The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-10-15

| there IN seven days. Whose faults it is we
| do not say, but such is the fact Other lines
command the business not because the rates
are less, but because the time is less and this
notwithstanding loaded car can pass over
| our whole line from Chattanooga to Norfolk
| without necessary delay. So far we have
7, been unable to command this trade.
What is the difficulty? We say want of
management, and we ask youato adopt such
system as will enable us to give to our peo-
pie the advantages we should confer upon
them. BY proper management we can
command the entire trade along this whole
line in spite of all competition, and we be-
lieve we can soon by it give to local trade
lower rates than will be charged on through
freights.s Such has been the experience else
where, where the same system has been a.
dopted. This undertaking Of attempting to
carry foreign trade at lower rates than local
trade, is productive OF oppression onerous
to the public, and therefore we should resort
to SOME system which will secure to us this
distant trade, that we may have other means.
OF support to our roads, aud thus be enabled
to present current OF trade sufficient to at
! tract ships to our own seaboard to conduct
It across the great waters. Ii is not proposed
therefore by this committee to Indicate the
terms on which this association shall be here
after arranged. We want only such concert
OF action, as will enable your road to employ
the Southside and Norfolk and Petersburg
roads on better terms than now. We ask
that you present to the cities of the West and
South such inducements as will euable them
to command the whole trade.
We have assurances that the three roads
through Tennessee will If we adopt this poll
inxyIf Ia l 4
the present system they have despaired of
any hope of securing trade, for there are too
many to consult AID too many conflicting
views to consult. 1t has actually been pro-
posed to ftsm out the whole business along
this great line, to a foreign agency in order
that there may be one authority throughout
That proposition has been made by these
WESTERN roads, as they say that otherwise
they can see no other moGe of securing the
benefits of this great trade. | never agreed
to accept such proposition. i never will
agree to it i'll know myself never will,
agree to transfer our interests into the keep
ing of any other parties. Delay are now COM
planned OF daily under the influence of which |
we are likely to lose not only the trade of
Chattanooga but of Knox vile too, because
greater facilities are offered by other lines.--
We propose then that we shall endeayor TO
enter into some Arrangement which will en-
sure that harmony, concert and vlgor Of ac-
ton which will enable us to secure these ad
vantagesJ develop our resources, build up our
cities, and promote the interest of all the
roads now constituting the line 'sH IL 80
Gall u conlDlilatloD, cvr,sel iaa tin,, or assn
citation. We cant conceive how su oh an ar
Management can possibly injnre any man or
any company. Your own charter imposes
the obligation upon you to deliver freights to
the canal or to tile Orange Road, on the
same terms as are accorded %. the Southsde
In the privilege Of shipping over the whole 1
Enc as lift We're one road, VIC will have secured
an advantage, aud consolidation could not
make travel loave the Orange Road to go
down the S. S. the canal, for soon as we
undertake to divert the travel, it would GER
family take one or the other OF the competing 4
lines The diversion Of the travel from the
0. Il A. to any other road would not belany
advantage to the Southside, but would inter-
fere with their capacity telaceommodate trade.
| The combination would enable the line to
command the trade and without it they never
can--unless we resort to the expedient Of en-
ploying Adanlss Express or some other COM
pany to carry it for us. II shall leave the
subject now to ADLER and better hands, thank
ing you for your courtesy. r@ $500 'aiF*