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In conclusion, I wish to say that our enterprise has been well received by the citizens of Charlotte county, and we have had but very little trouble securing the necessary rights-of-way through the county. The friendly interest exhibited by the citizens in the work is fully appreciated.
Very truly yours, JOHN KEE. Assistant Attorney.
RATES OF FREIGHT ON NORFOLK AND WESTERN ROUTE FROM PAMPLIN STATION.
FROM PAMPLIN, VA.
TO
Lynchburg, 35 Miles.
Petersburg, 87 Miles.
Norfolk, 169 Miles.
CARLOAD RATES
On tobacco, leaf, per 100 pounds.
.14
$ .19
$ .24
On grain, per 100 pounds ..
.05}
.08
.11}
On hay, per 100 pounds ..
.11
.14}
On fertilizer, per ton 2000 pounds.
.95
1.55
2.00
On tan bark, per ton 2000 pounds .
x.80
x 1.10
x1.70
On lumber, per 100 pounds.
.05₺
.08
.12
On horses and mules, per car.
24.00
34.00
46.00
On cattle, per car
20.00
28.00
36.00
(single deck cars)
14.00
19.60
25.20
On calves and sheep, per car . . (double deck cars). ..
18.00
25.20
32.40
(single deck cars)
16.00
22.40
28.80
On hogs, per oar .. (double deck cars).
22.00
30.80
39.50
PASSENGER FARE
First Class.
1.05
2.65
5.05
Second Class.
No second class
.
xThe above rates apply on tan bark consigned to tanneries on N. & W. Ry., the product of which is to be shipped via N.&W. Ry. If product is not to be shipped via N. & W. Ry. rates will be 20% higher than as shown above.
Statement of Rates on Various Commodities from Keysville, Drake's Branch, Mossing- ford and Randolph, Va., to Richmond and Danville, Va. RATES IN CENTS PER 100 POUNDS UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED.
FROM Keysville.
FROM Drake's Branch.
FROM Mossingford.
FROM Randolph.
TO Richmond.
TO
Danville.
TO Richmond.
TO
TO Richmond.
TO Danville.
TO Richmond.
Danville.
Leaf tobacco, any quantity,
in hhds. or tierces.
.1€
.15
17
.15
17
.15
.017
.14
Hay, wheat, corn, oats, C. L.
.10
09
.10
.09
.10
.09
.10
.08
Common lumber, C. L., 30,000
-
lbs .
.061/2
.06
.07
.05%
.07
.0512
.07
.05
Leaf Sumac, C. L., 16,000 1bs ..
.08
.07
.08
.07
.08
07
.08
.66
Stick bark, C. L., 24,000 lbs ...
.05
.0 34
.051/2
.041.2
.057/2
.011/2
.0512
.0415
Live stock, released, C. L.,
horses and mules, per car ....
22.50
20.00
23.75
20.00
23.75
20 00
23 75
20 00
All other animals, per car.
18.00
16.00
19.00
16.00
19.00
16.00
19.00
16.00
TO
Danville.
-
.
Residence of William H. Pettus, Jr., Drake's Branch, Va.
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CHARLOTTE COUNTY HAND BOOK
SUBDIVISION OF LARGE FARMS DESIRABLE.
Because we have lands greatly in excess of population, and it is desirable from every standpoint that our large landed estates should be subdivided in order to meet the demands of the present day farming. The process of subdivision has been going on to some extent with the most beneficial results both to seller and buyer, the one disposes of his surplus lands and the other acquires all the land he needs at moderate prices; and it has (almost without exception) been demonstrated that the portions sold off to industrious settlers soon render their owners independent and rival the parent heads in pro- ductive qualities. Farming upon a moderate scale brings re- sults which are not realized from hardly any other legitimate business. This has been amply shown from the few testimo- nials given in this book. They could be multiplied by the score. Then, too, being brought into close contact with rail- road facilities all over the county, diversified farming is destined to play an important part. Trucking, canning, vine- yards and orchards will be found profitable and often fol- lowed instead of crop raising, according to the tastes and inclinations of the land owners.
ADVANTAGES SUMMARIZED.
First. Delightful climate-Charlotte being situated in a stretch of country which is exempted from extremes of heat or cold.
Second. An orderly, kind and hospitable population.
Third. Church and school privileges.
Fourth. Lands bought cheap make large yields.
Fifth. Charlotte is pre-eminent as a tobacco-producing . county, making a character of tobacco of the most superior and distinctive quality. The lands make large yields of corn, wheat and other products.
Sixth. The county stands in the great fruit belt of Pied- mont and Middle Virginia, and grows fruit to the greatest
"Fair Oaks "-Residence of B. P. Eggleston, Charlotte Courthouse, Va.
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CHARLOTTE COUNTY HIAND BOOK
perfection, and is in direct communication with all the leading markets.
Seventh. Exceptional transportation facilities.
Eighth. Good lands can be bought from $10 to $20 per acre. Ninth. Low taxes. Tenth. Short winters.
CHARLOTTE COURTHOUSE.
The county seat of the county has a population of 500 and is situated upon the summit of a ridge, which divides the Roanoke and Wardsfork streams, and has always been noted for the hospitality and longevity of its citizens.
Besides the public buildings, such as courthouse, lawyers' offices, fire proof clerk's office and jail, it has a bank, which does a large volume of business, six general merchandise stores, one furniture store, a large drug store, two hotels and several private boarding houses, Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist churches for the whites and the same for the colored people.
It has a large high school, very successfully conducted by a principal and two assistants, and contract has been made to build a modern school-house, up-to-date in every particular. There are also private schools.
It is the headquarters of the Central Telephone company, which spreads its arteries all through this and adjacent counties and makes long distance connection at Lynchburg The town is connected with Drake's Branch by telephone and Macadam road and has a thrice daily mail.
DRAKE'S BRANCH.
One of the largest and most progressive towns in the county is situated on the Southern railway, eighty miles from Rich- mond and sixty miles from Danville.
Two bold streams run through the town, affording water for almost any kind of a manufacturing plant.
BANK
Bank of Chase City, Drake's Branch, Va.
Tobacco Wagons Ready to Unload at Drake's Branch, Va.
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Being in the hill country the health of the place is good, the climate being delightful and the water is pure, with one or more wells of lithia. It is an incorporated town of 500 inhabitants. No liquor sold here and the police regulations are good. The principal industry is the leaf tobacco trade, and there are sold upon the floors of the warehouses over four millions of pounds of tobacco annually ..
Representatives of the largest tobacco dealers and manu- facturers-the American Tobacco company and Imperial- besides, what are known as order men who take orders from Austria, France, Japan, Italy, England and American dealers, patronize the market. There are eight of these buyers upon the market, who are not only familiar with the markets but are experts in buying and preparing tobacco for market.
They furnish employment to a large force of hands, white and colored. There are two large sale warehouses; also six large prizeries, where the tobacco is carried from the ware- houses, prepared by machinery and hand, packed in large hogsheads and shipped to the various parties represented in the United States and foreign countries.
There are ten stores, most of them conducting a general mercantile business, one drug store, one manufacturing plant, a foundry, where all kinds of moulding, etc., is done, and in connection with this is a planing machine.
Four religious denominations-Presbyterians, Methodist, Baptist and Episcopal-are represented, and all have nice comfortable church buildings.
A first-rate graded school, with good school building and a very efficient corps of teachers. A high school will soon be in successful operation. A beautiful, modern bank building- up-to-date and made of brick. The bank has ample capital and does a large and lucrative business.
The town has two first-rate hotels and a number of nice professional offices.
No town in the State offers a more inviting field for manu- facturing plants.
Good climate, fine water, excellent social and moral environ - ments render it very attractive to those seeking pleasant homes and making paying investments.
Summer Residence of Charles W. Priddy, Keysville, Va.
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KEYSVILLE, CHARLOTTE COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
Keysville is a thriving town of 600 inhabitants. It lies in the center of a fertile and prosperous farming section, seventy- three miles south of Richmond, the capital of Virginia.
There is no town of its size in Virginia which offers more attractions, both from a social and business standpoint than does Keysville. Her people are hospitable and kind, ever extending to the stranger, locating or sojourning with them, a warm old Virginia welcome. It is not by any means wholly from a social standpoint that makes Keysville a desirable town in which to live. It is an up-to-date town from a busi- ness point of view. Tobacco is its chief industry, having two large warehouses for the sale of leaf tobacco, and buyers of tobacco permanently located here, representing the American and Imperial Tobacco companies, and the large independent concerns. Keysville bids fair to become one of the largest tobacco markets in the State.
Keysville is the business centre for a large section of back country, comprising a goodly portion of three counties, and while it has never been on a "boom," it has a steady and healthy growth. It lies at the junction of the Richmond and Danville and Keysville and Durham divisions of the Southern railway, making it very accessible from all parts of the coun- try, being only two hours and thirty minutes from Richmond and about the same time from Danville-both large cities affording excellent markets for farm and dairy products. The climate of Keysville is ideal; being situated in Middle Virginia, at an elevation of 625 feet above sea level, it is thus free from the malaria of the Tidewater section and the typhus of the Mountain section. Its mean temperature is 60° Faren- heit; its winters are never severe, there being no month of the year in which out-of-door work cannot be done, and its sum- mers are free of oppressive heat. All the water in this section is a pure and delicious free-stone water from deep wells and numerous springs, and the famous Keysville Tonic springs are situated here. The lands around Keysville produce tobacco, all the cereals and grasses, and is well adapted to fruit raising.
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Keysville has two banks-the Bank of Keysville and the Keysville branch of the Bank of Chase City, both of which have large capital, and do a flourishing business.
Four churches-Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist; nine general merchandise stores, one drug store, saw
BANK OF KEYSVILLE
Keysville, Va.
mill, a large flouring mill, plow works, mattress factory, two hotels, two large tobacco warehouses, a large up-to-date high school, where, in addition to the primary branches, the lan- guages and music are taught. Five competent teachers con- duct this school.
Residence of James A. Bailey, Keysville, Va.
E. F. DANIEL, President,
F. C. THORNTON, Cashier.
Charlotte Banking & Insurance Co. CHARLOTTE COURTHOUSE, VIRGINIA
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AUTHORIZED CAPITAL $100,000.00
Oldest Bank in Charlotte County. Does a
regular Banking Business. Allows four per cent. on time deposits. Special atten- tion paid to collections.
DIRECTORS.
E. F. Daniel, W. G. Williams, James H. Price, B. P. Eggleston, B. W. Leigh, John H. Ingram, F. C. Thornton.
THE BEST ON THE MARKET
@ USE @ Pocomoke Fertilizers FOR ALL CROPS
They are made of the finest materials and formulated to grow big crops on any soil. If you want the best crop, and largest yield per acre, use nothing but Pocomoke. : : : : ..
MANUFACTURED BY The Pocomoke Guano Co. NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.
SEE OUR AGENTS NEAR YOU
THE CHARLOTTE GAZETTE.
The Only Paper in Charlotte County.
ESTABLISHED 1878.
LEONARD COX & SON, Proprietors.
THIS PAPER IS PUBLISHED AT CHARLOTTE COURT-HOUSE, the county seat, and is the official paper of the county. It contains reports of the doings of the courts and supervisors of the county, sales of land and all other matters of interest to those seeking homes in the county. Its location is in the centre of the tobacco-growing section of Southside Virginia.
PRICE, $1.00-INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
REAL ESTATE IN ALL BRANCHES.
Virginia Farms and Colonial Homes a Specialty.
Established 1874. Free Catalogue.
R. B. CHAFFIN & CO., Inc.
No. 1111 East Main Street, RICHMOND, - VIRGINIA.
RICHMOND GUANO CO.,
MANUFACTURERS OF- Pure and Reliable Fertilizers,
ALL THE BEST DEALERS IN VIRGINIA HANDLE THEM.
Address RICHMOND, VA.
THE BANK OF KEYSVILLE,
KEYSVILLE, - VIRGINIA.
Located half way between Richmond, Va., and Danville, Va., at a junction of the Southern Railway, with eleven in- coming, and eleven outgoing daily mails, including rural routes, traversing the country in every direction, give us unexcelled facilities for handling your business.
We confine ourselves to making collections, receiving deposits from Corporations, Manufacturers, Merchants and Individuals, and making loans and discounting paper for our customers for the up- building of legitimate business interests. We want to talk or corres- pond with everyone desiring new or better banking facilities.
We pay 4 per cent. interest on time deposits.
Fertilizers
Virginia:Carolina # Chemical Co. :
P. O. Box 114. Gentral Telephone No. 16.
ANDREW J. TERRY,
Attorney at Law,
Charlotte Courthouse,
-
Virginia.
PROMPT ATTENTION TO COLLEC- TION OF CLAIMS.
REFERENCES: R. G. Dunn & Co. and Charlotte Banking and Insurance Co.
OFFICE OF
THOMAS E. WATKINS
Attorney at Law,
Charlotte Courthouse, Virginia.
COURTS : Charlotteand Prince Edward.
BOYLAN GREEN,
Attorney at Law,
DRAKE'S BRANCH, - VA.
Will Practice in all of the Courts of
Charlotte and Adjoining Counties.
WM. C. CARRINGTON
Attorney at Law,
LAW OFFICES : .
LAW BUILDING, LYNCHBURG, VA., AND
CHARLOTTE COURTHOUSE, VA.
CLEMENT R. GREEN,
Attorney at Jaw,
Randolph Rural Free Delivery, CHARLOTTE COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
JOHN W. HILLDRUP,
Attorney at Law,
Attorney for Bank of Keysville.
KEYSVILLE,
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VIRGINIA-
C. M. HUTCHESON, President.
H. C. MARSHALL, Manager State Test Farm, General Manager Charlotte Land Improvement Co. ROBERT F. HUTCHESON, Secretary and Treasurer.
Charlotte Land Improvement Co.
(INCORPORATED.)
Post Office :
Charlotte Courthouse, Va.
Railway Station : Drakes' Branch, Va.
623 acres, 150 acres in original timber, balance under cultivation, will raise tobacco, corn, wheat, oats or grass. Fine improvements.
This farm located in the farming belt of the middle west, would sell for from $100.00 to $150.00 per acre. House alone would cost $5,000.00.
ARCADIA. See Page 51. The above is one of the highest priced places on our list, and can be bought for a little less than $23.00 per acre.
CONSIDER.
THAT Charlotte County is within 250 miles of 20,000,000 people.
THAT Charlotte County is close to an export market. THAT Charlotte County has almost perfect climate.
THAT Charlotte County lands are capable of highest improvement. All we ask you to do is to investigate.
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. HOME SEEKERS WELCOMED.
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