Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-03-12

L0UE or TOR tHc ~ MARX!
The expiration Of subscriptions viii be
iindioa,ed By the X marx, and if 'he News
is not desired longer by the party 20 mott
fed we shall expect to be ppprised of the
fact zoe f'aHee
To extend the consolidated line from
this point to Cumberland Gap, and
complete the connection between Vir-
ginia and Kentucky, it viii be neces,
sary to build 90 miles of railroad The
cost Of this limo of road would be from
SO 100000 to 81 900,0 900. Of this
amount tue county Of Scott must give
s25O,OOO, Lee 100000, and Washing
.ton s90e, GOO. The remaining sum must
be obtained from the State and outside
parties. But we are now dealing more
especially with the EQUITIES between this
and Cumberland Gap. These counties
can give the amount asked of them and
save it within three years after the road
is completed For instance, take the
county of Scott; she pays 81 so for
every ,bushel of salt used, and for a
population of $4,000 il will require
annually $4,000 bushels st a cost of
s52, 800. If the Virginia aud Kentucky
road were completed, the same salt can
be supplied tor IS cents persbashel, and
4bereby save annually S26,250 from
this one item alqRe. Again take wheat
which we sold readily last season for
two dollars per bushel. while the PEG.
pile Of Scott sold at ono dollar and O
quarter. In other words It requires
one half of every article made to put it
in the market The same viii apply to
Lee and Wise, excepting that the ratio
willb greater, Then suppose these
counties give $3.50, 600 or 100000 to
this road, the stock win surely be worth
one half the amount when she road is
completed aud they will be out $780,.
900 each This, as we have shown,
will be saved in about five years on this
one article of salt. SO that in this time
they would not only have The road but
will have their capital sioux returned.
But we 60 farther than this, we say il
will be returned them in three years.
Three-6ft OF the whole amount will b.
returned in this time from salt alone
aud five add to this th e advanced price
of wheat, corn, beef. pork and the In
creased value Of their lands, the open
ing Of their inaDspse coal fields aud iron
miues, we .will have SUN that will
more, than double the stock subscribed
As, to the,couuty Of Washington, she
wiIl save itin the item of coal alone
At present we pay $50 per ton fol-
coal, Here let US quote from speech
delivered before the Senate Committed
,on Roads and Internal Navigation, By
Robert W, Hughes, on the 22d .Janua
ny, 1867:
j" Assuming. therefore, that .tht
charge Tor transporting coal on the Hir
.gipia Il Kentucky railroad, When th'
business shall have been thoroughly or
gained, will be one and a half cent
per ton per mile; and surprising thu
distance from Bristol into the heart o
the,csal region to be sixty miles, Coca
is reached, hewever, in forty miles, th,
charge for delivering coal at Bristol pc
ton will be:
For mining and loading--------sl 20
For railroad transportatin- 90
Total in Bristol----------S2 go
That is about one-third the price W
pay now, The coal used by the sal
@oRks (and when csal is furnished q
this price they .xill.use IT'D would pa
,the.subsoriPtion for Washington county
Let the people of Grayson and John
son remember that this is applicable t
them aud The NAG. w. Railroad.
We shall revert TO this subjec, again
In the mean time let every friend 0
this enterprise meet US here on til
.24th. asa-