The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-12-07
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THE NORFOLK Project


Schuylkili Enterprise.
The county papers have for several days
past published accounts Of company Of
Schuylkill countians forming a project to
build an electric railway at Norfolk. Va.
The publications are a little premature, al
though all the points bearing upon the pro-
ject are practically settled, but as the public
has been given considerable information it
may as well have the benefit Of all.
The project is one that promises ample re-
turn to the projectors and does not stop at the
construction Of an electric railway but ass
includes land company for the sale and
building up of one Of the most valuable sec
tions in the suburbs of Norfolk But the
railway alone will be most profitable. The
project takes in the construction of = means
Of rapid transit by electricity between Nor
folk and health and pleasure resort about
eight miles northward known rs Willoughby
Spit. In speaking of the venture the Nor
folk Landmark says Am electric line from
Norfolk to Willoughby Spit, connecting by
ferry with Old Point Comfort, would prove
one of the beat paying investments in this or
any other section OF country"
In addition to bringing the valuable
suburbs and Old Point Comfort into closer
touch with the city Of Norfolk the truckers
along the line will enjoy unusually good
facilities for getting heir truck from their
farms to the market in the city. The road
will carry the truck into the market for one
half the cost of hauling by farm wagons and
will practically move the farms up to thu
city limits, and it will stimulate the growth
Of bulky farm products.
The projectors have also CLEANED sufficient
information to warrant them in the belief
that the passenger traffic of such line would
be immense from the very start Cheap laud
FOR parks can be had anywhere along the
line and it would shorten the time and
cheaper the rate to Old Point Comfort the
Mecca Of many thousands of pilgrims au-
nually.
1t is safe to say that between a 25OOOO and
100000 people would go over the line the
first year, besides the many people who would
visit the parks. From 100000 to 100000
packages of truck would be transported over
the line annually. There is no better street
railway stock in the United States to-day
than that Of the electric railway running
between Hampton and Old Point Comfort,
which is ouly about three miles long.
1t will thus be seen that the Schuylkiu
countians who have entered upon the Southern
project have something solid to work upon
aud are receiving every encouragement from
the people in and around Norfolk. The
Landmark OF that city is very enthusiastic
over the project and says, In case the line
is built, the farmers and truckers can get
their farm produce into town more quickly
and cheaper than by any other way The
building Of an electric lins from Norfolk
northward to the Chesapeake, will be but the
beginning of a series of developments of the
greatest Importance to this section of the
country. Such line cannot fail to have
splendid patronage at the very outset, The
aggregate of fish, oysters, farm products, and
people to pass over the line would make it
one of the best paying short lines Of railway
in the world"