Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-17
THE NORTHSIDE VIADUCT.
THE EDGEMOOR BRIDGE.WORES AWARDED
THE CONTRACT FOB THIS WORK.
Facts Relating to tho Northsids and
Highiand-Park Improvement
Companies.

The contract for building tho iron via
| duct from the northern terminus of Fifth
street TO Chestnut Hill, connecting tire
splendid properties of the Highland-Psrk
Company and the Northside Land Com
pany with Richmond, was awarded yester-
day to tine EdgemOor Bridge Works, OF
Wilmington. Del. This viaduct will be
! 200 feet long and forty feet wide. giving
ample space for double-track street
railway, a driying-road. and walkway.
The cost OF the same viii be S73.93l, and
the yiaduct Is TO be finished by February /,
1891.
IL will be Of iron and steel, and will not
only be ornamental but strong and solid.
There will be no necessity of sign-boards
warning persons that they will be fined If
their teams 90 over the yiaduct at a faster
gait than walk. for il will be capable of
sustaining 100 pounds 20 the square foot Of
floor, and teams can 90 over 1t at trot;
also. 1t will have a capacity of two thirty
ton electric-motor cars passing each other
at any point.
The officers of the Yiaduct COMPANY are
n. V. Randolph. president; j. III. Four
qurean, vice president; W II. Dunn, secre-
tary and treasurer.
Eight Of the ten men who are building
this viaduct after tho surrender of Lee
walked from AppomattoI Courthouse TO
Richmond and started life without dol
lar.
The Northside and the Highlnnd-Park
companies promise to be the most success
fui enterprise of their kind ever organized
in this city.
These corporations are composed of some
of the most prominent and substantial
businessmen of Richmond, and while they
are conservative they have push, enter
prise, aud public spirit, and with these
three elements success must surely crown
their efforts.
The improvements that have been and
Others yet 10 made must necessarily great
l. increase the values OF the two proper
ties.
This company was organized about SIX
months ago. since which time the land mas
been subdivided into beautiful building
lots. Broad and handsome avenues and
streets have been laid out and thousands
of shade-trees have been planted, and many
houses are now IN course of erection. As
soon a. the viaduct is completed this new
highway will bring Highland Park and its
twin sister, Chestnut Hill. within ten min
utes' ride OF the Capitol Square.
The company intends building tour miles
OF street railway. Electric lights and all
modern conyeniences are being arranged
for, and IN a few months instead OF VII
lage a city will have sprung up on the
/ northern suburbs. Lots in this section
that sold for 5000 few weeks since now
readily command from $500 TO $500, while
several owners are holding lots at $1,000.
Over four hundred lots have been sold.
With the beautiful approach over the
bridge from Fifth street and the close
proximity TO the very centre OF the city OF
Richmond. there is no reason why lots IN
that section will not in the near future
I E.. a.Vn.l anu
far-seeing and shrewd bus ne s-men are
satisfied such viii be the result, and they
are making investments there. and 1t 10
safe to say better investments cannot be
found anywhere in this or any other sec
ton of the country.