The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-07-24
TIE SOUTHERN IS COMING
Il Win Require Eighteen Standard
Warehouses and Two Sheds.
The Seaboard Air Line Will Then
mense Traffic With. A Great
Future in Store for This
Hsrbor and Section.

facilities for the handling of the cotton
business of Norfolk, Portsmouth aud
Berklcy, so as to maintain and ID
crease cur Importance ms a commercial
port iu the handling Of this staple aud
s,ther heavy commodities, such as roslp,
suIpentine, lumber, etc.
Cnlvss Indications now pointing to
she vast Southern railway system max
lug this harbor Its deep water termi
GUS fail, which seems we'll nigh I'm
possible, since both Councils have con
Cured III the adoption of the report of
abe committee making lease of the
property now owned 10y Norfolk city at
Gown Point; this object SO devoutly
Vished for has been consummated.
Some six months ugo Mr.. Dawson
Mccormick secured options on oil the
property fronting on what is known as
The Portsmouth nats, extending from
,he property Of the Seaboard AIT Line
10 the UntedsStates Naval Hospital.
The options expire on July 30th mud
include the properties of Nicely. the
Waverly Wuter Front Company, Me.
meyer, Richardson, White, Guthrie
aud what is known as the property of
the Portsmouth Orphan Asylum. The
price at which the properties are to lie
secured aggregate about $500, 600,
which is low price when the water
trout is considered,
The Balm residence, which constr.
tutes portion of this property, has
already been purchased.
There are 100 acres in this
tract und 1t lies directly oppo.
tito the business section of Norfolk.
4hssa flats when filled and laid off
tu lots with streets will yield about
S,lUO lots. When the owners gave the
optious for which they were lberally
paid, they had no idea the land would
ls purchased, but unless the trips
which MIR. Mccormick has recently
unds to New York proves fruit
less. The NihaISIAN, 10 relia.
bly, informed the saies will be
closed when the optious expire. The
Southern railway will not have its ter.
beside its old rival, the Seuboard Air
1hus, and with it possibly share the
cummodious cotton aud storage ware
house that will be needed to accommo
date the foreign aud coastwlse trade of
this port.
This properly will be dredged for
docks aud piers. which will make over
1000 feet of bulkhuads, and If the
pihns roughly mapped out are carried
auto effect, 1t meaus the construction
OF eighteen standard warehouses 80
feet by 200 feet, with two large sheds
1t is easy Of access TO the Seabonrd
Air Line, the Norfolk and Carolina
ond the Atlantic and Dsnville rail
rnads. and will commend itself to the
Norfolk and Southern railroad, the
Norfolk and Western railroad, the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. and to
the river, sound and canal steamers
by ailordlug them definite point for
the delivery Of freight. The total cost
of the expenditures will exceed
500, 900. 1t is understood until
such time as the Southern railway
has developed its plans and arrange.
.uouts they will use the tracks Of
the Norfolk and Carolina railroad
20 PIuuer's Point. The engineers are
now ct work arranging for the neces
sary sidings at tins point, and lumber
aud piles are coming in train loads,
preparatory to the construction OF ad.
.litionnl dock facilities and two large
warehouses.
While it has been said the Southern
railway will make $500 miles OF rail
way tributory to this port, few realize
the great impetus that this vast syatcm
When the Seaboard Air Line pushed
snto Atlanta and took from the
southern much business because of
the daily rail and water connections to
Eastern cities from tins port it did not
take the Southern long to realize they
must abandon West Point, which had
no banking facilities. no trade of its
own, and the steamers made tri-weekly
Ulps only to accommodate the business
OF the Southern.
The coming OF the Southern to this
harbor means IL saving of $50, 600 to
the Merchants and Miners Trauspor.
tation Company, to the Old Dominion
steamship Company and nearly as
much to the Clyde Line, rs 1t saves the
trips to West Point. We will have two
lines TO Baltimore. The present York
silver line are arranging plans for the
construction of two vessels similar to
che Newport News, of the Washington
line. and will run IN opposition to the
BAY Line.
The Southern railway. extending to
Atlanta, Augusta. Ga; Pantks, Fla ::
Meridian, ard Greerville, Miss. Biz.
mingham. Ala, and to Cincinnati, o..
Will throw the products along its line
into our laps. The Seaboard Air Line.
extending to Atlanta, with connections
10 New Orleans and the far West, will
do likewise. The Atlantic Coast Line,
extending to Charleston. drawing, es
its name suggests, the business OF the
atlantic coast. will secure the long
paul wherever possible and must give
charleston and Wilmington the go by,