The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-10-09
Narrow Gauue Railroad.

A Convention in the interest of the projected
Marrow Gauge Railway, extending from Lake
Erie to the Atlantic coast, was held at Warm
Springs, N c., on the Both Of September The
Convention embraced representative men from
Ohio, Kentucky, Southwest Virginia, Tennes-
see, Western North and South Carolina
Judge r. A. Town, of Portsmouth, Ohio, was
elected President, and Maj. Thos. II. Russell,
of Pickens, S. c., and Mr.. John E. Helms, of
Morristown, Tenn, were chosen as Secretaries.
The Committee on Business submitted the
following, which was adopted by the Conven-
ton, viz:
WHEREAS, 1t is believed by this Convention,
that line of railway connecting the north
western region bordering on the great Lake,
with the seaports of North and South Carolina
-traversingthe great agricultural section north
of the Ohio River, and the mineral belt of
Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee and North Car
olina, as well as the cotton and rice fields Of
South Carolina, would be of incalculable ben
eft to the sections trayersed and to the country
at large constituting direct and i'm
portant link for furnishing freights for Europe
an shipments, and afordng to an extensive
inland section, which consumes largely of
TRANSATLANTIC and tropical products, conven-
lent entrepot for the same.
Resofved, That Maj. Thomas Fl. Russell,
Pickens, S. c., Winborn Lawton, Charleston,
S. c., r. G. Perrin, Abbeville, S. c., Maj. w.
W. Rollins, Marshall n. Co., J. Fl. Rumbough,
Warm Springs, N. c., Gen. Robt Vance, Ashe-
Curtis Eames, Morristown, Tenn. Capt. 0. G.
Nop6orboof E,ovv;1lo Tam Poht Mo
Kee, Greenville, Tenn, Col. w. D. Haynes,
Blountville, Tenn, Maj. R. R. Henry and Judge
Kilgore, Wise Court House, Va, G. G. Dan
bridge, Va, Hon. John Davis, Prestonburg,
KY, j. S. Spaulding, New York, DIR. j. W:
Fulton and Judge ii. A. Town, Portsmouth,
Ohio, be and are hereby appointed committee
to prepare and publish an address setting forth
the merits and advantages Of great North
and South line Of narrow gauge railway from
Port Royal Harbor to Lake Erie, passing by
the best and most direct route through the
western parts of the States of South and North
Carolina, East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia,
Eastern Kentucky, crossing the Ohio River at
or near Portsmouth, Ohio thence up the Sciota
valley to Columbus, and thence to the best and
most accessible harbor on Lake Erie, as may
hereafter be determined upon; and it was
further resolved that o. G.. Vanderhoof and
c. g. cambridge, civil engineers, report espe-
cially upon the advantages of narrow gauge
railway for the contemplated route
On motion, committee was appointed to
arrange for another Convention, which will be
held at Portsmouth, Ohio, or such other point
as they may fix upon, in furtherance Of this
enterprise. Maj. T. H. Russell and Winborn
Lawton, of South Carolina, are members of
this committee.
After the adjournment Of the Convention,
the committee appointed to prepare the address
held meeting, when Capt O. G. Vanderhoof
of Knoxville, Tenn, was made chairman, to
whom all communications in reference to the
address must be directed.