Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-09-06
RAILROAD. BUILDING.


j RAILROAD BUILDING.
THE EXTENSION OF THE VALLEY RAIL
RoAD-THE PROGRESS OF THE CHEsA-
PEAKE s WESTERN, WESTWARD.
Vice-P President King, of the B. & 0. and
Gen. Gill, OF the Cape Fear and Yadkin
Valley road, who went to Roanoke on a
mission looking to the extension of the
Valley railroad from Lexington to Roanoke,
have returned to Baltimore. It is stated
that an agreement has been decided upon,
subject, possibly, to notifications later, as
follows: The people of Roanoke and resi-
dents along the line, are to build about
twenty miles oil road from Roanoke to the
! Chesapeake and Ohio at Buchanan. This
twenty miles of road is to be rented to the
Baltimore and Ohio at SIS, OOOa year, OF six
per cent on its cost of construction. The
Baltimore and Ohio, which now goes to
Lexington, is to use the Chesapeake and
Ohio line from there to Buchanan, and en-
ter Roanoke over the new road. In con-
sideration of this use Of its line to Buchan-
!
new road and thus get an entrance into Ro-
, anoke. This gives Roanoke two new out
let's, and gives the Baltimore and Ohio and
Chesapeake and Ohio new connections South
over the Roanoke and Southern ard Cape
Fear and Yadkin Valley roads as far as
Wilmington, n. c. 10 Staunton it will
open new southern market, hitherto al
| most inaccessible, for the products of its
| Touring mills, and to Augusta county it
will give new market for it's hay and other
products.
At Monterey, on last court day, the peo-
pie of Highland held meeting to take into
consideration aiding the Chesapeake and
Western by subscription. 1t was addressed
by Col. Machen, of the CAV, w. Richard,
of Rockingham, State Senator G. z. Jones
and others in favor of extending aid. The
proposition Of the railroad company, as
Read by MI. Jones, was to sell the stock at
300 share, with the contract that the
buyer should only be called on to pay one
half when the road was completed to Mon
terey, and the other half when it was COM
The meeting voted in favor of subscrip-
tions to the road and appointed commit
tea member from each township-to So
licit them. DR.. l. II. Trimble, who made
trip to Back Greek, in Highland, in the
interest OF securing rights OF way for the
railroad, found nearly all the farmers will
ling to give the right of way free, and sew
eral of them willing to buy the company S
stock.
President Reinhart, of the Chesapeake &
Western, was interviewed in Baltimore on
Saturday. After stating what work had
been done on the road in Rockingham, he
said that the whole twenty-five miles in that
county would be finished by November.
From Bridgewater west the road will be
extended over the old Marrow Gauge grade
thirty-fve miles, to within fifteen miles of
the West Virginia line. For the sixty-two
miles of the road to be built at present, So
pound steel rails have already been bought.
Four lines eastward from Elkton are being
surveyed, but no deep water terminus has
been decided on. The line westward will
probably pass through North River Gap in
Augusta county, and go through Highland
and Bath, in Virginia, and Pendleton. Po-
cahontas and Greenbrier, in West Virginia,
to the borders of the trans-Appa1achian
coal field in Greenbrier and Nicholas coun-
ties, West Virginia. A continuation of
the road to the Ohio river is also planned
by the syndicate, crossing for an airline
distance OF seventy-6ve miles the counties
Of Greenbrier, Nicholas, Clay and Kanawha,
perhaps following the Elk river to the Great
Kanawha at Charleston, or, following the
Gauley river to it's mouth, to the Great
KanaWha near its falls. From Charleston
route: fifty miles long to the Ohio river
would be followed.
Mr.. VIM. Mcdonald Lee, of Irvington,
Lancaster county, formerly of Staunton)
has secured the rights of way for the Vir-
ginia, Fredericksburg and Western Rail
road in all the Northern Neck counties ex-
cept King George. This is the road which
is to cross the Valley through Shenandoah
county.
Mr.. Charles F. Nelson, of Winchester,
counsel for the Virginia, Fredericksburg
and Western railway, has been instructed
to secure the right Of way for the road
through certain sections west of Strasburg.
The road is to go through Manassas Gap.
The completion of the Chesapeake and
Western railway to Bridgewater is to be
celebrated by a barbecue there, on Friday,
| September 18th.
The FIRST Page Of the Virginia Senate.
MI. VIM. McCauley, Of Salem, with his
daughter, Miss Julia McCauley, was a
guest Of Mr.. J. J. Prufer this week, on
his way home from trip down the Valley.
He is member of the Board of Trustees
of Roanoke College. Mr.. McCauley was
the first page the Virginia Senate had, and
served in that capacity for four years from
1850. His father, the late John McCauley,
was Senator from the district then composed
of Allegheny, Bath, Roanoke, Craig, Bote-
tourt, Pocahontas and other counties, and
it was by accompanying him to Richmond
at the age Of twelve, that the son got the
appointment. He has a personal recollec-
ton of all the prominent legislators of that
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