The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-20
||RlI BEGINNING
0F URBANNA ROAD
WORK IS ASSURED
Uanowed Interest In Railway 10
ssBaItimore" Counties Comes
With Announcement
MEANS TWO MILLION
A YEAR TO RICHMOND
Hcople of Rich Section Evidenced
Their Desire 10 Reach Richmond
Market Ivy Making large Su''@eT1p-
ton.

Announcement was made In Rich
mond newspapers yesterday by Chair
man T. NJ. Darlington OF the kaeh-
mond campaign committee raising
$50. 900 subscriptions to tho caplN'l
stock of the Urhanna-Nest ROM
Railway. that all but between Sa,et"
ana $4,000 of the amount allotted %
Richmond has been secured. has IN
tansified interest in the new ralItot. i
proposition. il is anticipated that
within the coming week the books Of
preliminary subscription Will rs
closed The na nes Of subscribers -
the stock. both in Richmond ana IA
the nountles 10 be- reached by the sew
railway are to be published I'D snort
time.
The work Of securing stock sub
ecriptions to the amount nt $4"d'p0'
having been almost conc iadeA, u Is
stated that the actual woik or CON
struction will he begun by The cor
tractors. Winston Brothers, within the
next two or three weeks. There VIII
remain, after the closing OF the stoeN
books. only The arranging for th"
bond 10 be given ny the contractors
and the getting OF necessary materials
for the road on the ground
Year TN Which to Pay.
Subscribers to the capital stock ~
The road are 10 pay twenty-five peg
cent of the amount subscribed on the
signing OF the contract and mo piac-
ing OF bond and the balance in three
quarterly instalments, giving them "A
year in which 70 pay their suhScTiP-
tions.
That the interest Of the people Of
the section through which the pro-
posed Richmond, Rappahannock and
Northern Railway. as the Urbanna-
Wess Point line is officially known
is keen is evidenced by the fact thai
the people of the counties TO be ira
yeYs ed by. or tapped by. the new rail
ROAD. subscribed the amount allotted
10 them. 5000, within very short
time after the proposition was pre-
scented They also secured and grant
ga right of way over the land, sc
j cured terminal facilities, and other
wise aided in the work incident to the
launching of the enterprise
Numerous Dtstrac uops.
In Richmond the business men APP
peared enthusiastic, hut they have
been slower to take hold Of the dea
In as firm n manner as did their coHn-
try neighbors There we're numerou.
4 5istra ctions in the city that seemed Z
delay the work of securing tho stool
subscriptions TO the amount az $50
eeo. Richmond's portion Of tho road
capital stock There Was great he's
pitai campaign which took the tim
n and attention OF some 81 those VIII
had been looked upon "a prohnbl
active workers ina the trbanna railwa
Il caaupaign The Summer season la
4 caIfed a large numb Der of business nae
away on their vacations. The custo
mary summer lGIl I'm business. Will
NOT SO great AS ia former years, wa
\ sufficiently noticeable to lead man
TO feel that here was opportunity Il
get away from business cares for
time. and going they put beyon'
their thoughts. apparently, the Urban
ma railway proposition.
number Of these vacaGonlsts ar
now returning to Richmond and thet
attention once more is being Gale
to the splendid opportunity offered b
the com pleuon and the early opera
tion of a railway into the section q
a dozen so-Calied Baltimore couu
ties.
l. Good. Rich Country.
The country To be reached by Rich
4 mond over the new lines is ono q
the richest in the state; one OF tn
( richest agricultural sections IN the
/ South. very garden spot. The PEG
pie making this section their h0m
are prosperous and thrifty folk The
are good business people and wouh
he better but for the fact that tibet
1 field Is restricted by lack u ratwe.
I facilities.
For nearly three centuries the,
y have had to depend upon water trans
Y portation. which put them closer T,
4 the Baltimore markets than 70 Rich
4 mond, though Baltimore. geographt
h Caily, averages more than twice HI
Il distance from NIL points IN the terri
tory than does Richmond. There g.
& highway com munication from man,
81 Of these points To Richmond. hu
\ travel overland to this city IL slowe
and more difficult than water trave
70 Baltimore.
Want 10 Get To Richmond
FARMERS living in other sections o
The country are Interested in tht
0ui10ing Of the proposed road ana
& nulnber of queries have been re
OotSed by people OF the Baltimore
counties and by Richmond bushes
men. They have fought Information
~ TO progress OF the new railway
q rome have asked whether or not /
Will be ready by next spring for III
ahipment OF truck,
~ Guae OF the latter class OF Inquire
u am61cate that they have under consid
er411On moving into Virginia, into III
Il 1g0C&Aern Neck country. into the sec
4 33oo the new road viii reach. Anon
5sBodnnt letters Of inquiry is one re
oo1Xod by Oliver J. Sands. presi der
Ri ~ Ne American National Bank, an
o1aN of the larger stockholders of III
n Rlchmo nd. Rapp hammock and NORTH
1rn Railway. Tho letter comes from
ESAnA eastern Maryland farmer. ]
HFoa0s as follows:
&ek4S - q m 81 30
there are for the Yves
H09Q4- Urbauna Railroad TO handl
and other trucking pro
omD from this section next spring.
SvAs raised in a trucking sector
K mDtern Maryland and am anxiou
- evolop fhis section along thea
w. A1 farmers need 20 be interesta.
n4 nstructed IN the growing, grad
E md packing OF trucks, espeoiaii,
Neaioupes
he cArtaioupss ralssd here RI psr