From the Richmond Dispatch, 4/23/1861, p. 1
City Railway. – This work
progresses, though we imagine it will hardly be completed this season, all
circumstances being taken into account. The track-layers were at work last
Saturday in front of the County Court-House, operations having been commenced at
the junction of Main and Pear streets, near Rocketts. A small vessel was
unloading iron at the Dock, a day or two ago, which, we suppose, is for this
railway. A citizen, who was looking at the work on Main street, asked us why it
was that all the laborers were imported from the North, when so many of our own
citizens were out of employment? We could not answer the interrogatory.
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