Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-02-22
A TROLLEY is
PRACTICABLE
An Educational Meeting
in Burke's Garden.
Figures that Talk"
Burke's Garden, Va, Feby. 20.


1t has been suggested to build troll
ley line from Burke's Garden to the
railroad. Your readers may have
noticed something OF this In the papers
before.
Well, another meeting of the citizens
OF the Garden was held last Saturday
to discuss the subject. The meeting
was purely educational in character.
but none the less significant. 1t show
ed that the scheme is no longer Joke
IL 1t ever was-but entirely practica-
ble. The people are taking it serious
ly. They are calmly, but surely, plot
ting to do the thing. 1t takes talk and
time as well as money to build rail
roads-unless you are a Hartman or
Hill. So don't be impatient, Mr..
Editor. We are not "slow" but scare
full. }" "Fools rush in where angels fear
to tread" Burke's Garden people are
not 'fools" and are not going to
teopardize their homes in any wildcat
scheme, They are studying the situa-
tion, and when the final decision is
reached it will be In the line OF con-
servativs progress. Genuine progress
was made in the meeting Saturday.
One speaker, a newcomer, reminded
the audience that they must "bear in
mind that this is the stillest and quiet
est place l ever saw" That silence OF
stagnation is being broken, One Of
these days, as he rides his lonely cir.
cult, things will be different. The roar
OF Wolf Creek will change to the
rumble OF wheels; the timorous whip
poorwill will fiutter over into Thomp-
sons Valley; the hoot-owl will noise
lessly beat the air toward the crags OF
Buckhorn, as the electric shuttle flies
back and forth over the mountain; the
lazy cattle, with great wisps OF bluegrass
In their mouths, will lift their heads
and stare as the trolley whirrs by;
the groves will resound with the merry
laughter OF tourist picnic parties; hotel
gongs will sound; milk-wagons will
break the early morning stiffness; and,
late into the night the young men, con-
tent to stay at home now, will be gath
ering marketable produce for the first
car OF the morrow. 1t won't be so
quiet then.
But, seriously, there wss just lots OF
hard sense IN what was said SATURDAY..
In order to cover all the ground, the
discussions followed a pre-arranged
program, which this article purposes to
review in part, If 1t does not overtax
your patience.
WILL THE TROLLEY PAY THE PEOPLE OF
BURKK's GARDEN?
This point was we'll taken In the af-
f1rmativs by clear review Of the varied
products Of the Garden. Dairy pro-
ducts, root-crops, berries (strawberries
picked with the dew still on them)
celery, roasting ears (the finest everb
hay, poultry and fat cattle were en-
phaslzed. All this can be done without
seriously interfering with the grazing
OF the tempting exports that we all ad-
mire 80 much, but taste so little. In
tensiye farming will do 1t, and the rude
plow-share need not break through the
homes Of the mysterious bluegrass to
"grieve" the soul OF our irrepresslbIe
Tsnnesseean.
WILL THE TROLLEY PAY THE
STOCKHOLDERS +?
Undoubtedly, after few years de-
velopment OF Industries. likely from the
start. Draw steel boundary line
from Radford to Bristol, from Bristol
to Norton, from Norton to Bluenelo.
fIom Bluefield to Radford and you
have an unbelievable area q hundred
and forty miles long and forty miles
wide with no transportation facilities
save the narrow territory Immediately
contiguous to the iron girdle. Nowhere
in the east is there to be found 80 large
an undeveloped area with anything like
the unbounded resources of this Sec
ton: acres and acres Of virgin forest;
coal and iron and plaster deposits un-
guessed; impoverishable alluvial bot
toms, and slopes with strata set at
such an angle that the mountain
sides are as fertile as the banks OF