Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-04-21
The Virginia n Tennessee Pa froad.

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The Virginia n Tennessee Pa road.
In late number we published letter from
the President of the East Tennessee aud Georgia
railroad. in which the writer expresses the con
viciion that no adequate conception hns yet been
formed of the amount of travel for which the
Virginia and Tennessee road " i'll have to furnish
aeeomm olaiion when all of rs connections are
completed. We are fully persuaded of the cor
RICHNESS of this opinion.
In n late number Of the Railway Times we find
an article on the " Mort h. East and South Wes,
! Alabama Railroad" that contains some iteresing
information bearing an the point TO which we
have referred. This road is under the Presi
dency of Landon G. Garland, Esqr.. with f. ID.
Sanford. NJ Chief Eng ineer-both well known in
this community ms possessing every qualification
for their respective posts. 1t IL to extend from
Chattanooga. Tenn essee, 10 n junction with the
Mobile aud Ohio road aud the Southern road at
n point in the vic nifty of Marion, Missssppi--a
distance of 29iA miles Some OF its features arc
thus given by The Railway Times
I. It's the asst link In n series Of roads lending
from the city of Washington TO the city OF New
Orleans as nearly upon an air line rs the topo-
graphy Of III country will admit. Principal points
nlong III. route are Alexandria Charlottesville,
Lynohburg, Wytheville Abingdon. Knoxville,
Chnifa nooga. Elyton. T uskaloosa and Marion
In 1921 Gen Barnard o. the L. ). Top. Corps
repor ted upon the geodetic line hetwen Baltimore
aud Nav Orleans and proposed for "A national
road between these two cities the route through
Washington. Knoxville. etc Mr.. McRae Engi-
near in Chief Of the Charleston and Savannah
Railroad, in an elaborate report published in
1854 compares thirty different routes between
New York aud New Orleans, either existing or
proposed BY tho mail route through Washing
ION, Wilmington kngsvills and Atlanta, Mont
gomery. eto. the distance will be 1861 miles, nf
Ter the completion of direct lines between Mont
geometry and Mobile and Mobile and New Orleans.
The present distance Is IL 10 miles BY the route
through Bcllfrld, Raleigh, Charlotte, kingsville,
the distance will be 1921.
Should n road be put in between Columbia s.
c., and Augusta the distance will be 1854 miles.
BY Raleigh Cheraw, Branohyille, etc, the dis
lance will be 1927 miles.
BY Cheraw. Columbia. Augusta, tho distance
will be Ii7O miles and this seems to be the short
est route east of the Blue Ridge.
BY the route through, Washington, Lynohbnrg,
Knoxville. Dalton. Atlanta. Montgomery, eto. the
distance will be l4i2 miles.
BY that through Knoxville, Chattanooga, Hunts.
Vile, Jack son, Miss, the distance will be las
miles.
Nv thnt through NnoApliei JheksoH'lnc' ooi'
ma. it will bc 1858.
While by that through Lynohburg, Knoxville,
Chattanooga, Eyion, Tuscaloosa, and Marion,the
distance will be 1920 miles. This last is the
| line of the North East and South West Alabama
| roud.
| II will be thus seen that the great route from
| the Northern States by way of Washington,
| Lynchburg, Knoxville, Chattanooga. 20 to New
Orleans is the shortest Of all existing, proposed
| or practicable lines and will, as n consequence,
become the channel through which the great sea
of travel will ebb and flow But New Orleans is
only one point that will lie within the attraction of
this line of roads. At Chattanooga the Georgia
State road the Memphis aud Charleston. aud tho
Memphis and Nashville fall into the conncc-
ton while ut the Southern terminus Of the
North East aud South West Alabama rond it is
put in direct communication with the Gulf by the
Mobile and Ohio road. by extension 1--WE quote
from the Times) in its line direction to the
Bigolotte. it will be in still more direct commu
nicaion with New Orleans, and by means of the
. Southern road running to Nicksburg. thence 10
Shreveport, and by the great projected ron'
through Texas to I'll Paso, it will communioot'
directly with the whole South west, and probabI,
be the only practicable one to the Pacific, name
ly niong tho valley of the Gia"
1t may be we'll doubted whether any other lin,
of railway in the United States has such II fotur.
before it ms the Virginia aud Tennessee. Ant
that the prospect may rs speedily as possible be
come fruition, it behooves those who have charg,
of it to exert every energy to hasten its compile
ton. thereby TO afford facilities to its TENNESSEE
connection that will expedite that work.
The prospect is which should encourage
and stimulate the friends Of the Orange and Alex
andria extension. The foregoing estimates o
distances embrace that work, as Il link in tn
great chain. and make it essential TO the complete
ness of the system. 1t will participate fully wit
the Virginia and Tennessee i'll the proceeds O
the enormous travel which will crowd the grea
thoroughfare of the nation. We know that
labors under difficulties, but we cannot but foe
confident that a work of such national necessit
and Of such brilliant promise will be able TO Sc
cure the means of its construction. 1t was grea
blunder in the Legislature not to have furnshe
the aid asked for--but if Virginia declines to rea
the profits of such investment it is not to b
supposed that shrewder calculators will long al
low such an opportunity for the advantageous us
of capital to lie unimproved.
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