Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-13
QUANT|c'0|s I:
EXP AND|NG
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Nearby Virginia City is
Growing By Leaps and
Bounds
COVERING OF FIELDS
COVERING OF FIELDS
Steel Works Expected and Old Mines
Rcopened-Bank and Hotel Near
ing Completion

Ouantico, Va, April l3-Many
men and teams are at work this week
grading streets and sidewalks in this
newest industrial city of the Old Do
minion, and with the coming of spring
weather sleepy old Quantico is spread
ing out from it's single street leading
from the railroad station to the Poto-
mac, and is wandering out over what
last summer were cornfelds, pasture
lots and gardens. Surveys for the new
streets were completed some time ago,
and the work of grading the road
ways and laying concrete sidewalks
is now in full swing, the promise be-
ing made. that the work will be com
{ plcted by early summer.
Workmcn are completing the install
lation of machinery in the electric
lighting and power plant, and the
last Of the big dynamos and genera
tors will be in place within a few
days. Poles and wires have already
been set up and strung, and many OF
the original houses and buildings OF
the village as we'll as all of the newer
ones completed or nearing completion,
have been wired ready for the current
to be turned on. A big celebration
is planned to be held when the "elec-
trio light factory" as the natives
call it, is put in commission, and
}uantico viii be Illuminated every
night for week as it never was IL
Illuminated before.
The new bank building is ready for
the finishing touches, and it is en-
pected the institution will be open for
business by May Is, atfording the
rapidly increasing population of VIZ
ginia's latest "magic city" banking
facilities, for which the people now
have to depend on Fredericksburg,
Alexandria or Washington.
o. Workmcn are rushing work on the
now big hotel building on the brow
of the hill overlooking the village and
many miles up and down the Potomac
River. The hotel is being built at
the top of the hill, on the site that
during the Civil War was occupied by
the Confederate Notifications.
The busiest spots of the new town
are those on which the immense
works of the International Pressed
Steel Company. and the j. B. Hough
Fireproof Products Company are be-
ing erected. Efforts are being made
to complete the huge buildings and
install the equipment in time to be-
gin operations by July l at the latest
and statements of engineers and
others in charge of construction work
are to the effect that these two in
dustries, which are to be operated al
full capacity from the very beginning
will employ total of not less thar
700 to 800 men, and probably more.
Revival of the mining industry
near here is another result Of the
development of Quantico into an in
dustrial city. The pyrites mines, {
few miles up Quanticd Creek,near
Dumfries have been reopened thi:
spring, and work is in full blast a
the mines, which for several years
were closed down.
There are persistent rumors here
that big acid plant is to be estab
lshed at Quantico in the immediat
future for the manufacture of sui
,phuric acid from the pyrites.
Building activities are getting un
der full headway, and many busines
structures and residences are bein'
erected. with prospects that as 500
as settled weather arrive this featur
of the development of Quantico Wi
increase to ten times,t Its presentvoI
ume. All of the buildings now in pre-
gress or completed are Of substantis
character, indicating that the develol
ment is not sporadic, but that Quar-
tico is to be sure-enough manufa
turing and industrial city, the futul
development of which can only
guessed from what has already bet
done here. !,
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