The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-01-15
Richmond and Newport News Rail.
road.

survey Of a route for this line Of i'm
,~oycmcnt has Just been completed and
,be route permanently located. But one
ox,crimcptal survey was made by Colonel
nrxN and his efficient corps Of engineers
,rcvious to their commencing operations
On the present line Starting from
Newport News and running in the d.
rect;on of this city upon Us straight
q line as the nature of the country
would possibly admit Of, measuring dis
lance Of seventy five miles, that portion
,f the route lying north Of the James and
Clckahominy rivers 10 a point where il
g-o>scs the latter stream traverscs one Of
,nc most lovely and productive sections in
Eastern Virginia. 1t crosses the Warwick
..yar at a point where the river can, with
r,He cost, he easily bridgcd, runs within
.frrc miles and a half south of Yorktown,
ra 20 Williamsburg touching the corpo
,..r limits of this ancient borough, it di.
v,--rs slightly southwark, running parallel
with the Telegraph road 10 Burnt Ordinary.
From this place it bears southwardly until
m. Chickahominy is reached. Here the
,.os, formidable obstacles on the whole
line arise in heavy grade and a bridge,
+refarmer extending over a space three
.u,ytc7s Of n mile in length, and being
,.irv-uinc feet to the mile. The latter to
,rar the Chickahominy, and to have a
draw.
But small expenditure Of money
will be required 10 place the road in a
condition to receive the ties and rail from
Newport News to the bridge, as the surface
+. finely adapted for this purpose, requiring
very little excavation, and through light
s.il, and portion being as level as a
v!iug-saloon. The road entering Charles
t.v on its northern border and in the
,asr extremity of the same passes Mount
Pleasant and Manoah churches, and within
two miles and half north of Charles City
Courthouse, combining itself closely to the
rt}gc between the James and Chickaho-
miny rivers, continues on by Nance'S shop
(. the Henrico line, intersecting it at Run
ncymede, two miles or more north of Nal
vcrn Hill. Leaving this point, it passes on
in the direction Of the city, near Frayscr's
farm, and between the Charles City and
Darbytown roads, to Glendale Seminary,
where il commences to descend into the
city at Rockets.
Accurate maps, protilcS, etc, have been
prepared by Colonel Dunn, and we shall
soon be PLACED in possession of an official
report of his operations on this line. We
are Informed that the cost Of the construc-
,sou Of the road will be 1900 per mile,
making in the aggregate the sum of ST.
$1,000 for putting the road in running
condition.
Richmond may indulge high hopes upon
..e many advantages Of this improvement.
Tits delightful to think how near it places
tli, city TO Hampton Roadside the broad
and deep Virginia waters where the James
and Elizabeth rivers lose themselves in the
Chesapeake, and where such grand move
meat> in commerce are in time not far OIL
70 take place. In the matter Of mere So
ca. intercourse between the chief har-
Dor of Virginia and her capital, the expedi-
,.ou afforded by this road will be most saiu-
tary. 1t will possess about the same adj
yautagcs for expeditions travelling between
Portsmouth,, Norfolk, and other points,
and this place, as the James did after the
introduction Of steam upon its waters over
the numbering four-horse mail coach that
travelled between this city and Hampton
more than a quarter of q century ago.