Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-23
BUSINESS MEN CONFER
ON PROPOSED NEW ROAD
Headquarters for UrDanna Railroad
Project Opened in American
National Bank building.
WILL APPLY FOR CHARTER
Engineers Are Authorized to Make
More Elaborate Surveys Than
Those Used for Preliminary Work.
Chambers Support to BE Sought.

Preliminary plans of the pronosed
railroad line between West Point and
Crbanna were explained yesterday in
detail at a meeting of local capitalists
ana business men interested in bringing
| tho trade of the prosperous Rappnhan-
| mock River country to this city Head
quarters FOR the company were opened
IN the American National Bank Build :
, ing, and 1t is probable that applica
ton for charter for the road will be
filed with the State Corporation Com
mission within Il week
Committees have been named from
each or the five counties to be tanned
| by the proposed line, and as soon as
! these get together and appoint per-
manent WORKING body, meeting will
be hold In this city. when detailed
| plans for the Capitalization of tho
! scheme will be discussed. That this
, meeting will be held in the very near
future was indicated yesterday when
engineers were authorized to make
more elaborate surveys and estimates
than those used for the preliminary
| work
WILL ASK CHAMBER TO
ASSIST CAPITALIZATION
! The Richmond Chamber Of Commerce
and other civic organizations will be
asked to aid in the capitalization of the
road. Each of the five counties through
! which the line will pass will he cam
VaSsed for subscriptions to the COM
pany's stock. and local business men
will be asked to aid the project by TAX
| ing stock in it, Local bankers will
| take up the bonds of the company in
order to provide the funds necessary
for construction purposes.
Engineers will immediately make de-
! tailed plans for the road over the route
F., already surveyed. When their report
is made. the committee will have some
, thing tangible to present to the pub
! lie, and 1t is believed that there will
be little difficulty in getting the neces-
sary money.
INSPECTION PARTY SAYS
OUTLOOK is ENCOURAGING
Tho committee of Richmond bust
ness men who made the inspection
/ tour of the proposed route and of Mid
| dleseS County early in the week re-
/ port the outlook most encouraging,
and are confident that the people along
the proposed line will readily rally
to it's support. The new road will tap
a country which has needed railroad
! facilities for years. and which has fire.
! quently been tho goal toward which
promoters have endcavored to travel.
| Owing TO obstacles of various sorts,
particularly the opposition TO n rail-
road bridge across navigable streams,
| the plans have fallen through. A
bridge. however. has been built over
the Mattaponi River. and is sufficiently
! large to carry any railroad train in
, the South.
| 1t is seventeen miles from West
Point to Urbanna. but il is freely pre-
| dicted that the road will not stop at
that point. and that 1t will be extended
considerably farther within few
years. 1t will have every opportunity
. To spread In several directions all of
B which lead to virgin territory, as far
| as railroads are concerned, and all of
| which do an immense shipping trade
! by boat, and import huge quantities
OF goods by the same means
/ Oliver j. Sands Thomas r. Gresham
! and r. II. Bruce are acting as the
! committee to confer with the COM
mittces appointed by the various coun-