Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-12-11

as an indication of what may be anticipntod in
tuture-and, so considered the Stump House
Tunnel will be completed i'm twCnty-threo
months. But to provide for fluctuations and
occasional slackncss of force which may possi-
bly, occur by general RESUMPTION of the sus
pended works, and from the disposition of the
Irish emigrants (of whom tie force on this
line is mainly composcd) to roam among the
various public works III progress and who arc
constantly arriving and departing from the diff
fercht lines Gs interest or caprice dictates
change, would extend the period of compile
ton to rwcnty-six or twcnty-sevcn months
At the date of the last Annual Report we
were working from six points, two in shaft No.
/, two in shaft No. 4, and one ut each end of
the Tunnel The heading between shaft No
and the eastern portal was driven through in
February. Since then the bottom has been
carried past the shaft, so that it is now inop-
| eratlYc IN iaclitating the work and only sub
serves the purpose of vcntator. Shaft No
z, however, was sunk TO grade about The same
time that the bench passed shaft No. ] and de-
stroycd Its efficiency, so that VIC had iInmcdi-
ately two new points Of attack presented to sun
ply The two lost in shaft No. |; and thus VIC
maintained Our six working faces, viz: two i'm
/ shaft No. 2. two in shaft No. j. and one nj each
end of the Tunnel Shaft No. 3 is now sunk
within3 81 feet of the point required for work
ing the heading drift. This depth will be at
tanned in the cOurse Of five months when the
excavation will be carried on from eight faces
There have been cxcayNtcd to the full section
(that is bench and headng) 1866 feet, and O.
SO feet of heading, leaving 3,4S8 feet of head
| ing and 4,0O7 feet of bench yet to be done.
The average monthly drive for the last three
months has been one hundred and fifty feet of
heading drift. and one hundred and seventy
one feet of bench The heading drive for Oc-
tober was lTO feet and this will probably he
exceeded in future. When the hcadings start
from No 3, there will be an average mcul1y
drive of more than 200 feet. Countin.. The
contents of the Tunnel alone, it is more than
one-third done. Embracing the shafts, the
work rs ive-cighths done. In point Of time
embracng both Tunnel and shafts cxcavatcd,
rather more than two-thirds have been done.
The masonry for the bridge over Chauga
| Creek, ~ l-0 miles from Pendleton, will be
| completed in twelve months The masonry for
] the bridge over Chatuga River, which divides
! South Carolina from Georgia, and is 80 miles
| from Pendleton, will be completed in the course
| Of two years.
| The works in Georgia commenced with the
Dicks Creek Tunnel, 41s miles from Pcndle-
ton. This Tunnel is 2,421 feet in length
| There have been excayated 235 feet to the full
section, and 20 feet of heading The contrac-
tors for this work are Mcssrs Humbird s. Hitch
| cock. II will be completed before the track
rcachesit. The War-Woman Tt 1cl, 49, miles
| from Pendlcton, is l,945 feet in length; 40
feet have been cxcavated to the full section, and
20 feet heading 1t will be completed in about
| two years. The heavy cmbankncnt known ms
the Whitmire Fill, near Clayton, and 10 miles
from Pcndlcton, will require full two years for
| its completion. This is the last of the heavy
| works under contract in Georgia; there are in
| addition several small culverts in progress of
| construction
In South Carolina, three -fourths of the
grading, one-third Of the Tunnel excavation,
tllran- he -
and one-fourth of the bridge masonry have
been done, and onc-fourth of the track laid.
| There has also been laid q track to Haynes
| Quarry, } miles long.
In Georgia seven-sevcnteenths of the gra-
| ding, one seventh of the Tunnel excavation,
two-thirds of the square drain masonry, and
two thirds of the bridge masonry, have been
done.
| The length of tho Road in South Carolina
and Georgia is only so per cent. of the entire
length, and its cost will be 53 per cent. of the
| whole cost of the Road.
| laid before the Board in June last. n tabu-
lar statement, setting forth the amount of gra-
ding to be done on every section, together with
the quantity of masonry for each bridge, and
the time required for the completion of each
section ond hridgn, If the works therein emu
merated, which, with the works now in pro-
gress, comprise all that remains to De done
preparatory to laying the track, are put under
contrnct in january next. the Road may be
completed in ayear and half TO Walhalla, in
| three years to the Locust Stake, and in four
years to Knoxville.
The grading and bridge masonry between
Knoxville and Maryyie, distance of sixteen
miles, will be completed by the LIST of January,
with the exception of the grading OK sections 3,
and o, and the masonry for the bridges over
the Holston and Little Rivers and for the
bridge over Pistol Creek. These works arc all
in progress, and will doubt be completed
next year. The distance between Knoxville
and Maryvile is thirty per cent. of the length
of the Road in Tennessee, and the cost of the
grading and masonry, as originally estimated,
was tOry-one per cCEt. of tie entire cost, nc
cording to the original estimate, in that State.
"A careful and most minute estimate has been
made of the quantity and cost of the parts
composing every description of work done and
remaining to be done in South Carolina and
Georgia, and in Tennessee between Knoxville
and Maryyille, which compose "a per cent of the,
cost of the entire Road, according Is the origi-
nal estimate This revised estimate has been
compared with corresponding component parts
of the work embraced in the originpI estimate,
and the comparison sowsthat the Rosd will be
built within the original estimates.
The feasibility and practicAbility of the work,
its aims and objects, have been so fully set
forth in former statements to tho Company,
that do not consider il necessary to lcngtlen
this Report by any further discussion at this
time. ii. t. ..+..
+ The project of connecting Charleston by
Rail Road with Louisville and Cincinnati"
which win be accomplished by the Emc Ridge
Rail Road, appears fromthe public acts, reso-
lutions, surveys and reports in reference TO the
subject, to have been for the last twepty-thrce
years, an object Of the unceasing regard and
Earnest solicitude of the Legislature and pcople