Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-03-19
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Meeting Of the SfOChho1ders of
Va. IL Ity. IL. H., at Bristol.
what the Virginians Think About the
Junction.

One Of the directors of the Virginia and
Kentucky Railroad, writing from Estillville
Va, to prominent citizen of Louisville
says:
II. W. Hughes, President of the Virgins
and Kentucky Railroad Company, has called
a meeting of the stockholders of said com
pany on the oath of March, at Bristol. We
are all very anxious TO learn the condition
of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
whether that company will come to the CAP
With their road or not. II you make Cum.
berland Gap the terminus of your road
ours is fixed fact, and work will be re-
sumed on our road at an early day. Mr..
Hughes proposes to resign, if we will elect
Gen. Malone President, so as to be in a
condition to complete our consolidation
plans, from Norfolk to Cumberland Gap, all
under the management of one set of officers
when QUE Legislature meets, which we hope
will be at an early day.
We are trying to raise the means ueces-
sary TO commence work on our road some
time next summer or fall, and feel conf
dent that we will succeed in procuring
means enough to put force at work even
before the meeting of our Legislature.
UEr consolidation charter amended 50 az to
authoriEe the consolidation line to iniorss
our bonds, that, with the private subscrip
tons that we already have and will get, will
insure the spee dy completion of our much
cherished road. We would have been able
to commence our work long since but for
for the fact that our political status has been
uncertain, and nearly all our means were
swept from us by the late war. Confidence
in an early settlement Of our political affairs
is now very much restored, and our people
are fast recovering from the blghtng effects
OF the war, and are nearly oil in a con
ditiOn TO lend helping band to some ex-
tent in aid OF internal improvements, and
the county Of Scott, as well as that OF Lee,
will vote very large subscription in their
corporate capacity, as well as subscribe in
divl9ually TO the full extent Of their ability
| TO pay, If they can be assured that your
State will meet them at the Gap with their
road. We look upOa the connection as one
OF the most important railroad schemes on
the continent for the length OF it. You will
pleGse write mo at your earliest practicable
moment aud let me know the prospect Of
yOur railroad connexions az Cumberland
| Gap, as IL is OF the highest importance to us
to be advised upon the prospect Of the ter.
minus of your road before the meeting oil
orr stockholders on the 2tth Of this instant
at Bristol. NV earnest desire to see our
road again under way must be my apology
for writing to you upon this subject without
having ever met you or having any acquaint-
ance with you. / saw pamphlet adore ssed
to the City Council of Louisville, submitted
| by yourself and others, which have shown
to some Of our citzeus, who express them.
selves satisfied that your fine abilities will
be exerted for tbs early completion Of our
railway connection at the Gap, and We
could think of no one who could be more
likely to inform us correctly as to the prob
ability Of your road terminating at Cum.
bertrand Gap, aud hence this inquiry-Loiiis
| uAle Courier journal.