Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-10-02
The Alexandria Canal, Rail read and
Bridge Company.

The corporators of the Alexand!i. Canal,
Railroad and Bridge Company met yesterday
and determined upon lire for railroad from
the Aqucluc. 20 Alz,niria.
The iron and ties Lave been contracted Tor,
and the construction viii be vigorously prose
cuted.
1t is stated, by those composing the meeting
of yesterday, that il was expected that Is mid
winter an entire connection will be formed be-
tween the South, via the AQueduct, End all
railways running North.
The committee for the construction OF the
connection in qucStiu', ath2 Ad1cduct bridge,
are Messrs II. 5. McNomb, Philip Quigley,
and John l.. King. The character OF these
gentlemen and their business abilities insure
| success.
This road will connce. with ihe Louioun and
| Hampshire railway at Four-mle run, round
about course, but one rs quickly mastered,
| upon perfectly level surface, as one could be
across the height of land intervening between
| Georgetown and the Loudoun and Hampshire
| railway at point directly opposite the former
CITY The elevation to be suTmounted would
| be in part at the rate OF l20 feet 10 the mile.
| In fact. wherever connection is TO be had be-
tween Georgetown and the Loudoun and
| Hampshire railway, other than by the -Four
mile run, it should be via the Little Fails and
Pimmett's run to the neighborhood OF Vienna.
| The business of the road, when 1t stretches to
tho GOAL regions and on ~ Cincinnati. Will war
rant such a construction; but the time Is not
vet Thorough surveys are being mace al
along the route west OF Leesburg, via Smoker 5
| GAP and Winchester, to Piedmont, and beyond
toward Cincinnati. The road, indeed, is con.
structed and worked a short distance west of
I.eesburc. The public are assured that the
parties who are connected with the LaeSburg
extension have great wealth. and the year 1871
will see the road completed and Ia running
order to the coal regions. Such is our intor-
mated from trusted sources
The corporators of the Alexandra Canal,
Bridge and Railway Company arc parties to
the Union Junction railway, OF which we spoke
at some length awhile since as being upon the
rojnt OF active construction, the stock OF $500
| GOO having been subscribed, and 500, 900 paid
in ut the date ct the meeting OF the corpora
tors At the Office Of Kilbourn Il Latta. OF
course, it must be built, in connection with
the road south of the Aqueduct, by the bernie
hank OF the canal, to connect with existing
RAILWAYS at Alexandria, or others that may be
built to that point Mess both are construct
cd neither the one nor the o.hcr will be OF
value.
The railway via the Aqu,1utt is to be built
on the space allotted for the purpose upon the
portion OF the piers which said Aqueduct does
not occupy. The room is ample and the ioun-
dation entirely secure The cost Of c3nstruc-
ton will be small. The Union Junction rail
way, from tie Aqueduct through GEORGETOWN,
TO connect with the Baltimore and Ohio rail
way bv its Metropolitan branch and by that
extending to Baltimore, or what is termed the
Washington branch, and also the contemplated
Baltimore and Potomac railway, is to cross, by
a high bridge, the Rock creek in the near
ncichborhood of KaIorama. Thence 1t Is TO
proceed by Il, S, or 7 streets beyond the pres
cnt State Department, On Fourteenth street,
and little south OF the Gerot OF the seventh
street railway, and also Il ar Eglinetonl to lis
connection with railways existing, aud to exist,
running north or northwest. 49, WASH. Chroa.