The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1911-05-03
Coal Operators Should Live
in Big Stone Gap.

Kanawha New River District
in West Virginia, as rule,
live in Charleston in that State,
while those of the Pocahontas
field have their homes, as
rule, in Bramwell, w Va, that
is to say, the operators in
certain territory live in some
town in that territory. This for
the sake Of the society of which
they themselves make up part,
the educational, moral, literary
and other advantages W hich
they get by uniting with so
many other people of like aims
and aspirations as themselves.
For the same reasons, there
should be living at Big Stone
Stone Gap, the operators and
the directing heads OF our nu
nervous coal and coke plants
now located in Lee, Wise, Rms
sell and Dickinson counties.
Virginia, and these now begin
ming to come into Pike and
Letcher and certain parts of
Harlan county, Kentucky, and
this appeal is directed to getting
them here.
The tone of Big Stone Gap is
moral and it is a safe place for
their families. There are no
haunts of vice or any thing of
that kind TO contaminate the
finer qualities of their children.
The most of the predominating
religious denominations in this
section nave churches here the
Methodist. the Baptist. the
Episcopolian, the Christian and
others
There is, admittedly, no bet
ter graded school and school
building in this part of South
west Virginia, or, for that mat
ter, in the whole of Virginia
than we have here in Big Stone
Gap, and it's teachings and
equipment are such as to pre-
pare girls and boys for the
active duties OF life or to go of,
later to the higher schools or
colleges elsewhere. This isl
further emphasized by the fact
that we have here summer
normal with over three hundred
young men and women, most
ly teachers or preparing TO
teach
Before Christmas we should
have in active working opera
lion the new library TO whose
erection Mr. Carnegie has re
Gently given ten thousand dol.
lars This will prove TO be
source of continual satisfaction
10 all families, both adult
members and children.
Here can be had such whole
some recrcations as are afforded
by the course of the Mountain
Golf Club, whose links have.
been enjoyed by our own PEG.
PIE and visitors during the last
two or three years. Here is "A
park on which many exciting
games of baseball are played
every year in the contest for
cups given by enthusiastic
patrons. Here, at reasonable
times, as on the Fourth Of July,
rs given a series of sturdy
sports in clean handed manner
and harmless amusements for
The people, lasting over several
days. a certain class Of enter
lalnment has been given in our
temporary playhouse, which
VIII, no doubt, be followed by a
theatre which will bring here a
superior run of attractions in
ihat line, as our population
grows and the demand for such
diversion increases.
The building of a system of
macadam roads, now in prog
ress, is going to augment the
pleasure of Lying in the noun
tains very materially by giving
those so minded the oppor-
tunity for driving and horse
back riding in great comfort or
making excursions in automo-
blles to the Natural Tunnel. !
Cumberland Gap, blue grass
Kentucky and the North, with
which we will sooner or later
he connected. The same will be
true of our affiliations with the
rest of the State of Virginia and |
the South, and Big Stone Gan