AR, R&P 10/1/1865 P

Annual Report of the Richmond & Petersburg RR
as of October 1, 1865,
President's Report
 
Annual Report
 
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   Since the completion of the Piedmont Railroad, a route for travel and transportation has been opened over the Richmond & Danville Railroad, which forms a competing line with ours for the carrying of through passengers, freights and the great Southern mail along the Atlantic States, South of us. The two lines diverge at Richmond, and reunite at Kingsville, S. C. The distance, by either route varies in length only a few miles. That through Petersburg and Wilmington enjoys the advantage of having much more favorable grades than the other, and in winter, a milder climate. The terminal points, by our route, can be reached, even at present, as quickly as by that through Danville. In order, however, to render it secure against the diversion of the through travel and traffic, which it has hitherto enjoyed, it is absolutely necessary that the break of connection in Petersburg be filled up, so as to avoid the discomfort, expense and delay thereby caused. When that is done, the three roads between this city and Wilmington can provide a sufficient number of through cars, to be owned jointly, in which passengers may be carried the entire distance to and from those points without change, thus making but one break between this and Kingsville. Application has been made to the Common Council of Petersburg, to grant permission to this and the Petersburg Railroad Company, to connect their tracks through that city. Petersburg and its citizens are too largely interested in the stock of the Petersburg Railroad, and the loss of travel and traffic over that road is too imminent to admit of a doubt that the proper authority will readily be granted.
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   Signed in behalf of the Board of Directors.
Charles Ellis
President

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