The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-02-05

| EnhfleSton anu rom tue Stsste, 1f.
Murray eaid that they had not come ask
ipg for subscriptions from the people of
The City and County of Charleston, be-
cause they felt. that Charleston in this
regard had done oil that could be expec
ted of her. What they wanted Mas the
assistance Of Charleston through her del
egation In the Legislature and her inau-
ence over the delegations of other eopn.
ties of The Btat9 to put the Blue Ridge
Railroad upon It's feet oIce more. II
does not require, he said, any cohoidefa-
tion of the railroad policy Of this State
TO see that there is no System st all. II
seeks TO build up tfade out Of the State
| at the expense Of those In the Gtate. The
merchants Of tho hp-cotintfy are getting
| goods over the Air Line Railroad, which
means that they are trading ia New York
and Atlanta. And moreover; q wagon
train has been stafted between Central, O
town on tho Air Line Road, and And.r-
Son, which lays goods down at Anderson
cheaper than our railroad system will do.
If the railroad system had been earfied
out % originally contemplated by its
foandefs, this strange condition of affairs
| would not be IN existence to-day. /
don't think you will find State whose
| railroad policy Is so devoid of fystefi as
| it is In this State! But that has passed.
The tieSt best thing is TO turn our atten.
tion to that which il before us, and seek
to repair by the construction OF lines in
the iuture the injuries done by the lines
constructed in the past. While ,ye do
not expect Charleston TO frown upon any
road that seeks to come to her gates, yet
there are objections to the Asheyille
route which sbould be considered. In
the frst place there La gap of twenty.
| five miles from Alston which would have
to be filled either by building road or
controlling the 0reenville and Columbia
Railroad ffuin that point. At Spartan
burg the road Is owned by, capitalists,
whose interests are in Spartanburg and
not with Charleston. The same discrim-
ination in favor Of North Carolina may
be expected from .thH capitalists who
OWNED the road in North Carolina. Fol-
low the road to Wolf Greek and there
you find the East Tennessee and Virginia
Road, which will be necessary in order to
get to Knoxville. These roads may COM
bine, and may locate route, but you
have no guarantee that If they start the
road from Knoxville to Charleston that
it viii. femain cotnbihed.. We thipE this
route by. Ashesille will be O good route
| for Charleston, and that it will be built
up, but we think there is another enter.
prise of far more Importance to von and
the State. This enterprise is the Blue
Ridge Railroad. There are charters now
in existence which allow privileges to
the different routes through the same
gap. The first of these routes which is
built will tetufe the gap. There has
been great deal of work done upon the
road. 1t is an expensive road, and has
three tunnels to be completed. The first
tunne! Is three-fourths completed, the
tunnel in Georgia is three fourths COM
pleted, the tunnel in North Carolina has
been avoided by as good route, and
there ic tunnel of l 900 cubic yards in
Tennessee. You will see by the Ne,cs
and Courier the amount of grading in
cubic yards needed in South Carolina.
The cost of finishing the grading of this
would not exceed sl75,OO0. The tunnels
pensive. You will find that &s5O,0OO
will cross-tie and iron the road, showing
an expense of 81 100000 for the grading,
tunnels and bridge work to be done. If
We O0u SiVO NonuuCuC0 w tilC DGOpI6 VI
North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee
the road can be completed. I think we
can place the road in such condition
by legislation that capitalists will be glad
to put their money into it. But If we
fail in that we can make other arrange.
ments to do our work in Georgia and
South Carolina, and Tennessee and
North Carolina are ready to do their
work whenever we meet them at the
North Carolina line. What We want is
to ask Charleston to cooperate with us
in getting through the legislation we de-
sire. We want the passage of an Act
allowing us to make corporate subscrip-
tions along the route, and we are conf.
dent we cdn obtain half million of dol
lars by this means. Anderson alone will
give $780, 600 if reasonably guaranty can
be given that the road will be completed.
We want to secure O release from the
taxation that has accrued upon this road,
upon the condition that the reed shall be
completed within o certain number of
years. We should also ask for exemp.
tion from taxation for o certain number
| of years. The State is getting nothing
| now, and In the future she would not
only get the taxation from the road, but
from the enhanced value of property
along the route and In Charleston. Then
we should ask for convict labor. There
is no other road upon which convict labor
j could 10 made So available The con-
victs could be put to work in those tun.
nels where escape would be impossible,
and where the temperature Is neither cold
nor hot. It Is always the same. The
granting Of this labor to that purpose
would not Interfere with the quarrying
of the stone for the Charleston jetties,
because that work is done by class of
convicts who could not leave the Peni-
tentiary bounds. The next thing we
want is for the State to give subsidy cr
o half million of dollars towards the com.
pletion of this road, to be paid in install.
ments of 100000 year for Ave yeass,
the first instalment not To be dueuntil
the road IL completed. This road will be
vwoorsttiii; wosti; ssnt much to the State It will 10
| q sound financial inyestment, because
you only pay for what You get and whBn
| you have got it. Il Is to SECURE your in
! fuence to pass this legislation that we
are here. 1t is matter In which the
| whole State is interested. Ali the profits
| Will be kept within the State, and every
corner win feel the benefits. We feel,
therefore, that 1t is not unreasonable 10
| ask the State TO do this. We have re-
Gently seen the State very wisely grant
certain privileges TO .Celnnahia ~. The
| ground that what benefits one portion oil
| the State henefta the whole State. We
hope that We will have your &C. operation
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