Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-08-29
Way Frcights or TIL in
importance.

The following practical views IN regard To
the policy oil the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company. will well apply to other roads be
side their own. and we recommend them "to
whnm it may concern"
Their are two lessons which the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company mus acquire by
experience if they will not learn them at
cheaper school. One is that their work cannot
be sustained unless their charges for Transport
tatlon are kept at the lowest iemunerative
rates; the other is that their way trade is worn
cutivating.
They now charge IS so for carrying pas.
senger from Wheeling 10 Baltimore. They
could afford 10 carry him for Sc, and they
will yet be obliged to perform that service for
S5-or less. They carry coal eastward Of
Cumberland and consider themselves remuner.
aied, we believe, by less than cent Ton per
mile. AT corresponding rate per mile n
passenger can be carried from Wheeling, to
Bnnmore for less than four dollars If the
charge Tor passenger were put down 10
six dollars and for freight in proportion, the
road would overflow with business. because it
would then be turning to account the advant.
age 1t possesses over its rival lines. Nav, it
enables longer aud more difficult routes TO COM
pete with it.
Then to the way trade-,he present pol
icy OF The company is totax il as much as it
will bear for the support of the through bust
ness 1hls Is wrong every way-unjust and
unwise II will render The Company odious
IN Virginia. The through trade needs no sup.
port and cannot need any. 1t will support itself
It the tolls are placed at the proper rates. II
Is Just 10 charge nor' for way business than
bnt xsbi,
how much more3 Justice stors with simple
remuneration. Two cents per mile (nsiead
OF four as now cliarged) will pay very we'll
for way freight and travel AT the low rate
the business will increase. AT present North
Western Virginia is li;le better for the rail.
road. 1t has perhaps never occurred to the
Company that the way business along their
line will belong to them forever, and if proper
| y taken care of may be made to support heir
road. OF itself. A very respectable portion, ca
pahle of sustaining more than one such work,
might be secured-as such portions have been
ecured-withn an area no greater than thai
which in all time will contribute way business
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. In ten
years the amount OF this business might be
sufficient to pay 6 per cent. dividends. But
Tor that purpose, it must be greatly increased
and that will not happen under the present
charges. La view of the vest and increasing
railway competition, this company ought To
look TO the country through which it passes.
and in which it has no rival, as principal
source of its revenues. The time has passed
for magniloquent essays in the Annual Reports
about draining the trade from the slopes of
the Rocky Mountains into the lap of an Allan
TIC city. Every railway will soon find its RI
walls at its very Threshold, and the road which
has the best way business will make the most
money. We hope the Fall business will open
on the system of cheap TOLL Wheeling ar.
gus.