Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-02-11

zation as will insure victory in the import
ant Legislative election next Summer, and
therefore submit the proposition to our
friends.
Wilmington, Charlotte u Rutherford
Railroad.
WILMIEGToN, Feb 1870.
Editors of the JournGI-The editorial on the
Wilmington, Charlotte & Rutherford Railroad In
this mornings edition OF the JOURNAL, being ap-.
plcable only to the Engineering Department, Tor
which am solely responsible, I cannot remain
quiet under limitations reflections that any
transactions of the Company with which am
connected has received the sanction, or even the
ssmack,' of humbuggery,
To enable you to do justice to me and to the
Officers of this Road, aud to remove. as far as
practicable the false impression of wanton ex'
penditure that the article is calculated to pro-
duce request that you will endeavor TO oblter-
ate the effects Of conjecture by the publication OF
single statement of facts, easily to have been
obtained.
West of the Pee Dee and West of CherryYille,
in CASTOR county-except where tho grading has
already been acknowledgement had sprung up,
the pegs and stations had all rotted and traces
of the located line had been effaced by the lapse
of time. Anticipating a vigorous prosecution OF
the work, an engineer employed on each dl-
vision Of the Road, and work was staked Tor the
contractors.
Tho business CT those engineers and their rod
men has been to stake off work for the contrac-
tors. and-except in one instance, and that on
the Eastern Division-to lay of and re-stake the
old located line. The question of economy is
whether it had been better for the engineers 10
have remained unoccupied a larger portion of their
time or to have been fully occupied in resettlng
the lines under officers who had originally sur
veyed and located them, and we're OF course
moro familiar with the location and could re-es-
tablish it more cheaply than strangers
could at some future day? The on
IL new survey that was made IS that
between the Union County Line and Char
Iotte. The propriety and economy OF this sur
vey-at the cost Of only additional Engineer
and two or three men-hAs been established
fully to the satisfaction of the officers, by saw
ing over the old located line, in the distance of
eight miles, OF one hundred and fifty thousand
(15O, O00) cubic yards of excavation and embsnk-
ment, without increasing the length of the line.
trust that Jealous care for everything con-
nected with this great work" will induce you to
notice fact, that the officers of this Company
have not knowingly disregarded The interests
confided to them. at all events 80 far the pres
6nt instance mas D60Q Ill0 OcCAS1Ou VI
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
B. 8. GUIoN.
It gives US pleasure to publish the fore
going letter from Mr.. GUIoN. It will
doubtless prove satisfactory to the stock
holders of the Company, who must have
been surprised equally as much as we were
no Of Of
GERS having completed q survey of the
road to Rutherfordton. So far as to the
possibility of our obtaining the facts in re-
gard to the survey, We have been led to
suppose that anything we might think or
publish in regard to this road was matter
of perfect Indifference to the present Of
fcers. We have made statements based
upon what we regarded as the best of evil
dence as to the progress and management
of the Wilmington, Charlotte & Ruther-
ford Railroad, and We have seen what we
had reason to believe were official but in
direct denials of our information in the
columns of contemporaries. So far as any
personal disrespect to Us was intended, we
could we'll afford to laugh at it, but it was
a display of feeling with which we could
have no sympathy, nor could it possibly
lessen our interest in the welfare of the
work.
It is hardly necessary for us to say,
which we do, that our article was in no
way intended as reflection upon Mr..
GUIoN. We could not have supposed that
he had ordered a survey of the road to
Rutherfordton, and our structures had no
reference to the manner in which the sur
vey had been performed. We took it for
granted that it had been ordered by a vote
of O majority of the Board of Directors and
VIC only desired to condemn what we be-
ieved was useless expense. We regret
that he made a personal application of
what we intended as q reflection upon the
general management Of the Company.
But Mr.. GUIoN knows US we'll enough to
know that we will do what we believe to
be our duty without regard to personal
We have no fault to find
with him in the discharge of his official
duties. So far we know he devotes his
abilities and energies to the best interests
of the Road, and personally We have the
kindliest feelings towards him. But he
must remember we have duties as impor-
tant as are his and as imperative upon us.
When we find fault with hin as 2 public
officer we will express it in such language
as will convey our meaning and cannot be
If We are led into errors in any state
L
we are always glad to make corrections,
for We would be unwilling to misrepresent
our enemies, much less our friends. But
we cannot be driven from a performance
of duty even at the expense of FORGETTING
the good opinion OF those who should re-
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