NP, SS 5/29/1863

From the Staunton Spectator {Staunton, Va.}
 
May 29, 1863
  
For the Spectator
Staunton Gas Works
 
Editor of Spectator,
   You will please publish the following extract from a letter received by me on Saturday last from Mr. Waterhouse, one of the lessees of the Staunton Gas Works. The letter is dated Raleigh, N. C., 20th May:
   "I returned this afternoon from a trip to Wilmington and Goldsboro, and enclose you a note from the President of the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad. We have had an agent at Goldsboro who has done his best for the last three months to get the rosin shipped, and I have been to Goldsboro no less than ten times to see about it. Last week we got a train from the Newbern road to go after it, but Gen. Hill stopped it at Goldsboro. Two weeks ago Governor Vance made requisition for a train to move some State property from Goldsboro to Raleigh, but has not been able to get it. All connected with transportation see the importance of sending the rosin forward, and promise to send it as soon as possible. We have done all we can, and will continue to urge the matter. You may think that we have neglected the Staunton Gas Works, but we have used every exertion to keep them going. You ask if we could not send a few barrels from time to time by Express -- the Express Company will receive nothing now to go beyond Petersburg, and if the did they would charge us $18 per bbl. We have had in Richmond a piece of casting belonging to our Power Mill, for two months, the Railroad refusing to haul it through. We will let you know as soon as we get the rosin started. The President of the railroad promised us a train that will take 500 bbls. and thought he would be able to send it in the course of two weeks."
   Mr. Wallace, President of the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad, writes that he has more than once directed the rosin to be forwarded, and it would have been but for the occupation of the cars by troops and army stores. He says he will send it as early as possible.
Jos. A. Waddell
Pres. S. G. C.

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