The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-01-21
,a Ohio Railroad.

~,aaapealSe ana oA.,0 - oraors
Ches .err goes brave'y onl O'oe's
"Ihe WV bore to let the whole llne OF
are fe@sesapeake and Ohio railroad, hn'
inc A., nnder contract, on the 1st OF Apr'i'
Ava Il is further ordered by the BOARD .''''
tive road shall be in operation from the ter
m,nus. at the junction OF the DRY '" w..
river with the Ohio, to inc 1'n' ". ,n
Eanawha. in July next. MaJof ~
- tho chief engineer. is the man "
w.. throy,pb what ii is possible TO 90. 1 III
a,',o.t of president HUSTISeToN is 10 nave
the whole road in operation by the suinuiei
or 20. and every effort is TO be maze Will
that view. ,o,-
From the more difficult points OF con-
struction along the line the news ,,o
couraping. The Big Bend 'ul'ne' l.,
bosv;est work on the road. keeen's' ~
a;,,.,ro shatt of some hundred ana twenty
~ tn;rty feet. q stream OF wafer Was
o,,ntored which was controlled by
~, a,o;ne and the buckets. But us
tha workmen were near the bottom
- Tho sump-a we'll some thirty feet below
the bed of the tunnel to gather the water
for pumping it out-the drill struck body
~ wafer which rose so rapidly that the
workmeu could not with their means keep
il dom, and barely succeeded in making
oryd their escape when the water had
reached their arms. The contract2rs had
Immediately to order powerful engine
capable of keeping down this large influx
of water. But the engine had not been
put in place when the flow of water ceased.
It was an unaccountable freak Of the in
ternal economy of the earth; yet one
highly grateful to the contractors, who are
thus relieved Of great expense and trouble,
while the work is much facilitated. Where
this water appeared there is a deposit OF
lime vet there was no limestone elsewhere
exposed by the progress Of tunneling.
The mountain consisting of slate as far as
the work progressed.
At the Lewis tunnel, or Jerry's run, the
contractors have put the steam drills in
operation, and we may expect that the
work will be pushed ahead very rapidly.
The fill at Jerry's run is going ahead
finely, and will be completed much sooner
than was anticipated. The energy and in
genuity Of Mr.. C.. X. MASON, contractor
have enabled him to throw down into the
rayine immense bodies Of earth from the
mountain above, and the embankmen
rises rapidly. The earth is gathering abou
the tressel work of the present temporar!
track so that before the summer trayel be
Gins the track will rest upon the earth. 0
the work near Marlborough, where there i
another great fill, it may be said that it i
going on fully up to expectations.
It will not be many months before tenn
porary tracks upon this great railroad viii
be entirely dispensed with. We may safe
" count upon this by the time the road il
finished in July, 70.
Really, the near approach to completion
of our railroad communication with The
Ohio is quite exciting. 1t must be antc
pated by our people with more or less oftha
nervousness with which a grand conSum
nation felicitous to everybody is natu
rally regarded. After so long waiting and
wishing for it, it is about 10 burst upon u
with Suddenness for which we are moi
fully prepared. The people have not beer
inclined to believe the statements OF The
last year as to the period Of this consumma
ton. They had been made by long ttiSap
pointment incredulous. But the evidence
are accommodating, unbelicf: is crumbhn:
away, and soon we shall see the former I'm
believers filled with JOY, swelling the throne
of eXultant people.
The road completed eastward to the fall
OF Kanawha will leave gap Of about siNt.
miles to the White Sulphur to lie traverSc'
in stages until the summer Of 1872, Whcl
the whole road will be opened.