The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-01
Rich Lands Paying Trib-
ute to Baltimore Open
ing Up to Richmond.
NEW RAILWAY LINE
BIG PROPOSITION
Great Farms Within Short Dis
lance of Richmond Paying
Tribute to Another City Be-
cause of Poor Shipping Fa-
cilities-New Railway to
Change These Things.

~ '''' ~ az VIC Id.nunkeS valley re-
Eion, the territory that is to be de-
veioped By the Richmond and Kappa
hammock River Railway Company. a
company that is building a steam rail-
way inc to penetrate the trucking sec
ton of Hanover County the sheen
raising and stock raising and the corn
ana wheat growing regions betw een
Richmond and on 10 the Pamunkey.
RIVER, taking in the finest agricultu-
RAJ grounds have ever seen and
known locally as the Pamunkcv VAL
ley country There are some folks
among the readers of The Times Dis
patch who know but little. If any
thing, about the Pamunkey VALLEY and
the rich lands that are Incorporated
within that designation. hat these VIII
learn In due time This railway lin.
Is TO go far beyond the Pamtinkev
valley, beyond the little river that
forms the PamuflSey boundary. across
King William County 10 the Mat,apoDi
RIVER. over that stream into King and
queen County. across the game. and
on into MiddleseX County. through its
rlch domains. down to the mouth of
the Erea; Rappa hammock River. 1T the
GOOD town OF Jrbanna. where ii VIII
have ferry service that viii bring
all OF the Northern Neck right-into
the lap u Richmoud But of all OF
Along the Pamunl>ry.
l am inclined 10 thinIt that there is
no more valuable land in al! virginia
than is to be found along The Pamunlsey
River on both sides OF il in Hanover
County. IN kins William County. and
IN an OF the other counties that touch
on tho borders OF The river named
The Pamunkcy Valley. as FAR as I
have been able to see X from two sides
OF inc river, ana in a buCcy tour OF
Only two days. was much 81 = reveia
ton. | went Gown into That country
10 studJ the railway situatfou hut
saw so much 81 au industrial and farm
ing nature J loss much OF my interest
IN the railway situation However, the
railway propoeition Is d big Thing. and.
o' courae. wrapped 40 IN Il is the farm
inE proposition
Dn 10 Baltimore.
saw sc-aa ~ MS tho Pamunkey
VALLEY that are wQgllf their weight in
gold to Richmoud n Richmond will
looi,>aiter them. bGt how is Richmond
going 10 look after them without a
railroad? Just - Illustrate Down at
New Castle, where the 2,0OQ or more
acres Of Roland p Broaddus and the
1000 or less acros 81 Julian VI Rufin
and the several hundred acres % IL O.
Alexander on tho Hanover side or the
Pamunkey River end The vast acres
Just across in Elne William County.
and dsgned bt enthusiastic farmers
such as Sam Goa. charles X Kelicy.
p l.. Jones. Frank Beale. " H. Bon
ner. j. = Ennis II r West and others.
are paying tihute 10 Baltimore DO
you mind taat2 Does the Richmond
commission merchant or the Chamber
OF Commerce or the Business Mems AS
ISOLATION really take in the fact that
Virginia farmers. WITHIN eighteen miles
of Richmond, arc really doing all Of
their profitable business with Balti-
more?
~ Winter Route.
1t is fact WAS on the banks OF
the Pamunkey River only ten days ago.
and saw 4 little two-masted schooner
tied up 10 landing al New Castle, just
where the Richmond and Eappahan-
mock River Railway VIII cross that
stream. The schooner came from Bal
timore. down the Chesa peake Bay, up
the York River 10 West Point. then
up the Pamunkey as far as its sails
would take ii. and then. ten miles
below the place ! saw ii. n gasolenc
engine took the lob In hand, and by
this power the two-master was taken
on up the river 10 New Castle. where
1t unloadcd many tons OF freight and
took day oil tc take on freight for
ia fillmore. IN time. 1t Got load OF
Virginia products for the Baltimore
market.
Whcnt Shipments.
do not know just what the two
masted schooner got loaded with the
day L was down there except garden
and orchard products and lambs and
some other things, but one ofthe farm
ers who was with me when | was look
ing on told me that four farms ada
cent To the landing of that little
schooner shipped by If last fall 1900
bushels Of wheat. which was consigned
to Baltimore commission merchants.
This same man talked to mo n little
further. and here is just what he said:
we are within twenty miles of Rich
mond. We love Richmond. The mar
ket quotations show us that we might
do better with our wheat in Richmond
than we can in Baltimore. but the
trouble is. we cannot get to Richmond.
Our only way TO get there is by wagon
and we have figured it out: 1t costs
us more to get our wheat to Rich
mond. distant eighteen miles by mule
wagon and over rather bad roads, than
1t does by this little two-masted
schooner to Baltimore, distance close
to a 100 miles. What we want is a
line down iii this country to
Richmond" ! may add that the cry
OF all Richmond should be: YES. and
what Richmond wants is a railway limo
down into that rich country and far
beyond"
Virginia HustlcrS.
Among the big farms that are To-
Gated within eighteen miles of Rich
mond and yet are shipping largely of
their products TO Baltimore. and for
reasons above told about are those of
Julian NJ Rufiin and Roland +. Broad
dus. men who have probably done more
within the past quarter century to
make Virginia farming great and hon
orable than any half dozen other men,
have on my notebook a lot of data
about the way these two men and other
famunkey Valley farmers have been.
old Virginia blossom as q rose,
and j am going to use this data ere
long. 1t Is enough just now to say
mat the sheep and lamb industry and
the cattle raising proposition. and ne.
cessarily the grass proposition, are