Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-04-22
Baltimore Reaches for the Virginia
Trade,

The regular monthly meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company took place on
Wednesday last at Camden Station-J.
W Garrett, Esq, President, in the chair,
who referred as follows to the Virginia
Valley and Lynchburg and Danyille rail
ways:
There are two subjects in connection
with railway improvements of vital impor
lance to this community which will be
presented at an early day in a manner
that will attract great public attention. =
The aid of the Baltimore and Ohio Com
pany to the Winchester and Strasburg
road will effect the opening Of the line to
Harrisonburg during the next autumn
There will then be gap of but 1l3 miles
from Harrisonburg to Salem, the construc-
ton of which will not only open the bust
ness of the magnificent Valley of Virginia
bnt also open under the most favorable
auspices and influence great line to New
Orleans, which will largely command the
traffic of the vast intermediate territory
A second gap of but sixty miles exists
between Lynchburg and Danville, the fill
ing Of which will connect the Orange and
Alexandria road with another highly I'M
portant system of southern railways, by
which an enormous business will necessa-
rily be directed to Baltimore which now
goes to the coast. The leading citizens iii
these sections are extremely anxious to get
these roads constructed. They want, in
view of the advantages to their regions.
enlarged commercial intercourse with
Baltimore. They are willing to contribute
largely for the work themselves. The
counties upon the Valley line propose to
subscribe S. 100000 They propose to
ask the city Of Baltimore to subscribe a
million to their stock The Lynchburg
and Danyille interests propose to supply
all that will be requisite hut bali a million.
This sum they wish to obtain from the
city of Baltimore Under these circum-
stances large delegations Of the most emf
ncnt citizens in Virginia. -Messrs. Har-
man, Barbour, Stuart, Baldwin, Pendle-
ton, General Robert E. Lee. and others of
equal prominence and infuence-it is ex-
pccted, will visit Baltimore about the Dist
Of this month to confer with the authori-
ties and citizens of Baltimore. 1t will be
seen, as mere railroad question, that
the Baltimore and Ohio Company has but
little interest in these extensions, whilst
incalculable benefits would result from
their construction to the business interests
of Baltimore. AS this company is now
engaged in enterprises for the prosecution
of which all its resources are required
those connected with it can only aid as
citizens and co operate to secure the re-
qusite capital 1t has been found hereto
fore impossible to obtain the large sums
necessary for such works from individuals.
Therefore the only practicable plan appears
to be for the city to render the necessary
assistance. It is the Judgment of many
who have carefully considered the subject
that if the city of Baltimore can, by sub
scribing 81, 100000 to the Valley line
and $500, 900 to the Lynchburg and Dan
vile line, secure their construction, and
thus open these direct and frst-class ave-
nues to Baltimore this community will alb
solutaly gain il advantages and net profits
Of the vast business that will be thus COM
named not less than the aggregate amount
q. 800, 000) in each and every year after
their completion. In that judgement the
Chair fully concurs. tits stated that three
hundred delegates will visit Baltimore -
IF, when those gentlemen arrive, full CO.
operation is extended, and the facts and
interests connected with these great sub
jects be presented and understood in the
community and in the City Council, aud
aid be granted, it will undoubtedly lead to
results in the commercial progress of Bal
/ timore as important and valuable, in con
nection with the southern trade, as the
developments and extensions of the Balti-
more and Ohio road as2 bringing about
with the trade of the West, Northwest
and the Southwest. The Chair feels that
the Importance and magnitude Of the in
terests involved in these enterprises cannot
be too earnestly urged.
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