The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1860-07-03
,,DpN co17TucA pO11NA TItsDAY MORNING, JULY B. 1850

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impression has hecn made on my mind that if
Mai Gwvnn had taken charge when tho work
was commenced, he would have saved the Com
panv, ly more iudcious location, from four
TO five hundred thousand Gollars-somc esti
mate it much higher But ] am willing to
throw this aside anL take up facts which have
transpired 1t is an opinion, however, that I
have a right 10 express
Mr. Trenholm las certainly forgotten that
the Bluc Ridge Company have just come ont
of :, very vcxations and costly lawsuit with
Arson Eargs & Co.. in which the Company
attempted 10 show that Bangs & Go, had
swirdicd them. One might co"ls to tic con-
clrsion, from Mr.. TrenLuIm's letter, that "noi
n dnihar 7rG$ lpsi" in this srit at law, ard
that the charges against Eargs d Go. are alto
gelhcr Untrue.
With memory so trrachcroUs, Mr.. Tren-
holm should hccarriul how he writes or speaks
OH such grave matters. impiicating the intcgrl-
" oi other mcr. ] lltslmc lie also toigcis
hat Mai. Gwynn said, in his Report of 1885,
al.out the work that Eangs & Go. had done up
TO the time of their discharge. They had
worked out of solid rock one hundred ard sx-
teen feet of the Stump House Tunnel, and had
performed the wolk in such Il hunglirg man
rcr ";,s 10 exhaust nearly as much time, and
require nearly as great an expenditure OF
money to enlarge and trim it iGto shape, IS
would have been required forit entire cxcav''-
ton" (See Gwynns Rrrort. 1856. lage 81
According 10 Mr. TrenloIn's statement, rot u
dollar was lost in that operation, although
Bargs &; &c. nave bscl paid within ten Per.
celit. of the full amouirt Of work done.
In Maj. Cwyrl's rcrclt. Nev -l"ber, ls5c'
lie states lIat Tie work which Anon largs d
Go. Ind done, ard tic tomTal.y had raid for,
50 far as time was concerned, had rot advanced
the work towards completion Il single day,
although it had been golg on three years
and time has snce proven that much OF it was
done and paid for five years before it was need
cd. The loss Of interest, Mt seven per cei't. on
half million, for four or five years, is Eolhirg
-nrtnaHy nofhing- where the Safes mo"y
is to he expended. Anson Borgs & Co. went
AWAY indebted 10 the Eluc Ridge Company
,wcitv.eieht thousand FIVE hundred doiIaIs, iol
money advanced, leaving no other security bill
the stock ard bords Of the company. Let me
ask Mr.. Trcrloln what he will give Tor that
: debt? ard whether there is Lot Il loss OF SIN.
f ole dollar thcrel Any estimate Of cost beyond
what is stated hy the Engineers, INST OF Eeces
sitv lie pres,:mptive- tascd on past eArerle', &C
and the failure to approximate 10 cost III o;hel
instances, wclc the works have lot bcel
. more complicated than Tic one in question.
So naT 1t Lc said Of losses and waste ct mo
lev V n.i.iral cement; srrl atteis arc Eo
usually ,ct forth in reports OF Presidents i1i'
:, Engineers Indeed, il were the President o
; iond that Lad 10 he built OIL credit, shoui'
cashier IN officer fur making such exposures
/ aud it should rut lie expected Of Mr.. Tienholn
r Director, 10 hring dscrcdi: on the Ccnla':,
by making exposures Of mislnanagcmcht, ah'
1 conse uucl.t losses; and, were he not SO postiv
r in his assertions ard 50 harsh towards other
|, who differ with him, nc might make man.
It allowances.
II That the Blue Ridge Company have los
c largely ly the contract with, and <at,cr 1airf
i of Arson bangs & Co-rIo ore can h9sorbt' an;
IT,. sa.il
moderate estimate. rscolIcct well, in 1854,
how positive Mr. Trenholm ard others were
about the ability arc rl&c,icabiIily OF Bang; d
Co. TO carry cut to completion this enterprise.
They were impatient almost 10 rndcncss To-.
wards those who expressed doubt at that time.
|, was thea private enterprise, 20 be accom-
pIisbed with 10 further aid than y million of
State s,.l$cripto on ard loau o; million oil ccr-
tain conditions. Now, Oh the Plea ct en!''r-
rassimcut cowirg oiit Of tie allure Of largs d
Co.. they a,c nuule 10 comply viii; Tie con
lil;ols i!,tschcd 10 the loai aId openly admit
that millions more will Lc required from the
State and she must hccomc principle owner OF
the wo;k, or lose a'I tl,at size las lrt into the
concern and vet Mr.. TIel Eo!n states tl.#t, rp
to the failure OF EargS l. Co.. "rot a Gpll;rllad
been lost in any way whatever" As my cStl-
mates. or predictions, aLout the st of the
blue Ridge Railroad runs somewhat ahead oi
the engineers estimate, vii! undertake to
elaborate this point. In the first place, there
is scarcely Il public work OH record, so far as
my reading e: t'n,Is that has not exceeded the
first estimates. Tie South Carolina Railroad,
when completed, fully emhaukcd, with new
coat of iiun l36 mile: long, cost millions, ARD
WIS sod far-two ard lalt mi Ions OF dollars
They have added ia m;.e$, Il a>nt 24O miles
Of road, in Il Fat conntrr, with Only four hri''-
rcs Oh wooden legs, and tl.at company have
invested in property seven millions OF dollars
and are let il:l.y lcadv Tor work yet.
WHO would lave believed When the road
from Charleston to Hamburg YVES sold to The
Cincinnati Company, Hat tprr millions and
half rcrc would have been expended III
ulIiro Il road to Columbia and Camden,
and nakrg tie ,cccssaly outfit! or tic
Charleston ld llambrlg Lead Lad orly cost
its Origin al prnrricio's for Iui!dirs and re-
bnldil g. ard re-i!o%;,g, the sun G! two NIL
Ions OF dollars.
The Ccntrcl Eailload in Georgia, through
level country, cost eight laliors and is 10:
ready vet to accommodate large business.
Tie estimates ior Tuttin- Crane'iIc III
cpcrat;on was two huinrcd thousand dolIas
+ to0o, ,oUu). krowirg how apt mcn were TO be
deceived bv estimates, | insisted on raising
three hundred thousand (*3CO,G0C). We had
fine stone walls built and Ill lnater;as il II d hy
the contractor for i0ur and aalf dollars (4.5ul
4 uerch. and made all our lumber at Il cost OF
tour to four and half dollars Il thousand
Cara!s and earth banks at eight cents yard
Exercising al! possible economy, the establish
mcnt COS; bc'oc it WAS ready to work, two
hundred AID rincty-sevcm thor:ard G"''als
l:.y7, ,0UGl, and 10 put it i'll It's PRESENT con-
r;ctc state tic cost Las lun Up to three hnE'
itrcd and forty.Scvcr thousand (:347,0C0)
,. How often TO wcsec the arcI ccts estimate
for hui!dirr churches, coli ccs and tar pubic
Il NJ pa