Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-02-22
GETTING BUSY AT QUANTlCO
Real Estate in Prince William Village
Soaring in Price


Quantico, Feb. 22-Eldridge E. Jor-
dan, the president of the Real Estate
Trust Company Of Washington, who,
as president of the Quantico Improve
ment Company, has associated with
| him Walter J. Long, vice president
and 3. R. Walters, secretary and
treasurer, of Washington says actual
work on the development of Quantico
into huge industrial city was start
ed last week. Quantico, according to
Virginians, promises to be another
! Hopewell, where thousands Of people
will find profitable employment and
where millions Of dollars will be in
vested in all sorts OF Improvements.
Surveyors and workmen last week
plotted and stakcd off the site of the
proposed steel manufacturing plant.
big brick works and locations for sew
eral hundred cottages, store buildings
warehouses and other buildings. Tie
site has already been selected where
the $4,000 hotel building will he er~
ccted, as well as the electric light
ing ard power plants.
There will be numerous buildings
connected with the steel plant, ac-
cording to the achitect's plans. The
first building, to be known as Series |,
is to be $50 feet long and 120 feet
wide. The completed plant is to be
composed Of seven series or units, and
the superintendent in charge Of tie
work say that the plant is to manufac
ture boilers, steel railway cars, both
for freight and passenger, and other
steel products.
The brick manufacturing plant will
cover site of % acres, which was
recently acquired. The name Of this
concern has not been made public, but
is said to have number of plants in
various sections OF the country. Il l.
also stated that the Quantico In:-
nrtrpr2@rt Cerlnaav intend: ne e..
tablshment of big clay-wor!;ir=
plant.
The company is the original devel-
opment company which owns more
than 1000 acres of land embracing
the village of Quantico itself. It's n
ticlcs Of Incorporation we're filed last
week in Richmond and give paiG-ih
capital rs $4,000 with the officers
named above.
Carloads of bricks, lumber, lime etc.
nient and other building material ale
sdetracked in the yards of the corr
pany in increasing numbers and bills
of lading were received last week foi
the dynamo generators and other ma
chinery for the electric light and
power plant.
Work is being rushed on the bar.
racks for the accommodation and horS-
ing of several hundred laborers and
mechanics who are to be employed OH
the construction work for the steel
and other plants and buildings, in
GLIDING hotel. school and :heater .i:
soon as quarters are available. If Is
announced. the workmen will he
brought to Quantico and construction
work is to be rushed. Dirt will begin
to fly by March /.
Real estate and other values in tee
vicinity of the rcw enterprise are
soaring and residents of the village
who have held on to their property
arc receiving hattering offers for such
land as has not been acquired by thc
development company or on which
the company does not hold options,
No deals, however, have been made in
the last few weeks. Quantico people
seem inclined to hang on to their pro-
perty a little while longer awaiting
further development in the big boom
which they expect will strike the town
early in the spring Indications are
that Quantico will spring up over
night into thriving, prosperous com
munity like Hopewel or the gold min
ing towns of the frozen North, where