The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1851-01-28


der previous contracts; those from Hacker and
Co. are superior to any others on the road:
The property in Car Account, stands charged
in the statement refsrr, d to, with 100 freight
cars; this was the mum ber paid Tor, but l37
ONLY were received within the past year, as
previously stated.
The freight and passenger depots, which,
when we last met were already far advanced,
have since been finished, according to the
original rlans There has been paid within
the past year, on account OF the depots aud
fixtures, including $4,000 for house and lot
purchased adjoining on the east, the sum OF
Sl7,995 73; and there is an unadJustea oal'
ance due to the Contractors, of about $9,oOO;
and the brick, amounting to about one million
and half, which was furnished by the CON-
pany, and has not yet been charged up.
The total cost of depots, and lands, alter
creditine the account with $4,000, less bro.
ker's commissions for a house aud lot at the
corner of King and John-streets, sold, Will De
from 100000 to $685. 1000.
Early in Jnly last, contract was made with
a highly responsible and efficient Company Tor
grading the lst, I'd, Sd and 4th sections OF
route ppffevtousfy adopted BY the Beard for
avoiding the present Inclined Plane at Aiken'
the 5th section being reserved for the Companys
own hands.
The route was adopted after the fullest con-
sideration, from survey made BY u. D. Lyth,
goe, esq.,. the Company's own Engineer ana
Superintendent of the road, and under advice
of some of the most eminent Engineers of the
country. 1t leaves the old road near Mrs.
schwartz's at Lower Aiken, and ruuning to the
left crosses the present Plane about SUI feet
from its summit and intersects the old ROAD
again near the Graniteville Station, making III
Its whole distance29 800 it, equal to 20 miles
being 1900 #, or Il little over one third OF
mile shorter than the preeent road. The route
is straight line for five miles, with the exceP-
ton OF curvature of Id inches i'll 5O leet at
the lower end, and another OF 700 feet on lev
el near Mrs. Schwartz where the radius Is 2OoO
feet The grade is 81 $40 feet to the m!e,
and the estimated cost $4,000. The period
STIPULATED in the contract for the completion oil
this work, is from the first Of April to the lst OF
july next An efficient force of l30 hands has
been at work on it since August Last. aud the
progress already made in the work warrants
tho expectation that the contractors Will he up
to their time.
Great efforts, will be made to complete the
whole. and have it in readiness for the business
of the ensuing season. heavy rail, OF the
bridge patterns, and weighing 10 lbs. to the
ward, has been ordered, and is now on the way
for ironing it.
In August a contract was madeifor building
work shops opposite Tivol Garden, acc cordlng
to plans and specifications furnished by }. w.
Petsch, superintendent OF ofmachinery and motive
power. The contract for bricklayn carpen.
ter, and slater's work is ......... Slo,oo4
The bricks and lumber are to be ,r geo
furnished by the Company, and esti-
mating them at the actual cost, with
out freight the amount will be $3.50
Making s24'2l9
The work is far advanced, and will be COM
pleted about the time specified in the contract,
say lst April next :,
Machinery for the shops of the latest and
most improved invention and construction Is
now being selected by an agent sent on to the
North for the purpose, and will be received ny
the time tie shops are ready
The report of the General Superintendent OF
the road is herewith submitted 1t sets forth
the condition of the road, with the character
and extent of repairs done upon it, and tue
cost of keeping it up The principal item III
the repairs for the Camdenc branch, it will be
seen, is for rebuilding the road across the
Wateree Swamp. The tressel work over that
swamp gave way early in October last, while
an engine and train of II ears, loaded with
cotton, were passing over it; and as the caps or
crossties, resting upon the piles, and support
ing the frame work above, some l0 feet III
hegh t, were not fastened to the piles either by
dowcl pin, tenon, or otherwise, the whole sl.
perstructure, when it commenced falling, fell
to the abutluent of the bridge at the river,
distance of IA miles.
The force engaged in relaying the road on
the Hamburg branch. had just then for the
first time received sufficiency of iron to keep
them in full employment and were progross
ing rapidly in laying it down, with the view OF
fnishingt the whole road by the frs! OF January,
1851, as first contemplated. When the break.
down in the Wateree Swamp took place, the
Company had no alternative but to abandon
this important " ork for Il time, and devote the
whole force to the reconstruction OF the road
over the swamp, while the waters were low.
By extraordinary exertions on the part OF the
superintendents, carpenters and men, the road
was rebuilt and open for passengers in little
over six weeks from the date of the accident;
and in less than two months the freight trains