The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-16
The BIG Sandy Rai,road.

We learn from reliable sources that the
work on the Big Sandy, or, as it calls itself,
the Elizabethtown, Lexington and Big Sandy
railroad, is being pushed forward between
Lexington and Mt. Sterling, in very graft
flying manner.
The subscriptions to the road have beon !:
Lexington, S21G, GOO; Fayette county, $780,
900; Clarke county, 5000, 900, and Montgom-
cry county, Sa5O,00O. Total, $3.50, 900. The
subscriptions of Lexington and Fayette eoun-
ty have been paid and the bonds issued. The
subscriptions of Clarke and Montgomery
counties are paid by instalmcnts as the work
progresses. Rowan, Garter, aud Boyle coun-
tiea, have failed to make appropriations to
aid work that may be of the utmost impor-
lance to them, There Is said to be q disposi-
ton among their leading and influential citi-
zens to reconsider the matter, but tho rail-
road company will take no steps to induce
such action. If 1t Is done 1t must originate
with the citizens of those counties, who
should know. that the road, in the regulation
of way freights and location of stations, has
good deal Of power in its hands to favor its
friends or treat with indifference those who
are indifferent to anything but their own
selfish interests. .----
The Big Sandy road las not been sold to
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company,
but great capitalists who control the Chesa-
peake and Ohio road have now controlling
interest in the Big Sandy road and as they
also own controlling interest in the road
from Lexington to Louisville and from Gin
cinnat to Louisville, 1t is not likely that the
projected extension from Lexington to Eli
zabethtown will be built In the lifetime Of
the present generation.
From Lexington to Mt. Sterling Is o dis
lance Of thirtythree miles, upon which there
were Just before Christmas seven. hundred
men and two hundred and twenty carts at
work but the number has fallen of little.
There is, however, DO scarcity of labor, and
as there can be got from Tennessee and Vir-
ginia as many hands as may be needed, there
will not be fewer than thousand hands OF
work on the road between Lexington and
Mt. Sterling by the end of this month. The
CHER engineer Of the Big Sandy road Is W.
a. kuper, ESQ, a thoroughly competent
gentlemen, who gives his whole attention to
the direction and supervision of the work.
General st. John, who as a civil engineer
has no superior in the United States, and
who is alike judicious and far-seeing, Ii the
consulting engineer of the Big Sandy road.
The contractors for the work between Lex.
ington and Mount Sterling are Messrs. Bibb,
kabler s. Houston, for twenty-four miles, and
James Kerr for nine miles. AS $40, 900 have
already been expended on the graduation of
this portion of the Big Sandy road, It is be-
lieyed that 100000 Will be amply sufficient
to complete it for putting down the iron.
The trestle-work, Of which there Is considers
BILE, Is being prosecuted theoretically. The
track.laying will be begun on the list Of
April. 1872. The cars win certainly be run.
ming nom Lexington to Mount Sterling by
July LIST. East Of Mount Sterling the work
is entirely undetermined, although suryeys
arc progressing, just as surveys have bean
mouth Of Sandy to Cincinnati, and also from
Big Sandy to Cincinnati by way Of slrnms's