The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-07-13
LOCAL MATTERS.

LOCAL MATTERS.
SOME OF THE ADVANTAGES OF SHIPPING
FROM TIE PoHT OF RICnMOSD.-We men
toned some days ago some OF the advan-
tages offered by the port of Richmond to
shipmasters, exporters, and importers from
the Chesapeake and Ohio wharves for direct
shipment to and from all foreign ports.
These advantages may be briefly enume-
rated as follows:
There are no port charges except small
clstom-housc and harbormaster's fee.
There is no wharfage charge.
Stevedoring and labor is at least twenty
per cent. cheaper than at New York, Phila-
delphia, OF Baltimore.
Wood for slowing oil, &c, costs about
one half the price charged in New York,
There is no charge for pilotage up the
james river, as vessels anchoring at Hamp-
ton Roads will be taken up to Richmond
and back again by tug-boats, the captains OF
which are experienced and qualified pilots.
Vessels are towed from Hampton Roads
to Richmond and back at charge not eX-
ceedng forty cents per registered ton,
which includes all intermediate toWage II SO
arranged for by captain when he takes tug.
Vessels drawing thirteen and half 1eet
can be taken from the company,s WnafVes
at Richmond out to sea; or to CITY Polnt,
where they can load to sixteen and a hall
feet, and proceed from thence to sea without
difficulty. The work OF improving ana
deepening the James river is progressing
7ayorably, and vessels drawing sixteen feet
Of water will be able to load at Richmond
ere long.
The terminal facilities of this company, at
So, ,,.l,oryn, II, pirhrnon1 arc annie and
convenient for the transhipment, direct from
cars to vessels, OF lard, provisions, pctro-
leum, cotton, tobacco, lumber, logs, slaves,
and all classes of bulk freights.
AS to what shipmasters say OF the port OF
Richmond, the following letter will attest:
AMERICAN BARK c. S. BUsnSELL,}
RICHMOND, VA, June, 26, 1876.
have taken on board OF my vessels three
thousand three hundred barrels petroleum
at these chesapeake and Ohio) wharVes, and
am drawing thirteen and half feet OF wa
| ter Will complete my cargo at City Point
without additional cost to vessels, and when
loaded will draw fifteen feet water. I have
no hesitancy in expressing my perfect salts
faction with the port Of Richmond, Va,
my cargo having been well-stowed, and for
far less cost than in New York, Philadel-
phia, or Baltimore, and with as much dis
patch. No wharfage charged. Dunnage
much cheaper, and steyedoring twenty per
cent. less than in other ports.
[Signcd] j. L. MAYO, Master
American Bark c. S. Bushnell.
Letters to the same purport as above have
been received from each Of the following
named masters of vessels: G.. G.. Heley,
British brig Somerset; J. B. Slocomb, Bri-
tish brig Eva Parker; W. Andersen, Nor
wegian bark Aurora; j. W. Simpson, schoo-
ner Annie Burr; 2. Hansen. Norwegian
bark Flid; and John Flinkenberg, Russian
bark Satama.
The Chesapeake anil Ohio railroad, with
Its eastern terminus at the port of Richmeasl
land its western connection with the OHIO
river and CincinnaEi, offers for the accom-
modation Of trade a most desirable rexte
! between the Atlantic coast and the proGuce
centres and cities ef the great West The
1 genial climate OF lhe region through Mhich
this route passes renders it remarkably free
from extremes Of heat and cold, and iuparts
to it in this reslRct most important aayan.
tages.
Mr.. Fitch, general freight agent of the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, has pre-
pared and General Wickham has issued a
circular the contents OF which are embodied
in the advantages enumerated in the above
paragraph. In August the company will
bring $4,000 barrels Of oil for Nessrs.
Meissner, Ackermann & Co. over their line,
and it will be shipped from the ~harves
below the city to the Baltic. AT present
there are four barks and one brig loading
oil at the wbarves. It must not de sup
posed, however, that the oil is the Chief
article of freight shipped over the line.
Indeed, it is confidently asserted that even
before the western connections are made
that the oil vial be merely rider as COM
pared with the vast amount OF tobacco and
i other freights that will be brought over the
!. line. 1t is indeed gratifying fact to be
4 able to state thEt the business OF the line is
4 ;nornasinp every day,