Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-07-24
improvements In Virginia.

improvements In Virginia.
CORRESPONDENCE Richmond State Journal
PoroNAc CITY, July lS.-Travellers on the
Richmond, fredericksburg and Potomac rail
road 10 Washington are surprised as they ap-
prouch Quautico, by large and noble edi6ce,
nearly flushed 10 the best modern style. The
building stands near the track, iu full view of
the Potomac, and presents pleasant contrast
10 the wild and uncivilized region through
which the railroad passes for many miles This
editice is hotel, designed to be the nucleus
and beginning of a new enterprise inaugurated
by the Potomac Land aud Improvement COM
pauy This organization of northern capitalists
Is represented by DR.. Anson Bangs, gentle
man of large means and extraordinary energy
and sagacity. The hotel, erected under his
immediate superintendence, contains los
rooms, is fre-proot, admirably ventilated ele-
gantly flushed and is altogether the best hotel
building In the State Dr. Bangs very prop
erly says, that people who come to a new couu-
try should have comfortable place to stay
while they are looking, or after purchasing,
while they are building homes of their own.
This requirement will be amply met when the
new hotel is opened
But why should people come here? What
is to make town Of Potomac City? These
enquiries are constantly repeated in our hurry
as travellers. Let US hear what DR.. Bangs
has 10 say in justification of the large out
Iav of his ppany in grounds and improve.
meuts, lst. They claim to have twenty-seven
feet of water at low tide from this point to
the sea- ID. They are several miles near
er the coalields of West Virginia than either
Richmond or Baltimore by practicable routes.
}rd They have back country full of iron ore,
stone, slate, timber, and soil of admirable
quality, with abundant means OF restoring
and increasing its fertility. 4th. They have
the means. 10 connection With friendly interests,
Of fcoustructing such short lines as may be re-
CURED to complete those railroad connections.
They intend to build along north to the Balti-
more and Ohio, crossing the Orange and AL
cxaDdria railroad, near Manassas, and termi-
batting at Monocacy, where they will receive
the Cumberland COAL This will be a remarka-
bly, cheap line, running through fine country,
which will give good local trade in time.
Southward they will have a connection with
the Chesapeake and Ohio road at Charlottes-
vile, which is eleven miles nearer Potomac City
than it is to Richmond. They connect also
with the Midland road at the same point, CIV
ing them direct route to the Valley OF the
tennessee.
1t is forty three miles less distance to Poto-
mac City from Lynchburg than to Norfolk.
With these important and controlling facts 10
hs favor, DR.. Bangs very naturally feels great
confidence in the success OF his enterprise
The coal and iron will seek tide-water by the
shortest routes unless some unfavorable condi-
tloDs are encountered at the shipping points.
The appointments here will be of the most ex-
tenslve and perfect character. A wharf is be-
ing constructed 500 feet long, and "a feet above
low water, with room to load four vessels of
the largest size lying 10 80 feet of water. Yard
room is being prepared sufficient for a thousand
cars.
lhe lines are being located, aud the repair
and construction shops are soon to be built. 10
which cars are to be made on an extensive
scale. AS sooD as the road survey is completed
the property will be laid off in lots, according
to the most approved modern plans, and offer.
ed for sale
People who know nothing of the laws of
growth as applied to towns may smile incredu-
lousy at the prospects of this new enterprise,
hut we have faith iD it; both because of the
favorable natural conditions and of the energy
aud skill With which it is being handled. AS a
point for the manufacture of iron, and other
heavy work incident to that industry it connot
be surpassed.
Cheap aud, cheap living, cheap transporta-
ton comb,ue with genial and heaIthful eli
mate to give the manufacturer every possible
advantage. 1t has easy access to every source
oiSupply for raw material, and also to all the
markets of the world for manufactured pro-
ducts AS a commercial point it is not sur
passed III natural advantages BY any other in
Virginia. The invincible Yankee has obtained
foothold here, and old fogy towps, sleeping in
,he remembrances of former greatness, must
look out We look back few years and see
now the old towns have been distanced
Uy the new all over the county, and we
y'nnot doubt that the same experience will
l, Ie repeated in the future of Virginia. At
u 51lS place We had the pleasure of meeting Gen.
hansom, U. S. Senator from North Carolina,
III Company with Gen. Heath, member of Con-
sFess from the same State, and Judge Colds
waite, OF Alabama, also Senator in Congress.
lue>e gentlemen were greatly pleased with the
heW enterprise and its prospects, and expressed
uler desire that such men as DR.. Bangs should
T .oue among US more numerouSly from the
,h ,ioth The hope of our State is in starting
,;" nSse centres of industrial and commercial ac-
,ny un'lly all along our railroads and rivers, and
,TiSe u; &c enterprl>ng gentlemen deserve, as they
cnm. m 10 doubt receive, all possible aid and en-
cOuragemept,
n Sn:; hr, Bangs is friend and former associate
IIa oISs'oeSs SaeS Of Governor Seymour, of New York.
in s;,a;. HaS had large and successful experience
and lunar :. enterprises in the north and west,
cntarn.; oot fkeI Iy to waste time and money in an
hona p'Se III without adequate foundation We
yigo,ou ips 10 See Potomac City rise rapidly into
nro'a V.ous growth and become thriving and
irYspelous iar mart of trade and industry. It is
m.nn niore promising field of enterprise than
onIr Iuy :. that are more talked about, and wants
,o mai ehe time and the right kind of population
q" make 1t great success.
oTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN.