Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-09-01

| statement.
Your mode of attaining the cost of the
road in Tennessee cannot be passed without
remark. You say the Trcosurer's report does
not state the amount But you assume two
thirds of $3.50, 900, the County and individ-
ual subscription in Tennessee, which is S1G6,-
| GG6, to be the cost of the work in Tennessee
The Reports would have shown you that, in
order to comply with the conditions of the
Tennessee charter and of the Act granting
State aid, seventeen miles of the road out
from Knoxville had been nearly fnishcd.-
You might have seen in the Report of 1856,
Col. Gwynn's estimate of the cost of the
grading in Tennessee to be 1857 900, and of
the whole road in Tennessee 81 ,537 900, and
also that the section of seventeen miles, which
was nearly completed, while it is only thirty
per cent. of the length of the road, is cstimn
ted to cost forty one per cent. of the cutrc cost
Forty-onc per cent. of the grading would be
1910, 900 If you had used these Reports,
you might have made nearer estimate than
you have done.
When to $242,000, the amount Of over
charges, before stated, arc added $4,000
and Sl36,0 900, they exhibit an aggregate of
errors and overcharges of 1927 900, in your
statement of 100000 as the excess of cost
over the estimate (for South Carolina and
Gcorgia,) up to December, 1850"
If Col. Gwynn's estimate in 1850 of the
cost of completing the road from Anderson to
Clayton, did not include the Whtmirc FILL
your estimate of the cost of completing the
road from Clayton to the North Carolina line
may be correct But if the Whitmirc fill is
included in that estimate, it is probable $1O,-
600 per mile will complete the road for the
grading from Clayton to the North Carolina
line is very light and SO nearly flushed that
the cost of completing it muSt be very incon-
siderable In this case, $4,000 more must
be added to the sum of your errors.
expect you to reply that my exhibition of
errors does not apply to your statement; that
what you intended to show is not that the ac,
tuol cost of the work in South Carolina and
Georgia exceeded the estimated cost, but that
the expenditures for and about the work in
South Carolina and Georgia exceeded the cs-
innate of the cost of the road in those States
1t is precisely of that have right to com
plain MS unfair. You profess to make state,
mcnt of the cost of the work compared with
the estimate and yet you charge to the cost OF
the work not only the expenditures for its
constructions but also, the sum total Of all
the extraordinary and contingent expenses Of
the whole undertaking from the date of the
charter to December, 1859 IN other words,
your statement processes to exhibit one thing"
but in reality, it exhibits another thing, very
different from that which is profcsscd.
You cannot complain if | have taken you
at your word, and corrected your statement ac-
cordingly.
But, taking your statement Cor what you
intend it tn be, viz; an exhibit of the excess
of expenditure for the work in South Carroll
ma and, Georgia over the estimate of cost in
those States, [ will show that your errors arc
little less in number and amount than the or
rors which have been pointed out
From the 5000 600, then, taken as the OK
cess of expenditure on the work in South
Carolina and Georgia, you must deduct the
ovcrchargc to the work of Sli0, 129, and al
so the ovcrcharge of $4,000, which results
from your short estimate of the work in Ten
ncsscc and also SOL 900 YOU ovcrchargc for
engineering in South Carolina and Georgia
To these sums must be added the following
items which, in the Trrasurcrs report, are in
cludod IN the sum total of 50, ,50t,712 which
sum total, in your statement, is charged as tie
amount of the cost of the work in South Car
olina and Georgia: First, you charge the to-
tai of "cXpcnScs salaries, legal advice, suit
of Bangs & Co.. SO, $50" to South Carroll
ma and Georgia. These charges arc for the
common benefit and defence of the roads of
charged in the proportion of the length Of tie
road in each State. The portion of South
Carolina and Georgia being in the ratio of 60
miles to l26, would BE- $2S,OOO In this
item you have ovcrchnrged S51 900. The
cost OF the right of way in North Carolina
and Tennessee, S99SS, which you have char
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