Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-09-23

Connection.
We commence to-day the publication. TO he
concluded to. morrow, of a communication at
dressed to the Alexandra Sentinel, on the sub
ject Of location and county and individual sub
scription to the stock of this Improvement
The writer presents some forcible views in be
half Of the adoption of the central route-pass
ing near the county seats of Amherst and Mel.
son. it is impossible yet. before the surveys
have been completed, TO come to judieious
decision in regard to the selection of the best
route. After having ascertained the nearest
and most practicable location. those who have
the mana cement Of the improvement viii, we
have no doubt, before final decision, pay all
due regard in deviating from direct line 10 the
development, and securement OF the greatest
sum ofiocal travel and tonnage. County and
individual subscriptions must also have bear.
ing on the result; and We would suggest the
policy of an assurance of means from those
sources before the selection of the route be
made. A grave error, committed by the Vir.
ginia and Tennessee company, may thus he
avoided. And, in fact. what boots it to the pc.
ple of Amher st and Nelson. as whole, wheth
or OF not the Railroad shall pass through this
or that neighborhood Every citizen cannot
be accommodated with depot at his door, but
yet every one must participate in reaping the
profits of decreased cost of transportation, and
the appreciation the value Of real estate which
the road will inevitably produce. We have
been astonished at the apathy with which he
enterprizing citizens of those counties have re
garded the proposed improvement. There
are not in Virginia a people who can properly
look to a richer harvest of benefits from all
way improvement than they. The proposed
road will not only connect them by a few
hours travel with this city, and Richmond
Washington and Baltimore, but in few year.
must be link in the great direct mail and pas
senger line from New York to New Orlean
and San Francisco.
And further by the competition which mus
arise with the canal and Southside road for the
incaculable tonnage the Mississippi Valley
there can be no doubt lhet. on the article oil
wheat alone, the farmers of those counties will
realize advance Of eight or ten cents per
bushel above the present price, with the rates
the same as now in the Richmond and Bal
timore markets. 1t the cost OF delivery in
market be reduced by that amount, of course
the difference is the farmers profit. But sup
pose the cost of transportation on a bushc Of
wheat should be only FIVE cent?. 1t would not
only be direct profit to that amount bat it
would also be equivalent, on lands producing
ten bushels per acneto advance of more than
IS per acre. And how Two answer, by
producing az addtionabc sum $50 cents
from the product of am acre--a sum which
would amount to the intel est ON an additional
investment per acre of SS.--The same facts
will apply to tobacco, corn, and al other agr
cultural products But we must drop the sub
ject for the present, with the promise of
again referring to II ina few days. We sug.
gest, however, TO our friends OF Amherst and
Nelson, that no railroad or other improvement
has been yet known TO Juiid ITSELF and that
the people who are most fortunate in the en-
joyment of such advantages are those who put
their own shoulders 10 the wheel and give
their united energies to the work.
The fire 10y which the residence, in Rich
mond oT JnIue Tn. Y Mason ,yos n,