Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-05-20
FOR THE yIRGiNIAN.


NeSrs. EditoB: l beg leaye to recall tho at
tention Of your readers TO an article appearing in
| yonr issue Of the 18th ult,, letter from G..
Wallace 10 Jno. H. Mcdaniel Pres lent of thu Va
x Tenn. X. Road
After speaking Of the condition Of the Gleva-
lind * Chattanooga road announcing the fact
of the completion of the Chattanooga aud Nash
vile road-gvng ms nll needed, information in
regard to the work on tho road from Chattanooga
to Memphis, and after awarding the tribute of
| praise To the genius and talent of Col Tate,
| President, he proceeds 10 say:
~ he remaining link to perfect this central
limo is the +. r. & Va. Railroad leading from
this point to tho junction with your road Mt the
Va. * Tenn. line. Tho length is about 1870
miles, some % of which is (D in use. The pro.
gress Of This mork has been rather sioic, yet their
means have been used with great economy"
Wa have itnliciscd the Objectionable portion Of
the above paragraph objectionable because ere
ating an erroneous impression. OF course, we
understand Mni Wallace TO menn that the pro-
gress of the work on the T.. +. w. K. Road has
been comparatively rather How"
We submit the following comparison. Tho
first ground broken on the +. Il. X V. X. K. was
in March April 1851. Since then. to use the
language Of our excellent and intelligent r. Rond
Commissioner ITO the Legislature of Tenn.,)
1.-THE Company have been struggling under a
Thousand difficulties, untelt by their more favored
| peighbors." The novelty and magnitude of the
enterprisc--the scarcity Of mea s-the indif
ference, not 10 say positive opposition, manifested
in certain qua fers from which we had right to
expect liberal aid, and in addition to all these
difficulties, add the delay of the T.. I. IL Ga road
to reach Knoxville until some six or eight months
beyond the time designated by Maj. Wallace for
that event. But for this cause tho cars would
now be running on the T.. II. ". II, II, dis
tance of 100 miles East of Knoxville. They ar.
rived at Knoxville July l, 1855. We commenced
track laying on the day. and at the date If
the publication of Maj WIS. letter we were run
ming on 81 miles of road-nine months say and
embracing in this period some two or three
months continuously of the coolest weather ever
known in this latitude In addition to- this allow
me to say, for the benefit of your readers, that
we have | l0miles of road graded and the greater
part of the remaining 20 miles in n state of for
wardnoss and rapid progression.
The +. I. * Ga. road. of viii III Mai. Wallace
is President. was began;in 1898, under the name
of the Iliwassee railroad, aud after expending
about SS00O0O it fell into u state of suspended
animation" Under the able superintendent of
Mr.. Keys and subsequently of Mr. Galloway. AS
Presidents, the work was revived in 1919 or As
under the name of the East Tenn. & Ga. Rail.
road. In resnscitating the work the Company
had the advantage of some 60 miles already
graded-the llwassco bridge built leaving only
80 miles to grade-one henvy bridge TO build and
the superstruc,ure to lay down. Maj. Wallace
took charge of the road. believe, about the
time 1t reached Loudon, leaving him only PSI
miles to finish in 1853 The force reported at
the commencement of 1854 was $50 hands and
much work done. Track laying commenced at
Loudon. we think, in Nov, 1854 and the cars
reached Knoxville July 4. 1865, Thus did they
consume about lS months in completing this part
OF the road; months of which time was con
sumed in laying track of 2SA miles If we are
"rather slow" have they not been rather Siolc.
er! BY the expiration of the year. from the
commencement of track laying. we hope to have
about 50 miles in use, You will see, Messrs.
Editors, by reference TO the last annual report of
your road. that your Company have not exceeded
| this during any year. On the day your cars
| reach the line we hope to commence track laying
at our Eastern terminus and in Is months we
hope the great line will be completed.
we do not deny the assertion of Maj w. that
the Chattanooga q Nashville road is completed
nor do we deny that knorpHe and the Virginin
Tine d'e termini Of the L. II. s. y. Railroads.
we do deny, however, that we are moving along
RATHER siom." We hope that the facts and
hgures we have given in reference TO the condi
non, progress aud prospects of our road may as
SYST the Mag to form IAN approximate idea of
the tune when our road will be completed-
, Our Depots are but few steps apart and our
cars are running daily in connection with his :
Our agents are accommodating. We hone he
will avail himself of the facilities for aoonir;no
fuller Information before he reviews us again.
/ SrOCKHOLDER
JoNEsBoRo Tenn, May 10th, 1856.
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