Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-28
tAaIONG THE RAILROADS.

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Tue engineers OF .hc j, & O. are
y 4 anryeying i'll Scott county.
The Arrangements for building the
Z BEisf I anAk Elizabethton railroad are
neallyapeerficted.
Dahvilla's city council granted per
mission to the Atlantic and Danvilc
and Danville and East Tennessee
Railways to pass through the city Ly
the river route.
Some excitement was caused in
Rogersvilc last week by letter FROM
the management of the Baltimore Il
Ohio railroad stating that they were
going to Roger*ville to connect with
the Tennessee Midland.
johnson City has n corps of engin
GERS making preliminary survey Of
what will be known us The Watangn
Valley railroad. This road will ira
verso Washington, Carter and John
son counties, and strike the Yadkn
Valley road i'll North Caroline.
The Bristol, Enst Tennessee and
North Carolina railroads. proposition
TO Carter and johnson counties has
stirred up the G people, and nov
they arc talking of building up the
Wutaugu Valley to the North Caro-
lima line where they hope to Join the
Atlantic and Danyllc.
The East Tennessee. Virginia and
Georgia road is putting in heavy thu,
bcrs iii the railroad bridge three
miles east of Rogrrsville on the Ten
nessee and Ohio division ard other
wise improving the road preparatory
to cytraiing the road from that
pace to Big Stone Gap, Va.
The first through train over the
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley rail
way, just left Wilmington for Mount
AIRY, DIS miles distant. Monday
The whole line embraces about 30
miles and is being rapidly extended.
The completion of tho road opens Il
new and immense territory TO the
trade of Wilmington.
President Ingalls,, of the Chosa
apeake and Ohio railroad, says it is
part of the plan of the company in
uvnlling themselves of the franchises
recently granted them by the Gener
oil Assembly of Virginia to establish
lines of steamer between Newport
News and New York and to Liverpool
and they also propose to build sever
nj branch roads through Virginia.
The Ninton Enterprise says: ''R.
b. Gum, Esq, is home again from
the survey of the Virginia Western
railroad, the preliminary survey hav
ing been finished rs far west us the
border OF Washington county, in
which Bristol is situated. This road,
with Major WIN. Jolliifo as engineer,
starts i'll the vicinity of Buchanan,
runs through the counties of Bote
tourt, Craig, Giles, Bland, Tazewell,
and Washington, parallel with the
Norfolk and Western, and between
that road and its Clinch Valley divi-
sion from New River west. IT will
probably connect with the Tennessee
Midland, now under construction mt
or near Bristol. and form through,
line via the Richmond and Allegheny
division of the Chesapeake and Ohio
between Richmond and Memphis
Col A. S. Buford is at the head OF
the enterprise
The people of Wilmington, n. G..
are jnbilant over the completion OF
the Yndkin Valley railroad, between
Wilmington and Fayetteville, whicl
gives that line three hundred ant
twenty six miles Of railway, and vii
mington closer commercial relation.
with nineteen counties, embracing
twelve thousand seven hundred ant
fifty-niEe square miles of territory
and sustaining a population of thre
hundred and sixty three thouSan,
five hundred and seventy two. Tn
territory thus made adjunct TO vii
Dlington stretches to the base of tn
Blue Ridge, and possesses almos
boundless resources i'll the way Of aa
riculturc, minerals, water power. etc
A force of hands has gone to Mour
Airy, and grading has begun Oh tn
part of the road that will connee
with the Norfolk and Wester, raj
road across the Virginia lino In
few weeks the grading force will b
increased to five hundred hands, and
il the intention of the managemci
to complete their part of the extel
sion within the next six months. I'll
Norfolk and Western will also bull
eastward to meet the extension.