Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-01
NORFOLK s. WESTERN.
MoEE TESTIMONY REaARDISd Irs WoS.
DERFUL GRowriI.

The Columbus tOhio Dispatch
publishes the following from it's cor
respondent, Mr.. G. 0. Hunter;
The Norfolk and Western railroad
system, says MIR. Hunter, comprising
more than 1900 miles, is owned and
oiiicered by far,sering, enterp, ising
and active people. The railway is
subsidiary, or the vehicle on which
they carry TO successful ends the nu.
merons Investments which they made
i'll undevcloped lands, minerals, tim
bers, town sites, steamboat and barge
ini ercstS, terminals, wharf proper
ties, traffic facilities, etc. They ar.
range and manage so that each inter
est feeds. nourishes, supports and
strengthens every other.
The original main linc of 4OS miles
extends between Norfolk and Bristol.
Tenn, and is now being double track
ed to accommodate the vast volume
of lumber, coal, iron and cotton
freiShts intended for export, coast
and foreign.
There are many branch lines with
others i'll progress of construction
and to he completed within tho com.
ing year. 1t connects by one branch
Of The load with lines that load to
Wilmington, n. c., and to the South
west; it is compl ting its Clinch Val
ley extcfsion to II point in Wise coun-
ty, Va, near tho kentucky line, and
TO connect with the Louisville and
Nashville system, running from New
Orleans TO Chicago, and also from
the New River southwestern conl
fields division of the road northwest
wardly to the Ohio River, there by
bridge to connect with tho Sciotu
and Hooking Valleys, which arc III
terics into Central Ohio, the worry
heat of the republic.
The liberal policy Of it's manage
mant has encouraged emigration and
Investment ali along lis line, and that
most promising rcsioA of Smtl,w est
ern Virginia is now responding every
where 10 the touch Of capital and en-
tcrprise
With the Scioto Valley thus ab
sorbed and the Kannwha and AIicli
gan by the Chesapeake and Ohio
Columbus will have by the forl. er
and by the Hooking Valley and
Chesapeake and Ohio. two addition
al, new rival and direct seabonrd
routes leading to tho deepest and
most comuOlious harbor of til,
world. So large indeed that the en-
tire shipping Of the globe could here
find haven, having as she has (
double coast defense through the
natural channel and by way Of the
Albemarlc and Chesapeake canal
connecting Chesapeake bay with Cur
rituclk, Albcmurlc, Pamlico, Cove am
Dogae sounds and their tributar,
streams.
Norfolk lies on the north hank o.
he Elizabeth river, at the conflu,nct
of the eastern and western branchc.
of that stream, eight miles iron
lInmpton Roads and twenty three
miles from Cape Charles and Henry
on the Atlan!ic coast. The chanme
of the river at the city is between
1000 ani 1900 feet wide and twenty
two feet deep, low tide; the current
is about one mile per hour.
Columbus iron and wood ranu
facturcrs, concludes Mr. Hunter, have
IN opportunity To invest i'll mimein
and timber lands along the valley.
, Of the Ktnawha, New and Shcnan
doah, that will not be open to then
very long. Eastern capital, through
improvement companies, is buying il
large tracts.
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