Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-01-17
Railroad Notes.

Railroad N0teS.
RAILROAD UP THE WARM SPRINGS VAL
LEY-RAILROAD AT THE ROCKBRIDG.
. ALUM-THE C. & o. ROAD TO WASHING
TON-Gov. LEES NEW RoAD-RUMoR
OF EXTENSION OF THE VALLEY RY.
&C.. &C.. &C.
Two corps of engineers are now at Gov
ington, Allegheny county. One is engages
in locating a railroad from that point t.
the Healing, Hot and Warm Springs, AM
the other is locating railroad from Gov
ington to Backbone, some ten miles distant
, Messrs. James A. Frazier of Rockbridge
, and VIM. Mccormick Of Chicago, are th
J moving spirits in the building of one-and
alf-mile-long railroad which will rul
from the Rockbridge Alum to Alum Spring
depot, and thus make a continuous rail lin
from the Springs to Goshen. Capt. T. D
Ransom, agent of the English owners O.
Victoria Furnace) and Mr.. Frazier las
week got commissioners appointed to asses.
erty of the Virginia Iron and Steel Works
/ Association Work on the road will bt
commenced at once.
Engineers have been engaged for some
time past in locating lines from Quantice
on the Potomac to the Chesapeake & Ohio
road at Gordonsville. This is for the new
route of the Chesapeake & Ohio to Wash
ington, in the interest of which three bills
have passed one house of the Virginia leg
islature. The first is a bill to incorporate
the Potomac and Piedmont Railway Com
pany. 1t says that I'M. E. ingalls,, of Gin.
cinnati, e. II. Coster and Samuel Spencer
of New York; W. J. Robertson and T. O
Barbour, of Virginia, their associates, and
successors be and they are hereby made a
body polite and corporate under the name
and style Of the Potomac and Piedmont
Railway Company, under which name it
may sue and be sued, &c."
1t may be lawful for the said company to
construct a line of standard gauge from
Alexandria OF Quantico, OF any other point
on the Potomac river, by such route as the
company may select, to any point OIL points
on the line or lines now operated by the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company
east of the Blue Ridge Mountains The
company may lease the line to other lines
The capital stock shall not be less than $780,.
600, which may be increased to S5,000.000
The next bill authorizes any county, city
OIL town to subscribe to the capital stock of
the Potomac and Piedmont Railway Com
pany, Oh to acquire the bonds of the said
corporation.
The third bill authorizes the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway Company to build sim
ilar line as the above. OIL to acquire same
by purchase or otherwise.
In advocating the passage Of the bill for
the new road, in the House of Delegates on
Tuesday, Mr.. Cardwell said the route would
in all probability start in Albemarle and
pass through the counties Of Madison,
Greene and Rappahannock, and on to Wash
ington.
The Pittsburg & Virginia Railroad (pro-
jected) of which eX-Gov. Lee has been cleo
ted President, will be about 800 miles long.
The route Of the new road will be from
Pittsburg to Connellsville, then to Union
town, and from there to Rowlesburg on the
B. 4 O., whereit will Cross that road. Then
proceeding south it will pass through
Thomas, Buckhannon, Webster, Hunters
vile and Ronceverte, W. Va. to Lexing-
ton. This will be formidable rival to the
B. & o., which is now the chief road for
the iron ore in the Valley to Pittsburg.
The Pittsburg Dispatch says that force
Of contractors and laborers will be put at
work within the next three OF four weeks,
and the road finished as soon as possible.
The earnings of the G. & o. Ry. for the
first week of the new year, exceeded by
$42, 1857, those of the first week of 1889.
Very large land transactions are taking
place in Bedford county, on the belief that
the Valley railroad is to be extended by way
of Salem to Big Spring, in that county, and
on to Bristol. A company has been organized
with 100000 capital and all the real estate,
with one exception, around Big Spring has
been bought up. A letter from Lexington
to the Richmond Times, says:
| The latest railroad news is that the Balti-
more & Ohio will begin the survey of a new
route of the old Valley Railroad from Green
vile, to run down South River, through the
Irish Creek section famous for its irons and
tin, by way of Midvale, Riverside, Buena
Vista, then down North River to Glasgow.
The old line near by will be utilized south to
Salem. The old line is to be abandoned be-
tween Lexington and the Natural Bridge, so
as to reach the new marts OF trade now build
ing without the construction of this new route
from Greenville. If the route was pushed to
Salem, as seems probable, it would leave
Buena Vista and Glasgow far to the left,
which would mean the loss of heavy tonnage.