| From the Richmond Daily Dispatch |
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| December 2, 1861 |
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| Salt |
| We have before us a correspondence for
which we have not room, between Mr. L. E. Harvie,
President of the {Richmond &} Danville
Railroad, and Mr. F. J. Sampson, freight agent of the road, and
Messrs. Stuart, Buchanan & Co., manufacturers of salt at the Preston
and King's Salt Works in Washington and Smyth counties. Mr. Harvie,
from a desire to afford every facility to the public to procure salt
from these works, arranged with the Virginia
& Tennessee
and South Side Railroads to send cars from his road over their's, to
and fro, to convey salt. One train, under this arrangement, had
brought a load to Richmond. Mr. Harvie then offered to any other
person in Richmond
the use of the cars for this purpose. No one accepting the offer, he
sent off the cars, accompanied by Mr. Sampson, with a check and letter
of credit to the company of salt manufacturers, for the purpose of
procuring a supply of salt for Amelia and adjoining counties. Mr.
Sampson arrived in due time and made an explanation of the objects of
his visit. The manufacturers, after much consultation, gave as their
reply that they could not send Mr. Harvie salt,
unless he waited his turn with others who had paid for salt — that
they excepted only their regular agents from the rule requiring all to
wait for their time in turn. Mr. Sampson thereupon took his cars and
returned to his post on the Danville Railroad. In this way Mr. Harvie
was unable to accomplish his plan for supplying the locality of
Amelia, &c. ***** |
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