Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-01-21

Ksnswha toll, (see No ), lO,o0o
From the Fund for Internal Improvement, 1000
Making, SIG, 900
And this, too, after reducing the toll and car
rage from 81 10 3 l-2 per ton, between Lynch
burg aud Richmond: and from 81 TO 3 81 per ton,
between Buchannon and Richmond, &C. as we have
before seen.
Although this comparison, relative to the de-
scendng trade hattering in favor oil the canal yet
the contrast with regard TO the ascending trade, is
vastly more so: Because the canal being level, pre-
seats equal facilities for ascending, for descend
ing navigation. For illustration. lei me state
LIST. The carriage OF ton OF Gypsum, for exam
pie, from Richmond to Lynchburg, has exceeded
$50 %: il Is now about $40 90
Toll, say 90
Total, ii ."
On the canal il would be, carriage, (See no. 81
Toll doubled, 2 90
| Total, only 4S
I'd. The carriage up, from Richmond 10 Buchannon,
| has exceeded $50 90 per ION; 1t is now about
S22 90
| Toll, say 90
Total. 90 90
| On the canal, it would be, Carriage 81 81
Toll doubled. 90
Total, only 81
Thus, creating saving of $40 06. out of every
sum Of &c 90 ON this article. Plaster or Gypsum,
! is pee li,rl consenia to the interior soil OF Vir-
sinia, and very beneficial to the agricultural part
Of Il e community.
! Bai apply this reasoning to groceries and dry
goods; aid the advantage will be still more ostensi-
BILE: the expense Of % 81 upon these articles, is
very small al valoren., compared with what il
would be Paiser. Heretofore the carriage Of a
| ton of goods from tide water to Buchannon, Fin
castle, SC. has always exceeded $40 90; nay,
what James River me chant west OF the Blue Ridge
has not paid 40, 60, or 20 dollars per ton, for
the carriage OF goods home by land from Baltimore,
or Richmond! but reduce this expense to SO a. as
abo e, and what would be the result? Would it not
make the citizens of those parts of the state, in
commercial point of view, feel like neighbours to
their brethren on the sea board? The same process
OF reasoning may be applied with equal propriety
and success to every part of James and Kanawha
rivers, and their vcnities, from Chesapeake bay to
Ohio river. But as l at first Observed my object
is not to attempt discussion of This subject but
merely TO invite the attention OF my superiors to il
l trust enough has been said for that purpose.
Under this view OF the subject, can it be doubted
that the quantity of tonnage transported an James
river &c WOuIu De uOuJted on the completion OF
the worlts9 In future No. we will endeavour to
prove that such anticipation would be correct.
| In this event there would be deduced
| From James river, twice S6i 900 SIPS. 900
| Addition on coal, above 5000
| Addition on tobacco, reduced as above, $4,000
Kanawha toll. above, 10000
| From Fund Tor Internal Improvement Is 900
Total. $3.50, 900
cla IS
James river, aud the trade on Kanawhs, not 10 be
increased al all, above their present quantities.
This $ 900 would present surplus over the
| interest on the $2,500, 900 necessary complete
| the whole works. This surplus would at first be
$50 OOO or more; II is believed the s 500 900
could be had from the Bank of England at } per
cent: or from northern capitalists, at per cent
interest per annum; whereas, in Virginia, have
paid from 10 6 per cent for what we have already
obtained. The grounds of this belief will be stated
| in future.
| This surplus would still increase with the increase
| OF trade the rivers; and would constitute the
basis of sinking und, sufficient in process of time
TO refund the whole capital and its interest," and
forever after TO yield clear annual revenue 20 the
commonwealth, nearly equal to the whole expenses
| OF The government Of the state.
| With regard TO the quantity Of tonnage being
eventually doubled James river, suffice it for the
present to reflect that many articles of import w
bear carriage from the board to the interior of
Virginia, at an expense Of So 81 per ton which
will not bear it at 4, %, 40, 60 or S7O That
many articles of export, in addition to those now
transported, such lime, timber, hay, stone bricks
beef pork, garden stuffs, SC. Sc will bear carriage
from the interior to tide lat CENTS which will
not now bear it at 6, IL or IL cents per ton per mile
That our population would derive a large accession
from the force employed, and brought hither, on
account oil the works. That two and a half mil
lions OF dollars. thus thrown into circulation
through the interior OF Virginia, in addition TO The
six millions, which now constitute the circulating
medium OF the state, would dispense new life and
energy. through every ratification Of society
individual exertion would be excited, the spirit Of
agricultural and commercial enterprise would be
awakened, the energized OF industry would 20
for'h n it, might, and sweep the forests low;
towns and cities would emerge in the INTERIOR to
adorn the face Of the land the golden harvest would
be seen TO wave its luxurian head, upon many
rich hi! and valley OF middle and western Vr.
-inia, o er which the wild beasts of the forests
nave hitherto been roaming up and down unmolest
edj "hiic many poBderous cargo of the superabun-
dance 81 ihe iatetiof and west drawn perhaps from
sources now lying dormant in the bosom of nature,
viii DC seen TO descend james river to the Chesa
peske, aud thence he borne under the banner of
he Eagle, to every foreign shore where wind will
walt and water ilOa and exchanged for articles of
necessity, oi convenience, and of luxury, which
are meet to be returred and administered to the
wants aud wishes Of free people
4 CITIZEN OF THE WEST.
Roczbridgc, Va 26th OF Nov. 1926.
MYSrE FERROUS SUICIDE.
To the Editors of the Enquirer
A r,aar.r T.