This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...and too long deferred improvement, none who have witnessed with what benefit similar undertakings have been fraught to other states, can doubt the splendid results that must have ensued to Virginia, had she been the first to invite, by suitable inducements, the trade of the west to her own seaports.... Surely, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...and too long deferred improvement, none who have witnessed with what benefit similar undertakings have been fraught to other states, can doubt the splendid results that must have ensued to Virginia, had she been the first to invite, by suitable inducements, the trade of the west to her own seaports.... Surely, in the irretrievable loss, in great part at least, of this vast trade she has paid dearly enough for her supineness and the narrow, timid and short-sighted counsels to which she has listened. Let her not set the seal forever on her relative and growing inferiority as a state by allowing the sole remaining stake worth playing for, already jeopardized by her inertness, to be wrested from her by the superior enterprise and more farseeing policy of neighboring states.1 1 House Journal, 1836-37, pp. 11-12. Judge Wright, consulting engineer of the company, in a report during the fall of 1836, gave as his professional opinion, that it was quite probable that when the improvements of the company were completed " the commercial transactions of Richmond will be from five to ten times what they now are, and will steadily increase ."1 While the merits of the enterprise were thus being discussed by its friends and its foes, the company was actively pushing the works along the line. The old works were put into good repair, including the canal from Maiden's Adventure to Richmond and the seven and one-half miles of canal through the Blue Ridge.8 Among the " old works" which had come into their possession after the time of the transfer of the works of the James River Company, was the Blue Ridge turnpike and ferry. The Legislature had, by act of March 26, 1831, appropriated $9,000 for the construction of this road along the mountain section of the James...
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