| Southern
Telegraph Form |
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| Received at Richd
June 6 1862
at
o'clock
minutes |
| By telegraph from Charlottesville 6 To Col A C
Myers |
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| In offering to give every facility to
effect a speedy completion of the Branch track from the V. C. R. R. to
Melton on Rivanna Canal I did not mean to propose to have the work
done we can spare from our Road for that purpose some fifty hands with
the necessary supervision & also send tools for our hands we would
supply them with provisions. We can spare an engineer to lay it &
supervise the work in a word anything we can do to promote the
completion of the work in the hands of a Govt. Agt. we will do. I
cannot undertake to do the work taking possession of some private
property for the tracks & indeed the tow path line of the Canal Co
should be done by some specially appointed Govt. Agt. no one connected
with this Co can undertake to do it I thought it my duty to inform you
what could be done. If the exigency of the public service requires it
I should think the proper course would be to appoint some agent with
full authority to enter on the lands select the route & execute
the work. Damages may be settled hereafter some penitentiary convicts
may be obtained. Capt Sharp had them under his charge and would no
doubt make a good agent the agent could possibly get some hands in the
surrounding country we could not furnish tools for any other hands
than our own. I am not well informed but do not suppose there are many
boats on the Rivanna I hear that the Fredericksburg Road is now clear
from Richmond to the Burnt Bridge on South Branch of Pamunkey. If the
military will keep it clear to that point & on north side of
Junction we could with the aid of a foot Bridge very soon restore our
passenger connection by R Road & possibly some with freight. |
| E Fontaine Prest {Virginia
Central RR} |