The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-04-04
SAVANNAH VALLEY RAILROAD.

Col. Latimer, President of the Savan-
nah Valley Railroad, has called meet
ing of the corpofators OF this Road TO
convene at Lowndesville ON the 9Th day
of May next at 10 o'clock a. M. 1t is in
tended to push matters vigorously for the
organization of tho company and the
completion of this railroad. Fourteen
miles of the Greenwood & Augusta Rail-
road has been graded at an average cost
of about FIVE hundred dollars per mile,
aud 1t is expected TO nave the grading
completed during the present year on the
whole line. This rapid advance cf the
Greenwood &c Augusta Road has inspired
q fresh courage in tho friends of the sa-
vannah Valley enterprise, which will
take solid direction at the Lowndesvillo
meeting.
Our people have long felt the neceasity
for competing line of road to the Green.
vile g. Columbia Road, and we hope the
Savannah Valley project may furnish
the long wiHhed for and greatly needed
competition. Il would give stimulus and
life to our town, would develop our
County, and would enhance the value OF
our property many times beyond what it
is now, or may reasonably be expected
to reach by any other lneana than addI-
tional railroad facilities. Our people
need this railroad as link in the system
which proper enterprise and diligence
upon their part may yet build up. The
completion of this link would greatly
increase the prospect Of completing the
Blue Ridge Railroad, and with these two
roads, with the G.. G. Q. r. r., our town
would Immediately become railroad
center of no small importance, and the
completion OF other intersecting and di
verging lines would then become sim
pie matter Of time Anderson is by nat
ural location and climate most desirable
County to live in, and has well improved
the advantages given it in many ways
It's population is one of the most indus
trious and intelligent in the State its in
huence is probably greater than that
of any other County in the State; 1t Ii
favored with as many colleges and high
schools as sny County Of the same popu'
latien in the State; 1t l. skas Bsnnel
County of South Carolina In politics
temperance and the grange. In manu-
factnres it is nct as far down en- the list
Us most other counties, and yet we have
but single railroad, whose sway ID de-
spotic and by which our development
has been checked and our commerce, te
n great extent, dissipated.
These things ought not so TO be. Oul
people should rise with the public spirit
and enthusiasm which characterizaa then
in other matters and end this railroad
monopely. wLiUis, .;;a vice, clamps oul
prosperity, deprivez US OF commercial
growth and makes US tributary, as peo'
pie, to the towns Of other counties. We
shoi!d Es@smtsE ..lsss .lLsss ID order IL retain
our advanced position, we must keep
pace with the age of Improvement in
which we live. IF We remain content
with the things OF to-day, we will DO be.
hind our neighbors ON tomorrow. We
will gradually be absorbed by the pro-
gresaing towns, and will pass az o tnwE
and as County into commercial inaignii-
canoe. This doeg not only apply to the
towns, hut enr agriculture tSs-;e::.!!..aars VIII be les
profitable than that of om neighhors, for
they, living upon or near the lines OF
competing railroads, will iiave ready sale
and good, markets for their produce,
while our farmers viii be compelled to
wagon and camp or pay tribute to tho
monopoly of Q eingle railroad. The re.
suit Of this win be to enhance the value
of lands in surrounding counties, and to
decreaza their value In this County. Our
people then shonld devote their attcn.
tion to securing the Savannah Valley
Railroad as the cheapest, quickest and
most direct f1liof that can be obtained
against t,sle monopoly which now aifiicts
ns, and threatens to continue its oppres.
sions for al time to como unless checked
by wholesome competition.
4 i -r--------y-- ----------S : sac