| From the Staunton Spectator {Staunton, Va.} |
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| May 29, 1863 |
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For the Spectator
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Staunton Gas Works
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Editor of Spectator,
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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:
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"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."
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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.
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Jos. A. Waddell
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Pres. S. G. C.
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