The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-21

the Memphis and Charleston Roads are lin
ished. The contractor, Mr.. Gray, Is man OF
large experience in building rail roads IN the
South, commands abundant means, and sus-
tains high reputation. The cost of this
29l miles To the Company, in addition to the
State aid, will be about 5,000-S225,000
payable in the Stock of the Company, and
the balance, $4,000, in Bonds having thirty
years tn run. At present price Of rails the
State aid will be sufficient to iron the Road
and fully equip one three times MS long
Every DAYS experience has satisfied us the
more fully of the wisdom of the policy Of
building this short link. The traveller pass.
! ing either East or West now pays s so
extra to the Western and Atlantic Rail Road
every time he passes over it, and on many
kinds of freights East Tennesseans are
| taxed, for the benefit of the State of Geor
gia, nearly the same price on ear load of
| freight carried SO miles between Chattanooga
/ and Dalton that your Road charges for same
service from Dalton to Knoxville, n distance
very near three times rs great; so that the
sum you now pay on ton of freight from
| Chattanooga to Dalton would about deliver
the SAME from Chattanooga TO Knoxville, if
! this connecting link Were in operation: and
the traveller who now pays $3.50 fare from
Knoxville to Chattanooga would then pay
! only $500. Calculate, then, if You choose,
the immense travel and freight that must of
necessity pass this most central and shortest
route between the North and South and the
East and West, and then bear in mind
that $3.50 is saved to each passenger every
! trip, and from 81 to 81 per ton on nearly all
the freight, and YOU can approximate, in
| "a, 10 tbo hapaHto IN ha do
rived BY the early completion of this Road.
The Engineer Department, after the COM
pletion of the Road to this place, retired
| from the service Of the Company preparatory
! TO entering upon the work of locating the
Knoxville and Kentucky Road. NJ. p. Prieh-
ard, ESQ, having been elected Chief Engineer
by the Directors of that Company, has been
continued in the service of this Company in
the capacity of Consulting Engineer.
Justice to ourselves will not allow us to
close this report without acknowledging thus
publicly the obligations Of this Company to
certain Banks, for the timely aid and accom-.
modations repeatedly rendered your officers
! in the progress of this work. The Georgia
Rail Road and Banking Company, the Bank
Of Tennessee at Athens and Nashville, the
Ocoee Bank, and the Bank of East Tcnnes'
see, have ever been ready, not grudgngly but
with an open hand, to aid us in every way in
their power, and but for their oft repeated
assistance your Road would not yet have
passed the Tennessee.
Respectfully submitted for the Directors.
&. WALLACE, President.
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT TRANSPORTATION.
OFFICE E. Tenn. g. GA. r. r. Co.,
Athens, Tenn, lst Sept, 1855. {
| MAJ. c.. Wallace, President, Knorcilie:
SlR:-Thc gross earnings of your Road
for the seven months ending the 30th day of
June last, were
For Freights, Sal ,23S 90
Passengers, 36,763 90
Mail, 1851 50-Sl $50 SO
Expenses ch'd to Trans
portation, $2O,446 81
| Cid to Maintenance
of Way, 1000 17-33,4S6 AZ
Nett earnings for months, S4S,l03 81
On comparison with the earnings for last
year, it will be seen that in freights we have
barely maintained our monthly average, while
| in passengers the increase is large, amount
ing to Ct per cent. These, too, YOU will re-
member, are the receipts before the Road was
! extended To Knoxville since which time an
additional increase has been attained. You
are well aware of the reasons why cor
! responding increase has not been had in
| freights. The country which our Road drains,
| in common with all sections of the Union,
was barren of the usual products of the soil.
The prospects now are quite the reverse, and
the report tor the year ending Both June, '56,
will show figures OF Il much more flattering
character in the transportation Of ireights us
well as passengers.
The apparent increase of cost Of Transport
tation over that of last year from SO to Al
per cent, grows out OF the fact that large
numbers of cross ties for repairs are bought
and charged 20 Maintenance of Way, which,
MS they have not been used, would have more
properly come into the EXPENSES Of the next
year, and then the large amount Of work done
by the Transportation Department in track lay
ing North of the Tennessee, properly charga.
BILE to Construction. Take out these two
items and the rate of expenses would have
been about the same as last year.
Allow me to suggest, that steps should be
very soon taken to build n more permit
nent crossing at the Creek two miles East
of Dalton. The trusse work now in use at
tn"b po''b 10 Nv I'SotHb IcIieClly StCUc, 'W'
not sufficiently durable and safe from fire,
and the substitution Of stonework, in the
shape of arch cu!verts or piers, at m early
day, would be good economy.
Within the last month two Engines, of
Richard Norris 81 Sons best make, have been
| added to the motive power of the Company;
also, two Passenger ard ten Box Cars, built
by Messrs. Shepherd, Maxwell q Hoyt, Of
Knoxville, with whom there is n contract for
forty more Box Cars, which will probably be
delivered at the rate of about ten per month.
We have also acontract with Mr.. J. Winship,
of Atlanta, for two Baggage Cars. At least
one more Engine and fifty Box and twenty
five Platform Cars are needed, and will soon
have to be provided. The'Platlorm Cars can
best be built Mt our own Repair Shop, as we
find it true economy to have always in our
employ certain number of competent work.
men ready, IT, case of accidents, to speedily
repair damages, and this force, when not
thus employed, could be proftably engaged
in building Platform Cars. The equipments
Of the Road at present consists of
Locomotives;
a Passenger Cars
Baggage
40 No Box
Is Platform
Also, some so Box Cars, some of which
arc in bad and some in fair condition, but all
rejected by the connecting Road.
Having contracted with the Post Office