The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-09
'6H|PBU|LDINC
IN ALEXANDRIA
Company With Ample Capital
Now Being Organized.
Says Report.
MAYNARD IS STILL HOPEFUL
MAYNARD is STILL HOPEFUL
Declares Lee Brought Exposi-
ton to Point Where It
Cannot Fail.
(Fron our Regular Correspondent,


WASHINGTON, D. G., May SIT is
reported that steps arc being taken to
organize "a company which will under
take shipbuilding on a large scale in
Alexandria. 1t is stated THAI considerable
capital for the company is already in
sight, and gentleman of Alexandria,
who is Interested In the formation Of the
company, said last night that he be-
lieved the total amount desired would be
obtained The formation of this COM
pany and the location of such n large ell
terprise AT Alexandria is but another
evidence of the recent rapid growth OF
the OLD city. which is developing as rap
idly, IL not more rapidly, than any other
in Virginia
.'While l fully appreciate the serious
blow received by the Jamestown Ex-
position Company in the death OF General
jLee' said Representative Harry l..
Maynard at the New Willard, Il 40 NOT
think it Is lrrepaTbe. 1t is largely due
Ito him that it is not so. He lived to see
the exposition project reach n stage
where the death Of no one man could
4 make 1t fail. He helped in placing 1t lii
such position. believe we can get
! a good man who will prove a worthy sue
cessor Of General Lee, who will take up
his work and carrylit TO a climax as
glorious as that which General Lee
planned. and for which he was laGorinE
SO earnestly and SO successfully The
4 news Of the death of General Lee gave
me one Of the greatest shocks ever
received. l had been associated with
him very closely, and had learned to
love him dearly. He fell in harness"
The Census Bureau has just issued
pamphlet showing the number Of bales
%of cotton ginned in this country from
1900 to 1904, inclusive. The figures show
that cotton is grown in ten counties in
Virginia The crop last year amounted
to II, 2l6 bales; 1861 in 1903 1860 in 1902;
IL, 900 i'll 1901, and Il. $50 in 1900 South
q ampton county grew 6,5S5 bales last year
more than any other county In the State.
Brunswick came next, with 3770; Greenes-
vile, 800; Mecklenburg, 1,516; Sussex
j, 1886: Norfolk 1,l62 Nansemond, 6ls; Din
widdie, 1851 Prince George. 80. Pittsyl7s
vania raised two bales in 1900, but. none
is reported from that county since that
year.
The figures for North Carolina are. in
5Oo-pound bales, G97,452 in 1904; 52S107 in
1908; 5le,542 in 1902; +15,S0S in 1901, and
477.269 In 1000
Inc lOlul crop ltiSe } Vol WIS
1854, 457 bales Of 800 pounds, exceeding
that of 1903 by 3,49l.3S6 bales, or 1854 per
cent The largest crop ever produced IN
this country prior to 1904 was that Of
1898. which, commercially counted, was
L, 235, 900 bales or 1873 per cent. less than
the growth in 1904. The average crop Of
the fve-year period ending with 1903 is
& 9,S92,047 bales This Is 259 per cent. less
than that Of 1904.
In bn Q0S the n v6rOVra nhiC
Branch of the Geological Survey pro-
poses to obtain daily estimates Of the
flow OF the Potomac North Branch
of the Potomac, south Branch Of the
Potomac Shenandoah, North Branch
OF the Shenandoah, South Branch Of
the Shenandoah, James Qowcr), James
(upper) mouth Of James, AppomattoN
Roanoke, Dan, Staunton. Banister, New
and Grecnbriar Rivers part of these re-
cords to be made In Virginia and part
D In West Virginia A survey will be made
Of Roanoke River from the Virginia-North
Carolina line to Roanoke. Va
It is proposed also to collect by cores
i pondence statistics on the NEUROLOGY Of
the State: TO assemble available data on
the quality OF water in the STATE; 70
compile all available photographic and
hydrogic data in thal report, to be ready
by November ], 1905. !.
This work Is to be performed In CO.
operation with the State Geologist of Vir
+ ginia who agrees to contribute half the
expense OF these Investigations, said con-
tribution to be from the fund appropriated
by the State for State Geological sur
Yey.
To build a modern railroad from the
very heart OF West Virginia to Norfoll
without issuing single bond Is an UNI
precedcnted undertaking. and one which
betokens the fact that the builders nave
almost as much ready money as tho
United States government Itself, but tina
Ia what the Tidewater Railroad proposes
to DO. This fact Is cleaned from Peers
Railroad Manual. This book Is to rail-
road men what webster Is to the writer
This correspondent has consulted 1t II
the hope Of getting information as to VIM
the real people who are constructing tn
Tiwewnter Railroad are. In West Vir
ginia the Underwater project is known a.
the Deepwatcr Railway. The officers