Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-05-15
NUMBER 20.


" en- The system Of improvements of Ken
lucky and Tennessee to facilitate travel and
t &c transformation Of produce are conpletel
The in ting climate of this region will be
most pnwc. fu inducemcnt to scttle and re-
MA in Il s beautiful country. During tie
re- few Years, the following changes.
Judging from the presently will take place,
The products Of the first area will double
! of the second and third the increase will
be about 20 per cent The Lake country
will change most, being. comparatively.
newly settled. After 1865, the Increase in
the Ohio valley will be fully cqiial to the
country bordering on the lakes
My letter is longer than | expected
will make a few remarks about direct trade
and finish in my next. In speaking of
steamers, [ mean Propellers, as they use
less fuel ard have one-tbird more room for
carrying freight than side wheel steamers
OF the SAME tonnage.
| Direct trade, at present, from Richmond
or West Point, will not in any way com
pare with What it will be, when the Central
line is finished. But when it is, their day
"AiA CCAHS' diL tUIu tuCIC are lOuT DujS
to be removed in James River amounting
to, some say three. some four miles of eA-
cavation four feet deep, which bears no com
parlson to the difficulties represented to me
as encountered from Dunbarton and Gren-
eek to Glasgow, twenty miles
A single excavator will remove of ordi-
nary excavation from nine to six hun
dred yari's day, hard clay, about two hun.
dred yards. Remove these obstacles. al q
| am informed by Captains navigating the
James River, that a vessel drawing eigh-
ten fet t can be loaded within one mile Of
Richmond
# the information is correct, these diff
! culties can be removed in one year
II solid rock is encountered, the same
means can be used that removed s'nearly
sixteen hundred yards of the hardest Gnciss
Rock, at Hell Gate, Fast river, New
York This work was done BY Mr.. 3.
Mail e'oit, by patent he has for blastin.
rocks under water, without drilling Men
ton is made Of this new way of removing
rock by Lieut. Bartlett, of the coast survey
Mr.. Maillefo.t informed the writer he
would remove any kind of rock, no matter
how hard, Richmond is interested in an
other improvement, beside improving the
navigation Of the James River
The Richmond and York river rail road,
extending from Richmond to West Point
distance of 80 miles maximum grade SO
feet per mile. Lieut.. Maury, in a report
to the President Of this road, Alexander
Dudley, Esq. ), says, "the termination Of
the DIRK river rail road at West Point, will
admit vessels that cannot 60 to Charleston.
Moblle, or any CHER place of trade south of
Virginia. along the Atlantic or Gulf coast
He further says, t'that from West Point
there is water enough to pass right out to
the sea, any merchant ship in the country,
except the Great Republic, and 'that the
depth of water at Goff's bar, the softness Of
the mud upon it. and the smoothnoss of the
water in 1ork river, even in the toughest
times, will combine to make West Point
the most accessible Of points
II the Covington and Chic rail road il
finished in four years, then direct trndc will
commence in earnest. If it is ten to fifteen
years building, it will be delayed so long
that It will take years to accomplish the
sanse results that might now be secured in.
I comparatively, very few. For other routes
having secured the trade, it will take a
long time to divert it, the habit once acs
CURED Of going to certain market, the
current of trade, habit and inclination will
be hard to turn. The money spent to re-
cover lost advantages will be much more
(. than the difference saved in building the
work, in long or short time Secure
, tie Ohio Saltey and what a city Richmond
will be-what position it will have The
Central line, reaching the Ohio at Guyan-
dotte and Big Sandy; with the aid Of the
Kanawha and James River Canal completed
to Coyington, sciW secure II, aud the Rich
mond and Danville, and the Virginia and
Tennessee railroads, reaching Tennessee.
and North Carolina, will bring the products
of that region of country
| The Erie canal enlargement is expected
70 commence this Spring with six feet of
WATER and in two years to be complete With
seven.
| The Pennsylvania Railroad Company ox-
pect t. form connections this year with
Chicago, and also to finish the Pittsburgh
and .Stcubenville Railroad, making the con
nection complete with Cincinnati In three
years from next Spring, Virginia can be
ready to compete with them-hcr destiny is
in her own power CONVICTION.