Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-07-16
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Among the other etcetera | also find an agcreoote
charge OF surveys, $S59 $50 S. and superinendens Sc
$lo6i9 4O-iogether SS52 607 IS Ia large portion OF
which Establishment Will have, dc Jacto but not co no.
NINE 10 be kept up.
OF the true nature of these surveys some idea NAV ne
formed, by the following extract from the reror, ,.o
" the 18th November, QS3O) the Chief Engineer with
sufficient corps OF assistants, comne an examination
OF the route with view to final ocatiou snd in June
S3i) reported line fourteen miles Smarter than had
zee" eTPectedJT0" some Turner examination, Query,
the and value OF Dr. HowSrd's survey y ana Gir
mies Tess IN distance than the most direct co,nmuai.
" cdhonsNOy me common travelling roads" should
not be supHzed this survey in distance was more tha
counerba'anced by an increase in expense. But this
the Engineers can only determine.
These results point out, with pencil of light The me-
cessy OF employing euzf.- - the tfrsf farcr1
and attending implicitly TO sdcn persons
This is all en- PEASANT My object was merely to
your projectors to be more cautious. and like good PLAYERS
to suit the action to the word and the word to e acn
do not apprehend This will be found TO have been the
case with these Charleston gentlemen, who plume them
selves so very highly MIR Milers shaving had the
honor oil planning and constructing the first locomotive
" ever worked in the U. States"
am very spprohensve this boast will, provo az vain a.
mat relative to The nlodus Operdndi. The commissioned
says; IT'S true that the impulse which the Rail Road svs
" ZEN III England had received, offered powerful in
uucemen' 10 peTsevere under circumstances
unpropItous; but, the materials SOIL climate and re-
sources OF the two countries so essentially DIFF.
ferent, as I'm the commissioners ooinonl IN rerd
all hopes OF following the English pbns yion,,v d
hIuslve." He was as unfortunate in the a. s. All
:" inat ,,me-at Quincy in Maryland, and New York
I'M
terll, sc from Engand"-were but spI,ndid fb,oy;es
Renee unaded by examples elsewhere with no pTs
eeoe'" mat could be followed with safety or confidence
lhc BOARD was thrown upon its own re sorces and 6n
determined TO construct road, five miles in length
Oy way OF experiment. on the n0Uei and untried mode
"C 'ne ROAD Is now constructed as best adapted to
he cma'e soil, material and class Of abour Of the coun
Wy ana also as being better suited the finances of
the company" "
Ihis expression, as to class Of a6o would lead one to
suppose, uat OF IT and the Circumstance Of retaining the
money ~ we country by the employment Of lis own la
nonr' ample and beneficial use had been made However
ms was not the and the expense direct and indirec
mas oeen correspondent Thus, the Edisto Bridge was f.
ns"en TWO months before the connecting road owing TO
ne o'ncuy IN obtaining the necessary workmen 10 Tsk
me" fDeS during tie fsl in such swsnpy situations
Heah 'ne whole force brought Cat whose expence
in value. NV '"o'0''''
mere wac, comparatively speaking, no occasion for
WINE laoor ana the example Of Carolina should on this
subject be "a warning to Virginia"
As 20 mere being "no precedent" would humby OBJ
serve mat am not grevously mistaken II win be