Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1905-12-22

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j aire. has concluded the purchase of al
immense tract of coal land lying part
: ~ in Taylor county and partly il
f Barbour county, w. Va, at an average
of S25 an acre. Ii is said that nearly
$500 600 will be paid the farmers fol-
this land
a charter has been issued to the Big
Clear Greek Railway Company, OF
lCharleston. to build railroad from
| Rupert, GIeenbrier county, to Rich
wood. Nicholas county Capital stock,
| $4,000. Incorporators-C. B. Couch,
| f. IA. Reid, Frank Cox, George a..
| Shre wsburg and Geo. S. Couch. Jr., all
of Charleston.
| A0out S5 Wabash engineers arrived
lin Cumberland last week from the
| West Virginia Central, 1t is said they
will work III Pennsylvania, north of
here, in accordance with the proposed
plan TO build to Pittsburg via Frost
burg and OonnelsvIlle the line Of the
Georges Creek and Cumberland re
Gently purchased to be used in the ex
tension The corps will work out from
Frostburg.
The United States Leather Compa-
ny is contemplating the erection of a
large extract plant at this place to be
run in connection with tue tannery
and is negotiating for site tor the
same. The plant Will use chestnut
wood OF which there is an inexhausti-
BILE supply IL this county. The build
ing of this plant will mean another big
industry for Observation-Disclosures
Times.
A special from Asheville, n. c., says
that George w. Vanderbilt has sold to
w, S. and W. L. Alexander, of Char
lotte, and others, the standing timber
on bis famous Pisgah forest reserve. |
The reserve contains $1,000 acres eft
virgin forest, with 300, 900, 900 feet of |
marketable timber. The consideration |
will be nearly $4,000 600. 1t is said |
that twenty years will be required to
remove the timber The tract contains
/ .0O0. GOO feet of tannic acid and pulp
woods, and 10000 cords Of tan bark.
The deal is the largest ever made in
that section.
The Pocahontas wv. Va.) Times
speaking editorially OF the development
Of that county and tie Greenbrier Val
icy, says in part: For ten successive
years Il. Frazier, at that time chief
Of tue c. & O. R, r TO, pre- (
senJed at the meetings of the railway
in Newly ork city the propo-
sitfon to build the Greenhrier division
Of tie g. u O., and for ten successive !
years J. Pierpoint Morgan said, Let s
it wait, " but the eleventh year he said
Let it be built" and it was done.
What did MIR. Morgan know about
what did he care? Ah,
the omniscient eye Of Wall Stress and
it's barons has penetrated every forest
cove and cave in the confines of the
American States.
Five years ago today the first pas
,enger train broke the silence of the
centuries enroute from Ronceverte to
the head waters of the Greenbrier, and
> Kaleidoscope transformation was
begun. Towns sprang up like mush
rooms from spawn which had awaited
only the warmth and moisture Of a
summer shower; the forests are melt
ug away like frost on window panes
md che wild denizens Of the woods flee
a terror from the denudation of their
haunts only to be pursued
~ the eneroaohment Of further and
more aggressive development. Ther
are twelve large lumber plants on tue
River, some of which have capacity
II hundred thousand feet Gay, be-
side which there are countless smaller
operations, portable mills
1t is announced that negotiations
have been concluded for the purchase
and transfer Of the Trigg shipyard 1T
Richmond TO the Southern Ry. 1t is
the plan Of the railway company to
build large freight warehouses and sell
the residue for manufacturing sites for
enterprises demanding plenty of iigh0
space, railway and water trauspOrta-
uon facilities. Ths IS expected to re-
place the loss. TO business. on account
Of the abandonment OF snip building1
there, The railway buys the entire
except the ship dock.
Large plans are shaping in connec-
rion With the dock 1t is proposed that
the city acquire The dock and enlarge
the present lock so that the largest
ships that come up the James river
may come up to 17th street, where
there are good dockage facilities and
where ships could load to and from
trains at the same time, saving the
long haul from the wbarves to the bus
mess center. There has been an offer
made for the dock, which is said to be
acceptable
1t is believed this movement would
mpletelY restore Riohmond's declin
ing Shipping The improvements by
the Southern BY. will involve 81 ,00h,-
200 and the plans for the enlargement
of the locks and docks would require
an equal expenditure on the part of the