Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-04-14
CHAMBER ISSUES
BOOSTER BOOKLET
Attractive Bit of Literature Tells OF the Ad-
vantages Staunt0n Offers to Home e-SeekefS,
Capitalists and Others Seeking "The
Place IDEAL"

made for water power electricity Dy
the Southern Power Corporation.
Labor is largely white and is unusu-
ally intelligent. AS for strikes we
know them only by hearsay. The
South at the present time has received
only small part of the great stream
of immigration which has developed
the West and Northwest and the large
majority of the laborers are descend
ants of the old settlers.
What is more to the point, the man.
ufacturing concerns here now are sue
cesssful in every sense of the word.
Putnam's Organ Factory. which fif-
teen years ago consisted of one man
and boy, now employs one hundred
and twenty-five men and Putnam or
gans are known the world over. This
is the largest reed organ factory in the
world. Every day the White Star
Mills send out five hundfed barrels of
fine Virginia flour and working men
in Pittsburg wear Staunton overalls.
The Beverley Manufacturing Com
pany from very modest beginning
has come to employ seventy-five hands
and their flags and pennants go TO all
points of the compass.
A prosperous plow works is not only
supplying southern trade, but is ship
ping plows to Canada; Bodley's Wagon
Works send wagons to South America
and the Virginia Metal Roofing Com
pany is doing fiourishing business.
A City of Certainties- -Staunton is
not posi- bility or probability. 1t
is certainty. A man putting money
into new town is dependent on the
success of that town for his success
That town is an untried proposition.
There is nothirg speculative about
Stanton. The best estimate of a
city's future may be made by refer
ence to her past. Staunton has not
only glorious past but prosperous
present and bright future.
A Unique Municipal Systematic
business side OF the city of Stanton is
looked after by General Manager
such as is usual with business corpor-
ations, the City Council acting as a
Boar of Directors of such com pany.
This arrangement has proved very
successful.
A Hard Headed Business Man wants
figures and here they are. The sim pie
unvarnished truth is good enough for
Slaunton. We give you the facts and
figures.
Here is Inserted Il table showing the
increase of population from 1899 in
1900 to l0,6O4 il 1910; the increase in
postoffice receipts from $40, 1925 to
$3S, 700. 46 during the same period and
and the increase in assessed value of
property from 1885, 1854 to $6,51S.17.
Then follows these statistics:
Bank Resourses-three and one-half
millions.
Total Rate Tax-including State
$1.7O per 500 assessment. which is
based on approxim ately two-third
actual value.
Bank Deposits average over $24O per
capita.
Telephones in Staunton, 500.
Gas at $1.25 per 1000 cubic feet.
Electric lights at 102 and y cents
per K. w. H.
Electric power, $50 per horse power
per year for ten hour working day.
$3.50. 900 worth of apples shipped out
of Augusta county last year.
Two daily and two weekly news
papers. ~
Electric cars and amusement park.
Three fne automobile garages.
1t Is Worthy to Note that not a bank
suspended payment or resorted to scrip
during the panic. Staunton people
learned there was a panic through
Eastern and Western papers.
We Believe in Staunton, Her Future
These pictures are but a hint of her
great possibilities. The tide of invest
ment of American and foreign capital
is turning Southwark as never before
and wonderful things are in store
for this section. The prosperity of the
South rests on bedrock of natural
resources.
Investigate Staunton-Listent to the
knock of opportunity and look Staun-
ton over before locating your factory or
business. There is splendid oppor
tunity here for a furniture factory,
barrel factory, mills, canneries, evap-I
orators, vinegar and cider plants, jelly
and jam factories; in fact any factory
that can profit by good labor, low
power cost, rich agricultural section,
splendid rail way facilities and proxim
ity to the big markets of the country
and the shipping ports.
The Land of the Luscious. Apple is
Augusta county and last year enough
fine apples went out of this county to
make an unbroken line from New
York to San Francisco and back. Yes,
Oregon apples are good to look at but
Augusta county apples made firm by
the bracing mountain air and rosy by
the warm, Southern sun have flavor
of their own which makes them not
only good to look at but good to eat.
The big markets in this country and
abroad have found this out and the
demand exceeds by far the supply.
Fortunes Are Being Made in this
county by apple raising. Good apple
land costing from twenty to fifty dol
lars an acre and up, yields Eve hun
dred to eight hundred dollars AN acre.
The apple crop is cash crop, too
bought on the trees and picked and
packed by the buyers.