Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1868-09-10
port Of the President.

A meeting of the stockholders of the Bal
timore and Potomac Railroad Company was
held at Upper Marlboro on Wednesday, %
inst, to which President Oden Bowie present.
ed the annual report of himself and directors
The report represents that the general condi.
ton of their. affairs is at this time much
better than ever before, and the immediate
completion of the whole road to the Potomac
river is claimed to be assured. The difficult
ties encountered in the last twelve months
are said to have been permanently relieved
Mr.. Bowie states that no route has been Sc
ected for the road through Charles county te
the Potomac, there being two under consid.
GRAFTON, and he suggests that sthe Constitu.
ton having conferred upon the three lower
counties five hundred thousand dollars for in.
ternal Improvements, it is suggested to, ano
urged upon, the people of Charles county t.
appropriate their third of this amount to the
building of this road aoittin their county linn.
u.s." 1t is also stated that in Charles comfy
'several gentlemen have each offered, in adj.
dition to the right of way, all the necessary
land for depot grounds, sidlings, switches
wharfage, &C., free of cost, to the extent ir
some cases, of ten acres. if their property
shall be selected as the terminal point"
Since the last annual report the engineer.
ing corps has been kept engaged in prelimi
nary surveys and location, or divided into
resident construction corps in charge of such
stations of the work as were under contract
and being graded. Of those gentlemen hav.
| ing contracts for grading, Mr.. E. G. w. Hall
and Hestend q Co., have nearly finished the
different sections for which they had con-
tracled in Prince Georges county, both on
the main stem and Washington branch
Messrs. Hammond & Co. were making ex-
cellent progress in Anne Arundel county
but were recently compelled to stop further
work because Of difficulties about right OIL
way on sections for which they had the con.
tract. But those difficulties having been sat-
isfactorily settled, they will actively and i'm
mcdiately resume work. The right of way
from the Annapolis and Elk Ridge road tc
the Patuxent river has all been secured either
by gift, purchase, arbitration or condemna-
| ton, which also enables Criswell & Co. to re-
sumo work, which they, too, had been COM
PEELED for like reason to suspend. Ar
frangemepts have been made for all other par
ties having contracts of last year to vigorous
lily prosecute their work, and sub-contracts
are now ready to be awarded on the whole
main stem from Baltimore to Marlboro and
the branch to Washington, on which work
Twill be Immediately commenced. The re-
port says:
It is particularly gratifying to observe the
great interest in the cities of Washington and
Baltimore in the success of this enterprise,
calculated to rebound SO much to the prosper
ity of each, and sure to secure to Baltimore
the vast Southern trade which peace and
prosperity are alone wanting to develop.
The report refers also to what is termed a
struggle for the very existence OF the road In
the Legislature of 1867, and adds:
/ aThere wero not a few in Baltimore who
were misled by the assertions Of those oppos-
ing us, and for time induced to believe that
it was our purpose to avoid their city. AS
if ca pitalists who had the judgment to en-
bark their means, and the men whose inter-
csts all laid in the success of this road, could
be stupid enough to wish to avoid great
city, whose trade and travel was to be their
principal source Of profit, or willing even to