The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-04-01
The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad
Company-Early OPP MIN Of the
RNnse. - .E|e-- i. 4. - aE.--s !. /. +.

Comparatively OPP e MIN g OF the
Route. - . 80 !s3.-Fe
The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad
Company and the Washington and Rich.
mond Railroad Company make through
line between Baltimore and Richmond,
terest. -
Gov. Bowie, of Maryland, is the president
OF the Baltimore and Potomac, and MIR. G..
b. Roberts, Of Philadelphia, is president OF
the washington and Richmond road--and
both are to be run in connection with the
Northern Central and Pennsylvania Central
roads. .n.-t =, !.
Before July LIST cars will, be running be-
tween Baltimore and the Washington tun-
mel, and this company will sell tickets and
check baggage from Washington city
through direct to Harrisburg, Elmira,
Rochester, Buffalo, and Niagara Falls. to
Pittsburg, Chicago, Omaha, St. Paul, Gin
clnnati, and all points north or west, and to
California. 8
On the Washington tunnel the work has
been delayed, because. the company could
not procure the stone as fast us needed.
The great amount of stone used on the
bridge employed all the stonecutters they
had at work, bat now they have one thou
sand men at work quarryiDg the stone and
laying the same, and expect to have this
tunnel completed by December LIST.
The Baltimore tunnel will be completed
within year, and then trains will be run
between Washington and New York inside
OF seven hours, making this the through
line to New York, us well as to the West
and North.
The new bridge over the Potomac is
being built Of iron, at Chester, Pa, and
will be ready and on the stone piers now
being erected by July next. 49, -...l ..
All the pile-Work is to be taken out, and
solid stone piers, one hundred and forty feet
apart, substituted therefor, and the whole
structure to be Of stone and iron, and will
be divided into. three separate parts-a rail
way bridge, double carriageWay Of suffi-
cent width for carriages to pass easily, and
q bridge for pedestrians-and each separate
and apart from the other, but all on one
foundation. , '.... -..
A large force is at work on the Baltimore
tunnel, and the work is progressing on the
whole line as fast as possible. They will
commence laying the track on Monday next
at Baltimore, and will lay from half mile
to a mile per day will commence also ut
the Annapolis crossing and work south.
The rails between Baltimore and Washing
| tern, laid on oak ties, and ballasted with
| stone and gravel and in July, 1871, the
| time between the two cities will be one hour
and twelve minutes. "'. -.-t.-'
The road will be open and running to
| Richmond by the first of January next, and
then this city will have the benefit Of fast
express trains to Richmond in three and q
half hours, at half the present fare: and,
what is better for the great mass of the peo-
pie, it will bring down the price Of living
by bringing into our city each morning
market and milk trains from Virginia and
from Maryland, and give us fresh milk and
fresh vegetables at greatly reduced prices.
| These companies pay cash for everything
on delivery, and ask no credit, having funds
in bank to pay for the work and materials
rs fast as needed, and are doing for Wash.
inston what has never been done before
With their road connecting with all through
lines north and south, east and west, and
their depot near the business centre, where
it will be accessible to all and convenient to
| the market, we shall see our city better &C.
commodated than the most sauguine had
ever hoped.
| With the opening Of this road the price
of coal will be reduced fully s. ton, and
lumber fully So per thousand, and fuel al
least fifty per cent. from old prices.- Wash
,ngton Star.