The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-02-26
For the Dispatch
a Grent Interest to All.


We wish to Law before the readers of th'
Dispatch the fact that the Shenandoah Val
lev and Ohio Railroad Company is one OF tht
fixed facts among the many luudable ant
valuable enterprises now in existence, ant
one which it is difficult at first fully 10 ap
preciate, especially to one who has not made
the regions which it will penetrate specia
subject of study. Professor Ansted, OF Eng
land. was overwhelmed and utterly aston
ished at the vast deposits of coal and iroI
I in Virginia and West Virginia, and at the
easy accessibility of these inexhausti
Bile mines of State, national, and indi
yidual wealth. Aud shall we longer slum
Der in this Eldorado and permit these
Ione-hidden minerals to remain unearthed
We hope an emphatic No is the response O
every man who loves to see the blessings Of {
kind Providence made available to man. A
company of capitalists has been formed IN
Philadelphia, composed Of Virginians as wei
as men of that city, and the vice-president o.
the company, r. n. Pool, has recently PAID
off all the employees of the road, and tht
company will push their grand enterprise as
soon as spring fully opens. Dirt has beer
broken, and portion OF the road has already
been graded, both in Rockingham and II
Pendleton counties.
The financial panic being over, the skie!
are Frightening, the people are owing con
fdent and enthusiastic. Many men Of CAPT
tai and far-seeing and far-reaching business
capabilities are visiting the line OF this ne"
road, and it is the expression of all so en-
gagged in looking at the facts of this route
that it is not only practical and necessary
but THAI it is certain TO be one OF the very
best paying investments now under pro-
gress.
Already has the enterprise so palpably de-
welcomed itself that bill is now before the
Legislature of Virginia for the extension oil
the charter of the road TO Underwater Flr'
ginia, which it is proposed to strike at Rich
mond. or at some point between Richmond
and Alexandria.
Colonel F. j. Armstrong, of Rockingham,
and other members, who fully appreciate
the great importance Of this new road, VIII
favor the passage of the bill. -.
The benefits TO Eastern as well as to West.
ern Virginia of such road are incaculable,
and especially to the cities Of Underwater
Virginia. There is no conflicting interests
between this road and the Baltimore and
Ohio or Chesapeake and Ohio railroads ;
but. on the contrary, each is ind will be q
dereloper, and aid in the good work OF un'
earthing the vast resources OF The SECTIONS
they severally penetrate, thus augmentlng
the State and Individual as well as tue ma
tiopal wealth. The route will be nearly an
airline between Richmond and Chicago,
and will be l25 miles nearer to tide water
than any route now built between New York
and Chicago.
The Shenandoah Valley and Ohio railroad
is to run to Buchanau,i in Upshur county,
via PendIeton and Randolph counties, and
di, erge at that place, one branch going to
Parkersburg, the other to Point Pleasant, on
the Ohio.
As soon as extension Of charter shall have
been granted from the Valley to Underwater
immediate steps will be tuken to locate the
route of the road east ward. Far-seeing men
OF true business capacities are already pros
peciiny the inviting field, and each one eX.
presses himself as satisfied that ii must and
will be one of the very best paying enter
prises on the continent. TO the great masses
of the 8. outside" world the facts read almost
like fables, or appear to be the phantoms OF
heated or disordered brain; yet to those
who see for themselves it is pleasing and
an amazing reality. VALLEY