The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-26
west POINT, PORT
AND COMING CITY

Bank. Inc. is the financial headquar
tiers for n good country round about a.
we'll as for the town. It's last report t
the State Corporation Commission
shows the following interesting figures
Total assets, S321.841.4S: loans and dis.
counts. s254.3S4.s2; stock. bonds, rea
estate and other assets, $67.5oo. The
paid in capital stock is S3S.6o0: sur
| plus and undivided profits, $4,000: de-
posits S27l.000. The officers are L. T.
Mumford president: j. f. Bland and
! William F. Bagby. vice presidents; II
+. Topping, cashier, and r. c. Brad
| ford, assistant cashier.
Lowest OF Freight Rates.
The transportation facilities enjoy ed
b? the town consist OF three steamboat
lines and one railroad. The Chesapeake
,eamship Company operates palatial
toats between here and Baltimore. The
Virginia Steam Navigation Company
runs tri-weckly boats up to Mattaponi
River to Ryletts. distance OF forty
miles inland.
The Norfolk. York River and lido
water Steamboat Company has trl-
weekly service between here and Nor
folk, touching at various York River
points. The Southern Railway to
Richmond Is the outlet to the West
and the wide world Thus West Point
enjoys the lowest freight rates 10 all
parts OF the country. being the same
as those which Norfolk and Richmond
and any other Virginia. cities with
competing lines have to pay.
The surrounding country being well
wooded with all kinds of Virginia TIM
bers,. saw mills and planning mills are
very numerous, and West Point thus
has become one of the largest lumber
shipping points in the State
Pure Water ana Ample Sewerage.
West Point has one great and val
liable asset enjoyed by no seaport or
Underwater town that I know of, and
that Is an abundant supply of pure
and health giving water. There Is not
Il home in or near the town within n
circle of twenty miles. perhaps. which
is not blessed with an artesian well
that brings water to the surface, thus
becoming spring that really does not
need a pump The analysis of this
water by emminent chemists and the
justify the claim of the people that
they have tho best water in the
world" These artesian wells vary IN
depth from 125 to 200 feet. and they
are so easily dug that the cost OF
getting a complete water supply in
ones back yard is small, varying
from $50 to s75 per we'll.
The town has a siXty-fvc thousand
gallon tank, which stands in the CEN
tire of the place. ll5 feet high. and also
a sixty i've thousand gallon basin
These are kept filed with water for
general purposes by two and three
inch pipes from very deep arteSian
wells. one of them being over 800 feet
in depth. a steam pump is used to
keep the tank filled.
The town Is we'll severed, the sys-
tenn being ample for the present popu-
1ation. but SO sure are the people that
West Point Is going to grow rapidly
nj "a nj Ix- tal
the money in hand for the enlargement
and Improvement OF the sewerage and
drainage system.
Good Health, schools and Churches.
l was somewhat surprised to learn
that. according to the statistics West
Point is rated as the second best
town In Virginia rs to healthfulness
The. leading physician of the town
tells Inc that. contrary to the
opinion that is generally accepted by
those who view from a distance. there
is little or no trouble from malaria
here. and the little of malaria that IS
noticed comes In very mild form.
There is no typhoid fever. there hav-
Ing been no pronounced case OF 1t in
the town in several years, and there
are no infectious diseases. This
doctor also assured me that there
have been only three cases of
diphthcria in the town in the last five
years. West Point has never had an
epidemic of any kind.
West Point has. tcn-grade high
school. and the people take great
interest and are proud of their public
school 1t IS housed in an up-t date
eight-room building that is fully
equipped, steam heated. etc. There arc
in this school about 200 scholars who
are managed by five competent teach
ers
There arc five white churches here.
the Catholic. Methodist. Baptist. Epis-
copalian and Christian, and all have
good church buildings.
West Point is the centre of as fine
trucking and fruit growing territory
as there is in the South. and the new
era of industrial development that has
recently dawned here will produce
great things for the town, or the city
as 1t is to be.
New Hands at the Bellows.
About eighteen months ago some
enterprls' NC men of Ohio and New
York were attracted to this region.
They We're mon OF large means and
an ahundanc OF credit. They look
ed deep Into the situation and the
general conditions and reached the
correct conclusion that this is n good
place for Investment for Industrial
and agricultural development. Later
/
| or "A dozen of her citizens, Joined
hands with these newcomers. and in
February last the Old Dominion In
dustrial Company was organized and
chartered. Since organization the
company has bought 1000 acres of
| farm lands around West Point and
also great deal of property. con-
sisting of over 500 lots within the
corporate limits
Among the farm lands now owned by
the company are three we'll known
tracts or plantations. namely. the Tay-
Tor place, in King William county. con-
tanning $500 acres. and lying between
the Mattaponi and ramunkey Rivers
and adjoining the corporate limits OF
the town; Roy's Neck and Benville
plantations. just across the Mattaponi
in King and ueen county. and within n
milo and a half of town. containing
5000 acres; the Brick House" planta
ton. in New Kent county. on3 mile from
| town. and lust across tho