and as Nervous Sanitarium to do all
the good we can to relieve suffering
humanity in this and other states; to
be hereafter known as Mt. Elliot Springs
and Sanitarium.
LOCATION.
The property is situated directly on
the main line of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway in Augusta County, Va,
at or near the highest point in Vir-
ginia and one of the highest points in
the Middle Atlantic States, overlook.
ing the beautiful and historic Valley
of Virginia.
MT. ELLIOT AS A SUMMER RESORT.
1t is we'll to state that it is now CON-
pleteIy equipped and furnished as a
Summer Resort, with new and excep.
tionally neat and clean property, and
has been successfully run and managed
by II. G. Eichelberger in the past, who
will still be identified with its future
management, and interested in its
financial policy. Aud as a Summer
Resort to further enlarge it's capacity
and efficiency to a reasonable degree,
TO meet increase in patronage without
extravigance or needless expenditure
of money.
Mt. ELLIOT AS A WINTER RESORT.
Realizing that our people stand in
need of changes to insure continu-
ance of health in winter as we'll as in
Summer, and In order that the excel.
lent waters may be the more
profitably drunk to their advantage
from the Natural Spring and to accom-.
modate those who are not able to pay
the price of fashion at more expensive
establishments it IS deemed advisable
to run it the year round.
MT. ELLIOT AS NERVOUS SANTA
RUM.
Because the waters are best suited
to the treatment of nervous diseases,
it is proposed to establish in a portion
of it a Nervous Sanitarium with mod
ern electric baths, and to create in con-
nection Herewith an Advisory Medl-
Cal Board composed of eminent physi.
Icians In this and other states.
1t is not intended to treat contage
Gus or infectious diseases. In our hos
pitfalls where all kinds of diseases are
treated is little calculated to benefit
this class of sufferers, and as so many
: lpeople are affected with some charac-
ter of nervous trouble, it is confidently
] believed that in the absence of any
other institution of this character in
5 the state and few if any in the South,
as a Nervous Sanltarium 1t will be
profitable, and prove a blessing to our
; lpeople.
MINERAL WATERS.
III 1t is proposed to ship Mineral Wa
s ters in free and carbonated state to tht
best advantage and profit.
n CAPITAL STOCK.
8 The maximum capital stock is fort.
4 thousand dollars, divided into shares
= of 500 per share.
The minimum stock is twenty thou
> Isand dollars, whereof six thousand dol
liars has been placed in advance. Be
? cause of many natural advantages
large capitalization is not required.
The stock subscription will be use
in the purchase of the above name
property and the further improvement
- and development along the lines abov
Indicated; but so much of said stoc
may be used in the creation of an Ad
visory Medical Board of the Institu
tion in the discretion of the Board
Directors.
There will be no common stock, an
the entire property, real and persona
will belong absolutely to the stool
holders.
TO THE SUBSCRIBER.
1t is the wish of the Board Of Dire
tors that the citizens of StauntOn an
Augusta county will become liber
subscribers, and all persons feeling Il