The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-06-01

,c,r,, scondenoe Of the Richmond Dispaschl
wars srIPatg SPRINGS, Wssr Va,
May 81, 1881.
rio,c which noyeth with steam car speed
N ,hose having notes in bank, which lag.
,'e IKE a cansl-boat with those waiting
koiss ard governmental appointments,
,os, lately some pleasing footprints on
h"s CnssapeSke and Ohio roadside. Tue
Wv ., arm az this great enterprise stretches
ia :, the rich grain and cattle country OF
V"' Wo.t. The left arm reaches over the
.n' shominy past Williamsburg 10 the sea /;
C",S,,ns i from Richmond 10 Huntington.
w n.c,sional peep from tue hindmost
o." "a The train, as We go sweeping and
e VS.% along over tie last, shows
WIN ~ W., steel rails have been put down
Ihs' o ~" needed. Diiches have been WI
W.T. hn.bcs cleared away, culverls en-
u s'.e,o5 and strengthened, roadway newly
s.s1s.,cS snd miles and miles Of side.tracks
,..5 nntil At many points glance gives the
Sa,c,sion that there is double track.
sTla II amounts TO that for about a fourth
'',ee road; but a second rail throughout
- foreordained. Freight trains are al.
-. nqSsing. Coal, splnt aud camel, of
''..prnasSed richness, from The New River
81 KanaWha bod.; cattle, plump and
Ind. right from the Blue-Gra>s country {;
..,rolenm from the oil-wells OF Pennsyl Iva
-, ana West Virginia.; iron ore from seye-
- 3irec,ions: lumber from the back coun-
49, md supplies going forth from Richmond
,,,he MINERS OF ore and coal, TO the great
.rov6s II mea at the furnaces, to the va
I'm. w,iieripg places and cauntIy stores,
"a 10 our new customers in the West
srfbe.e snd many other evidences there are
81, mis- i a great and growing highway OF
c,mmercs and travel. \ furnace is estab-
g.hcJ and q town follows. SO with the
eosLmines.
Fow over the ncwly-iormed western
o,nnections a Hood Of business i already
startling. ON a recent visit to the Cbesa-
reke and Ohio Office in Richmond. on a
ts,r, morning, was told that at that mo.
ment there were l3S ears in the del g. loade
MIN Grain in bulk. 1t could not he moved.
H. rain would rum II. There ii had to
s,spd in the ears until a bright, dry day
came. although those ears were badly need
"a gr Other purposes. A grain elevator at
Richmond would seem TO be necessity. II
!. the surprise Of every business. man from
o,bcr sections 81 the country that we have
not one. and ii begins to be repr0ach 10
our enterprise.
doubt II even our most sagaciOus bust.
No., men exactly under stand and correctly
apareciste wh2, traffic the Chesapeake and
Oaio is going to command. Il Is coming
coming our way in a great stream. Ii we
are prepared 10 receive and manage it, il
will make u rich; il not, ii will sweep over
u srd End other s;Orehouses-at Newport
New. al Norfolk. Baltimore, or somewhere.
The Midland road, you know, no longer
u,e, the Chesapeake and Ohio track from
Glrd0nsv.le to Charlottesville. 1t has its
own-better for both companies, but per-
hsas not for the pleasant and prosperous
town Of Gordonsville. Near Waynesboro'
ibe Shenandoah Valley road strikes the
Chesapeake and Ohio. This puts the Lurly
Cavern. within reach Of The summer trav-
eller: il does more. it passes through a
lovely valley and gives il communication
With Richmond as well as with the chief
northern cities. From WdynesbOro' it i
being extended down TO a junction with
the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio road at
or hear Big Lick, | believe. The Rich
mond and Allegheny, having run along
mostly upon the tow-path 10 Buchanan,
and thence onward upon the riyer.Dank
10 Clifton Forge, then following the river
bank for a few miles, crosses and effects a
junction with the Chesapeake and Ohio al
Wlliams0n's. Williamson's is already q
town. 1t hopes soon TO be a city. Here
miles oi trains are 10 be seen. Tracks
cover the ground. The whistle OF the loco
motive, like the beating Of the British
drum, is uuending. A little farther on,
and the smoke.stack Of the LowMoor fur
nsce-tall as an ordinary church sieeple-
strikes the eye, and when the train stops
YOU see a busy community around ii. The
company employ hundreds OF laborers,
white and black, and large number OF
skilled mechanics. many OF both classes
being from Richmond. They have spent
several hundred thousand dollars here. a
town has risen around them. They have
their own coke-Ovens; the coal for which is
hauledheIe from other points. Their water
works are on an extensive scale and better
than Danv cities possess.
IL strikes me that the whole country is
more prosperous than it was year or TWO
ago. Much bard work undoubtedly re-
mslns to be dope before the fields will yield
their richest fruits, before the mines VIII
surrender their best treasures, before the
Iag> OF poverty will be replaced by tue
T0be. Of wealth; but | think that The BE-
ginning has been made. Aud are not some
thanks due 10 the management OF this ra'l'
WAY company; 10 the stalwart spirits who
kept the property intact, the franchises I'M
impaired. during all that period OF prostra-
ton when railroads often became the spoil
Ct The wrecber, and when the capitalist
,,eadiasty turned his back upon them and
held 10 bis pocket-bOOk Those who know
most about the terrOTs OF that time, Of the
penis passed, of ihe enemies encountered
and overcome, will give tue greatest honor
and praise to the Chesapeake and OHIO man.
sgemeut. CHESTER.