Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-09-02
SOUTHERN RAILROADS.

The extension OF railroads throughout the South is
absolutely magical Every day brings accounts Of
new enterprise There in process Of construction
the Blue Ridge Railroad and this is like sounds from
home" It is far south Of US, however. 1t is road
described by its President to connect In conjunG
on with others the waters Of the great West With those
Of the Atlantic The southern terminus Of this road
understand the description Anderson Court House
where it unites with other roads, and goes westward
to the State line Of Tennessee thence to with
the Tennessee River Railroad The people of Charleston
have authorized handsome subscription to the stock.
portion Of the route is through Georgia 1t is stated
that in the final location the length Of the road through
South Carolina has been reduced to sol miles, through
Georgia to III iles through North Carolina II miles,
and the estimates brought within those founded on
the earlier surveys" The President says:
As the Blue Ridge Railroad is only one of chain Of
railroads that is destined to unite the valleys Of the Ohio
and Mississippi with the Atlantic seaboard it will
be out Of place here to state that charters have been OBJ
tanned in Kentucky and Tennessee to complete the
nexion between Knoxville and Lexington Paris, from
which latter points railroads already in the of
construction to Cincinnati and Louisville"
That portion Of the line through Tennessee has recev
ed liberal legislative aid The line through Kentucky is
about eighty miles. The President says further:
"The organization Of the companies and the certain
completion of the roads render the several lines known
the Blue Ridge Railroad matter Of necessity, which
nothing but the most short-sghted ignorance now
defeat Bringing, they will not only the interior Of
South Carolina and her seaboard but large portion Of
Georgia and Savannah to Cincinnati and Louis
vile than these great centres of to any
other city on the Atlantic ard passing through NINE
raj region Of untold wealth and extent the business Of
this road cannot fail to be otherwise than large beyond
any calculation of limit the other great trunk lines
that have scaled the mountains have already proved
The South Carolinian says ssThe railroad from New
Orleans to Jackson, Mississippi, in of
s.ruciion is completed and in operation to the State
line Of Mississippi, distance Of ninety miles. It is
called the New Orleans jackson, and Great Northern
= Railroad and when completed, which will be at dis
tant day, will form line Of railway from Portland,
Maine, to New Orleans except between jackson and
Montgomery, and Fredericksburg and Washington
We learn by the Austin Gazette that the contract fol
the Pacific Railroad through the State Of Texas has beer
finally ratified, with the understanding that it shall not
take effect till the 3lst Of August The company will
therefore have till the lst of March, 1885, complete
the first fifty miles 1t from the following from
the State Times that the contract embraces some cond
tons not required by the law, viz:
Ist That the track OF the road shall be surveyed and
located the 10Gth degree oflongtude west from Green
wch which strikes the Colorado near Port Chadbourne
within two years and half from date of contract I'd
That the survey and location shall be completed to thu
Rio Grande within four years and half 3D. How the
lands Of the company shall be alienated in case sale
company fails to ALLEVIATE them required by law.
The object Of the FIRST three provisions Of the contrac
is have the route Of the road surveyed and located
throughout the State within four years and half from
the date Of the contract at least sufficiently definite
to enable all parties to determine the limits Of the re
served lands and reard the location Of individual claims
and the settlement Of territory adjacent to the lines
reservation In the event Of failure on the part Of thu
company comply with the three rstnamed provisions
they will be confined to line Of thirty miles on botf
sides Of the 32d degree Of latitude north for the selection
i OF their alternate sections