The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-02-16
The Future Of Richmond.

ess, Of Clifton Forge, the greatest amounting
=. .o,o,,y.Gve or eighty feet. Forone aun'
s,e8 or one hundred aud h'ty mifes pe'"eeu
the coa,.fslds ard Clifton Forge, therefore,
tho cos, OF transportation Is greatly less than
from Clifton Forge TO Richmond. Inc
Che.,neake and Ohio Company can easily
,r,nsnort coal to Clifton Forge at the rate Of
ono cent pr ton per mile, aud we have attle
doub. would sign contract to'morro" 70 10
so The same grades world prevail on
road nweuty-igM and a half miles, from
Clifton Forge to BuchansRs in other ~ords,
If this gao were Sled up che Kanawha Goals
could be put en- the canal at Buchanan LOT
ten miIls per ton per mife'
The canal company say that they cou'd' II
the canal we're cleaned out so as ts give I'VE
feet of water at all points from Richmond 20
Rucbanan 1.-THE cost,of which would be TIL
finy,. bring these Goals here for SIX whisper
ton per mile, including tolls. Such also
the ooinion of agents and other experts IA
navigating the James River and hana~h1
canal and Of two eminent canal engIneess
who have been consulted on the point mt.
Hrrros. of the Chesapeake and Ohio caaa',
and Mr.. DAVID NJ. GREENE, OF the Erie ca
nall, expressed 10 writing. ]"
The figures would be as folIows:.From
Ouianimont to Buchanan at one cent (l3l
mileso, Sl.31; from BuchanRD to Ricanond
iby canal), dss miles, at six mills silas-to-
tai, $500.
The coal can be delivered on the cars al
Qrinnimontsor $3.50 (or'lessl, and'ss low or
probably lower than elsewhere on tie contl-
nent Welmay add 6veceo,s for the transfer
a, Buchanan. This would deliver the Quin-
nimont coal in Richmond for $4D5. We
think it may be delivered at Norfolk in the
canaiboats without transfer at 'dtty cents
more, or even less than this sum-thatis, TOR
$4i55.
The SUPERIOR character Of these Goals for
steaming purposes and for the production OF
the best coke used 10 the processes for the
manufacture of iron render it-certain that
there will be an abundant demand for them
when additional transportation facilities
are afforded. Apart from Its value TO
the manufacturing establishments Of our
CITY, the Kama VIVA coal, at these rates, would
secure large saving in the article OF fuel Tor
our households. And it would be, as we
believe. at once substituted byour manutac-
- turers for the Pennsylvania anthracite, and
on our steamins vessels for the Cumberland
Goals. In circular just issued by Mr.. ). ii.
Of In III
represents that the Quinuimcntcoal Is "the
"best and most economical Steam coal ever
~put upon this market mot excepting the
Cumberapdl, making sscliuker than any
~other coal in market" In support OF this
assertion Mr.. HALVES appends the certificates
OF TURIN e. BROTHER, tobacco .manutactu-
rers; GEORGE w. ALLEN g. Co., agents Of the
Old Dominion Steamship Company; GEORGE
L. BoYEIN, tobacco manufacturer; GEORGE
WATT, Jr., manager for WArg. & CALL, man.
ufacturers of the WATT plough and castings !:
L. Ii. FRAYsER & Co., tobacco manuiactu.
rers c. 2. Cross, first assistant superintend-
ent of the penitentiary NoLalSG,& BURTON,
tobacco manufacturers; E. c. STACY, agent
for G. p. STACY, mattress manufacturer; and
WILLIAM B. HERsMAN & Co., Virginia Steam
Coffee and Spice Mills.
We are further informed by Mr.. WuAIAM
r. TANNER, of the Metropolitan aron-W orks,
and Mr.. ASA SNYDER, of the Architectural
Iron-W orks,-two of our largest iron-meE-
that they consider the coke FROM this coal
equal to the anthracite coal, ton for ton, in
the manufacture of iron.
We spoke the other day of the remarkable
article in the Iron Age on the Invaluable de-
posts of magnetic and specular iron ores in
the James River valley, and we mentioned
that with access to the kanawha Goals pig
iron could be made on the line of the James
River canal for seventeen dollars per ton.
Mr.. john +. Tanner, who is q gentlcUao of
very large experience as an iron manlHac-
turer, tells us that he believes from caEetul
calculations made by himself that it could be
done for fifteen dollars per ton.
The bearing of all these facts is at once
obvious. il they are true we can briag
Pittsburgh to Richmond and Lgnchburg, aud
light up the whole valley of the.James with
uIhSG-ttLl uhCces HI ACpoiO iuaAC W q Solu-
mittee, of which General ANDERSON was
chairman, to the stock holders Of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad Company at its re-
cent meeting, it was stated that oGe blast
furnace, producing 10000 tons Of pig-iron
per annum, was worth in the way of revenue
100000 to that railroad, and that the com.
mittee believed that in the course of the next
five or ten years there would be fitteen or
twenty such furnaces in operation on the
line of the road, paying to the road ANNUALLY
for the transportation of ores, coal, and
limestone, sl,5oe,oOo or $4,000, 900. This
statement illustrates the enormous business
developed by these iron-works, and bears on /
the probable tonnage that would be de- \
yeloped upon the canal in connection with
the production of pig-metal alone
We submit these facts to our readers for
their consideration. In the present condi-
ton OF business We are compelled to look
around us In some direction for fresh blood
and nourishmeuL We are inclined to the
opinion that iron would prove most vsana-
BILE tonic. The points to be considered age
the reliability of the facts presented on the
one hand, and the ability of our property
holders on the other, to increase, even with
the security Of a mortgage, the present in
deb.eduess Of the city. The cost of rail-
road 2S3 miles long from Buchanan to Cliff.