Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-11-23

pause ana consider the i,nn,;na .r,'at ira
TO the Trade Of Alexandra, which will ii "a
run, by giving taose rival towns SO lec;dsa
ar advantage in the laad COMMUNICATE
also.
But it is $ id to be idle and nnnece.s...
to make a Turnpike Road, under the 81,
pectation that it will BE- ased, for the bur.
pose Of bringing the produce Of Loudoun
and ofthc counties over the B.ue RIDGE TO-
market, because that produce will general
" be water borne; if that is the case j.
was indeed Idle in the legislature of Viro;.
MA, to authorised Turnpike Road to be
made to the Ford OF Little River. But the
undersigned de rot believe it to be the case
they do not beiieve that the Farmers n
those counties will be at The trouble to take
their prodnce in Wagons, to the Poto-
mac and Shenandoah, andbe arthe expence
OF storing il on those rivers, until boats can
be procured to bring It to market; and then
run the risk Of water carriage under the
care of boatmen, with whom they are nm.
acquainted, and in whom they can have no
confidence, in preference to sending it or
bringingitto market, on good road, with
their own teams, under their own care ar
that Of their servants, in whom they can
confdc.
It is well known that in the winter sea.
son, Farmers have very little for them.
selves or their Wagons and horses to do on
.feir farms; their teams may be as well
employed IN that season in bringing their
produce to market, as to remain idle at
home andof course they will employ them
in that way if the road is made good. In
that season the navigation Of the Potomac
and Shenandoah, can never be safe. and
therefore there is every reason to believe.
that the Farmers in those counties, Will
prefer bringing their produce to market,
with their own teams, in the winter season,
to waiting until the spring, for the advan-
tage of a water carriage, especially as they
will want supplies by the returns Of their
Wagons.
It's also sad that fthe Turnpike road is made
By Centerwlle, more toEis will be received, than
fiat shai! be made by the Court House. Ii has
already heens hewn, thstif the CcntervilIcroute is
ur-ued, no palt of tle produce ra scd in ibs
gretter part otLoudon, OF in The Counties Of lefcr.
son and Berkey, will ever BE- brought to rhema
ket of Alexaodria, on the Turnpike road. But
if the Curt House road b. pursued, that pro.
duce be brought co Alexandra, by roads
communicating with the Turnpike road, near the
Gum spring, by shorter distance than by anyo
ther roads at present opened. There is not tho
smallest probability that the prcduce which will bs
br ught to Alexandra, fion the south western
counties OF the state, will &c equal to thar which
has for years, and which viii continue to be
brought so that marker, from LouAdn, Jefferson
and Berkeiy, and therefore there good reason to
believe that more tolls would be received on the
Court House, yhoD on he Centerville route.
1t is further sad, thatif the Turnpike Road
shall be made on tie r0u.e By tie fCourt House,
that the old Centervse road will still be kept
open, and to avoid the payment Of fall, will al.
ways be travelled in the summer and toll seasons,
in preference 10 tie Turnpike Road. But arc
tlcse not roads at present both TO the south and
north Of the Cemerylie Roaa? Or if there were
rot, what weuld prevent such being made? In
the present state OF tie roads, many Wagons
which pass by Centervlls, come by the Cou's
House 10 alexandria, to AVOID the ford of Acco.
tinck, on the Centervdle Road. The fat IS,
thathoting will ever induce people to tagelon
Turnpike Road, aness it is shorter and better,
thantbe ether roads in lis ncighbouthood. 4
Turnpike Read on Tie C5urt House route will
combine these properties, but on that BY Center"
vile tieycapnosshe combined.
Tins kaye The undersigned stated the grounds
of their decision, in iay1r of the C,,ur llou'e
r0nie, and answered tleprlncipa objections made
7, that route, and the ar5uaea; used in favor OF
that by Centeryiile. II now remains for them 10
state, the reasons Why they diinot implicitly SUB.
nit to the opinion Of the Stockholders in AIexano
dria, respectable in chara Ger and nunbers) IN