The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-01-27
Whole No. 1857.

The Chesapeake & OhfO Il. Il.
FrOm,a letter in the N. Y. Tribune
Of the 1Ith, we extract the following
items concerning the Chesapeake. and
Ohio Bailroad-a work which Gincin-
natl and tire whole valley of the Ohio,
are very deeply interested ins
"There is, fortunately, an Opportun-
ity south of the Potomac Of CARRYING
an additional trunk line of railroad be-
tween ttdewater and the Ohio and Mis-
sissippi Valley. This route, following
the valleys of the James and Kanawha
Rivers, Is superior, it appears from
trustworthy evidence, IN point Of
grades, distance and cheapuess Of Oper--
alton, to any Of the lines now built
The whole line from the Ohio nsviga-
ton at the mouth of Big Sandy tribu-
tary, to the spacious and ever-Open
Chesapeake Bay, can be constructed
with grades not exceeding thirty feet
to the mile, or less than the grades in.
use between New York and Philadsl-
phia. Here, then, is the true solution
OF the problem Of cheap breadstuffs.
Along this line grand freight rail-
road may be built which will furnish
the cheapest, easiest and most reliable
line between the seabOard and the great
West. The distance between the nav
igatiOn Of the Chesapeake and Cincin-
natl and points West is less than by
the more nOrtherly lines.
"Ice and snow never obatruct travel
in this latitude, while coal and iron
are found close to the line Of road.
Such line unites the Atlantic navf-
CATION at its most favorable harboF
with the inland navigation at its best
stage, and also with the net. work OE
Western railroads. From a pamphlet
recently issued, under the auspices Of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Co.
we are satisfied that this great work OF
internal improvement (whOse more
expensive portions were for years car
ried on by the State of Virginia, under
the title of the Virginia Central Rail-
road,) has at last been taken in hand
by some of our prominent New York
capitalists and railroad builders. They
Will extend the line-nOw Just emery
ing from the Ohio slope of the Allie
ghenies-prUmptly to a point only F5O
miles above Cincinnati. Mpssrs. c.. P.
Huntington, A. A. Low, William A.
Aspinwall, Jonas G. Clarke, and 9TH
ers, are among the directors Of the
new enterprise. The States of Viz
ginia and West Virginia, through
Commissioners appointed for the Dur-
pose, have made arrangements with
these responsible parties to complete
this great work of internal improve
ment, and have granted to the COM
pany in consideration thereof, the
whole Of the work done on State &C
count, amounting to S5,312,0OO. gold
value. Their names are a sufficient
guarantee of the vigOr and fidelity
with which the remaining two hum
dred miles will be built.
at is represented that the English
railroads, Notwithstanding their heay-
ier first cost, are carrying coal for less
than a halfpenny per tun per mile,
competing with the ocean line be-
tween Newcastle and London. We
consequently predict that the day b
not far distant when coal, grain, -four,
lumber and the like, will be carried
on our own roads at one cent DeT ton
per mile at a profit. This would en-
able Us to lay down the camel and
splint coal Of the great Kanawha coal
fields in New York at from 81 to $40
per tun, and to bring a tuu of bread
stuff5 from the Mississippi to the sea-
board for 80, or say 81 per barrel for
-four. A dOuble-track freight and
passenger line over this
Virginia route can give us cheap bread
and give to the Western farmers i've
ing prices, if any line can.
"The actual portage between the In.
land navigation and that of salt water
by this line is three hundred and for
ty-three miles; which can be further
shortened to three hundred and six
teen miles, or to much less than any
Of the present lines. In like manner,
the distance between Washington City
and Cincinnati, and all points West
by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad,
is from twenty-seven to forty miles
shorter than by the Pennsylvania,
or New York lines. Equat-
ing grades and curves, it will be prac-
iicable to bring the heavy freights Of
the Mississippi to New York by this
route cheaper than by the more north
pTly lines. As this line connects with
upward of thirteen thousand miles Of
inland navigation at its Western ter
minus, and with uHfailing ocean navi.
CATION at its Eastern terminus, its COM
pletiOn within the next two years is
an event Of great public Importance.
From present appearances, it must
have all the business it can do, and il
will task the efforts of its managers to
enlarge the capacity of the road to
meet the demands which will be mads
upon 1t.