Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-06-14
Men, v,,,. and Charleston Railroad.
'poonrss OF Tur WORK ron THE rAsr YEAR.


PROGRESS OF THR WORK FOR THE PAST YEAR
You were informed At your last annual meeting
that the grading and masonry, from Stevenson TO
Decater 80 2-I0 miles and from La Grange to Poca-
hontas rs $40 miles, then sufficiently advanced
IN commence LAYING down the rails; and that the iron
had been procured to lay the track The track-ayng
ON these Divisions OF the road, was commenced on
the End day Of April 1853, and finished to Poeahon-
tas 25 miles east of La Grange on the 2oth OF sep
ember and opened for bushes on the LIST OF October
1885 From Decatur to Stephenson, the track-laying
was DELAYED fully ninety days by the burning of the
bridges over the Otowah river, on the western ana
Atlantic Railroad and the Tennessee river on The
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Your Company
being dependent upon these roads for transporting
their iron from Charleston consequently the connec-
tion between Stevenson and Decatur WAS not made
until the sth OF March 1886; and regularly opened Tor
business on the 2lst of the same month making loo
miles of new track laid and put In operation since
YOUR last annual meeting; and giving you now IN
operation on your Eastern Division 20 miles oil road
from Tuscnmbia Landing to Stevenson-gwng an
outlet to Charleston and Savannah for the large trade
and commerce Of the entire Tennessee Valley.
You also have in operation, your western Di-
vision IS miles ofroad from Memphis to Poeahonias
rs miles the main line, and the branch To som
errle 10 mes-making the aggregate amount OF
finished road now in operation, $40 miles and eaY-
ing the gap from Tuscumbia TO Pocahontas II miles,
the only remaining link TO be finished to complete
your entire line from Memphis to Stevenson, 2sl
miles.
Most of this part of your road you were inform
ed nj your last annual meeting had then just been
let To contract The work of grading and masonry
has progressed steadily during the whole year with
but slight ntermission from failures of contractors,
who have been promptly dismissed and their work
re-le to others until 1t is believed that every sec
ton of IL is in the hands OF efficient aud reliable con-
tractors, who progressing with such rapidly rs
to give satisfactory assurance that they will com
pete their work in time TO lay the track by the LIST
ofJanuary next.
The cross-ties upon this Division have all been
contracted for upon favorable terms, and are now be-
ing delivered on the line. The iron rails, chairs and
spikes have been purchased and are now arriving,
to complete the remainder of the unfinished road and
their payment provided for in the securities of the
company, AT fixed rate, entirely satisfactory to the
Board This purchase was made in June last, under
the most favorable cireumstances-the price paid
compared with the present prices of iron, proves II
TO have been a most wise and judcious purchase
Contracts have been made with reliable and expert
enced contractors to lay the track from Tnseninbia
TO Pocahontas, and il is expected that tho work will
commence early in May next and proceed without
interruption, east and west, until the connection is
made.
1t will be seen by the above extract, from the
last annual report, that this great work will be
completed by the LIST of January, 1857. Before
that time, say by the list Of October our own
great work win be in full operation throughout
its entire length; and we will have but eighty
miles Of stage travel between City Point and
Memphis. When can our friends at Memphis
promise to take us through TO their cityl We
are impatient to BIO nearer neighbors to them