The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-04-29


ration with the cities named to secure this
correction:
An early reply TO the above VIII greatly
ubi@c the committee.
1oilr>, truly,
"WILIlAM LAMB, Chairman, &C."
IRON MI. HUNTINGTON TO COLONEL LAME.
INV YORK, April -, 1913.
" Ntih0m Lu1nb. En-, Chairman, dc, Nor
Dear Sir.-Iour communication OF the
iih instant. containing certain inquiries III
relation 10 Il connection between the Ches;i-
nvakc and Ohio and the Atlantic, Mis-
si>-ilri and Ohio railroads, inclosing a
printed copy Of correspondence between K.
II. thambcrainc Esq, committee, &c, and
William Mahone. Esq. president OF the last
1.alncd company. upon the same subject, Is
duly received. In lcpiy, would say that |
:inuut III this time answer your inquiries
~ fully - | would like to. us we have
bot the necessary surveys on WlllEh 10
b.,,r Our ;ciion. | will say, however.
10 -trcial Way. that the Chesapeake and
uGio i.ai!rm:ti Company will as soon as they
,.t >tu.c otter Interests closed up. make
1a"uH.ch survey from Clifton Forge out to
iny I..c>al cake bay. and TX soon thereafter
q rpi from Clifton Forge To LyEchburg.
t!irlc ~ connect with other roads, or else
hul.t a ;iar "i tcif own 10 deep water. In
whatever We do. we shall of course lie GOV
rrurG * l!,r bet Interests OF The pe"ple OF
H." southeastern i>oltun OF Virginia Is well
~ al The thc:al,ahc aud Ohio Railroad
Company.
Ncry respectfully.
&C, /. lit NTINGTOS. Presidents.
The regularity at this correspondence
,nI.~l<;s III tue adruitnc>S OF Colonel LAMB
III ming up c"i d. sac of questions out of
which il might sccln impossible for Mr..
iiC>rI>GroS 10 escape. and in the utter dis.
rr-aiu ui ti!c>c G~r>tiUn> hy Mr.. HuHTlSG-
Iu>. They are really <tn in number; be-
,'Aj.-c !lc second question embraces three
~. First. w ti;!t are the obstacles i'll the
way oi such Il connecticut" between the
atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio and Chesa-
peak" and rl:io railroads at Lynchburg:)
~yruni. ""ud can they ne rrmovcd:" and
ihitd. land l., What ln,a;.>:% These Mr..
iir>ri<GToN does not notice any more than he
Go any "t the others.
What i, the rurport of Mr.. llUHTINGToS's
litter: This that the company means to
lr!:.a The road from Clifton Forge TO Lynch
bur, and will then do what is best for the
tAc.ul cake aud Ohio Acknowledgement with
other ro.G>' or build line of their own
- deep water; and this. to be fully I'M
d-g>t0od. must be read in connection with
the GrcL,!alioa made Just before the words
quoted ahcyc-yiZ., tina: 1.-THE Chesapeake
land Ohio Railroad Company will, As soon
"i> they 20! some other interests closed ur,
"n.akc II thorough survey from Clifton
Forge OCT 10 the Chesapeake bay" There
i, 10 dl:.i:,lltr in understanding this letter.
Il i ;s plain IL Il pikcs,a.l. Mr. llrSTING-
T1> plainly, in effect, says that he i. going TO
,a!c Ii, own course and build his own roads
"ii!i his OWN means from Clifton Forge to
The " chesapeake bay" This is all the q,rcs-
lions Of tie committee draw from him: and
tho gentlemen are no wiser for the ques-
tiunS.
We repeat or former remark, that Mr..
HuNTlSGToH i>s wise man. He knows how
important to Il railroad is populolis and
growing city. He has none on his route
save kGlImond, and he is too sensible 20 run
away from that He is wiser than the
Missionaries OF 1850, 1851, and so on to the
contamination of their folly through com.
llnationS AID log-roIlins, which so seriously
injured Virginia 10y utterly ignoring her
chict city in fixing the route of one of the
TWO creates! railroad projects Uhe Atlantic,
Mississippi and ohio of the Commonwealth
lie knows too well the importance to the in
forests he controls of holding OIL to the busi-
ncs>, the growing business, the growing
necessities OF Il thriving and cnterpri>ing
population, TO ally himself with the Atlun-
lantic. Mississippi and Ohio, which was pro-
icrtrG hy sectional and sharcle>s parlisans,
who bad not the practical wisdom to
sec What injury they were doing to Nir-
riuia 10y dcpriving her chief city of the
benefits OF great railroad built with her
money. They supposed that they had the
world III sling" and could build up towns
W.crercr they pleased. What has been tile
result: They thought Virginia could afford
10 Throw away her greatest city and build as
many more as she pleased. They forgot or
never knew that railroads in forty years have
not changed the relative grade of cities on
the Atlantic shed towards each other. They
"threw away Il pearl richer than all their
tribe
Nevertheless, while we deplore the great
error which was committed by men who had
power to vote money, but not the wisdom
to devote it to wise purposes, WE will saw
that il wc know anything Of the econ ,my of
the operations Of railroads, there will he lust
ruc, accommodation afforded to the Atlut;r
mississippi and Ohio by The Chc;apeskr and
Ohio raiiio,d a, may be appropriate to the
demands Of trade in the towns which are
toacliod Ls ilic Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio.
IhS /" The sort OF comfy between railroads
that IS proper, and we shall never complain
oi II. We huSc no narrow views on the sub.
.Icc.. We are for fair play, we are for
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