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

| Howards 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
nt work grading, two hundred of whom arc con-
Vlcts hired from NORTH Carolina. In Henderson
ana Buncombe Counties the grading will be paid
| Tor 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, ut cont lractor's pri
| ccs, no less sthan...................S SS05, 900
20 miles of cross-ties delivered and dis
tributcd, only ST. 800 unpaid. 1C,25O
10 miles of IRON rail and fasteuings, in
ciud'ng lO miles i'll operation,
oil paid for....,..................... $1,000
Cost anu value of work and material. S4Sl, ,25O
The work done by the convicts has saved the
Company for that work nj 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 25th Of the present month, fifteen
miles in oil will be open, unless the weather in
terferc The company needs twenty miles more
iron to lay the track TO PAGES Gap, the point
| thirty-fve miles from Spartandurg This iron.
with the eross-ties. fastcnings, and the cost of
laying, will come to $88 900, and the company
have made arrangements to pay half this amount
IN cash, receiving n credit extending to two
years, for the remainder. The issue of mort
| gage bonds TO an amount not exceeding ) 10, 900
| mile has been authorized, and the company de-
sire to borrow, upon the security of their bonds,
| the money now required, $44 900. The sccuri-
| ty will be the work already done, with the iron
to be bought and laid, costing nearly $500, 900,
with thirty-fve miles of road in operation; and
the whole lien upon this in shape of the first
| mortgage will not much exceed $4,000 a mile
But the security is not limited to the bare value
of the road: AS soon as the road reaches Pace S
MoSnin,2 fAs
| E'ory Year nunurcds of wagons from Ashevlle
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 Major 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
| Spnrtanburg and Asheville Rail Road passes
lie mentioned that Northern settlers had already
| bought $4,000 acres of land in Pennsylvania
County, n. g. This settlement and others like
| 1t would increase the business of the road. In
explanation Of the fact that produce seeks South
| Carolina, by wagon, instead of The Western N
Z. Rail Road, he said that ii useless for the
| farmers to send their corn, wheat, cggs, milk
| and other articles to that Raiload, because the
country through which it runs produces those
| same articles just as cheaply.
South Carlina, on the contrary, needs them,
| not raising them as abundantly; and, seeking
the best market, tho produce flows to this State.
Where the farmers sell they likewise buy, and
| the whole State will thus be benentrtu.
| In reply TO questions by Capt Fairly, Mai.
Barker and other gentlemen, Maj. Duncan said
that the cost of grading the whole line to Ashe-
| vile would average $1,000 mile the entire
| cost of the road, fully equipped, will be about
$4,000 mile, (making it the cheapest road of
that gauge in the country and that, when COM
pctcd, the mortgage debt will be between So
| 600 and $4,000 mile. The Spartanburg and
Achevile Railroad is the only road in the United
States that crosses the Blue Ridge without
tunnel. The depots on the line from PAGES Gap
| to Spartanburg, with the necessary land, will be
built and given to the company by the owners
| of the land through which the line runs. Two
| of these depots, far ahead of the track lay ers
were already built. One of these, at the Ruth
erford and Greenville Cross Roads, twenty-five
| miles from Sparanburg, is an exceedingly com
| modous and handsome structure. A store stands
near the depot, with Il large saving and plan
| ing mill.
N. The meeting being in possession of the nc
! ces sary information, on motion, adjourned
| Major Duncan, by his clear and business lik Q
statements, has made an excellent impression in
Charleston, and the prospect is very hattering.
Whatever else may be said
Of the Changers Gas secret order without
any secrecy" it must be admitted that they
have taught the farmers how to by cheap.
ly and how to sell their products at full
prices. 1t must also be said, to their credit
that they have brought down the prices OF
many manufactured aud other articles ol
prime necessity from Is to 33b per cent
agricultural implements, coal, ETC., for cx
ample. Morever, there is no doubt that
the order Of Patrons of Husbandry has in
troduccd a new element of sociability and
improvement among farmers. Many of the
Grange headquarters have been virtually
transformed into club rooms-somc of them
supplied with libraries and they are habit,
ually fequented by all the members enti
tied to their privileges. Certainly, an insti
tuition of which such things can be said. and
which is purely non political in its constitu-
tion and bylaws, deserves to be kept alive,
encouraged and hidden God speed by every
wcll-wisher of that class, upon whose pros
pcrity rests the wclfsrc Of the whole frame
work Of American society.-Fronktort
| (Ky) Yeoman.
An imaginative Irshman has improved
upon Ossian. 81 returned" said he, "to the
halls OF my father by night, and | found
them in ruins cried aloud My fathers,