Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-19
INTEREST IN QUANT|c0
Alexandria Business Men Aroused
Over Reports of Boom Near
This City.
xardria Business Men Aroused

The reported ''boom" at Quantlco,
26 miles south of Alexandria, on the
| Washington Southern Railway, mas
aroused the greatest interest among
the business men of Alexandria and
the reports of big projects under way
in the little town has beer the source
of much speculation on the streets OIL
the city, within the last "a hours.
Sifted down there is but little upon
which to base any safe prediction Oh
what is to be expected at Quantlco
and therefore conservative people re-
! fuse to be carried out of their usual
routine by some of the sensational
reports which have been spread lately
Tie only thing that seems certainty
is that about 1000 acres of land have
been sold by DR.. H. B. Hutchinson, OIL
Herndon and Washington, and is to
be used for some purpose not yet spe-
cited. 1t has been surveyed and re-
ports state that large quantities OF
lumber have reached Quantico.
1t was generally agreed that II
Quantico did become second Hope
we'll, Alexandria would greatly bene-
it. 1t is the nearest big city to Quantl-
% ard naturally the bulk Of its sup
lies would be bought here. Merchants
n all lines woul ,dprosper and
the results would be felt by everyone.
The Washington Star has given
The Quantico boom" its greatest i'm
;etus by front page article publish
cd Yesterday. 1t sent special
man to investigate conditions IN
0uantico and he sent back story
that will certainly help to boom things
n Ouantico even if there is none in
respect.
According to the Star story, all
orts of rumors, reports, yarn" and
stories are to be heard in the village.
One man has learned from reliable
authorities that the government m
ends to establish here huge plant
Tor the manufacture of steel armor
late. Another knows with equal posi-
.;vcness that the du Pont powGer
cople have bought the land ana are
, erect a mammoth establishment
| sor the manufacture of dyes. A thiro
Ills you. confdentially. but with an
air CT authority, that the prospective
! Boom" really means the location at
| )usntico of a modern summer resort
With all the adjuncts of Atlantic City
Md fourth asserts that the govern
nert purposes moving the testing
! grounds from Indian Head to the
tract that everybody knows has been
surveyed and sold, and that the big
naval guns are to be tried out in the
Hills back of Quantico.
About all that anybody seems ac-
! ,uallv to know, however, is that the
1000 acres or more-part Of an 5000
acre trac. owned by Dr.. H. 3. Hut-
! .hison OF Herndon and Washington
9as been sold and that prices OF land
| n and near Quantico have advanced
by kangaroo leaps in the last few
months.
Acreage adjacent to the village
what there is left of it, and that's
nightly littlc-that year ago was
literally considered to be worth $40
III acre, is held at anything from ST.
800 up, according to the imagination
Of the owner. And land back in the
ed clay hills, from which practically
every stick of understandable timber
las been cut. and which year or
ago was considered rather high
nriccd at IS IN acrc-weil, there
:.ren't any quotations en- that land.
c. E Brawner owns one Of the three
general stores in the village. Fle has
4. two story building, but his stock
only occupies part of the ground
floor. He leased the building Cor three
ycars at the "exorbitant" rental Of IS
a month, and his lease, which is legal
and binding, has fifteen months to
run. That would make its actual va
luc for the fifteen months just Sl2G
One day last week Mr.. Brawner was
offered $500 for his lease, the offer
being made by one of the men most
Intimately connected with the tran
saction by which more than 1000
acres Of land encircling the village
changed ownership. Brawner refused
the offer.