Sketch book of Lynchburg, VaIts people and its trade .. . t Strasburg. These various lines are all strong and vigorous, and are all very ac-tively competing for freight and passengers, thus securing Lynchburg,to a large extent, from the disastrous effects of transportation mo-nopolies. Other railroads are projected and chartered, which will, when com-pleted, add considerably to the bulk of trade seeking this among these is the LYNCHBURG, HALIFAX & NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD,to the capital stock of which the City last year voted an appropria-tion of $250,000, and which may be regarded
Sketch book of Lynchburg, VaIts people and its trade .. . t Strasburg. These various lines are all strong and vigorous, and are all very ac-tively competing for freight and passengers, thus securing Lynchburg,to a large extent, from the disastrous effects of transportation mo-nopolies. Other railroads are projected and chartered, which will, when com-pleted, add considerably to the bulk of trade seeking this among these is the LYNCHBURG, HALIFAX & NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD,to the capital stock of which the City last year voted an appropria-tion of $250,000, and which may be regarded as a strictly local en-terprise. The principal offices and the terminus of the Road will bein this City, and there is every reason to believe that the work ofbuilding the line will be commenced at once and prosecuted vigor-ously until completed to Durham, N, C, where it will connect withthe Durham & Roxborough Railroad, thus bringing within our reachthe fertile bottom lands of the Roanoke River, as well as the fine ITS PEOPLE AND ITS TRADE. 135. THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. (corner of court and eleventh streets.) 136 SKETCH BOOK OF LYNCHBURG, VA. ; tobacco plantations of Halifax County. The recently elected officersof the Road are: President, Peter J. Otey ; Vice-President, WoodBouldin, Jr.; .SVr/r/rt/j, Alexander McDonald; Directors, Vio^y , Jacob H. Franklin, J. R. Clark, Adam W. Novvlin, J. , John W. Clay, Robert W. Withers, H. A. Edmondson,Joseph Stebbins and Robert W. Watkins. New lines of railway, and extensions of existing ones, are multi-plying on all sides with astonishing rapidity, and especially is this thecase with the roads which intersect at this point, and their immediateconnections. The vast mineral wealth lying to the westward of us,and which has of late years attracted so much attention, is, of course,responsible, to a great extent, for this activity in railroad construc-tion, which wdll probably continue until all the rich deposits of theneighbor
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