The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-03-27
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.

Stat6 OIL leCSeli-ouo SoAHPS'e"~ N
sble in every way. Every inch State!
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
Our friend Of the Wheeling Iatellgencer
says: emit,
eve remember hearing one OF their [Ricn.
nondI prominent citizens say IN 1871 tna'
tho very dust from the wheels OF the Chesa-
make and Ohio would be wealth ana pros
perity to Richmond" -.
Well, and why may not the "promlnent CHI
uor - st;,, "p,ake the remark -? The figure
of speech was not inappropriate; ana as ~
as the influence of the road upon the TRACE
of the West is concerned there is no good
pround to change it. The road, from cIreum'
stances that VIC are not prepared TO SPEAK oi'
hoe met with trouble. What incomplete
railroad has nots Indeed, what completed
railroad has not been crippled BY the money
famine. But the country is the same that IL
was; the trade is governed by the same geo
graphical and physicist circumstances tna'
prevailed at the time the appointment c'i'
zen" made his remark; and we nave tne
same reasons that then existed for antlci-
rating great advantages from the chesapeake
and Ohio railroad
One high in the confidence of those VINO
direct the affairs Of the Chesapeake ana
Ohio railroad has very recently given assu'
RANGES that it would not be sold; and, lur'
thermore. he stated that incomplete as the
great work was,-because of the want OF hs
| western eonuections-it had future re-
markabIy hopeful and bright. The tonnage
on the road had been good, and in the ensu
inv year it would be run up in remarkable
manner by the mineral wealth of the coun'
try through which it passed. 1t would ee
soon found, it was stated, that without tnoSe
extensions, viii IA we're always held IN Vie"
in every calculation with reference 10 the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, its income
would be surprising to the railroad commu'
nity. We believe in the statements thus
made. and we still look with full falth 70
the praud results which we have so loDS
boped for as soon as the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad is placed in connection with
the western system Of railways.
We ere not the organ of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway Company. We scorn the
idea that we can ever be any organ Of any
CORPORATION or any man on this earth; and
what we say is purely judicial, without any
HAS whatever. We know little or nothing
of those capitalists who hold the proprietary
rights Of the road in their bands; but We
imagine that they are not ready to see fair
nroperty vanish from them without an et
fort to save it. Like other lines of com
munication between the Mississippi and the
Atlantic, we believe that the Chesapeake anc
Ohio railroad promises results that Will MAKE
it a valuable property to, its owners.
Therefore, while we should regard it as III
good degree disappointment to the State
that SO tinea property should pass into hands
other than those that now control it, We
know that in any event it must fall into the
possession of men who will not attempt tc
disappoint our hopes in its promised adVan'
tages for US, because were they to do so they
would only achieve their own injury by re-
ducins its compromising advantages to them
selves.
The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad has
reached the banks of the Ohio. 1t is tanta
liZiug several connecting links northwest
wardly and wcstwardly. The gaps to be
filled ost are short, and we cannot believe
that they Will be long left open. The pco
pie interested in their completion are toe
shrcwd, too energetic and financially able
to permit it. ShortneSs OF distance, avoid
ance of winter obstructive frests, facilities o.
communication all inspire them with the
l.esire to add 10 the advantages of the Yves
this new way of exit to the atlantic. Il
csnnot fail. The connections must be com
plcted, come s?het may Of the proprietary In
trtests of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
And we still back up the enthusiasm Of tht
pro1ainent citizen aforesaid: ~ The very
dust. of the Chesapeake and Oslo RAILROAD
will be wealth and,prosperity to Richaopd.'