The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-12
HUSTL|NG TOWNS
IN OIL VIRGINIA
Bird 's-Eye Views of Two
Ora ack Minor
Citiesin the Southside.
CHASE CITY AND
SOUTH BOSTON
Splendid Growth in Last
Decade-Two Good Tobacco
Towns-King Cotton Coming
to Front-Growing Banks.
New and Larger Indus
tries-County Fairs.
BY FRANK $. woopsoN.


1t would be good thing for any
man who loves old Virginia and &c
proud OF her prosperity 10 occasion.
ally visit some of the good towns in
the state that he happens not TO he
posted on. Their rapid Industrial and
commercial growth. ana growth in ali
things that are good, would cheer a
man up. and II he should happen to
suffer at times with the blues. the
same would be cured by such visits
now and then.
VISITED several of The towns and VIII
lagos. | Will talk this week OF only
Two OF them, Chase CITY and South
Boston.
Chase City is located in that corner
OF Mecklenburg county tina; has Char
iotte county on one side only i've
miles away from town. and Luxembourg
on the other side and the same dist
hhcc off, and thus 1T happens that Chase
Sity Is the trade centre for splendid
ana prosperous parts OF three ricn
counties An idea of tho rapid growth
OF the town may be had By glance
~ the census ngures. In 1900 Chase
CITY was only village, having but
bi2 inhabitants. In ten years II had
become much OF town. having more
ihan thr!bbied in population. The
last census gives Il 1859. This IN
N'en'eu Popuiat!on was attracted toI
tho town by it's new Industries ana
tho splendid advantages offered the In
weston and the man OF business.
Good Roads II nooAter.
Inc best thing that has happened for
the town in very long time was the
building OF good roads branching out
In rve directions. The Chase CITY
district OF MecklenburG county made a
large bond issue and the good ROADS
OF the sand-clay blend variety are be-
Ing built. More than twenty miles
have been complet ed and work ia now
proceeding on twenty odd more, when
VIII carry the good roads TO the limits
OF the district The town met the dis
trict at its borders with nrs-class mac
adam streets. and counting the nearly
Tour miles of these al roads. the dis
trlct now mas about twenty-five miles
or arst-ciass road. These good roads
have added large to the trade OF the
town.
Chase City has Just voted town is
use OF $4,000 for improvements. The
Gum OF $4,000 Will be used 10 build n
complete sewer system and 500 900 will
be used for water works The town
already owns "A splendid electric plo.it,
which furnishes light and small pow
err
Cred. Tri-County Fair
Last year Chase City lead the towns
of the State IN the matter of pulling
OF an agricultural fair The effort
was such a grand success that the
people decided at once to make the
MecklenburG County Fair a permanent
fhins. The Fair Association was in
ccrporated and seventeen and one half
acres of ground Dough. within the
town limits and now the work OF pro-
Tidlng buildings is going forward AS
fhis Is n kind of tri-county fair, IL is
expected that three counties will have
grounds The matter is now before
the authorities of Mecklenburg, Lun-
enburg and Charlotte counties The
grounds will also have a half-mile
track. and arrangements are already
being made to have the same filled
with fine horses at the next annual ex-
hibition the coming fall.
With It's lumber plants its furniture
factory. its big wagon factory its ia
NOUS Mccklcnburg mineral sprinss
And water bottlinE and shipping plant
ats box shook factories. It's two strong
banks. its hustling real estate estab-
sishment, Its large mercantile business
and Its very large leaf tobacco bust
ness that keeps four warehouses and
a score of tobacco buyers busy in the
tobacco season, the town is n perfect
beehive of industry and push. but IT
IS not stopping at that.
II proposes to become a cotton mar
tNcL anu w tihl Gnu al CONlon Sin Is
being erected by the Southside Supply
Company, Inc. new concern that is
Just putting out its shingle.
Ice Factory and Cold Storage.
This company is also erecting and
equipping an Ice factory and cold
storage plant and will be making ice
and running the most up to-date Lit
tie cold storage plant in Virginia
within the next two weeks. In this
plant. well CO in the ginning es
Establishment. the company is installing
the very latest machinery and the
very best equipment and building rail-
way side tracks to their loading doors.
The company intends to enter largely
in the supply business and Will ham
die meats and other goods requiring
the right kind of storage, in carload
lots. thus establishing the largest
wholesale supply house on that line
of the Southern Railway that can be
found between Richmond and Durham,
r. C. The ice-making plant is of ca
pacity sufficient to supply all of the
towns and villages between Richmond
end Oxford. n. G.
very Strong Company.
The officers of the new company are:
6. NJ Boswell. president; A. H. Rob-
ertson. vice-presdent; j. a. Robert
+. THOMAS G. Boswell superintendent
ThIc big establishment Is quite an ac-
uuistion to industrial and hustling
Chase City.
Speaking of the coming cotton mar
Eet of the town. 1t seems rather GU
rious to any one who has not kept up
with Chase City and the surrounding
rich country that this tobacco town
sshouid be. building a modern first
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