Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1906-08-15

rounding towns and fortrolley line
purposes beteewn the fertile Shen-
andoah valley and the national
capital.
The current against the wheels
will generate $500 horsepower,
and its kilowatt capacity will be
1000. These arc minimum figures,
made from estimates of Construct
ing Engineer n. Wilson Davis,
of Harrisonburg, Va, and it is
stated that in no instance, even
should the river fall, will the power
be less, the estimates having been
made when the stream was slightly
below normal.
When the plant is completed,
which will be within a few weeks,
the company will for time use but
four wheels, but there are
now being installed two additional
wheels, or turbines which will be
brought into use when the trolley
line is in operation.
The geographic location OF the
station is considered as good as
could could have been found any
where, and it seems as if nature
nodded the land just for such an
enterprise. The country forms a
natural basin, either bank plunging
precipitatcly into the river and
offering no land to be overhown by
the rise in water caused by the
dam.
The company was not imposed
upon by property owners when it
became known about two years
ago that an electric line was in
contemplation, and there were
many offers of land for miles up
and down the Shenandoah river,
showing theeagerness of the people
to have the natural resources of
their section developed.
The plant of the company at
Millville, together with their cleo
trio light poles, extending along
the turnpikcs and country roads in
all directions, dam, raceway, build
ings, equipment, etc, when com
pleted, exclusive of the railway
lines, will represent an outlay of
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Whit Elephant now nearing COM
pletion and prospects of surround
ing cities and towns being lighted
from it by early fall, the company
will soon devote It's attention to the
building of It's electric line across
the country TO or near Bluemont.
LoudOun county, where it will con-
meet with a Washington company
which Is now building out to Aldie
and whose lines will be extended so
as to meet the Winchester line.
Engineers have been at work for
some time past making surveys
along the BerryviIle turnpike,
which crosses the Shenandoah river
at Castleman's ferry, and on up
the Blue Ridge mountains to Blue
mont.
The people of Clarke county, in
particular, are eager to see the
Winchester and Washington City
Railway Company begin work on
its line as soon as possible, and
they are offering every inducement
to encorage the enterprise. The
same feeling exists throughout
this entire section, the people ap-
preciating the commercial and
pleasure-seeking benefits such an
enterprise will produce, and that
it will bind closer than anything
else could the social and business
relations of Washingtonians and
the hospitable people of the Shen-
andoah valley.
Clarke county alone, one of the
smallest counties in Virginia, has
a fine quality of land, and estates
in that region seldom sell for less
than 800 per acre, the most of it
bringing much more. In the past
few years there have been many
important real estate transactions
in this section of the lower Shen-
andOah vally, and Clarke county
in particular is dotted with magnif-
icent estates owed by northern,
eastern and western millonaires,
who spend the better part of their
time on their country places.
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