The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-01-05
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Dsspasch Is letter from, HEsgrSG, ALr.EaoNY|
4, Ga. soS aaIlipciia Ohio, to aiessrs. LEE.
sappoE Il CO.., informing them TINT the
5Galilpo,is. Macarthur and Columbus rail-
road had become d e Fixed fact. !" Work
was being commenced along the whole line,
aud contractors promised that it shall be
completed by the 1sti OF March, though
Messrs. HEEKIIG. ALI.EaoKY d 10. 80 Will
q be glad il Augnst or September will her
% aid its completion 1t would be a very
creditable achievement even at that date.
Now, we beg our citizcnsof Richmond
who from long waiting have become slow TO
take in cheering news about anything----to
look to their geography. Gallipolis is In
Ohio upon the Ohio river, four miles below
Point Pleasant, in West Virginia, which
stauds at the mouth OF the great kanawha
river. The line OF road now being built
from Gallipolis cia Macarthur to Columbus,
o., is exactly in Che line to Chicago, 9nd
will in its way intersect the routes that lead
to all the great centres Of the northwest,
Now, then. IL we are at Gallipolis we I'M.
derstand, iUw we may proceed by rail 10
the most expeditions manner to any OF them.
Gallipolis may be said to DE at the mouth
Of the Great Kanawha. The citizens OF
Gallipolis look to railway along the valley
Of tbe Kanawa from it's mouth to the mouth
OF Scary creek, q tributary OF the hanawha,
where it will strike the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad and form junction with it.
The distance from Gallipolis to the mouth OF
scary, along the valley, is thirty-sis miles.
with that short connecting line made, and
the road from Gallipolis to Columbus I'M
isbed. we have uninterrupted railway COM
munication by the most direct route with
Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Toledo, and
other important towns on the lakes and the
Mississippi, while Immediately in the yicln-
ity OF Gallipolis are several towns. which
together constitute an immense manufactu-
ring community OF many thousands, with
rural population OF density and thrift.
This line, then, is one that should be con-
sidered by our people as one OF great i'm
portance to us. We invite attention to it,
and assure our businessmen that it opens
to us trade of great value ana extent.
They should watch it, and should lose no
opportunity that is offered to stimulate the
enterprise that will connect us with this
point and insure its early completion.
at this time we have reason to hope that
no less than three other lines Of commrni-
cation between the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad and the West will in no great while
be constructed-viz. The route utG Ash
land, Ironton, and Portsmouth. on the Ohio
river, and thence TO Cincinnati and Column.
bus; second, the route uta Greenup, Mays.
vile, KY, to Newport, KY, opposite Gin
cinnati, on the south side OF the OHIO; and
third, the long.projccted line from Catletts-
burg Tor the Chesapeake and Ohio road)
via Mount Sterling and Lexington to Lou
isyille, XIV. We think there are demands
which are pressing hard upon these lines,
and that the moment the times are better
and confidence restored they will be built.
We hope to live to see them all finished,
and the commerce Of Richmond through
them both prosperous and active.
But these three are western. The line to
Gallipois takes nearly northern route
from Scary along the Kanawha for thirty
six miles, and appears to be sort Of rear
guard OF our western trade. 1t switches OIL
to encompass the important commerce that
| is directly in the northwestern line and TO
put it upon the way to a more genial lati.
tude and to the Central, the golden gate OF
the Chesapeake bay, for the exit and en-
trance Of the grand foreign commence OF
the Middle States.
Let us bear ia mind Gallipolis.