The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1869-03-25
From the National Intelligencer.]
The Railway Meeting Thurslay-Propos :,
City Subscription for Stock.


The only trouble ABOUT the proposed city
subscription or loan of its credit for the con.
struction hence Of railways on the line Of
the Loudoun and Hampshire route, beyond
Leesburg to Winchester, and on to the coal
fields, and for the Point Lookout enterprise
is, that they are probably too small. Yet
these aids may be the entering wedge that
will at once secure that degree of early sue.
cess to the roads as they progress, which will
assure capitalists of their advantages as meth
DDS Of investment, to be all the more prom.
Using upon the final completion of them.
This city will receive a very decided impe.
tus, in a business way, and in respect to the
value of real estate, or houses and stores,
when Mr.. CARROTS road from the Point of
Rocks reaches us, and also the Baltimore and
Potomac railway. By the latter, we are to
get anthracite coal from the mines without
transhipment at Baltimore, and also lumber
in like manner, and at reduced rates. It
will open up the garden region Of up
per Prince Georges county, Anne Arund
and counties beyond, in contiguity with the
new channel of transit. Fares will be re-
duced, and thousands Of people will visit us
in winter from the localities in question, who
are now debarrcd by the mud blockade and
by the want of rapid transits through OBJ
structions at Baltimore Freigbts Of -four,
bacon, whiskey, and other Western staples
will reach us Direct cheap and speedily. ,as
If Mr.. Garrett would make his branch road
to the Point Of Rocks profitable, he will also
have to make low figures for passengers and
freights. Nor must there be loss of time for
want Of prompt and reliable connections
His road will bring thousands Of persons
yearly to this city from the counties Of Up
per or Western Maryland that are now de-
barred in winter, as in the case of the other
counties named in this article. Freights of
farm produce will also pour in for our mar
kets, which are now so intolerably high
People in the Cumberland Valley and from
Pittsburg will reach us over his road Pleas
ure parties will be made up to visit Washing
ton that now 60 to Philadelphia and Balti-
more, where there is little to see that will
please Or instruct, as compared With Washing
ton in its unsurpassed architecture, its grand
galleries, and in the interest attaching in
SO many obvious ways to the capital Of the
nation during a session Of Congress, or even
during a.recess. In no place are there so
many elements Of exalted society and SO many
public men that cultivated persons desire to
see, and, perhaps, make an acquaintance with.
: All that we have said concerning the above
roads applies to the Loudoun and Hampshire
railway, and the proposed one to Point Look
out, which the people of Lower Maryland
propose in the nlain to construct through
county subscriptions, and those Of individuals
who are coming literally forward in that re-
gard. When it is completed, four large and
fertile counties will pour their treasures Of
early garden and fruit products into orr mar
kei, where they are SO much needed. But
more important still, we shall receive, in four
hours. from the deep salt waters Of the bay
and the mouth Of the Potomac, the exhaust