Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-06-16
Iynchburg a,is, Staunton.

Stanton? We can answer IN very lew
words. Al Lynch6urg. the Va Tenn. Raj
road terminates. The company is taHctpsoN
GRO. The produce Is there lelt open 10 tbree
difFe rent lines; the Canal, the South side Raj
road. ard The GorIonsyie connection. Ffeight
of certain description " heh railroad eanLot
fbroGrably transport. will see, lie canal. FreIgA
which can be trans porled by a railroad WITH
profit, will seek either the South-sde or re
Gordonsve But every body knows raj.
road cannot subsst on The profits of freight
alone 1t mast have correspondent trafei, r
1t will 90 down. Now. the Gordons' Tile road
diyerts the whole stream Of Northern tra'el
from the Southside railroad, leaving II not q.
nough 10 keep up the road after II shall have
received the accession of freight II ~ entitled
10. Il must 20 down, and leave Bh'tmore
the sole ompetitol for such Trade as ralroads
can most probably earry
On the contrary. Stiunton Is but halfway
house on a line owned by one company. lhercI
Is no necessary discharge Of gods there. H'v
ing aiken the cars al Covingon, II Is not pro
babe that they WI be taken away from II, at
the enormous cost ard delay o,cosion,d by
uansbipmeni The Contra! Will moreover,
have l35 mics of travel Tor the tnmcuse con
course TINT " Ill swarm io Washington alonl
it, from the West and the South. These Will
go to Gordons,ille. aud there toke the Ofange
and Alexaadlii route, for 1t Is shorles tlnn
that 10y Stasntou
One of the greatest evils of The L}nchbnrg
and Gordons lIIe connection is lhat II will bel
the parent ola road from Salem by Slannon
Noargnment can be urged against this lat
ter, that Was not perfectly good against the for
mer-R. Diapatck
We ale sorry that wc cannot engage The |
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Very able advocacy Of The Dispatch in taver 81
conducting the tonnage OF the OHIO down The
South, instead Of ihe North SIDE Of james Riv'
er fits editor woad examine The subject
for himself free from all prejudice against
Lynohburg and her interests, # any such a.
entertain, W cannot Doubt he would arri2c u
the conclusion TINT Richmond, Petersburg
and Norfolk and with diem the State At large,
have a common Interest IN holding tbs trade
as far of from the attraction Of Baltimore, as
they can, wiJholt INJURY to the trade itself.
Goydonsrj7le. AID not Staunon. is he poin;
OF danger II the caitor Of the Dispatch vii
look at any railroad mp, he will see That
train Of cars set in motion Al GdlrlottssllIe 10
Gordonsvie are on almost IL ht line 10 b i.
timorc wliie from the latter pelnl TO arrive al
Richmond they would twist around over an
irregular crescent. II disposed 10 go T. BAN
more, they would encounter 10 brcah Of gauge
at Gordons,illo, or olsewhcre ror eau the
Dispatch fegnrd the inrerrcnton OF IA NV Com
pany at thai point any impairment, for II
has showh 10 its oteA satlgtocfoR, at Least, that
"thcre can be no serious reason why, when
two or more companies are concerned, one
car should not 60 as well one thousand miles
as one bundled"
But the most renarkable conclusion of the
Dispatches that tonnage " oulG be irresstably |
attracted towards Baltimore flon Lynchbarg"
but entirely safe al Staunton (Gordonsvio )-I
We might answer, il we chose, 10y saying -
livery we'll, If it be in danger at LYnchhurg,
let ii 60 on TO Gordonsviilc eighty or ninety
miles nearer to Ballmorc-there according to
your showing the danger will ccnsr." But
we prefer convincing to catching" the Dis
patch
How does the question stand 1t has been
made to appear in former controversies on the
subject that the route from the Ohio river, up
the Kana~ha and New rivers, to the Virginia
& Tennessee railroad down that and the
Southsde aud Danyie-to Richmond Pc
tersburg and Norfolk,is as short or shorter than
the route by the Genial road Tonnage then
may be as easily brought from the Ohio river
to Lynchburg as to a point on the Central
road eqnally distant from Richmond Suppo.
sc II to have been broughtto Lynchburg-to 60
to Richmond or Norfolk 1t has tie choice of
canal,to which il Is transferred without loss
oftimc a fartbing's cost, and railroad Che
Southside) Of equal gauge whose bars abut
against those of the Virginia and Tennessee
and thus avoids ala necessity for Transhipment.
Nor let it be forgotten that the rivalry be
tween these two lines will keep the tariffs OF
the companies down to tire lowest figure. The
same tonnage to go TO Baltimore would en-
counter a break Of gauge, (equal accor
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