The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-02
EAST TENNESSEE AND VIRGINIA
RAILROAD.

We noticed in Savannah paper, day or
two since, that cargo of iron for the East
Tennessee and Virginia Railroad had arrived
at that port. 1t is understood to be the in
tentlon of the President Of the Company TO
have the iron taken up BY boats, from Lou
don to some point above Knoxville, as soon
AS there is a sufficient rise in the river so
that the work of track.laying may be COM
meneed at once and that section of the road
between Strawberry Plains and Knoxville
be completed by the time the cars on the
East Tennessee and Georgia road reach the
Iast-named point. Although this plan may
require some additional expense at the out
set, yet it will prove great source Of econo-
my in the end, as every step that is taken to
advance the completion Of the work must
prove highly advantageous 10 the interests OF
the Company and to the country at large
We trust the information in regard to the
track-laying above Knoxville is correct, rs we
are confident nothing could be done that
wohld give so great an impetus to the enter.
prise and facilitate the construction of the
entire work as the completion of the link
between Strawberry Plains and Knoxville
ready for the cars by the time the lower road
is finished.
1t has also been stated to us, by gentle.
man recently from Abingdon, Va, that the
iron for the Lynchburg and Tennessee road
which is now finished and working TO Wythe.
vile, is at hand sufficient to complete the
track fourteen miles this side Of that place
and that the President of the Company con.
fdently expects to have the road completed
to the Tennessee line by the close of the
present year-possibly carlier-but by that
time at farthest. From the energy and well
known capacity of that officer, we have no
doubt of his ability to accomplish what he
says. How important, then, that the works
in our State, necessary to make the connec.
tons and complete the line, should be push.
ed forward with all possible despatch! There
are now immense quantities of produce in
upper East Tennessee waiting a rise in the
streams to get out to market. When the
connections are made the enterprising and
industrious farmers of that rich and fertile
section will no longer be dependent upon
the uncertain navigation Of the river, but can
ship their surplus produce to market at the
proper time, and when prices ARE most re-
munerating-thcy can then calculate to with
in almost day for the returns for their tolls;
and they will no longer be subjected to the
serious losses incident to unreliable and un.
certain modes of transportation, such rs the
people of upper East Tennessee have long
been suffering under, and from which their
brethren in this region were happily relieved
by the building Of the East Tennessee and
Georgia Railroad. We repeat, the plan pro.
posed to complete the section between Knox
vile and Strawberry Plains at once, is most
excellent one, and we trust will be success
fully carried out We are certain it will best
promote the interests of the Company, and
hasten the completion of the entire line-a
result in which not only upper East Tennes-
see, but the whole country, North and South,
is deeply Interested