The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-25
timore and Ohio Railroad and twenty five less
| than that OF the Pennsylvania Central Rail-

than that of the Pennsylvania Central Rail
North of Clinton the road has been located
| to the State line with q maximum grade Of
sixty-six feet, and has been 80 constructed to
Its northern terminus, while the estimates for
! the cost OF its completion are based upon that
| location. The twenty miles between Knox
Vile and CLINTON were originally located with
grades OF but fifty-three feet to the mile. and
can be reconstructed, if necessary, with no
heavier grades than the remainder Of the road
Even now, o twenty-seyen tor engine takes 8
net load Of one hundred tons of coal over these
grades and single pusher put upon this
section could easily assist three full trains
pense. On the Chitwood route the % engineers
admit that they have grades Of eighty feet to
the mile. and it's advantages ought not there
| Knoxville and Kentucky road. On the Chit
| wood route again there are ninety six miles OF
mountain work from Cumberland River to
Emery Crap, and TINT IN country which
hardly produces enough to feed it's sparce pop
ulatlon, while on the Elk Gap route there are
but thirty mllesot mountain work and fifteen
of these are already graded. The writer's
country through which the Knoxville route
passes, falls to the ground
AS to the immense saving OF distance claim
less than thirty milos further to Chattanooga
by the Knoxville route than by his air line,
how does it happen that he saves ia miles in
distance to the southwest? Ne will close with
connecting with only 3400 miles of railroad
the railroads centeripg at Knoxville connect
with the entire railroad systems OF the United
States and Canada.
The Cincinnati Chronicle. of Thursday,
prints the following leading article on the same
subject:
The important question now before our peo-
pie is the establishment or the southern ter
minus OF our great railroad. "A number OF gen
tlemen have been in the city presenting the
special reasons why thelr respective cities
should be named by the City Council in their
resolution submitting the matter to the vote Of
oped that the people OF this whole country,
south, southeast and southwest Of us, are.
and for years have been exceedingly anxious
to cultivate the most intlrnaJe commercial
! relations with us. The only wonder to
those who have studied the matter is that Gin
clnrati has so long stood Indifferent to the de-
| sires and efforts Of those who have been SO
earnestly struggling to come to us and help
onward IN the road to commercial greatness.
Without: however, st0pping to regret the past,
1t now becomes us to go energeticailY and
earnestly into the great work. Not too hastily,
not IN ignorance OF what we arc doing. but,
ignoring individual interests, and in the light
OF the best informal on, the great work should
be proceeded with in the mann to accomplish
the greatest practical good with the least ex-
pense and risk to the city.
favor Of Knoxville as the southern terminus.
which will we'll repay persuaI. It ls clear and
succinct, and unless its ass artlons can be dis.
proved it seems to US that the writer makes
clear case in favor Of that city. In order tn at
the article may be fully unde fstood, the reader
should have CONSTANT letersnce to a map of
the country through which the proposed routes
run. All Of the routes which have been DIS
cussed present engnee ing difficulties, but
this. II seems to us, is the least Objectionable
on that score, while 1t may be completed at an
earlier day than either OF the others.