Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-01-19
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We learn that arrangements have
been about completed between the
Louisville, ana Nashville. and the At
laRtic, Mississippi and Ohio railroads.
whereby the Louisville and Nashville
road Will assume. in part, the building
OF the gap in the i Atlantic, Mississippi
and Ohio road between Bristol, Va,
AID Livingston, KY, distance of ore
Kindred and siXty-siX miles. Our in
formation IS to the effect tl.ai the work
will be put under contract Immediate
", and pushed forward with all poss:-
BE energy to q speedy completion.
The first work 70 lei under contract
will be the tunnel at Cumberland gap.
four thousand two hundred feet in
length. three thousand feet Of which
are in Kentucky, and will be built 10y
the Louisville and Nashville road,
while the balance OF the tunnel, ana
the road thence to Bristol Will be built
by the Virginia company.
This road is known as the Norfolk
route, or the traus-continental railroad
ard already four hundred and eight
miles If it, from Norfolk to Bristol,
are complete and being operated. The
completed portion of the road is divi-
ded into the Norfolk and Petersburg
division, the South Side division, and
tie Virginia and Tennessee division,
and the road is aImOstan air line from
Norfolk by way OF Petersburg, and is
an air line, as near as possible, from
Bristol to Louisville.
The city of Louisville subscribed one
million OF dollars to this road. one hun
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which have already been drawn. The
company will ask theissue to it by the
CITY OF the balance of the subscription,
eight hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars, which Is now due, and viii doubt
less be paid over in compliance with
the provisions Of the ordinance MAX
ing the subscription.
This road is most important one
to the commercial interests Of Louis
vile, inasmuch as it will be the short
est and most direct aIl-rail route from
Louisville to the Atlantic seacCst at
both Norfolk and New York. The
completion Of the road viii make
Louisville independent of the present
trunk lines East, giving her cheap
freiThts, the shortest routes, and i'm
munity from the damaging freight
latc C.SIEIllli lGtlDiiS llldtic tir,ttii7 tlliS
city by the present lines East. 1t gives
b Louisville a most decided advantage
in the way Of line to New York over
Cincinnati and all other Western CT
ties
The completion of this road to Lou
isville, and the completion ofthe Lou
isvilIe, New Albany and st, Louis
Air Line railway, completes the great
transcOntinental railroad of America,
and reunites in one unbroken chain
the Atlantic at norfolk with the Pa
citic at San Francisco. The enterprise
is most truly grand one and the
building of the gap between Living
stOn and Bristol VIII cOnsummate it;
for before that gap can be built the
Air Line road will be finished to st.
Louis. We trust there will be no de-
lay i'm pushing the work on the At
lantic, Mississippi and Ohio road, or
no embarrassment thrown in the way
of the Louisville and Nashville road
IN its liberal and philosophical de-
termination to construct that portion
of the line lying in the State of Ken
tucky.-LOUjSUie (hy.) journal.