Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-12-19
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| Al orange ". IL. lttSG Il ltitty HUI HlHS
the charter members of the Fredericksburg
& Valley Ry. Co.. met and organized. The
minimum subscription of $4,000 to the
capital stock was made and paid up. The
new company was organized with the fol-
| lowing officers-W. S. White OF Fredericks-
burg, President; Robt. S. Walker, Vice
President, and L. G. McCracken OF Fred
ericksburg, Secretary and Treasurer; Di-
rectors-M. B. Rowe and I. G. McCracken
of Fredericksburg Charles Payne and
Chancellor Bailey of Spottsylvania; John
T. Payne and G. G. Buckner OF Orange; G..
B. w. Male and DR.. James Scott Of Cul-
pepper, and VIM. j. Cave and Dr.. VIM. A.
Bickers of Madison. Among those present
at the meeting were Dr.. S. B. FL. Miller of
Elkton, President of the Elkton Land and
Improvement Co., and Capt. L. G. Nor
| ton, General Agent of The Grottoes Land
and Improvement Co. The former said he
thought the Harrisonburg and Elkton Land
| Companies were prepared to build the road
between those two points, and would be
willing to unite with this company in
building the whole road under it's charter.
A committee was appointed to confer with
the Land companies on the basis OF con-
struction, and it was further arranged to
appoint canvassing committees in each
county through which the road will pass.
It is estimated that it will only require
| 81 500, 600 to build the road the 81 miles
between Harrisonburg and Orange at which
latter point it can connect with the Orange
Narrow Gauge Ry. to Fredericksburg. The
survey of the route is greatly in favor OF
passing through the Blue Ridge at Browns
Gap at Shendun, where the grade is only
y feet, over making the passage through
Swift Run Gap, where the grade is liz
feet.
The stockholders of the Washington &
Western road and the Shenandoah Valley
road have consolidated the two. The
Washington g. Western is road chartered
by the last Virginia legislature to run from
some point on the Potomac near Washing
| ton city, to some point on the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad, and it is for this line that
the recent surveys in that section have been
made.
During the Christmas and New Year
holidays the Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. will
sell round trip tickets at excursion rates
between all its stations. Days of sale Dec.
23d. 24th, 25th and Jan'y. LIST, all good to
return until January 4th. This includes
tickets to Richmond to attend the first
Afro-American national holiday January
| LIST, in commemoration of Emancipation
day.
The real estate mems fake about the
Richmond & Danville system moving it's
terminus from West Point, is etfectually
disposed of by Mr.. Jos S. Potts, Division
Freight Agent Of the Richmond & Danville
RY., saying that he is authorized to state
officially that the Richmond & Danville
Co. has no intention of doing anything of
the sort.
| President ingalls, says that the perpetual
lease given the Chesapeake & Ohio Co. by
the Richmond 6 Danville Co., by which
the former has trackage use of the Virgin
ia Midland line Of the latter from Gordons-
vile to Washington city, will go into effect
on April 1st next.
| 4 charter has been obtained for the con-
struction of railroad from Summit Point,
| W. Va, to Berryville, on the Shenandoah
Valley Ry. Col. William NJ Clements, for
merly general manager Of the B. & o. road,
is one Of the incorporates.
The Richmond State learns from James
R. Branch, the Secretary of the Universal
| wv. G. Walter) Electric Railway Signal
Co., that he Baltimore & Ohio system has,
after careful examination, contracted to
adopt it's signal.
President ingalls, of the G. & o. was
called to Maine, Sunday evening, from
Cincinnati by a telegram announcing that
his aged father was hopelessly Ill. He died
ON Monday.
The earnings Of the Chesapeake & Ohio
BY. for the first week in December were
$150,000, being $4,000 over those of the
same week of last year.
Col. II. D. Whitcomb of Richmond, has
been appointed Chief Engineer of the Ches-
apeake Il Ohio canal.