The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-04-30
shenanauoaIl valley Railroad.


Shenandoah Valley Railroad.
The prospect for. the early resumption OF
work on this important improvement, is Hat
tering. On Tudesday evening last there arriv-
cd in this city number Of gentlemen repre-
senting the Shenandoah Valley Railroad, the
Cumberland Valley Road, and the Pennsylva-
mia Central road. Negotiations are now pend
ing, with a prospect OF a speedy eonsumma-
ton. for the transfer of the Shenandoah Valley
Road to the Cumberland Vaffe5> Road, In the
event of this arrangement being effected, work
on the S. Y. r. K. will be resumed and the
whole line to it's intersection with the Chcsa-
peake and Ofiio Railroad, either at Fishcrsville
or Sta,nlton, be put under contract and COM
pleted this summer and fall. The gentlemen
who constitute the committee Of examination,
and who arrived here on Monday evening, are:
VIM. M. McLcllell, Chambersburg, Pa, Presi-
dent of Shenandoah Valley Railroad; L. b.
Kennedy, Chambersburg, Pa, President OF
Cumberland Valley Railroad; Q. N. LULU
Chambersburg, Pa, Supt. Cumberland Valley
Railroad; D. O. Cehr, ChambsrsbtrSS fa:'
Director Cumberland Valley Railroad; Y. L.
Boyce, Clark Co., Va, Director Shenandoah
| Valley Railroad Mr.. Morris, Charlestown,
W. Va, Chief Engineer Shenandoah Valley
Railroad; Mr.. Dougherty, Charlestown' w.
Va, Assistant Engineer Shenandoah Valley
Railroad; Col. G.. B. Wrestling, Mt. Alto Iron
Works, Franklin Co.. Pa, and Judge Ashpy
of Page Co., Director in Shenandoah Valley
Railroad. All of whom took rooms at the Viz
ginia Hotel. -
These gentlemen have been on tour OF in
spection over the entire line from SHEPHERDS
town to Staunton, and without exception, eN-
pressed themselves favorably impressed with
the advantages of the route, the attractions OF
the country and everything connected with the
improvement.
Col. Wrestling is a gentleman OF large ex-
perience in the Iron Business, and has giver
his attention particularly to an examination o.
the various beds of iron ore already opened q
long the line of the Shenandoah Road. His in
vestisation of the deposits to which his atten
ton has been attracted has proven satisfactory
and the opinion is expressed generally by the
committee that immense wealth must beeven
tualIy developed through the country penetra
ted by the Shenandoah Valley Railroad.
| With the consunmation Of the arrangement
now under consideration for the transfer Of the
Shenandoah Railroad, will come the deter
minaton Of the point at which the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad will be tapped at Fishers
| vile or Staunton. The former has the advan
tages of grade and the cesson of the right o
way. It is very important to the people o
Stauaton, and the country, that the intersec
ton should be made here. There are, howev
er, obstacles, which it will be appropriate tt
consider hereafter.
The committee visited the offices of Messrs
Echols, Bell and Catlett, where they remain
ed several hours, examining numerous speci
mems Of minerals, representing the iron anc
coal deposits along the line of the Chesapeake
and Ohio road, and receiving valuable infor
nation in relation to the operations now goins
on at the various enterprises in which this firm
is interested. They left on their return to TIN
east, Monday evening.
The charter Of the Shenandoah Valley Rail
road is the most liberal ever granted by TIN
Virginia Legislature. 1t contines the Compan,
to no particular locality. 1t gives them FREE
and unenbarrassed route from the northern t.
the Southwestern counties of the State 1t i
contemplated, however, by the Company t.
make an arrangement with the Chesapeake ant
Ohio road to Use their bed from the point O
intersection, either at iFshersvsile or Staunton
to Covington, and thence diverge in q south
west direction, making Russelviile, in the south
west portion Of the State, on the Tennessee
line, a point. i
We hope the arrangement in contemplation
Tor the early resumption OF work on this grea
improvement, will be effected, and that err
long we will be able to communicate to OIL
readers, the cheering intelligence that Angus
ia is to have another link in a great continental
line of railway traversing her territory.
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Convention Of Valley Counties.
The suggestion we made through the VIR
GINI-AN several weeks ago, that d convention
Of Valley counties be held on the 4tl OF July
either i'll Lexington or Fincastle, has met witt
an affirmative response from the papers pub
lished at the above named places, each indica
ting a preference for its town. Concurrence
in the proprlety of the movement is very gener
al with the people. The necessity for o forma
declaration of the sentiments of the great Val
| ley of Virginia in respect to matters deeply