Sketch book of Lynchburg, VaIts people and its trade .. . ruple-Plated Ware, Spectacles and Eye Glasses, Gold and Silver HeadedCanes and Umbrellas. All their Diamond Work, Medals. &c., aredesigned and manufactured on the premises, and hundreds of testi-monials in their jiossession bear abundant evidence to the universalapproval with which their work and their goods have met throughoutthe field covered by their trade. The F. D. Johnson Watchis celebrated as one of the very best time-keepers manufacturedin this country. ITS PKOPLK AND ITS IKADK. 29 From the City luigineer: From the
Sketch book of Lynchburg, VaIts people and its trade .. . ruple-Plated Ware, Spectacles and Eye Glasses, Gold and Silver HeadedCanes and Umbrellas. All their Diamond Work, Medals. &c., aredesigned and manufactured on the premises, and hundreds of testi-monials in their jiossession bear abundant evidence to the universalapproval with which their work and their goods have met throughoutthe field covered by their trade. The F. D. Johnson Watchis celebrated as one of the very best time-keepers manufacturedin this country. ITS PKOPLK AND ITS IKADK. 29 From the City luigineer: From the record kept at the pump house, it is ascertained thattwo of the pumps were operated at an average of twenty hours perday, and the steam pump about five hours. The calculated quantil)of water pumped the whole year is about 740,000,000 gallons, or over2,000,000 gallons per day. (The pumping ca])acity is 4,000,000 gal-lons per day). * * * The pumps, reservoirs and superstructureshave been inspected and found to be in a fair and serviceable MESSRS. F. D. JOHN-SOX & SONS JEWELRY STORE. (802 MAIX STREET.) From the Chief of the Fire Department: We have been called upon only forty-six times, or thirty less thanthe year previous. In but one instance have the flames assumed anymagnitude—this at the factory of Messrs. WVight & Craighill—andwhich had attained such headway when the alarm was given as to bebeyond the power of mortals to suppress. The loss in this instanceamounted to some $24,000. In the remaining forty-five cases, onlysome $5,000 was lost, a total of only about $29,000 for the year ; avery moderate sum as compared with the immense losses heraldedalmost daih from every section of the country. SKETCH B30K OF LYNCHBURG. VA. (ESTABLISHED IN 1865.) The First National Bank OF LYNCHBUBG, VIRGINIA. Capital Stock: $150,000. Sumlus and UMiyided Profits: $62,000. JOHX F. SLAUGHTER, President. JAMES M. BOOKER, Vice-President ALLEN W. TALLEY, Cashier. CHARLES W. STATHAM
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