The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-04
Altavista Firm Will
Construct 1t Within
Year.
CONTRACT PRICE
IS S1,4 0 90 0
Financed by New York Capital,
Richmond. Washington and
Chesapeake Railway Will
Tap Virgin Area and
Open New Territory
to Richmond.

The Northern Neck CONSTRUCTION
COMPANY. OF New York, it was reported
yesterday from AItavista has award
edit ne contract for the construe-
lion OF the Richmond, Wash!n2:~m aud
Chesapeake Railway. popularity known
as the Northern Neca .:a.Toad." 70
Lane Bros. Co. railroad builders. u
Altavista. The dispatch names sl.foo.-
900 as the contract price ana states
that W ork will begin at once.
Beginning at boswell, on tho Rich
mond. Fredericksburg and i'"tomac
and Chesapeake and Ohio. % miles
from Hichm ond the road ~ill run
cast through Caroline. King William.
King and Queen, Essex. Richmond
and northumberland Counties. 10 WI
cornlco. on the Chesapeake Bay. when
Will be its eastern terminal II will
pass through Aylett in King and
Queen and cross the Happahannock
River at Tappahannock. The road will
be- little more than eighty miles lons-
In,ai-~ Virgin Territory.
The movement for the construction
of a railroad through the Northern
Richmond more than year age and
received at once the support Of the
Chamber of Commerce and other COM
mercial orga nfzations. It proposed 10
open up TO Richmond a large and fer
tile section IF the tSate which is at
present without railroad facilities oil
any kind. and which trades almost eX-
clusively with Baltimore by way OF
the Chesapeake Bay
The enterprise was chartered by
the State Corporation Commission on
February 10. 1872, with an authorized
CAPITAL OF $4,000. 600. The charter al
lowed the company a minimum capt.
tai stock of sl.oee,000 and designated
Richmond as the home Office OF the
corporation
Negotiations we're at once begun, for
the sale OF stock in this city ar IN
the North Richmond capital suD-
scribed sparngiy. and the project
rested while the officers and incorpo-
rators made An effort to secure the
needed money in the North The nee
essary funds were secured in New
York, where by far the largest amount
of the stock was taken
Charter Names Richmond Men.
Charming NJ Ward. Of this city. was
named as president Of the Richmond
Washington and Chesapeake Railway
Company in the application FOR a char-
ter The other charter officers are;
y. Randolph Wexford. Richmond, vice
president, and Charles W. Luck. Tap
pahannock, secretary and treasurer In
the list of incorporatOrs are Included
Thomas Brown. Hague: James Lewis
Miller, Virginia: T.. NJ Darlington.
Richmond, and Edward A Cannei'
Tappahannock- 3.
At the time OF it's Incorporation II
was stated that construction on the
new road would begin about March 1,
1912. The hitch in securing the nee
esssry funds brought delays. with the
result that work was repeatedly oe-
ferred The company expects TO De
gin construction within the --sxt lew
days. and promises 10 have the track
complete within the year
standard Gauge Road.
The Richmond, Washington and
Chesapeake Railway Will be a modern
standard gauge road with heavily
balIasted roadbed capable OF handling
the heaviest passenger and fre'ght
trafffc II Will tap large section OF
the state that has never in It's his
tori heard the whistle OF locomotive.
and will mean much to the develop
ment of the Northern Neck.
with the completion Of the new road,
IL is expected. will come a closer com
nunity of interest between Richmond
state The area that will be opened up
IS a rich trucking. fishing and oyster
ing section which. because Of the alb
~ence of transportation facilities TO
the capital city. has been compelled 10
trade almost exclusively with Balti-
more and other Chesapeake Bay cities
Operate Daily Train.
one o. the provisions. IL is under
stood. upon the strength of which the
stock Of the new road was offered for
sale in this city. was that the road
would operate a through train daily
between Richmond and Wicomic Such
an arrangement. of course. Will hinge
uoon the cooperation OF the Richmone
fredericksburg and Potomac and
Chesapeake and Ohio. both of which
roads connect with the Northern Neck
railroad at boswell. its western termi-
nal
At Wicomico the new line will have
deem water to the sea by way of the
Wicorico River and Chesapeake Bay.
IL will touch the important towns or
the several counties through which IL
will run. and impart to them the new
lsfe which follows the entrance OF a
railroad into territory which has
known only the wagon and skin.
To the Richmond Chamber Of Com
ne-ce goes a large share Of the cred
IL for its support Of the project in the
carly DAYS. when ~ was IN its forna-
tive stage. In his annual message TO
the membership Of the chamber at the
Jefferson Hotel last Tuesday night.
President Darlington called attention
to the enterprise and predicted that