Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-05-08
The Port Royal and Anderson Railroad.

The Port Royal and Anderson Railroad
At the late Annual Meeting of the
Stockholders of the Port Royal Railroad
held in Beaufort, s. c., the following list
of officers was eiected by acciamatipp:
:. President Geo. T, jackson, Augusta
Direcaefs.-D. +. Appleton, New York,
R. E. Rohbins,S Boston, john p. King,
Augusta, dosiah;Sibley, Augusta, W3F.
Herring Augusta. W. w. Clark, CIV
ington, Ga, TIP. Branch, Augusta w.
E. Jackson, Augusta, M P. Stovall. Au-
gusta, Fl. r. Cook, Beech Branch, B. w.
Lawton, Allendale, j. c.. Davant, Allen
dale.
During the progress OF The meeting,
the Editor of the Beaufort Republican
made some remarks touching our new
project for Railroad, after this wise:
81. G. Thompson pointed out the i'm.
portance of a connection with Cincinnati
y2 Ss EagssGsld Ab8eyls AnSeFsoa tas
and Knoxville. The Blne Ridge road
was never in a fairer way to be rescued
from the thieving politicians. Several
millions of dollars work had been done
on it already, and it would now probably
pass into hands'o men who would build
it. Its early connection with Port Royal
was certain, and the arrival of through
cars of Cincinnati bacon at Port Royal
was predicted within three years"
II is encouraging to find that the con-
templated Railway which concerns us SC
much has attracted attention among the
chiefs of enterprise, and at the "Head
Centre" OF modern commercial arrange
ments. ~
We live in fast age. and thenlan who
throws himself before the wheels Of pro.
gress may expect to be crushed to pieces
Neither ambition nor Importance, but
the spar of necessity makes men 30 par.
tial to steam and electricity. Stage
coaches once were tolerated; and after.
wards crooked Railroads were the pride
and the pleasure of bloated wealth. But
now the straight way,-the direct route
the Air Line, n, short, has become an
indispensable requisite tothe good genius
Of Commerce.
From Chicago through the Rabun Gap
and thence down by Anderson, Edgefeld
and Aiken to Port Royal, the route de-
viates so little from right line that il
seems to call aloud 10. capitalists for the
ways and means to build grand, com.
petitive Railway to accommodate the
toiling millions of Europe and of the
Great West. Nature, whose DEGREES are
invio, able, has decided in our favor.
Correctmaps show it, and men Of thought
begin to see it, and talk about it before
the great Kings Of improvement. They
say, "give us straight Railroad from
the epsRar6or to the heart of the pro-
vision Coantry,-put up the grain elevator
at Port Royal City, as well as the cotton
press"
Now everybody knows that one Rail
road cannot bring forward in due time,
all the heavy and pes.ishable produce an
nually depositedin Chattanooga. Neither
can one track from Augusta to our Deep
Ha,'dor accommodate all the cars neces-
sary to fill up those huge steamers,
which are preparing to- Go a wholesale
carrying business from tbat'Port, com.
mensurate with the demands of the age.
This helps to make our opportunity
this points out the way for us to reach
the very pinnacle of our noblest aspira-
TONS
From the banks of the Beaverdam, at
our very doors, 10 Port Royal Ferry,
there is sandy ridge so nearly straight,
and so nearly level, that, one who rides
over it,. can think of nothing else but
Railroads. From Edgetield Village via
Abbeville to Anderson, there is no for
midable obstacle to first class Railway
costing less money than like distance
on the Atlantic and Charlotte Air Line,
which runs along the foot of the noun
tains, so as to cross ridges and streams
almost innumerable.
1t is we'll known that every Railroad
running directly across the Blue Ridge
bringing the fertile west in contactwith the
Atlantic, has always been crowded with
work. The Road, therefore, from AN
derson through the Rabun Gap to Knox,
vile, is free from doubt as to utility and
dividends. It's early completion being
one of the necessities of the period, it is
hard to understand why Edgefield and
tho adjoining Districts hesitate to take
decisive steps for co operating with the
wealthy contractors, and these shrewd
capitalists, who are always ready to un-
dertake a big job that promises some
eclat as we'll asnet profits. Let us strike
while the iron is hot. Let US scorn in
glorious case, while the world is in a
ferment to make the crooked straight,
The rugged smooth, the dark bright, the
poor rich, and the rich richer. But above
all, letthose acknowledgements, unite
and contribute according to their means
toward the great work of putting our
selves in direct communication with the
Mississippi Valley and the Atlantic
Ocean.
The Greenville &: Columbia Railroad.
The regular annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Greenville and Co.
lumbia Railroad was held in Columbia