Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1873-11-06
FROM LAKE ERIE TO PORT ROYAL.
The Great Northern and Southern
Narrow Gauge Rail Road convention
ut Warm Springs NC

mt warm sPrhhSsN'S'
A respectable number of delegates
met in the hall of the Hotel at Warm
Spings on the 3Oth Sept. The Con-
vention was organized by calling Hon.
Ii. A. Towne, of Portsmouth. Ohio, to
the Chair, and appointing Ihos. d.
Russell, ofPickens, S. c., and John Il.
Helms, of Morristown, Tenn, to act as
Secretaries. .
The Chair briefly stated the object of
the meeting to- be to consider the praccl-
cability and advantages of Narrow
Gauge Railway from Lake Erie to Port
Royal, s. G.
On motion, a Committee was appoint
ed. consisting Of Maj w. Wr Rollins,
Capt. C. G. Dandrige, and Maj. U. G.
Vanderhoof to report business for the
meeting.
After short absence, the above Com
mittee reported the following preamble
and resolutions for the consideration Of
the meeting:
"Whereas, it is believed BY this Con-
vcntion that line Of Railway connect
ing the northwestern region bordering
upon the great Lakes, with the seaporis
OF North and South Carolina, travcrsing
the great agricultural regions north OF
the Ohio river, and the mineral regions
Of Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee and
North Carolina, us well as the coiion and
rice fields OF South Carolina, would be
Of incalculable bcucft 10 The sections
traverscd, and the country at large,
besides constituting n direct and I'M
portant line Tor furnishing ircights Tor
European shipments; and aHo,dlng 10
an extensive inland section, which con-
sumcs largely OF transatlantic products,
couvCnicnt cntrcpot for The same. BE
it there Resolved:
!. That Maj. O. G. Vanlcrhoof,
Knoxville, Tenn, Maj. I: II. Russell,
ickons, S. c.. Dir. W. G. Brown and
J. 4. Breazealc, Anderson, Hon. i. Z.
Perrin, Abbeville, Winborn Lawton and
J. NJ. Eason, Charleston, w. w. Rollins
Marshall, N. G., Gen Robert Vance,
Ashvillc, n. C., T. j.. Cash, Brevard,
N. c.. r. NJ. Mckee, Grecnvillc, Tenn,
Il. X. Henry, Wise CO., Va, Judge
Kilgore, Wise co. Va, G. 6. Dandridgc
Va, Hon. John Davis, Prestonsburg,
Ks, J. S. Spaulding, N. York, DR.. j.
W. Fulton and Hon. IL A. Towne,
Portsmouth,, Ohio, be and are hereby
appointed a Committee to prepare and
publish an address, setting forth the
merits and advantages of Great North
and South line Of Narrow Gauge Rail-
way from Port Royal, S. g., to Lake
Erie, passing, by the bestand most direct
route, through the wertcrn parts of the
States of South Carolina, North Carolina
and Virginia, and eastern parts OF Ten
nessec and Kentucky. crossing the Ohio
river at or near Portsmouth, Ohio,
thence up the Scioto Valley to Colum-
bus, and thence to Toledo, or such other
port on IIoke Erie as may hereafter be
determined upon.
.. That DR.. }. w. Fulton, i. G. Da-
morin, Esq. Judge ii. A. Towne, and
Col. Wm. r. BoIlcs, of Ohio, Robert
Melee. G,eenvie, Tenn, y: G. Van
dcrhooi. Knoxville, Tenn, Major Rol-
lins and II. a. Gudgcr, n. g., John Il.
1'hornly, pickcus, S. c., and Winborn
Lawton. Charleston, S. G., beappointed
n Committee TO arrange for Convention
to be held in Portsmouth, o., in furthe
ance Of this enterprise, at such time as
the Committee may think best.
>. That Capt. 0. g. Fanderhoof and
Capt. c. G. DauGridge, Civil Engineers,
report especially upon the advantages OF
a Marrow Gauge Railway for the con-
templalrd route.
The report and resolutions were un-
animously adopicd.
On motion, all newspapers friendly to
the enterprise were requested to publish
the proceedings.
A:tcr the adjournment, the Committee
appointed 10 prepare the address, met,
and organized by appointing Capt. .;
G. Fanderhoof Chairman, TO whom all
communications in reference to the ad-
dress must be referred.