. To the Shenandoah and beyond: the chronicle of a leisurely journey through the uplands of Virginia and Tennessee, sketching their scenery . proved land may be bought for ten dollars an acre. Iron, however, is not the whole mineral wealth of this , ochre, copper, manganese, marble, kaolin, fire-clay and variousother useful metals and earths are known to lie adjacent to the line ofrailway we are following, and are rapidly being availed of by complete account of these resources has recently appeared in a com-pact volume written by Prof. A. S. McCreath, while, in the fi
. To the Shenandoah and beyond: the chronicle of a leisurely journey through the uplands of Virginia and Tennessee, sketching their scenery . proved land may be bought for ten dollars an acre. Iron, however, is not the whole mineral wealth of this , ochre, copper, manganese, marble, kaolin, fire-clay and variousother useful metals and earths are known to lie adjacent to the line ofrailway we are following, and are rapidly being availed of by complete account of these resources has recently appeared in a com-pact volume written by Prof. A. S. McCreath, while, in the files of thatadmirable monthly, The Virginias, published by Major Jed. Hotch-kiss, at Staunton, detailed information and statistics may be found. By the way, Baily remarks, as the train pulls up at Waynesboro 45 Junction, a mile from the large and well known town of Waynesboro, Hotchkiss says this place deserves a name of its own, because it isgoing to be a great town some day. Why does he think so ? On account of the ease of transportation to it from four directionsof the crude materials; of minerals and timber property abounding in the. i--»i>--inf%--ir~f-i region to which it forms the cen-tre, and of the machinery neces-sary to their manufacture. Just now Waynesboro is mere-ly the crossing of our road bythe Chesapeake and Ohio. A number of passengers disembarked who were bound for the WhiteSulphur and other springs across the mountains to the westward,while some were going the other way to wine-making Charlottesvilleor to Richmond. To the White Sulphur and other famous Virginianmountain resorts we found this was coming to be a favorite routefrom both north and south, its own loveliness, the opportunity ofthus seeing one or both of the two great natural curiosities of theAlleghanian region, Luray Caverns, and the Natural Bridge, and theexceeding wildness of the scenery along the mountain division of the 46 Chesapeake and Ohio (or of the Richmond and Alleghany for those whoc
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