Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-01-04
Industrial Growth In Lexington
and Rock bridge.

ty have enjoyed fair measure
industrial success during the pas
year, and prosperity and content
ment are evidenced on every hand
The labor of the husbandman ha
been rewarded with good crops a
remunerative prices, the mechani
and laborer have been steadil
employed and the tradesman ha
enjoyed good patronage.
Several new structures Of ele
CANT design have been completed
in Lexington. The Lees Dormi
tory and the Engineering Hall a
Washington and Lee University
are handsome buildings, and they
were erected the past year. The
former is built of brick with stone
trimmings, is three stories higf
and cost $50, 900. The Engineer
ing Hall is likewise brick struc
ture, three stories high, with
trimmings of stone. The build.
ing was the gift of Mr.. William H.
Reid of Chicago, and the cost
with furnishings was $40. 900.
The Administration Building at
the Virginia Military Institute has
been completed and is now ready
for occupancy. 1t cost $l8, 900.
Among the other building opera
tions was the erection by the Rock
bridge Lime & Stone Company of
five new dwelling houses for their
employees, and five more will be
built in the spring; Messrs. j.
Med. Adair, Isaac Weinberg and
Irwin & Co. have enlarged their
respective store rooms in order to
provide additional room and facili-
ties for their increasing business.
The three banking institutions
here show gratifying increase
in business. The First National
Bank has a capital stock of $780,
600, surplus fund and undivided
profits, $4,000; deposits, $751;
900; loans and securities, $685.
$50. The officers are Messrs. John
L. Dunlop, president; b. 4.
Vaughan, cashier; H. C. Wise, as.
,istant cashier; w. C. Firebaugh,
bookkeeper.
The Bank of Rockbridge has a
capital stock of .$85, 600; surplus
'und and undivided profits, 1884,
300; deposits, $19S, 500; loans and
100000. The officers
ire Messrs. w. S. Hopkins, presi-
lent; S. o. Campbell, cashier; A.
?. Wade, teller.
The Peoples National Bank was
April 1st of last year,
md it has secured for itself a
growing business. 1t has q capt.
al stock of $50. 900; surplus fund
md undivided profits, 81, 057; de-
,osits $l19,680; loans and securi-
les, $143, 145. The officers are
dessrs. j. w. McClung. president,
nd VIM. NJ. McElwee, cashier.
OF the industrial enterprises the
eading one is the Rockbridge
lime d Stone Company. The COM
any employs so men, and the
of the three kilns is 800
'arrels of lime per day. The
ertilizer lime plant, for the manu-
acture of Patent Process Ferti-
Izer lime, has been operated a
title over year, with results so
satisfactory that arrangements
ave been made for doubling
he capacity. The officers Of the
are Messrs. L.Embres,
Lawrence Embree,
ecretary and treasurer, and II. r.
ILLS, travelling salesman.
Moses Brothers roller mill md
'ood- working factory at the river
-ey 81 Furr's roller mill near East
exington; and the Huger David
IN Sale wholesale grocery are
nportant enterprises of Lesing.
n. In addition to these the adj
srtising columns of The GAZETTE
resent the names Of the leading ,
ealera in dry goods, groceries,
lrniture, coal, grain, etc. L
Lexington enjoys fine tele-
hone service now undergoing im I
-ovement, Mr.. L. S. Burwell, I
anager; an excellent electric
ght system, Mr.. Robert E. Hut
IN, secretary and manager; well {
.sded high and grammar schools,
r. Harrington Waddell, princi- 7
n.
Rockbridge is chiefly an agricul-
raj county, but there are Il few
operated in season, be-
des several furnaces for the man
'acture of iron. At present and
T several years past, the entire
unity, Lexington and Buena +
ista included, has been under
Q control of local option laws, y
ID no legalized bar-rooms are .
rmitted. Radiating from Lex !,
gtOn are number of rural free :
livery mail routes, which give =
e county people a daily servic- =
At Buena Vista are number n
anufacturing enterprises, which ;,
clude the Paper Mill, Extrsc,
crks, Furnace, Tanner. etc. =