The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-06-25

6aT or about per mile No other road was ever
built across the mountains that cost less than $4,000
te mile Tho Blue RIDGE Road viii have grade going
% and sn 0s 90
tho subject as business men OF as ono business man
sn 90 ann
and desire to deal with You body, would with
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would be wrong in to do that for welfare
dent In to ask you to do unless could show
fail YIN In Convincing You Of this then should expect
you to dismiss The subject from your minds at once
ready he .s M tho tGa q nsTo
and the grade will be far less than that
tains In connection with this. however you win
rally ask 'what have own people done toward the
furtheranoe Of tho object 7 viii tell you in very few
Nearly thirty years aqo when the population of Gin
clnnati did not exceed $4,000 persons you burned
ares and Illuminated houses at the prospect Of this rail-
Of thai same corporation for whom you burned bonres
thirty yoars ago, talk you tho
Gin inna, Louisville and South Carolina Railroad and
your city granted the company charter At that time
s,ts an and G the bonds Of company
while the people subscribed 900 more
The great financial caIsmitos which beiei the whole
country lss7SS however. brought the enterprise
and work was asaiu commenced under the auspices
the same corporation; Inc states OF Nostn & Garonna
granted charters TO the noorporaors Tho people Of
these States subscrioed Charleston donated
tho State camo forward with s6op.OOO This made an
aggregate Of nearly 600 which the people OF
South invested In the enterprise which would have
been carried through to successful end had 1t not
been for the financial crisis Of ISs7sS and 1,ner aim
tho difficulties to be encountered at that time however
nosas
cont OF has been IN beO
Tennessee.
were expanded
the road. and about $500 required % ansh
tho work, and tho Of our visit Is to solicit yeur
trunk line. Which will connect the South Atlantic coast
with the Ohio may at no distant dsy be aIed fact @
s sS sssy s s
what has already been done. you Will only come for
. ward and aaaist us
You will ask what has IN rh,s ~ ~.
North and those OF tie South 70 exchange oommGG .
s & % %an sgqr be psspe Of the south upe at
dependent you for sustenance and Ihe
neis "a very heavy and the time occupied same is
"a very lengthy BY the construction OF the railroad
eensee Of the and the cost
viii be greatly reduced All that now separates you
IN What we propose this: We have already expended
,e O0o 0oo aud we have l84 miles q we give
you up what We have sspsnaea, d. you na w
the work We viii. Of course. give you undivided CON
tHn1
The apeaSer then referred at considerable length to
10 tho dferent hrborg and way OF transportation
,r- Ino H. u nn tna sonth Atinnuo coast.
or tn conoiuaiop. Mr.. Trenholm requested that tht
,r Uhnmher Appoint committee to take the whole mattel
ndcr and correspond with those In TIT
south who are In the proposed enterprise
on Thnnhfn1 gentlemen present for their aention t
.ry gue'ker retren. e.. .t introduced Mr. J. P Reed
Indsrson g. O. Who in q few briei remarks, urge
upon merchants OF oincinnaa inc hecessS "i Gull
OF tn encipg the undertaking at once. - ,,u 80
red Mr. O. NJ. MoGhee President Of the KnohVine M an an
Kentucky Railroad being present. reported on the COL
on- dIttop of that road as follows: . ~
ner Gentlemen The Importance OF difecs Iaifona Son
the muncaton between the Ohio hyef ana tne eoutea
se tern States frst brought before the peope OF ~
M 1890. and the surveys whieh proven thas sS
ter an enterprise practicable were commenced the
sde lowing year tn , .io sas, Tenneasee was at th
date thiny populated. ano athoGgh OUT people NC
me fully OF the great oenehs Whoh WoSia secaue
uch them from the completion OF oiest rou.
1ry the Ohio and to the Aanhc they oiu not possese
to do moro thu merely inia'e TINS Sreas
taking The road whcn represent shy ionr n t
lons length, extending from hno1Vlne, 1ennesseo, W
doV- State line OF Kentucky. and crossing TIE
Mountains at Elk or Wneeler zap, was noS @ uenn nun.
located until 1885, and, In the same year. the
miles were placed under CONTRACT flnaho,ai unu0s' @
L. Boon ata "a az ha fa of Is6n the iron was
upon the irBt ten miles OF the roau, anu .no .t
the next ten mies nearly completeu. FROM 'Ias & y
until within the last three months notnbg Was uoao
- ward the completion OF the Ioha' put, Vn .no 70 ~,
g. 1t suherea rnuon i % a,hor roaSa from the EurnnI
aunon{ W idp and from inter NEGLECT and wan
n re- orloses W iA' ~