Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-12-17
RAILROAD NEWS.

The e t., Va. and Ga. railroad now
receives, on an average. 60 to 20 loaded
freight cars at Chattanooga daily, and
sends away 80 or 40, says the Times.
The Memphis and Charleston rail.
road company have new engine,
Weighing $4,000 pounds, manufactured
at the Baldwin works.
THE AUGUSTA AND KNOXVILLE
ROAD.
The Abbevile Press and Banner
says: We are pleased to learn that
the work on this road is progressing
most satisfactorily to the most sant
guine friends of the road. The direct-
ors have secured additional convicts,
and have now q total of fifty-five
hands actively at work. The bridge
across the canal has been finished !; the
road bed is ready for the iron to the
river, where the stone piers are ready
for tina bridge. We ale informed that
those having the matter in charge
think the iron will be put down to the
river by the middle of January next.
The iron bridge is now in Augusta
and will be put in position as soon as
the road is ready to transport it to the
place. The iron has already been laid
for a short distance, and an engine
and q train of cars are now in use.
This begins to look like business.
CUMBERLAND GAP CONNECTION.
Morristown Times: Mayor A. Fl.
Gregg, of this city, who has been abb
sent for some time on visit t) New
York, on business of private nature
and in connection with the railroad
from this point to Cumb ,rland Gap,
has Just returned and we have had
the pleasure of an interview with him
in regard to the prospects of the early
com pIetion OF this impoi tsnt line. Mr..
Gregg assures us that IL our own citi.
zens do their duty and show the lib
erality and earnestness that our inter-
est demands, we shall have q railroad
from this point t, Cumberland Gap at
an early day. n =
The company Is now already organ
lied and books for the purpose of sub
scriptions to the stock of the company
will be opened in very short time,
and every citizen along the proposed
line will be invited to take stock in the
new enterprise. It is believed that
work will be commenced between this
point and Beams Station early this
coming spring, and when commenced, ,
under the supervision of Mayor Gregg,
it will be pushed forward by the most
rapid means possible to It's Kentucky
connection at Cumberland Gap.
We are assured that If sufficient stock
can be obtained to grade and put the
ties on the road that then we willifind
no difficulty in obtaining the iron and
rolling stock necessary to equip it. We
feel confident that the people at Nor
ristown and all along the line from
this point to the Gap will take hold of
the ms ttsr now in good earnest, and If
they do we shall build the road inside
Of the next year.
A series OF public meetings are to be
held along the proposed line at an ear,
ly day, with view to getting the peo-
pie interested in this important enter
prise which we hope may be attended
with the desired result.
An Augusta, Ga, telegram, under
date of Dec. 14th, says:
The directors OF the Georgia railroad
to-day declared a semi-annual divi-
dend Of 81 per cent. A Syndicate CT
citizens have taken 100000 of bonds
of the Augusta and Knoxville rails
road, which will be pushed forward to
completion at once.
Chattanooga Times A rumor is
prevalent In this city that at an early
day, within month or so, work will
commence on a narrow guage railway
fron Chattanooga to Lookout noun
tain. The report is that a company of
wealthy capitalists, headed by Col. E.
w. Cole, have made proposition to
Mrs. Whiteside, the owner of the
Point, whereby fer certain considera-
tions Ca royalty on the fare it is said)
she will permit said company to build
q line of railway running from the
Union passenger depot te the "Pointn
on top OF Lookout mountain. Mrs.
Whiteside has already agreed
to the proposition. and it now
merely awaits the concur
currence of Col. Cole, to which he has
already made verbal agreement, and
will probably make formal accept
ance to-day. 1t is said that the E. r.,
| Va. & Ga, w. & A. G. S.,I N. & G..
! and A. G.. 8. roads are favorable TO the
scheme, and have sanctioned it, and
when the road is built will attach cou'
pons 10 all their through tickets, en-
4 titling the holders thereof to stop over
In Chattanooga and be given transpar
tatton to Lookout. We also hear that
/ as soon as the road is built magnifi'
cent hotel, capable Of accommodating
ole thousand guests, will be erected
/ en- the mountain, and that the entire
Point will be converted into a beantifu
park, and Supplied with all concsiva'
BILE conveniepces, and made as lovely
as any In the land. o[a1 G. liz. s'i1 ss.si
| For a torpid Liver there is nothing
better than Tate Spring Water. Fo