The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-10-14
The hltelligencer JOB 0aice.

"AsA '4io S''su, VII recelFV pfOip pI dlteutiVu
Recommending my convictions, and the
reasons for them, to the Judgment Of my
f,llow-soldiers and countiymen, I remain
W. S. RosEcRANs..
The Great Southern Thorough
fare.
The Georgia and South Carolina. Air
Limo Railroad proposes to connect Chay-
Iotte and Atlanta by one direct and con-
tinuous line of rail, at asaying of distance
of more than two hundred miles over tho
present line, which is now operated by
three different companies, with conflict
ing interests and policies, requiring three
transfers of travel and tonnage.
Charters, as amended and.perfeoted du-
ring the present year, cover portions of
three States OF North and South Carolina
and Georgia, and contain the mostliberal
provisions tor organizing means and con-
ductilag the work. Georgia has recently
granted a-,loan of one million five hun
dred thousand dollara, and her citizens
offer 10 give q subscription of one million
dollars more, making an amount sufficient
to build the road to the Savannah River,
ono hundred and four miles,. About
twenty miles hayo been graded on,the
Atlanta section Of the line Tho Compa-
nies will, as authorized, be consolidated
into one, and conducted under one ad-
ministration, as is practically the case
under the present organization. They
look to tho Piedmont and Richmond and
Danville Railroads as their natural anil
necessary outlet Eastward, as their most
efficient allies, and rely upon their, COOP.
Grafton and support. Tho work will be
of corresponding gauge with the Rich
mond and Danvillo line, and with the
opening of the guage of the North Caroh-
ma Road from Greensboro to Charlotte,
now considered certain, presents an. uh-
broken routo from Richmond tos-Mobilo
and New Orleans. We understand that
many of tho leading stockholders and
managers of the North Carolina Road, in
view of the immense Importance of this
development, express. their readiness to
open tho guage OF the W Western section of
that road, ninety-three miles, as soon as
the Air Line Road is all under way And
tho public sentiment of that State, here
tofore averse to it. is rapidly settling
down on tho conviction that their local,
as well as the general public interests of
Interstate commerce, require an, open,
unobstructcd and continuous transit to
tho Immense and increasing travel and
tonnage that interchanges between the
leading points thus drawn together on q
direct central highway of more than eight
hundred miles OF rail line. isrt
Tho great belt Of country East of the
mountains thus to bo opened up to and
through Richmond, is the best on'thc
continent for general thritt;and social de-
ve!opment, yielding tho scmi-tropicalpro
duets of tobacco, wheat and cotton, and
can nowhere be 30 adyantageously con-
vorted into the various forms requiredfor
tho consumer as. in this city. Thesehave
boon and are now largely excluded from
her for want Of this continued, organized
and cheap communication with tho pro
ducers. Cotton especially, that shoeld
employ here millions of capital. that
would be attracted at onco with Il ese ia
ciliLies, is almost. an unknown commodity
in our markets More than $50, 900 bales
of cotton pass Atlanta yearly, seeking
Eastern markets for manufacture or ex-
port, and traverse lines from two to i've
hundred miles longer, because wo have
not this one needed facility TO command
it. The merchants and business of this
vast, fortilo and 10 bo most prosperous
section of the Southern States, nrs. cut
of. from us for want of it. These nro the
people. and thoir products are the staples
t6at naturally seek us and eympathize
With us. The only means of sccuringthe
untold advantages Of this business and
social intercourse, is, through the Richmond
and Danyille and Piedmont Railroads,
with the organized developments South
Of them above hintod at, and which the
able and indefatigabic President of these
companies is now at work to accomplish.
!. The President of the Air Line Compa-
ny has called q meeting, to be- heidi in At
,lanta in q few weeks, to rcorganize for
the resumption Of active operations and
the institution of more progressive pol
icy in its management Means already
at his command are deemed sufficient to
put from fifty to one hundred miles of
this line under contract. He proposes
to organize the capital necessary for tho
residue as rapidly as possible, Fl ON local
and other resources, and d6cs not doubt
his ability, in the course of q few months,
to have the limo under construction from
both terminal, and probably at an inter,
mediate section touched by tho Green
vile Road, in South Carolina. The people
along the whole line. North Carolina in
cluded, aro intensely interested and rein
epired undor tho present promising pros
poets of its early completion, and are
Offering what money they have, and as
much land as the company wants, both
for way and construction. Leading rail-
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