NP, RD 1/27/1862

From the Richmond Daily Dispatch
 
January 27, 1862
 
An Important Enterprize of the Railroad Companies
   We are gratified to learn that a well concerted movement is on foot for a general meeting of railroad officers in Richmond on the 5th of February next, to devise measures for the manufacture of railroad iron and such other articles of indispensable necessity as have hitherto been procured from countries outside of the limits of the Confederate States. To keep up a perfect railroad communication throughout the South, requires an occasional renewal of material; and if the approaching meeting can suggest a plan by which the South can place herself on an independent basis in this respect, it will have done as much towards solving the great problem of national freedom, as any class of individuals have done since the breaking up of the old Union. We therefore hope that a large number of practical minds will be brought together in Richmond on the day designated, and that a combined and well considered project will then be sent forth to the people.

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