Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-09-01
KINDERHOOK TOWNSHIP,
Washington county, Va.
Editors Of the NcUs,


Editors Of the NcUs,
GENTS:
Now that the
Cumberland Gap r. Road, so long
talked about and so lOTg looked for,
bids fair To be made; will you allow a
plain farmer of the lower end little
space la your paper to say few words
about matters that concern the far
mers mainly in this quarter of the
world? In the first place, if the Cum
berland Gap Road goes to Bristol in
stead of Abingdon, as | hear some of
the Abingdon people want it to, the
people OH the South side may expect
the Norfolk and Great Western Road
to come down that side to BristOl-and
those above here OH the north side can
have the Valley Railroad run down
the northern side of the county and
then our whole county will be " fixed"
to T.
Railroads help the farmers very
much when managed as our present
Road from Bristol TO Norfolk is man
aged. The county treasurer was ut Mr..
KaylOr's not long ago, and many of us
raid him our taxes with money we got
for chickens and eggs at Bristol, where
there is man who pays cash for such
articles, because lie can now take them
over General Mah0ne'S Consolidated
line " to the northern markets. Now
if Mr.. Malone did not take such
things Through at cheaper rates
than was formerly done, we could not
sell our chickens and eggs at all, and
could not pay our taxes IN that way
certain. | saw a number Of my neigh
bors who had paid their whole tax for
this year with money they got for
chickens and eggs in Bristol.
Now Mr.. Editor, ! hear Of some
folks who say Mr.. Malone gifts too big
a salary, H. their notion; well / can't
see Ina. that, ii true, is anybOdy's
business except that of the StUckhOld-
eIs OF the Road. If they can afford it
we farmers need not care as 1Uc pay not
a cent of il, and besides can sell our
produce well. ana /, for one, don I
care about meddling in tie matter of
salary, as IOtCH no stock IN the road
HohOW. But if did own stock in that
Road, | would rather pay a tirstrate
officer good salary to manage a road
worth fifteen or twenty millions, than
10 have it managed by rag-tag and
bobtail President.
| think the same way about all pub
lie servants. | would prefer compe-
tent aud qualified men at fair salaries,
to poor or incompetent ones for moth
ing; and l think my neighbors are
pretty much all of the same way of
thinking. One of our neiglIOors.
Esqr. Pippin wants to go and make
laws for Us next winter, and says he
will do it cheaper than the men who
were there before. Well if he did not
do it better than they did, think he
ought to do il cheaper.
But we think we can do better than
to send our neighbor Esquire Pippin
anyway; rs the old gentleman is so
unaccustomed to the ways of the world,
especially of the people of gay city
like Richmond is i'm the winter; that
it would not he safe for him to go. If
{ lere is To be no nominations, we will
have a scrub race " and The two that
have the best bottom will go in; and
the lower end claims the right 10 have
one of the two. We are willing to
give and take. and will help the upper
half of the county TO select its best
man, if they will help our half to send
our best man. We hope this will be
thought fair by all. In my next
will tell you what we think of Esquire
Pippin's circular.
PLAIN FARMER.