Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-08-16

: location to that point will be finished within
:; ten days, when one thousand additional mer
will be added to the present force there, and
thereafter the work will be pressed from the
r Junction with the Baltimore and Potomac
t road down the line toward Point Lookout to
be finished at the period have stated, thus
/ giving the people of st. Mary's early access
to Baltimore and Washington.
The distance between the junction with The
Baltimore aud Potomac Railroad and St.
Mary's river by our survey is only forty-four
miles, and as the work is comparatively light
we propose to connect these two points first,
, to wit: the Junction with the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad aud St. Mary's river so as
to have an outlet to the sea from Baltimore
and Washington this accomplished, we then
propose to finish the route between st. Mary's
river and Point Lookout, ten miles of which
is already under construction and nearly
graded. :.
Having thus unbarred the doors TO the out
side world at both ends of the peninsula, we
will proceed at once to construct the line of
the road between the junction and Washing.
ton city. This section was reserved for the
last, because it is the heaviest and most ex-
penslve work along the whole line, out desire
being to give the earliest possible connmtui-
cation by rail to the two cities, and your peo.
pie especially could have early and direct
communication with Baltimore, theit CONNER.
cial business emporium. This great point
being accomplished, you can afford to take Q
little roundabout ride by rail to Washington
for few months until the direct route shall
have been finished. ...
From glance at the map it will be appar-
ent to your mind that our plan is the wissst
that could be devised to effect an early COIN.
munication by rail to- Baltimore and WASH
|ington. And / think it must be equally ap-
parent to your mind that no other line will
ever be built, notwithstanding your coumis-
Esioners, swayed BY the wisdom of mhltitide
of counselors, have given our opponents a
conditional order for the public fund az sRhiehu
barrasS the action OF the only company Whlcn
can accomplish the great object fof which
your people have been waiting all these long
years. All this will be fully realized by the
commissioners and all those concerned ih that
notable transaction, and all the consideration
which may or may not have been realized
will atone for the mistake, as time alone will
only disclose.
If our opponents are really id earnest IN
their professions, 1 don't think that either
they or their friends have considered the SUBJ
fject. 1t will require more time and money
to build the road from the Eastern Branch Of
the Potomac to Brandywine (say twenty-five
mies) than it will to build from that point to
Point Lookout, distance of ffty-6ve to sixty
miles. But when you add to this the fact to
enter the city they must build
A bridge over Eastern Branch. 900
Right Of way through the city......... 100000
Construction tunneling, &C., through
the oOjUUO
Land for depot and buildings thereon 200; 900
Engines, cars, &c.".".........:.."......: 10000
80 - 4E----.--A
$l,5eo,o00
If we had not the advantage of an agree-
ment with the Baltimore and Potomac Rail-
road, through Col. Scott, Tor the use Of the
terminus of the Baltimore and Potomac road
at Washington, it would be more than idle to
promise to build a road into Washington in
less than four or FIVE years. But that ar.
rangement saves US the necessity Of ah outlay
of $1,5OO,OO0 between the Eastern Branch
and our depot in Washington.
As for ourselves, who are now pushing this
work with all our energy; have only to say
that we did not obtain any control of the cap
ital stock of the Southern Maryland Railroad
until March last, and think it must be ad.
mitted that we have demonstrated our pur.
pose to redeem onr promise, namely, to build
road to Washington without delay.
lsigned., H. 6. FAINT.
| CHARLOTTE HALT,
July 1s, 1872.
Messrs. HoLT, W1eetNs q Co.,
! Contractors Southern Maryland
Railroad, Wdshinton, d. O.
GENTLEMEN: Our work is progressing 6ne-
ly. Mr.. Domer (chief engineer) will next
week make call on yoh for three hundred
additional men, as by that time he is conf-
dent the location will be ready for this addi-
tional force You had better secure the men
at once; the additional one hundred men be.
ing sent on sections and 8, and the force
here, added to the number you. are to send
next week, will increase our payroll nearly
six hundred men. The engineer corps say
they will, within two. or three weeks, give us
work for one thousand men. o. The
reaction in public opinion here is great every
body is now satisfied that the road will be
, promptly built.
t Yours respectfully,
A. G. CHENowETH,
t Sub-Contractor.