The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-04-06
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1 Reviewing the above, you Will observe 9
general increase In our receipts Of nearly III
teen per cent. over those Of the previous year.
From ON examination of the superintendent
report and the accompanying tabular state
ments, showing the departments In which this
increase has occurred; it will appear TO nave
been equally distributed throughout our..pas-
sepger service, while a marked difference Is
noticeable In our freight service.
Thus. we find that the up frpights have ruled
on a,parity with those ot'tle previous year,
\ while the dO,pn freights have exceeded those OF
1.-THE same period nearly Mirty:siT per cent. This
| Indicates both al increase OF production over
| consumption, and q curtailment Of the wants
of the planting community, corresponding
with the reduced values Of their products
| conditions which are, certainly, favorable to
our anticipations OF an increased business In
the future.
Daring the year we have moved 1859 bales
| of cotton, 65,S46 barrels naval stores 1897, $50
feet of lumber, and II, 1896 tons phosphate rock,
as against %, $50: bales, SO, 700 barrels, 1886, 0oO
reference to the travel, the policy has been
adhered to of Issuing. Communication. tickets,
| without restrictions, at q cents per mile; sec
| ond class at 81 cents per mile; first class at 5
| cents, and through tickets to remote points, at =
cents per mile. Any reduction upon these rstee
would be impoliic. The effect OF low fares Ii
| stimulating travel is well understood, .bHt
their application should be measured. by the
| density of the population to be operated upon,
/ and where, from the numbers, who might thus
| be induced to travel, an Aggregate revenue
\ would be derived IN excess OF that winch
! would otherwise accrue.
We regret to state our failure TO realize the
,---cA It'll. $3.50. aN,la,1nfal Trnuo tho rn-
opening OF the Savannah and Cha lesion Road.
This has been DUE to the incompleteness o.
| our connection with 1t, and the-absence, up to
| this lime, Of a double daily service over that
| road. The first Is now maintained by the use
| of'an omnibus and aferry steamer across the
Ashley River, appendages TO which the travel
ling public, OF the present day, seriously OBJ
ject, and which 1t will, if possible, avoid by
| taking competing and even longer routes
| without these drawbacks. From Charleston
| n%orthward, and from Savannah southwark,
a double daily service Sundays excepted) has
been established by the main roads forming
the Atlantic Coast Line, while over the Savan-
nah Road but q single daily service has, 30
far, been adopted, the resultofWhioh, especial
" under recent combinations, has been p con-
siderable diversion of the travel between ihe
important points Of Florida and the North, to
routes through Savannah and around Charles.
ton, which offer closer connections.
These difficulties are, however, well under
stood and appreciated by the direction of the
Savannah and Charleston Road, and their re.
moval has had, and Ia still having, their earnest
attention. With a close connection OF
Charleston. and one at Savannah with
the Atlantic and Gulf Road, the coast
rect, should be able to defy all competition.
Through cars could then be rua without change
from Wilmington, N. G., to Cedar Keys or st.
Marks In Florida, distances Of some six hun
dred miles.
These improvements cannot long be delay
ed, In view Of those which are progressing
around Us. Arrangements are now being made
for o weekly steamship service between Cedar
Keys and Havana, which should, In a.great
measure, control the Cuban travel: Better
connections have been made ut Savannah,
through the, Macon and Brunswick Railroad,
with Jacksonville and other points In Florida
and northward of us. That powerful corpura-
ton, the Pennsylvania Central Railroad Com
pany, has recently obtained q charter for Q
road from Washington to Richmond, to be built
within The next eighteen months. and taken
other measures ITO secure o direct communi-
cation between the North aud South" which
shall be common to all, and freed OF those fet-
tiers which have heretofore controlled the sew
eral routes between Weldon and Baltimore.
1t is not improbable that the time between
Charleston and New York will then be re-
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we are not to lose sight of other projects. the
completion of which must, eventually, have
a favorable effect upon the general business OF
our read.
The South Carolina Central Railroad, from
Its junction with ours at lanes" to Sumter,
q distance offorty miles, we have every assur-
ance will soon be built, which will. bring
as now against $50 miles via Klngville, and
l41 miles via Florence. At Sumter 1t will con-
meet with the extension Of the Wilmington
Columbia and Augusta Railroad, to Columbia,
now IN progress, and which will probably be
completed within the next three months. The
distance te.Columbia by this new line will be
about four miles longer than that blythe South
Carolina Railroad. Your attention has been
so frequently directed 10 the Importance and
value Of the Central Railroad, as a feeder to
thfB, that further remark upon these features
Is unnecessary. Ia August last your board'of
directors deemed IL proper to subscribe to the
capital stock Of that company thirty-six thou
sand dollars 1885, 000,) lin addition to the If
teen. thousand dollars previously subscribed)
wise might have. ~lapsed-the said subscription
to be payable Inlhe proportion Of one rhou-
sand dollars per. mile for every continuous
mile, as. completed from Lanes Turnout ind
to be subject to your ratification at this meet
ing, which Is now respectfully suggested.
IHd CneroW auo S0i1SouIy hallrOau IL also
being built, and from the amount Of work al
ready done, and the means at command
there is every probability OF its extension to
Wadesboro', North Carolina, within the next
year.
Our operating expenses have exceeded those
of the previous year-a result which was lore.
shadowed in our last report, from the necessary
additions, and other expenditures to be incur
red the ensuing year. You were then remind
ed that we were operating the road with very
nearly the same machinery which We had In
used before and during the war, the advanced
age and Increasing demands upon which
! would require the closest attention, and on.
siderable expenditure In maintaining its eff
cheney. Such is, substantially, The case at this
time. In our operating expenses, however,
| ATE included the cost of q new drst-class loco