Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1881-04-05
THE VALLEY

AT a meeting of the board of supervisors
of Botetourt county, Va, Monday week, a
paper was unanimously adopted consenting,
on behalf of the county of Boutetourt, to the
transfer of the property and road-bed and
franchises of the Valley Railroad Company
in that county to the Shenandoah Valley
Railroad Compauy,or to any other company,
in any way which may be agreed upon by
the, Valley Railroad Company, but upon
these express conditions:
"That the county of Botetourt shall be
forever released aud discharged from any
obligation to pay Or deliver any part of the
$4,000 of bonds not yet delivered and that
the subscription heretofore made by this
county of $500, GOO to the capital stock of
the Valley Railroad Company shall be cam
scelled to the extent of said sum of S95, GOO,
and that this county shall hold for the
iSl05, 600 of bonds heretofore delivered and
paid 100000 of fully paid up stock in said
Valley Railroad Company, without any fur>
Their claims upon the county, and upon this
further condition That the company which.
may so acquire the property and road bed
and franchises of the Valley Railroad Com
pany south from Lexington shall build and
complete a line of railway from Lexington
through the counties of Rockbridge and
-Botetourt to some point on the Atlantic, Mis-.
sissippi and Ohio Railroad, in the county of
Roanoke, within two years from the date of
the acquisition by said company of the road
bed, property and franchises of the Valley
Railroad south of Lexington, and upon this
further condition That the individual
subscriptions made by the. citizens of Boto-
-tourt county toSthe capital stock of said Val.
ley Railroad Company, which are now I'M
paid, shall be released SO far as unpaid"
The last rail connecting the s. V. R. R.
from Hagerstown, Md, to W.ynesboro, Va,
was spiked Town at about Z O'Clock on Mon
day evening of last week, completing the
link of nearly 144 miles. The final closing
spike, which has not yet been put in, will
be wrought by the Hon. VIM. Mines,
President of the road, and driven to it's
place by Col. U. l.. Boyee, Vice President.
This, we understand, will probably be done
Tomorrow, when the stockholders meet at
Iuray. The first train, consisting of an en-.
CINE and one car, passed through from Ha>
gerstown to Waynesboro on Saturday last,
and had on board F. J. Kimball, President
of the S:V. Construction Co., with wife and
neice, Miss Needles; Col. Joseph H. Sands,
Superintendent; Engineers W. W. Coe and
Foster Morss; Master Mechanic, McAllister;
Hon. W. 81. Travers, Director !; Train Dis
patcher, j. c.. Cassell; J.. C. Holmes, builder
of depots; and perhaps others. The train
was in charge of conductors Hutchipes and
Mcclellan, withenginemen Brown and Daily.
and fireman Grant.
The constant and rapid increase of Ha.
gerstown, Nd, is due in q great measure to
tho spirit of enterprise and liberality of its
own citizens. This spirit has just been more
fully illustrated than ever before. On Fri>
day week the Nail published a proposition
from a gentleman of Hartford county to
open q large vegetable canning establish
ment In Ragerstewn, on certain conditions,
and by Tuesday evening a suitable let and
sl,o5O had been subscribed, all tho require
nsnts on the part of the citizens filled, the
contract closed, and the arrangements made
1or the immediate commencement of the
WORK. Actions like these will make any
pace Doom with the hum of honest indus,
ny, d Deslde them closely boarded gold
Ano t0'keu>up money>chests are nowhere.
Gov. jackson has appointed tbe f-o1ron;,n
gentlemen Regents of the Daaf onS " ..pns
Dumb and the Blind at this Mace D- TT
II. Il. Hardesty, George W. Tbomnson n,
N. IS: Baker, John T. Peerce. Chas, r, pa1'
ton, Ct. w. Craig and John Il Holt
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