. Picturesque B. and O. Historical and descriptive . ne miles, was builtwithout contracting a dollar of debt or issuing a bond, all payment formaterial and labor being made in cash. Meanwhile the ConnellsvilleBranch of the Pittsburgh Division was completed, and subsequently theentire line to Pittsburgh perfected. The Valley Division from HarpersFerry was carried through to Staunton,tract to The primary impetus given tlic niovrand Ohio Company was the convicllon tli in comp<(itiiiTi with IcimsvK aiiia amithe public works inaugurated by determined to pit a railroa
. Picturesque B. and O. Historical and descriptive . ne miles, was builtwithout contracting a dollar of debt or issuing a bond, all payment formaterial and labor being made in cash. Meanwhile the ConnellsvilleBranch of the Pittsburgh Division was completed, and subsequently theentire line to Pittsburgh perfected. The Valley Division from HarpersFerry was carried through to Staunton,tract to The primary impetus given tlic niovrand Ohio Company was the convicllon tli in comp<(itiiiTi with IcimsvK aiiia amithe public works inaugurated by determined to pit a railroad. Any one at all familiar with thereports of tin? Canal Commissioners of the States named need not bereminded of (he sjiacc yar after year to statements of the advan-tages srcuivd tliroujili licr great line of railway. Even to «etion put und< 3r con- t to orgauiz, • the Bal tiniore ■■it •^■^^i [res were iKMes- Mlvaiitaii-es ^l le had ei ,jny<.l ^-ork. The danger lay in ) States, and against canals. 34 F,n- a Half C-nlm-i/. this time the Canal Board of New Voik holds iij) the B. and (). and itsinfluence upon the grain trade of th(> West as the great bar to NewYorks securing control of it. No stronger argument is deemed neces-sary before a legislative committee than the stereotyped reference tothe Company and its unparalleled avenues to tide-water. In one way oranother the Empire City manages to keep herself almost constantly in astate of fermentation on account of this road. When her railvpay kingsdo not make the advantages Baltimore possesses in being tvco hundredmiles nearer the sea the excuse for speculation through depressed stocks,committees representing merchants who have nothing else to do arepassing long-winded resolutions, in almost every paragraph of which theBaltimore and Ohio figures prominently. All this, and much more oflike character which could be employed in argument, if one were requi-site, tells most effec
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