The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-05-04

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Howard's Gap Road and three miles from The
| Saluda Gap road.
| Besides the continuous grading Of thirty five
| miles about ten miles more arc graded in dis.
| connected sections. Four hundred laborers are
at work grading, two hundred of whom arc con-
| victs hired from North Carolina In Henderson
| and Buncombe Counties the grading will be paid
| for in the bonds of those counties, which the
| contractors have agreed TO receive in place of
| the cash.
The grading already done and paid for
would cost, at contractors pri
| ces, no less than. S305, 900
% miles of crosstics delivered and dis
! tributcd, only 81 800 unpaid. 16,250
| 10 miles of iron rail and fastenings, in
: Guiding 10 miles in operation,
| all paid for.......... $4,000
Cost and value of work and MATERIAL S4S1 ,25O
The work done by the convicts has saved the
Company for that work at least fifty per cent in
cash outlay but the value of the work and ma
| terial is as we have given it. There is some lit
tie floating Indebtedness, but the balance due on
private stock subscriptions will moro than cover
| this.
Ten miles of the road arc now in operation
and by the 2oth of the present month, fifteen
miles in all will be OPEN unless the we,ther in
| terferc. The company needs twenty miles more
| iron to lay the track to PAGES Gap, the point
thirty.fve miles from Spnr,andurg. This iron,
| with the eross-ties, fastenings, and the cost of
laying will come to $SS,000, and the company
have made arrangements 10 pay half this amount
in cash, receiving credit, extending to two
years, for the remainder. The issue of mort
| gage bonds TO an amount not exceeding $40, 900
u mile has been authorized, ami the company de-
sire to borrow, upon the security of their bonds,
! the money now required, S44 900. The sccuri-
ty will be the work already done, with the iron
| In ha nrl,f opl lni1 ,1,,
with thirty-fvc miles of road in operations; and
the whole lien upon this i'll shape of the first
mortgage will not much exceed 1900 mile
But the security is not limited to the bare value
of the road. As soon as the road reaches Pace 8
Si R ef h.
livery y vi,r nunurcds Of wagons from Asheville,
within easy distance of the Western North Caro-
lima Railroad drag their way to distant Green
vtllc and Spartanburg, and the produce they
bring, and far more, will naturally seek the Rail
Road.
When Maj jor Duncan had finished his explain.
atory statement, Senator Cannon, of Spartan
burg, briefly addressed the meeting, describing
the character of the country through which the
Spartanburg and Asheville Rail Road passes
lie mentioned that Northern settlers had arcad
bought $4,000 acres of land in Transylvani;
County. n. G. This settlement and others lik,
it would increase the business of the road. liz
explanation of the fact that produce seeks Soutl
Carolina, by wagon, instead of The Western n
G. Rail Road, he said that it was useless for tn,
farmers to send their corn. wheat, cggs, mill
and other articles to that Rail0ad, because tn,
country through which it runs produces thos,
same articles just as cheaply.
South Carlina, on the contrary, needs them
not raising them rs abundantly; and, seeking
the best market, the produce flows to this State
Where the farmers sell they likewise buy, and
the whole State will thus be benentIed.
| I'm n nv Nai
Barker and other gentlemen, Maj. Duncan sale
that the cost of grading the whole line to Ashe
vile would average $1,000 mile the entir,
cost of the road fully equipped, will be abou
$4,000 mile, (making it the cheapest road o
that gauge in the country and that, when com
plcted the mortgage debt will be between So,
600 and $4,000 mile. The Spartanburg an,
Ashevile Railroad is the only road in the Unite,
States that crosses the Blue Ridge without
tunnel. The depots on the line from PAGES Ga
, to Spartanburg with the necessary land, will b
built and given to the company by the owner
of tho land through which the line runs. Tw
Of these depots, far ahead Of the track-ayers
were already built. One of these, at the Ruth
erford and Greenville Cross Roads, twenty-tw
!, miles from Spartanburg, is an exceedingly con
9 modious and handsome structure. A store stand
! near the depot, with q large saving and plar
ing mill.
Fks The Meeting being in possession of the n,
t Major Duncan, by his clear and business-lik
statements, has made an excellent impression
3 Charleston, and the prospect is very hatterins
h GRANGERs.-Whatever else may be sal
: of the Changers "as secret order withou
c any secrecy" it must be admitted that the
t have taught the farmers how to by chcaI
S ly and how to sell their products at flu
l. prices. 1t must also he said, to their credi
e that they have brought down the prices
: many manufactured aud other articles
: prime necessity from Is to 335 per cen
(, agricultural implements, coal, ETC., for C,
J. ample. Morever, there is no doubt tn;
IS the order of Patrons of Husbandry has il
'e troduced new element Of sociability an
W Improvement among farmers. Many of Il
n Grange headquarters have been virtual
h transformed into club rooms-somo of the
Is supplied with libraries and they are habi
10 ually fiequented by all the members ent
es tied to their privileges. Certainly, an ins,
Y, tuition of which such things can be said, ar
5. which is purely non-political in its constit
ton and bylaws, deserves to be kept aliy
~ u encouraged and hidden God speed by eve
u u wcll.wisher of that class, upon whose pre-
~ perity rests the welfsrc of the whole frar
:, work Of American society Frdnkft
~ (Ky.) Yeoman. ~
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