Year: 1859

kfILsOAD UPON THE BaooKE TURN


PIKs.-Our readers will be gratifed to learn that


ar. Lyous has projected a scheme of Railroad to


Do worked by horse power, upon the Brooke Turn


PIKE, which is to extend from its ntersection with


the Richmond Frederick sburg Railroad in Broad
street, to the settlement formerly known as the
Yellow Tavern, distant five miles from this city,
and that 1t has found ready favor with the en-
iightened Directory of the Turnpike Company,
aud the gentlemen residing on or near the turn-


pike, who will subscribe literally to the consruc.
| tion Of the Railroad, the cost of which can
not be great, there will be little or no grad
ing to do. We know of no small work which
will be productive of more benefit TO our city
| than this road. The Brooke Turnpike is one of


the great avenues for the country trade, by laud,
TO Richmond, and Is used for travel by great


many persons from the Interior as we'll as by those
residing near 1t, who are now compelled 70 bring


their carriages and drivers into the cry and keep
them here while they remain, making thereby the


expense of the visit too serious to be endured very
| often. These persons would fnd it much more
convenient and economical to come iu their own
carriages to point within Eve miles of the city,
| aad there take car, which for tr.ae of twenty
hve or thirty cents would bring them quickly
| and comfortably, and deposit them at the
depot of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomsc Railroad Company, In the very heart


OF the city, while their horses carriages aud ser.
wants returned home to wait aud perform their


usual vocations, until the day appointed for their


return; and We doubt not that with such facility
they would come much more frequently to our city
and remain in 1t much longer


Bot this is only portion of the benefit which
would flow from the road to Richmond The
country on each side Of Brooke Turnpike Is now


settled by most respectable, enterprisipg, inte-
ligent, wealthy population. Many of them are
excellent farmers, and can shew now wheat equal
to any upon James river, and the country ia
healthy and beautiful With this railroad the
Brooke Turnpike would be but an elongated street
of Richmond, and the number of inhabitants on
either side oft would be trebled or uuadru.
Piled, because there are many persons residing at
| distance from Richmond who would like to live
near 1t, and thus contribute to its wealth and
prosperity, it they could avoid the expense and
| trouble of coming to town with their own vehi.
cses, and the country lying on both sides of the
| railroad would be thickly settled.


To those who may build the road 1t will also


be profitable because besides the large passenger
| custom which it would enjoy, it will bring much
produce Of every kind to the city. We understand
| that tue number of railroads worked by horses ID
| increasing at the North rapidly, because they are


found beneficial to the cities, and profitable to the
stockholders. Success then we say to the Brooke
Railroad. We shall refer to the subject again
probably, land in the mean time we say push abou,


the subscription list, put down the rails, and sci
| the cars in motion.