Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-03-10

Communicated
CUMBERLAND GAP r.. R.
BRISTOL, March 4, 1877
To THE EDITOR OF THE NEWS:

| fS IN yOuI paper, JDO' III ma
nave emanated from one ''long know
as friend of Consolidation and fron
"a patron OF the Neaosu
Washington, to lend force to hi
expressed views, pretentiously assume
10 speak even as one, if not havin,
authority, who speaks by the book
whereas IN fact he misundersIands TIN
whole subject and thus. unintention
ally trust, mlsrepresents the case =
ana hence, his article is calculated t,
Work a wrong upon individuals, /,
mischief 10 communities. The invid
iOus slurs contained in washing
Ton &" communication do not effec
the case at Issue, and are unbecominl
a dlgnlned consideration of a grave
| question nor is the insinuaticn thai
TIE Press from Bristol to Norfolk is
the Manone Press" any more respect.
able than true.
washington" surely does not mean
all his words might imply, when be
tells your readers when our people
voted the stock of The Virginia & Ten
nessee road into his (Mahone's) hands
Tor no other purpose, as we then un-
uefstood Ii, than 10 ensure the speedy
completion of the Cumberland Gan
connections" "Washingtonu NAV
have been impelled by such conside-
ration, but 1 venture TO say that no in
IeIIIgent shareholder IN the Va &
lelih., read ever entertained that silly
ldea, III he means TO be understood
that the Cumberland Gap road was to
De quilt without the promised connec-
ton at the Gap with Kentucky rail-
road. l may 20 further and state that
no intelligent friend or shareholder in
the Va. d KY, road was influenced in
stocking III the shares filed by MIN in
that Company by any other earthly
consideration than that the only pos
slole hope of ever having the Gunner
land Gap extension constructed Law in
the Atlantic. Mississippi d. Ohio II.
Il. Co.., being assured that if that
company did not build it, it never
would be constructed, and know the
TACT that the Senator and Delegate
from Scott at the date of the passage
OF the consolidated act have both de-
clared That they never understood that
the Cumberland Gap was to be built
II IL was not to be met at the Gap by
Kentucky. Washington" expresses
II as his opinion that General Malone
has not worked diligently, first, last
and all the time until this main object
10 our people was consummated.'' p
This and the whole tenor OF Wash
communication smells VERY
much as if it had emanated from Scott.
No member of either House Of the
General Assembly, who voted tor the
act. has vet been found
with the hardihood to stultify himself
by declaration that the main object
OF the consolidation act was the con-
struction ofthe Cumberland Gap Road. |
and the Senator and Delegate referred
to have stated that they would have
voted for that act if the G.. G.. r. had |
not been mentioned therein. "Wash- |
ton" seems deeply exercised that $50
700 oflhe tax ridden peoples mont Y had |
been expended in fruitless SURVEYS &c. !
Would washington" have the road |
commenced and constructed without |
surveys and location, as once before it |
lad been attempted? What tax rid
len peoples money was expended in |
surveys and location of the line from |
Bristol to Cumberland Gap? Not ofour
people, nor of the people of Scott and |
Lee-but ii was of the money of the
people from Bristol to Norfolk, expen-
led for and in the interest of the peo-
Die of Bristol, Scott and Lee. Wash
ngton" seems hard to please. lie is
mad because Gen. Malone will not
build the road, and he bcrates him for
making surveys and locations prelimi-
Iary 20 its construction. General Ma
ZONES salary is an object of invIdious
emark. Who voted this? Scott and
lee among Others. Who Eays it?
Neither Bristol, Scott nor Lee cOntri-
'ute one dollar towards its payment
1t is an evil bird that fouls its own
lest" Was ngton" speaks as one
,eside himself when he vainly saws
we are for separatiOn''-flom What?
and a ste@ing down of salaries,
Until Gen. Malone has what he has
arm d, the full equipment of his road
rom Norfolk to Petersburg, and re-
urn to It's management ana control
We would vote him this. as we now see
t, and no more" Well really! I'VE
you'd vote" who are "we"? Gen.
1ahone was President of each of the
Dads from Norfolk to Bristol. by the
ote of their respective shareholders.
ot by tine will of Bristol, Scott or Lee
and l am unable to see how the
eparation of Washington" from the
\. NJ. IL 0. line, if he had ever con-
ributed dollar thereto or to the Va.
I; Ky. road before consolidation, would
etter entitle him or his I'VE" to vote
n the question OF salaries of the Off
ers OF these companies separately-oI
the combined company. But
nouch of Washington, who would
ossibly have served his cause more
if he had rendered Justice
whom Justice is due, by first having
My Informed himself of the facts Vi
ne case.
Let me ask the people of Bristol
hat was the prospect for the con-
ructiOn of the Cumberland CAB
'ad when Ro. w. Hughes resigned
lie Presidency of the Virginia d Ken !
lcky road. That gentleman, with !
l his skill and talents, had exhausted I
'ery expedient in vain effort to in I
ice capital To invest one dollar in {
lis undertaking. The confidence of
lr people in his ability to raise the r
cans necessary for its construction =
hen upon an earnest call for a quota a
per cent. OIL the stock of his COM :
my subscribed, to meet his expenses i
Cincinnati, where he hoped to in f
rest capitalists in behalf of his roau, E
, signally fallen 10 raise the required
nI. 3
The people of Bristol. Scott and Lee {
ere in despair of raising the means, p
pm abroad or at home we were too 9
'or, and foreign capitalists were I'M u
Hing to embark their money in a
ort interior line, without c0nneC- u
IN; the subscription of three tifths n
the capital stock To the State had 81
en- withdrawn by the Board of Pub "
|. Works, and if not, the Constitu- "
IN prohibited It's payment. If the p
ate subscription had not been with n
avn, and if there had been no pro- c.
bitiOn in the Constitution, still the II
twO-fifths necessary 10 be e.
sed before the State should pay her n
ree-fifths would, 10y the recent sur
y and location, be s., 500, 900. IL
beg TO enquire if Bristol, Scott ID
"A 40 aOnlR hav.a raica1 tlof e,r, ! In