The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-07-13

steamer, from steamer. to rail. Withong De.
ing Handled by any but the hands that .oao
and unload from She n to the other. NOR
folk has no manufactures. She cannotap.4
propriate any of 1.-THE various products tnatI
pass this line. Could the rival clty 10 any.
better?
We have confined ourselves to the enece
the chesapeake and Ohio road Is TO have on
Richmond. There are other influences
soon to be developed which will add greatly
to the material growth Of Richmond; ch'et
amongst them is that great mammoth road
soon to be opened to Richmond, thence 10
New Orleans, making q great hrst-ciass rai,
road connection between New orleans n
New York through Richmond-the Penn
svIvania railroad. The opposition Of the
people of Richmond to the construction of
this great thoroughfaTe shook very much
the confidence the outside public had
In the enterprise of Richmond. 1t
was feared that the people shat
in Richmond who wished as many rail-
roads as possible made into Rtchmona, put
| did not desire any to be constructed 10 u
out of Richmond, were still hv'ng. we
community elsewhere on the top OF the
! earth who would object to a great first
! class railroad being made to their town.
We hone we do not tread on the toes OF
| one of the editors Of the Dispatch. This
| great north and south road, extending
from New York to Richmond, hence TO
| New Orleans, is second in Importance only
to the Chesapeake and Ohio road.
The very drippings OF such a road would
make a city of Richmond. This road, with
its branch from Danville to Bristol, Will
drain into Richmond the entire south-slde
belt of winter wheat 4; also the finest to-
/ bacco region in the United States, passing
in its route through the border of the cot
ton belt of South Carolina, Georgia.. Ala
! bama, and the heart Of the Mississippi cot
ton region. No route so cheap can be
found. for this cotton field to reach New
York as by this road to Richmond, thence
by, propellers to its destination-much OF 1t
soon to be arrested in its transit ny the
great waterfall OF Richmond, and con-
yerted into yarns and cloths, and then to
be distributed to the great West and South
far consumption. In addition to its OPEN
ing up TO Richmond the rich trade-tields of
the South, it will make a direct cheap COM
munication with Philadelphia, the great
American school for the education of me-
chanics and artisans, furnishing to Rich
mond at all times skilled workmen in all the
various branches of the mechanic arts no
small advantage in building up q great
manufacturing city. We have by no means
exhausted this subject.
A long letter could be written showing
the effect the introduction of the kanaWh a
coal by the Chesapeake and Ohio road IS TO
have in developing and bringing into active
operation the immense deposits OF iron ore
that now lie buried beneath the mountains
of Augusta, Rockbridge, Botetourt, and
Allegheny.
These two minerais,-coal and iron
orl>o- L,n1,ohf phnDr1v fnnnthar arc worth
more in building cities than all the mines Of
Golconda and California combined. 1t
would he easy to demonstrate, If the own
ers of the Chesapeake and Ohio road have
the BIG brains they get credit for, the can
mel, the splint, and bituminous coal
of the Kanawha Valley will be de-
liyered at cost, or, if necessary, free of
charge, for freight to all producers of
pi.-iron, and look for their compensation
to the transportation of the manufactured
articles that will be produced from bringing
these two rich minerals cheaply together.
Leaving out Of view the rich mines of Allie
shanv and Botetourt, it could be demon
straled that a fifty.milc road from Waynes-
borough to Balcony Falls, on james river,
along the western base of the Blue Ridge,
would. with the coal delivered at proper
rates. start into operation more furnaces
than all that are noy erected in the neigh
borhood of Glasgow, the product of which
would all flow toward Richmond, and pro-
duce the same results that have followed
all the world over bringing coal aud iron
cheaply together. Look ut Glasgow, now
the first, and Philadelphia, now the second,
manufacturing city in the world. Look at
ut Pittshurg, at Wheeling, at
.ironton, and Il hundred other smaller
towns, and see what coal and iron have in
yariably done when brought cheaply to-
Having left the cool shades of Allegheny,
we are now writing with the thermometer
up toward the nineties. We must desist.
ROCKBRIDGE.