Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-04-01
A Pittsburgh Road TO Richmond.


The above heading is not intended 10
imply that there is already a railroad
from Pittsburg to Richmond, but that a
movement is on foot In West Virginia
such road. Before the revolution Of
IT'S Pittsburg was a part OF Virginia.
The County Court OF Augusta county was
once held there we think. And II before
the war between the States there had been
q railroad from Richmond TO Pittsburs
or Wheeling or II the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company had never been al
lowed 20 come into this State. Virginia
would have been to-day undivided ard in
dlvisiblc.
However we will let the past go, and
say 10 our readers that during the cur
rent week branch railroad from Fair
mont. w. Va. TO Pittsburg was opened
and a large delegation Of West Virsinians
went on an excursion to Pittsburg.
Wheeling IS in danger. and may now rea-
lie that II would have been better for
her had she remained true to Virginia
instead Of deserving her mother.
We say that this new road from Pitts
burg 10 Fairmont heads for Richmond.
We quote the Wheeling 1ntelligencer:
at Fairmont you also connect with the
northern terminus OF the Camden system
| Of railroads. which extend $50 miles south
into the very heart Of the interior coun-
tics of the State by the Monongdhela
river railroad 10 ClarksburS, ana thence
by the West Virginia and Pittsburg ran
road TO It's present terminus, at cam
den-on-Gauley This system OF road IL
OF reccrt construction. 1t extends along
the west fork of the Monongahela river
from IArmOnt to ClarksburS, "A distance
OF thirty-three miles. through one 81 the
finest agricultural and mineral valleys or
the state.
From Clarksburg the road extends
through the counties Of Harrison and
Lewis to Weston. Here the road forks
one branch extending through Lewis and
Upshur TO Pickehs, in Randolph county,
and the other through LOWS, Braxton.
and Webster counties to Camden-on-Gau-
ley"
And Just here comes in the railroad 10
Richmond. We quote again:
Twenty miles east Of Fairmont, at
GRAFTON, Il i've lpNA VI WV lNNP4Nf ~
connect with the Grafton and Green
! brier branch of the Baltimore and ono
railroad, which extends south to Beltng-
ton. in Barbour county, Il distance OK
thrty-six miles, where direct COMMUNE
| cation is made with the Davis system OF
| railroads, called the West Virginia, Con-
trail, and Pittsburg railroad. which
sweeps around through Randolph. Tucker,
Grant, and Mineral counties. traverSins
one OF the best timber and mineral regions
OF the State connecting at Piedmont with
| the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and at
Cumberland Md, with the Pennsylvania
system Of railroads"
This road from Grafton to Greenbrier
would be in effect a road from Pittsburg
| TO Richmond. Grafton IS about 90 miles
| from Baltimore, and not much further
from Richmond, and soon after you start
| from Grafton on this road you viii lie
nearer to RichmoTd than 10 Baltimore.
| The region which might thus be made
| tributary to Richmond-and will before
| many years-abounds In the richest OF
natural resources. Before 1850 England
was known 10 set ship timber from that
region. The veins OF coal are fabuiously
large and rich. And so OF other things.