Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-06-03
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fGsy CT fly miles sggthzs seer
fTgz Eoehfsh Gap took- IN the hss
essaing, Ike snssll moznds Of green-
nb41s velvet Ia the sgnmeg the
farrs Il this valley look Ike an erog-
Eous and irregular ch~xkegboard.
WIth tbs red ssh Il Alternate Gear
ity 10 sazas 6ez5s. and the green grass
lsr wheat 81 others, fcrming the
squares the part u the read u.su-
tiosed above which is right On top
and sides q the Bl9e Ridge zas form
srly the grade q the Chesapeake srA
ohio Railroad. before it was discarded
for a tunnel Immediately ander the
GapWhieh was constructed abort thir-
~ years ago. and is about 1 mile long.
ore Of the longest tunnels on this
road
In q country Of this nature, there
j. naturally AZ abundance Of springs.
OF the two near here. ore az them a
Ltklz spring. furnishes this bown
and anotbeF with al the wsfer for
any purpose whatever, Gas eistens
are unhear5 Of and still only about
. tenth 81 the springs capacity ii
used, the rest of the water running Of
into the river. This water Is bottled
ard cold. bit apparently has not yet
reached natiglal fame. Mention Of
this spring calls forth the remark that
It il located n Basic CITY. a town
Ehieh has grown up by the side az
H~zynesosso. but En1rh more recenHy.
! belseTe the town was started ab0ut
1880 with q big boom when runner
ous manufactures heated there At
that time, few Of which survived very
loag, thoagh new ones have been
Opened up recently. TIE largest Il
these are tro tanningexxacts works.
: furniture factory, a store factory,
and a pipe organ factory. besides
such smaller Industries az q planning
mn, and . factory for the mznufae-
ture 81 automobile generators and
seif-stzrterz
From . railroad which rms through
the town Oh a very high embank-
usnt, o can get a bird's-eye view
81 the place. which presents a very
eomieaI appearance with its few
scattered sky-serzpen.1 placed here
and there On 3 level stretch Of ground
more resembling . pasture than a
thriving metropolis.
There il, Of course, a keen rivalry
since the recent agitation over the
consolidation Of the tEo-but most Of
this riyariy has hitherto been taken
ont IN talk. The most obvious advan-
tage which Basic has il the fact that
all Limited trains stop there. as II IL
q junction Of the Chesapeake and Ohio
and Norfolk and Western Railroads.
A few years ago the c. & O decided
to cut this stop from the schedule Of
one 81 ita most popular night trains,
whereat the Town Council Immediately
passed a law that no train coaId run.
through the city limits as speed great
er than 8 miles ar hour. There being
about 4 miles Of track in the city lin
III, It is needless to say that the rail-
road decided they could ave time BY
stopping the train there after all.
In this town there Is a cut in the
! side Of the hill along the railroad
tracks, from which the O. & o. gets
it, ballast BY surface-miaing. The
traditions is, that the former owner
Of this hin sold ii to the railroad for
a personal, non-transferabIe lifetime
pass, rode II miles on it once, and
died the next week.
Some weeks ago there was a heated
discussion relative to the consolidation
81 the two towns, which oeeasioned
frequent mass meetings, street corner
and dry goods box oratory. The pop
%uiation Of the two towns being about
the same, but the revenue Of waynes-
boro much more than that Of Basic,
and as Basic needs many 0 i'm
provemeuts, the general opinion in
this town seems 70 favor -non-consol.
idation.
The discussion for a while eclipsed
the main issue Of this towns politics,