The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1871-09-09

ih5. sammsnessI wst - 4
aa iEsa s~s yeaa A. fssi -
ln.ls gssm tslafIsa - ~ utsheI
wlsfe !, lsymed y inHsilea slih n
/. oll lhe, aoi olensats ~ ra'ils :
Tls ~aaas. d eoanf was 6se ies'
io a,fretund viIl, iIiai a tl'eashs
lins and ll,e sealh eenefaII5. Sob
mont combinations arising. 4 Va
lamclaldsalle iomake tie gang
aailofm With northern lines. An
other. nnd VIZ lhiuk mistaken, lsle'
nru / Iuils favor was 10 have tls
rslapmeat Of good. destined for ih'
F5rtll 10 akc place at Louisville
mt,cr tlma at tincif natl. II wa'
urged by tho business men Of Louis
vile that the immense reycnuc dc'
rived from the change Of bulk 10
lhar eily would bring in rcycnu'
which cd itself would amply repay
Iu.c expense OF making the change
Three months time has been em-
.ploycd in getting ready for thcwork
winch was commenced ycs'crday.
There were twenIy-six engines,
twenty four passenger coaches, nj.
teen haggagcaud llrcchundred and
Gny freight cars to be changed, in
addition to the two hundred and
twenty four miles OF main aud side
tracks winch were TO be rclaid.
The bill for all this amounts 70
| $lGl,s00, and is divided between tho
/. cilr of Louisville and tho Louisville
and Nashville Railroad Company,
8 the former bearing three fiths ofthe
i cxncusc and the latter the rema'n-
0 ing two-ff,ls, tho company VINO
= own the track bearing no part q
= the expense whatever,
}. The greatest advantage to accrue
10 the roud BY the change, IN oul
V opinion, is that it will bring the'
Il Lexington branch into IN nnlnter
IN rnntel eastern connection with TN
ns Chesapeake aud Ohio Railroaa, wh'l'
20 it will, in all probability, become
.. part Of the linc Of road nov beinI
1. constructed between New 0rleaA
\. and st. Lonis, tllus making ita lid
20 in what will DO one Of the most IN
Oh portant Of the trans-continen ~
re tens OF railroads.
if Although tho expense Of naa ll'
III this change did not devolyc upe
rorItho road, tho labor Of overseeing A.
to arranging it did. Thia labor NJ
divided principally among tho fc
,cn lowing gentlemen Samuel "
va Superintendent, and ], y. Glmpe
II linz, his nhIc Asaistant SnpsFi
,en Etendent, had tAc entire coatnl ~
ow in preparation mad general nAana
rc- ment; while r. Rogers and AZ IN
ess the two Roadmasters,s had thc /
ron mediate supervision OF the frak
.bo laying. Others there were who,
say subordinate capacities, were quite
ro. useful as these gentlemen IN q
&C. more commanding positions.
ICES The actual time cmployol
changing the gango On the Oine y
, il natl line, throwing out tue th
/ Of delays we have mentioned, wax I
! W. '4Nf5 =
non hours Some sections, 4 we y
this said before, were ccmplctcd irsl
any this time, others III four or Ave ho'
but the longest, exclusive # ~
Mis-. we have spoken of, was Six n
NIB. and twenty minutes. Gonsislsi
y = !
IN I tho various circumstances tllat y y
.itea to retarl them, ths isss sisel
Law. work as we have eyeFa n
,iast The drynessof the traekaad ~ |
On r scqucut susceptibility to tlan N ell /
will Of the extreme hot weathar, mn
nor safely sct down as fetardi6
,sip. nearly one~balf from What
.orlo would have done under other
vino cumstances. - Cincinaaii LH99'
August 14th. s'
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