Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-09-17
Letter from LOudOun Co.

Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gazette.
LEESBURG, Va, Sept, is, lS7+-It may
not be news to you but glad sound of heavy
rain has been ulling our farmers to rest during
the night. La other words it has been raining
steadily and hard siucc eleven o clock a. m., GU
the 10Th, and seems disposed to rain twenty
four hours longer. The ground is now thorough
ly soaked and with mild season for four weeks,
land we may expect such for eight We will
have fine fall pastures 10 keep out the scarcity
OF fodder caused BY the drought
Our streams will be full and the wisdom of
making several bridges will be ielt. The one
ever Bcaverdam, Two miles above Oatand
Mills, Connects Lecsburg with Moantsvllie, and
all the country from Mddlrburg to Bloomfield
without Interference from high water The one
over Little River, on the Lcesburg and Aide
Turnpike, connects us with the counties irom
Gum Spring to Aide, and thence to Middle
burg, and the new bridge on the turnpike, just
below Leesburg, gives US access to Farmwcl
and southwark to Gun Spring. The railroad
connects Us with the other parts OF the county.
No high water need send any one out of his
way more than two miles at the farthest iu his
endeavor to reach the county seat
The track laying from Purcelville to Round
Hill will not be much longer delayed. aud the
further progress of the work to Winchester
should not be slow. At Winchester We would
be 10 connection with the direct rout to the
Southwest, and | suppose by the road TO Mar
tlnsburg, with the Northwest. Can Wlnches-
ter, aud Frederick aud Clarke, and Loudouu
see aud appreciate through route TO tidewatcr,
yearly thirty miles less in distance, than the
route by the W. 4 P Il. R. The distance
from Winchester to Alexandria will be IS miles;
it is Cow 81 miles to Harpers Ferry, aud 81
more to Baltimore, in all li3 miles FROM
Alexandria to Staunton, by way Of Winchester,
it will be les miles, by way OF Charlottesville 1t
is l46, but the former route has so great ad
vantages 10 grade as to make it practically as
short, aud it has the immense advantage Of
passing to Lcesburt over better country than
to Warrrnton Junction with the very best
country in Virginia from Lcesburg to Staunton.
Winchester will then become an entrepot Il
mean place where goods are brought 10 and
deposited, and thence shipped abroad) for all
the valley within fifteen miles, and will also,
by its schools as places OF attraction for parents
whose children may be there, become the la
vorle stopping place that Stanton DOW Is Tor
springs goers, who are driven from the noun
tains by the cold, and repealed from home by
the fear of malicious diseases.
understand that the freight on car load
of coal from Baltimore to Winchester is $35;
from Alexandra, at present rates OF freight,
it would be $l4; the saving on COO car loads
would pay the interest aud sinking fund on Il
subscription of $l50,O00 to the stock Of the ".
& O. r. r. A corresponding advantage would
be gained 10y Clarke and Loudoun FROM rail
roads to raining seems quick transition, but
when We come to look into the matter they
have close connection; as the present fine rain
one month ago would have materially Increased
the receipts of the railroad here.
think your merchants ought to take advan-
tage Of the fact that there is but Que grain buy
er at Berln to make acquainlanccs 10 the
German settlement, aud perhaps see to it
that the graded road from Wheatland to
PurceIlve, about five miles long, is made
Macadamized road; a single ten feet tract
can be made for s., 900, and much OF that could
be raised along the route. The charter is Tor
the L,udoun and Berlin Turnpike road, and
preferred stock to the amount of $1,000, would
pay handsomely in the way of dividends.
ALIQCIS.