The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-30
WATER POWERS
INUPPER HANOVER
Nobody Has Been Playing the
Dog in the Manger
Act.
POWERS CAN BE UTILIZED
William C.Noland Corrects Some
Misleading Statements Found
in Hanover Writeup.

In the Industrial Section OF July 16
l had an article on Things Heard and
Seen in Hanover County" Amons
other things heard about in the
northwest section of that grand old
county were some undeveloped water
powers in Little River and the North
Anna River belonging to a syndicate
composed of Nelson B. holland, of Han
over. whose post office in Beaver Dam
and two or three Pennsylvania
citizens. 1t was stated. upon Informs
ton received in the neighborhood. that
the syndicate would neither develop or
sell the powers. although several people
had tried to get the same with the
view OF developing said powers that
industries of various kinds might be
established at boswell and Verdon and
at other points in Hanover on the
chesapeake and Ohio railway 1t
was also stated. also on information
/ received in the neighborhood, that the
syndicate was thus playing the dog
In the manager act"
William c. holland, of Richmond,
brother of one of the members of
the syndicate. tells me that my infor-
nation as to the dog in the manger
act" was misleading to say the least
of 1t. He says the syndicate acquired
the property to do the very thing that
IT is now accused of refusing to do
that Is, sell II with ample adjoining
lands that factories of one kind and
another may be put in operation and
also acquired. right at the Little River
power. n tract upon which there are
valuable and extensive deposits OF
granite. magnificent sample of which
was polished and exhibited at the
jamestown Exposition and is now on
exhibition in the Virginia State Per-
manent Mineral Exhibition. William
c. holland. acting as agent for the
syndicate. has made effort to sell the
water power, that II may be converted
INTO electric power to run factories ~
boswell. Verdon and other points
To this end the syndicate acquired
property in boswell between the C. &.
0. and r., +. & p. railway lines. so as
to be able to offer prospective manu-
tacturers factory sites and also ample
lands near the two water powers Mr..
holland advertised these properties and
powers and made special effort to in
terest stonemen and ballast makers
In the granite quarries, but without
success. He even went so far as to do
eohsiuerdoie advertising. 1t may be
that he did not advertise In the right
place. for he ought to have known that
the place to advertise a Virginia In :
dustrial proposition is in the columns
of the Industrial Section OF The Times
Dispatch, but that Is neither here nor
there the fact remains that. acting
for the syndicate. he did try to dispose
70 the power in the two Hanover coun.
ty streams. that they might be develop
ed. converted into electric power and
made to run numerous industries. and
that Is sufficient evidence that injus-
tice was done the syndicate when II
was asserted that 1t was playing the
dog In the manger act.
BY the way. Mr. holland tells mo that
the two engineers who were pnid
literally by the syndicate to survey
the powers reported that moro than
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