Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1855-08-17
| -li;.ll rcsumc this sr!ject III my neA..
JEFFERSON.
AIR LINE ROAD FROM BALTIMORE TO
RICHMOND.
To NJ" Edi'ors 81 he EA9"rtr:

| To ne Edif1rS 81 he EM9"'ytr:
BAnSa!IrLp. IiooE's FERRY, JrLY i.
Gentlemen In Your paper vi the llth July,
| article Baltimore nlil PotOuiuc RrIl Road,' you
very properly term III. pr"?G:cd ron:c "zig-zng
one though, IN sp aking oi blossom Point
s jc!aw Port TD6Acco il is no; 80, is above H. bu
| thu. does not s,rai%htc the route E0r shorten It,
write this article 10 Inform thc public "r any por-
tun thereof who may feel any interest i'll getting up
this ruad, to tho really proper route and place for
crossing the Potomac by an airline road between
| Baltimore uld Richmond. l do 50 confidently, be-
cause no .nan knows better than do the river shores
in Til: vicinity having been raised and always vGd
at end now owning tho homo nf my fathers lil"oc >
Ferry well known 10 all the travelling public before
the introduction OF stcamboats!nd railroads.: and To any
one wishing examine the ground "iid points sul;G-
br inr crossing tho river, viii most rhcer!ully give
information aah paint out the places ut any time IL Is
nct. that just hrrcah1u!s the river IL narrower than
ANYWHERE else iromi:- mouth tos"me i0miles shlShernp
IL !. fact, that here tie rr" survived all ether ir:cs
on tbs river il is fact, that this Il"oe's Ferry
Was the direct route for travr! from North TO South,
while private travel prevailed and il Is also iGct,
that hcr:ab"uts direct rail route -h"nd pass ior the
sail re;sous,) may see by stretching direct
| lin. on II nap from Richmond Ia Baltimore, where
yuu will find it crosses the Potomac just below Il
paint tila,hiasl and PASSES through Port Tobacco
Now Blossom Point is above Matthias Punt; ANA II Is
iu below Matthias Point that the route should be: anu
.ur the following Tho river, a. said, IL M
where more than about two miles wide las actually
surveyed by G.n Bernard at this place some years
| ngo,) for distance Of some tive or Fix miles, up
| and down. Every where else, ieven from blossom
Pou) il is some ou. al !enst. it the most suitable
lucu irr crossing, with la: lands eacll side, there
j. line wner and Very !iltlc wharing would be ncccs-
sarv--not more ti,sn tl'rt is at AIua Creek now--it
i lower down the river, and hence somewhat less lIn.
bic 10 ice from fact nnd really less 81 from ca'r-
easily t:IrtIs liS, 4ae, md the landings Oh each
c,i N spite ol winds willis, every place from Matthias
| r,n, up 20 AJuia Crc,k the Virginia side il ex-
p.,cd t. the range CT tic North winds from the Blue
: Ridge down, which also brn. all the Ice upon Tho
! shGret from IL great distance up the river.
cnu.i give many more rciL;1ns for the route pro-
posed Dul will trouble further than with the
above, which you may do with n you pici't am
n"t in the c;I, interested III this matter lou can
see below the point ! suggest as The route' !,
Won examine ulc! mp: and. III taci, never Will
co.sen; rail ROAD my land il | can prevent lt.
| IL is true that friend Of mine, oil whose land TIE
CROSSINGS should be- il am correct, is very wllin.
and dcS!iuGs for i! but that IL not hny pnlht oi me-
resi- To n", aad only Should like to acc him Sratlicd
l,i fall made similar suggestions 10 the Maryland
err; and il in Virginia are tn touch TIE matter III
any shape, il is right and proper 'as we must I'M
iroab!y b. taxed i'll the prcm!scs for every cilizc
tu throw ali t:,e light e on the subject; mn! s
! ,in snre no one suggest more correct VewS-a:
least two points, viz: the crossings e run, una
| the dircc;ncos ot the roue-l feel no EestaAcy III
giving mine over my own naic declaring, III co'iei"
sion, that consider the crossing the Potomac III tie
ulacc suggested, presenting no serious lnpedlhehi
io such 4; route: not hall so much as bridging the
! Rrpmhunnock mt or near Port Rnyal-a t,lhS neccs
srv iron the nurrowus- ni the river there SUBJECT
ing It i,-. need say nothing OF the character 81
the country herahnus. SUi: more suitaDc i"r ri'
rni,,is can he found.
T., cross the Potomac lower down. ~ much 81
"A to AVOID ice altogether, the d-cciEsS "i III: route
| would be- as much lost as by the zic-@ag route 10
A1ua. Tie tCrcy:ns over the Potomac would De i1n'
tr ~ seven mics and all the rivers from the fo'"'
mac 10 Redmond would have to bc crossed lower down
than on the Port Royal linc aud consequently at Il