Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-03-22
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INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT
IN VIRGINIA,

IN VIRGINIA.
lr By request, we ley before the reader the fol-
ilwing interesting letter, which appeared in the last
J;"chburg Virgin,an.
MANCHESTER, IS. C.) February 1881.
Perhaps - will recollect how long my name
has been connected with the Rail Road system, md
how thoroughly made myself The subject of laughter
for my srdor and zeal the OCCASION. Fortunately
have survived the ridicu!e, and lived to the plan
of communication proposed generally adopted. Soon
after traverscd Virginia, from the mouth of tic
james to its and thonce to the summit Of the
Allegheny, was convinced Of tho Importance of her
whole territory to the commerce of the United States.
addressed, in 1913 under the signature of Il Podn-
,caI Economist several Essays the Richmond Engu-
rcr,-ond think, in 1920, recommended Rail Roads.
The accessible nature of Weston commerce, ria
1ynchbnrg 10 the coast. torcbly struck me- More re-
Gently, have kept up the war, The columns of the
Enquirer will show; hut the Engineer of the Board
of Public Works md ;is members, seem disposed 10
blink tho subject of The Rail Road from Ly ucburg &c.
sc. to Richmond and depend OH the navigation. AT
the sumc instant IL Baltimore touching the Potomac
with the Rail Road, and The Shenandoah Canal is in
the coursc OF projection She is looking West and
North West. And Richmond is to spend Il 500 900
on scheute that may fail in water, while her Board
at Works al the same inst. declaring that for 5000
per mile she can lay down q Railway. Now dividino
this 81. 500 900 by $4,000 shall find. that l8s miles
of Rail Road could be made Dividing this into two
parts. each %, and supposiny there are go miles
or two tiths) taken up by the public we shall find
that $50 miles could be made: And in what space of
time! IN ooout half the period two and a half
years. that according to Gov. Foyds calculation i,
would take to complete his water work. Complete
did say' No-to finish 1t according to the pian of
men Engineer mean,l tina, have uniformly failed
and Will continue TO fall their projects And un
der this conviction the people Of Lynchburg are to
toda with patience until another experiment is tried
Should fail the trade of Tennessee vii! pass TO Bal
timore; and Richmond, &c. will sink int o lns,rpif
canoe. On the other hand let Rail Road be projected
TO Lynchburg, and thence across the mountains to
East Tennessee, the whole OF the country
IN lis construction-ond soon would the cottons of
Alabama find their way TO the james. Should the
single Road prove one Of double kind necessary
then it might DO LAID.
But the insolence Of office" is evident IN the to-
tai silence of the Board Of Public Works on tho
subject of absorbing the loose capital rendered an
by the cnso OF the Banking Mania) of North Caro-
INA IL Is curious To how studiously even TIM
name OF the State is avoided, especially when we
5ecollect the dangers of her coast nd the fact Inn,
cotton can be taken for IL cents per ba 10 from
Fee Dee to the Roanoke, and that by running tho
rond from Limberton, through Harieesvilc Dariing
ton and Barnwel in S. Carolina, and thence across
the nat of country of Georgia and Alabama. the
commerce OF Mobile might be brought to the
James, and there shipped at an expense infinitely
less than at present. The political and moral inn
Fortance ot such step is wholly overlooked.
This hyirophnbid should ccoso-pcrsons are ne
mao Tor water works the canine rnce IN n rabi,I
state, is for water. The Board of Works talk of
the iiosten, New River &c. What water had
they IN them last year, The Nashville Banner de-
rared that at Narberth Shoals there was not a foo,
OF water. The advocates for this useless rvrcrd;-
ture ought tn be be called on to state this fact.
Il hope the people of Lynchburg will arouse
themselves and, seeing to their real interest Gull out
for an abandonment OF the walter and ad,ntio, %,
the land system"