The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-10-23
Norfolk and Great Western Road.


,>roo+,cahle l,,es of communication with
the areas of production and trade upon
which it relies for support. Norfolk Is not
great city, but promises to be. She Is
entitled TO whatever can be accomplished
70 increase the tide Of commerce flowing to
ber wbaryes. We always thought this
nrinciplc lust. Baltimore, for instance,
was entitled 10 q line Of communication
with the Ohio as straight as she could make
Il. and II was an outrage which imposed
,pon her the necessity Of keeping out OF
PENNSYLVANIA, and striking Off at n tangent
Mt the southwest corner Of that State Tor
Wheeling. near the end of the Panhandle.
PENNSYLVANIA should have both generously
and Justly opened the way to The BATH
morcans, and Virginia would have been
saved from the seemingly unjust measure
Of forcing the Baltimore and Ohio ROAD
to go to Wheeling TO save that CITY
from destruction. Such iliberal nlea-
sures occasion great inconvenience and
useless outlay, and ultimately fail to
accomplish the purposes designed in their
adoption: as, for instance, in this very
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, which has
since, in effect. acquired terminus in VIZ
ginia. on the Ohio. rs good rs any it ori@l-
nallv asked for. We mean the terminus at
Parkersburc-while in Pennsylvania con-
nections are already or about to he formed
which show how idle were the fears for
Wheeling: since they will secure shorter
and better route from Baltimore TO Wheel
inc than the States Of Pennsylvania ana
Virginia forced her TO take. Local lcal-
orsv NAV for time subject cities and lines
of commerce to great Inconvenience, but
the law of intercommunication between
populOus and thriving communities VIII
ultimately prevail and vindicate its autho-
ritv Norfolk should have It's rights IN TINS
way, and Richmond, too. must have her
lines Strengthened, and thus he relieved
from the disadvantages which bungling
policy. helped by feeling Of hostility, has
created for her.
This BY the way,-and also some cXcep-
ton to certain eXpcdientS of drumming and
determinations against this unfortunate
city by the populous and powerful city of
Baltimore, which certainly should be above
such things, and needs them not for IN"
surrcSs which her noble enterprise has Sui-
tcicntlv secured, without doing injustice to
others.1
But. to return to the especial subject Of
this article. we are @ratiticd 10 learn that
important steps have been taken in the pro-
sccution Of the Norfolk and Great Western
ralroad Two contracts We're made by
Colonel FLorrNoY. the president of the
company. during his recent visit to New
Tork-viz.:
First. With the international Land Com
pany. which, through its system Of immi-
grafton and means Of intercourse with capt.
faliSts. proposes to make the land Subscrip-
lions to the company available ut an early
day, and to dispose Of its bonds.
Second A contract with the Memphis.
TT Paso and Pacific Railroad Company, by
which Norfolk and San Diego on the Pacific
become the termini of the Southern Pacific
railway. That railway will become the
principal line Of transportation by rail be-
tween the Pacific and the Atlantic. II
strikes the Pacific some four hundred and
fifty or five hundred miles south Of San
Francisco hut the intervening country is
admirably adapted to the construction OF
railway. and is probably unsurpassed in
richness by any part Of the Pacific coast.
OF course. branch railroad will he built
f. connect with san Francisco. This grand
route passes through a country where OBJ
>truct;ve SHOWS are never known, and
whose advantages over the q SnOlr-Shc6
,nf+ ho T,,;r Dnnitic a,.n
that its business will be limited only by its
capacity.
Now. then, with Norfolk as the eastern
terminus. the Norfolk and Great Western
road must be taxed to its utmost capacity.
and must become 4 most prosperous line.
Richmond will be sharer in the business
Of this great line At Danvilc we viii tap
the Norfolk and Great Western. and as it
will proratc and Interchange with the Dan
vile road there will he neither let nor him
drancc to the switching off Of trade and
travel in this direction.
Colonel FLoURNoy is, we learn, now in
treaty with contractors and capitalists for
the letting of portions Of the road and SELL
ing its bonds. But the people along the
line Of the road may greatly facilitate his
"yertions by liberal subscription Of both
land and money to the enterprise. The
best commentator to the foreign capitalist
the road can receive is the faith in it of the
people in the country through which it
passes. Colonel FLoUENoY will make an
other appeal to them, and they should re-
spond to it in the most cordial manner.
Their interests will be intellectually pro-
noted by the construction of the road.