Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1850-08-22
THE LYNCH8URG VIRGINIAN.
TowNLEY, SHIELDS 4 Co, Proprie tors.
vNCunuuC AUGUST ID. 1850.
OUR Raj. ROAD.

OUR RAIL ROAD.
The Importance of great line of railway con
Meeting Eastern and Western Virginia is fully
appreciated So much 50 that the construction
Of such line Is generally demanded. In yield
ing to this general demand. the friends of the
Virginia aud Tennessee Rail Road have under
process of construction a great and important
State improvement, the design ofwhlch is not
only to connect the two great sections of Virgin-
ia, but to develop the dormant wealth and en-
ergy of the West. This design should not be
lost sight Of aud should be vigorously pursued,
even in the construction of the work.
If Virginia is to derive any benefit from this
road, that benefit must follow the application of
the dormant energies of the Southwest to the de-
velopment of its latent wealth. This road is to
be an agent for the increase of the commercial
importance of Virginia. THIS it proposes to do
by adding to its productions or in other words,
by increasing the available commodities of trade
These commodities are locked up in the South
west, and the great object is to render them
available. They in the Southwest and only
need the application of industrial effort to give
them availability. The question is then What
is the proper course to be used in promoting the
development ofths latent wealth The answer
is plain and easy. Offer inducements to indus
try and that industry will be applied to its deve-
men send the fruits oftheir labor be amply re-
mune rative, and industry will be endowed with
a sufficient stimulus to apply It's energies 90 the
unfolding of our dormant wealth. the result is the
development ensues. The ample remuneration
of the market then constitutes the source of the
development.
To make market remuncrativc it is essential
that we create in it demand Small demands
make low prices, particularly so if the supply
be large The great object to be sought after is
to create the demand. We cannot create de-
mand for existing supplies while to supply exis-
ting wants we send To IA foreign market To
prove by illustration. A large wool grower is
likewise a large woollen manufacturer. lie
produces a larger share of wool than will supply
his manufactures. After supplying his manu-.
features he has surplus which he holds for sale
lie has foresight enough to see the amount of
wool which his pastures will yield him, and OF
course feels an interest in the price at which
wool will sell. To promote his interest in the
sale of his surplus wool, he must strive to ele-
vatc the price of wool. Now suppose that in at
tempting to elevate this price, he should send a
broad, for the supply called for by his manufac-
tuls, and bring into the market supply which
otherwise would not have reached it. The step
would be pronounced most unwisc. And Justly
too, for it is no wiser act, then, the import of a
!
on the most advantageous terms. The proper
method of making market sufficiently remu-
lucrative is to apply home productions to home
use, III order that the surplus left may com
mand high price and thus make, in It's sale
large draughts upon the wealth from abroad
! Practice corresponding with this theory has
not been the policy Of the Virginia and Tennes-
see Rail Road but in this general truth the
friends of the improvement place implicit reli-
ancc and il we have not misjudged the indica-
tions about us, future action will offer conviction
| Of belief in this truth The course ofthc friends
of the road will extend to the people of the
Southwest markctto be supplied principally by
the Southwest, and its draughts from elsewhere
will only be collateral. 1t cannot be said of the
Southwest, that she has only one market and there
fore but one demand. The construction of this
rail road will make for the Southwest markets OF
the Southwest. Lynchburg cannot hope to be the
sole market She can only form focus from which
the various lights willdyergc And the road will
be but continuous line ofmafkets,a all tending by
making demands, to enhance the value of South
western productions. The Southwest then is
intimately interested in the prosecution of this
road. We only ask at the hands of the South
west, and this ask in the namc of Virginia.
we only ask, the loan of It's wealth. promising
III few years TO pay them by a development
of its resources more than two fold.