Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-02
THE ROUTE OF THE c. 6 w.
East and West Has Not Yet Been
Determined.

conied extensively, in which Mag
led Hotchkiss. in an interview with
a Post reporter, mapped ont route
the Chesapeake & Western railroad
would take east and west OF Rock
ingham county; ard as everybody
now that the construction Of the
road through Rockingham county
.i an assured fact, is AK Gus tc know
what course 1t will take east and
west, a Free Press representative
called III Col. Machen to get at the
facts in the case. We give below
the interview with the Colonel:
Reporters it correct that your
road will take the route as mapped
out by Maj. H"tchkiss in publish
ed interview with the Washington
Post?
Col Machen-Let me make you
! this statement as covering the sub
iect: We are building road across
the Valley that can be used either
as local line or trunk line. If
YOU refer to the columns Of the
Free Press Of recent date, you
will find a statement made that We
didn't propose to go any further un-
I'll we tested the local feeling. both
east and west. If an air line should
be drawn across Rockingham coun-
ty from east to west, it would touch
the points named by the Major; but
business men, who are able to build
railroads, are Influenced very large
ly by local considerations. The
general purpose to serve a (e tam
section or sections Of country may
BE- carried ont without neceSsarlal-
~ adhering to rigidplan There
fore, a set OF live, active, tireless
workers in some small place that
was perhaps little less favorably
situated, might inspire a feeling
, that a road could afford to 60 lif-
tie ont Of its way and meet them as
a matter of present and future prof
= it. As an illustl alton Of it. you
= have your own county here thai
Q diverted a line from a course lit
: tie shorter. The final location O
|. a line depends upon various contln
t gencies, and [ should say upon sew
5 eral principles lefhargy of any cou'
e ty or community would be very IN
t wise if based upon hearsay evidenc
d that a road was coming to thee
S without encouragement.
IS R.-But, Colonel, | would like t
& have more direct answer to m,
J, question, if yop will give it.
O Col. Met me say to you em
r phatically and without circnmlocu
II ton that our lire has not been ded
= nitely located in the interior or
f tide water. And while the genera
st course is fixed. we are at this MI
n ment awaiting reports from our VI
It rious engineer corps ard our frienC
a in ,ther counties, so that we ma
d have full light upon the question
n of economy in building and Loot
o, feeling as regards the ENTERPRISE.
to R.-Then should say, CoJone
e. that if counties beyond here wan
We ed the road the quicker they got
h. move on the better it would be #
nd them.
es Col. M.-Well, you have sized
T. up in sentence much better thu
h I could have done. Rockingha
id made her bid and is getting
nd quicker, bigger and better than s.
ur axpecfed. and the counties east al
to west have the opportunity to DO t
at same thing. in the same wav- !
n the way. Rockingham county stan
es out before the whole world as
o. example to show what c0ur age a
We unity can do. IF YOU will onlv
ge feet for a moment, it will rec
on the fact that there are no idle NJ
Of loafng around and no idle tear
no eating their heads off. bnt in adj
IL ton to the employment of all 20
IN surplus labor there is demand !
cir thousand extra men right now
isa work on the construction Of I'll
by road. and their pay is sure once
ish month. 1t is as if a clond burst
no prosperity had oversprcad the cor
I'D Nv all IF snddpn. Az an inustl