Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-05-23

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course of years from ninety-three to ninety-ive
per cent fail in business y EUening Esc-
press.
THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY RAILROAD
On Monday force of engineers attached to
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Company,
and under the lead of Colonels Barrett and
Stewart, left this place for the neighborhood of
Shepherdstown, with view of finally locating
the line of this important work. 1t is their
purpose to establish their headquarters some
three miles this side of Shepherdstown, to
which point their camp equipments were trans
ferred on Monday last We learn from these
gentlemen that large working force will be
placed at once on the line between Shepherds
town and Chsrlestown, and that the process of
construction will be pressed without delay and
| with the utmost energy. Charlestoaon w. ~
| Spirit of Jefferson.
STRAWBERRIES. "A letter from New York
says the strawberry season has opened most
auspiciously, and from the South come berries
of most delicious flavor The Old Dominion
Company has already shipped ffty-four thou
sand crates, containing one hundred and ninety
thousand quarts for this market. The season
here lasts two months, for first the fruit comes
from the fine farms around Norfolk and the
far South, then Delaware and New Jersey sue
coed, and latest, New England contributes her
crop.
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THE VIRGINIA VALLEY RAILRoAD--THE
VIRGINIA COMMITTEE AND THE MAYoR.-The
committee appointed at the meeting held at
Lexington, Va, On the 14th of April to visit
Baltimore in the interest Of the Virginia Val
ley railroad remained yesterday, and will leave
for home this morning. The committee, Judge
Hugh W. Shefey (who had not left for home,
as supposed the previous evening, Col. M. G.
Hartman and Chas. A. Davidson, Esq, Nicho-
| las K Trout, Mayer Of Stanton, Col. George
Baylor, DIR. B. B. Donaghe, G.. E. Price, s. T.
Phillips and r. W. Hardy, were early in the
day yesterday, taken in carriages by Robert
| Garrett, ESQ.,, President Of the Virginia Val
| ley railroad, to the Mount Glare Works of the
| Baltimore and Ohio railroad, where thorough
| and very satisfactory examination was made OF
/ the extensive establishment and its wonderful
machinery. On leaving there, at | 7. M, the
| party visited the mayors Office, where X. 1.
| Baldwin, ESQ, Of the city commissioners OF t.
| nance, Joined them. The mayor expressed re-
greet that he was unable to find the committee
on Thursday, as he was DESTROYS Of taking them
on a trip down the harhor with the members
of the city council In response to question
by Judge Shelley in reference to the harbor,
the mayor explained, adding that it was use
| less for the corporation to eXpend vast sums OF
money In building railroads if they allowed the
/ channel to remain at only its present depth,
and expressed the hope that the matter would
be speedily attended to.
On the subject of the business particularly
for which the committee had visited Baltimore,
they fthe Committed stated frankly their re-
greet at the failure of the county Of Augusta to
subscribe the sum Of $500, 900, which was ne
cessary to secure the subscription Of ST ,000,-
900 on the part of the city of Baltimore, but
| expressed the confident expectation that the
great enterprise, in which the city of Balti-
more as well as the people of the Valley have
manifested SO much intesest, would yet sue
ceed They desired to assure the authorities
Of the city that the most strenuous efforts
would be promptly made to comply with every
condition OF the city ordinance, and that those
efforts should be crowned with success before
the friends of the improvement would feel JUS
titled in making any demand upon the city for
its subscription.
They made, however, the gratifying an
nouncement that, In any event, it was the pur
pose of the friends Of the Valley railroad tc
break ground at an early day that if they
could not at once succeed in raising the addl
tionaI 5000, 900 necessary to put the whole line
under contract, an arrangement was contempla
ted by which the road should be put under con.
! | Har IN. of acf
} and it might be to a point further south; thai
the means to secure this object would be fur
nished by subscriptions of stock by the city o.
Stanton, by citizens Of Augusta county, and
by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Compa
nv: such subscriptions by the city of Staun
; ton and the Baltimore and Ohio Company to BIZ
part of subscriptions already proposed to bt
made, and those by private persons to be il
part of the additional amount OF 100000.
The committee were confident that the work
being thus vigorously commenced, the prestige
, Of success would be impressed upon the enter
prise, and that at an early day after the com
Dletion of the first section of the work the sun
necessary to secure the Baltimore city subscrip
ton would be raised and as the chairman O
the committee expressed the idea that if ths
Valley Railroad Company should fail this side
of Staunton to receive the financial aid of Bal
timore, it would expect to grasp her strong
hand south OF that pOlDb /, anu the committed
) trusted that the authorities Of Baltimore would
be as prompt to make good their generous Of
fer of subscription to the company after the
completion of an important part of the road
all the conditions Of the ordinance being com
I piled with-as they would.now be on like term.
; before beginning had been made.
The mayor aud Mr.. Baldwin, members Of
the board of finance commissioners, both ex-
pressed the most cordial interest ia the success
{ of the great improvement, and the sincere
pleasure they felt that the friends OF the iG-
provement are not respondent; and they trust,
ed that the young president of the company,
then present, would know no such word as fail
and they said that if the entire line could not
at once be put under contract, they were pleas
ed to learn that part, at least, could be
promptly constructed, and they gave the most
unreserved assurance that the authorities OF
the city of Baltimore would promptly comply,
on their part with the provisions OF the ordi-
nance adopted by the voters of the city when
; ever the conditions of that ordinance were COM
piled with on the part of the Valley Railroad
Coupa and that in their opinion it was a
matter of no moment whether the call were
made upon them to do so pow or at some Pc
riod in the future
On the WHOLE the interview was of most
satisfactory character, and there is strong conf
dence that it will result in much good to all
the interest involved 10 this important enter
prise.
Col Harman remarked that one Of the OBJ
iects of the visit was to let the people of Au-