The Washington Building Lime Company are busily engaged in rebuilding their works, recently destroyed by fire, and will be ready to resume manufacturing operations in a very short time.
Messrs. Strider & Engle, an enterprising firm who conduct stores at Unionville and Bakerton, in this county, have purchased the store of the late R. M. Billmyer in Shepherdstown. Mr. Jesse A. Engle will continue at […]
The works of the Washington Building Lime Company, at Bakerton, Jefferson county, W. Va., were totally destroyed by fire last Sunday morning. Loss estimated at $15,000; insured for $10,000.
FIRE AT BAKERTONLime Kilns and Freight Cars Destroyed. The valuable lime kilns of the Washington Building Lime Company at Bakerton, near Martinsburg, W. Va. were destroyed by fire at 4 o’clock yesterday morning, entailing a loss […]
Our Iron Ores.Under the caption of “West Virginia Iron,” the Wheeling Intelligencer says:In the eastern part of the State the greatest possibilities at present are in the vicinity of Charlestown and Martinsburg, where large territories have […]
County Court. The County Court last week granted license to retail spirituous liquors to John S. Easterday, Thomas Elliott, Geo. A. Mock, F. B. Souders, Geo. W. Thomas, James A. Thomas and M. J. Kain, in […]
Last Saturday night, while every body slept except the railroaders, the little town of Brunswick, which used to be called Berlin, became the end of the first division of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and the […]
The people of Virginia, and especially those living in the Shenandoah Valley, are anxiously looking forward to the restoration of the C. & O. Canal as a means of securing to them cheap bituminous coal. Shepherdstown, […]
About Iron Ore.From Mr. Grasty’s letter to the Manufactures’ Record. A word now concerning the ores close to Charlestown. Captain John Howard, a practical miner, who has been operating in and prospecting for iron ore for […]
The trustees of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal held a meeting in Baltimore last Thursday, and contracts for the work of repairing the canal were let to Mason, Hoge & Co. on sections 11 and 12, […]
The REGISTER’S article last week on the proposed railroad through Jefferson and Berkeley counties, from North Mountain, say, to Harper’s Ferry, has caused a great deal of comment, and the one expression from the people along […]
The Secretary of State has issued a charter to the Columbia Guano and Phosphate Company. The office will be kept at Harper’s Ferry. Capital stock $5,000 with the privilege of increasing to $200,000. The incorporators are […]
BAKERTON NEWS.—BAKERTON, W. VA.,March 21, 1891. DEAR EDITOR– We again ask admission into your columns, but as this a dull season of the year we cannot give you much news of interest to your readers. Yet […]
The distance by the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal from the guard lock at Cumberland to tide-water at Georgetown is 184.4 miles. The canal was opened for navigation over the whole route from tidewater […]
[…] By the projected route through Jefferson and Berkeley counties referred to (the original B. & O. survey), the road would not only touch Shepherdstown, where it would be given a hearty welcome, as was given […]
Bakerton, W. VA.,March 10th, 1891, DEAR EDITOR– While all is quiet and serene at this place, yet there is one topic daily discussed with interest, viz: the C. & O. Canal. As many of our citizen […]
