The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-01-29
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railroads Of eonth Carolina are without
q system, and instead Of building up a
commercial centre in our midst are ac-
tually dissipating our commerce, and
making us tributary to points without
the State. Every railroad line in this
State, except the South Carolina and the
Greensille and Columbia, have been
operated in the interest of cities in other
4 States, and have tended to destroy the
trade Of Charleston. II has been short
sighted in our people to allow this state
of rnairs to be fixed upon us, and al
though We have been suffering from it
!. for years, it bus been impossible to induce
), our people to belisve it. The cause OF
The languishing business of Charleston
has been sought for in every reason ex-
cept the correct one, which is its unfor-
tunate railroad surroundings. A recent
combination of Georgia railroad men,
which came near resulting in the location
of through line to Savannah with de-
cided determinations against Charleston,
has, however, fully walked up the citizens
Of the latter place, and in fact Of the
whole State, and now the danger is that
In the haste to form o combination to
protect Charleston the road will bo inju-
diciouGly located, and thus result in
serious loss to the people of the whole
State ant detriment to the growth OF
Charleston. A dispatch from New York
to the Nars and Courier. under date Of
January %, conveys the following infor-
nation:
The unusual demand, during the lest
few days, for South Carolina Railroad
stock and unsecured bonds 10 explained ut
last. A Syndicate OF New York capital
lists, prominent among whom are Samuel
Sloan, President of the Delaware aud
I.ackawanna Railroad, Moses Taylor and
Richard Lathers, has been formed for
the purpose Of taking control ~ the
South Carolina Railroad and releasing it
fcom the litigation which now keeps it in
the custody Of the United States Court,
with view to making IL without delay
the terminal link in tho chain of roads
which shall connect the great railroad
systems of the West with the Atlantic
seaboafd at Charleston.
II the plans Of the Syndicate are car
ried out the Road is to be managed with
such energy as will speedily render
Charleston the leading shipping port
south of New York. Sixty miles of road
nre to bo bnilt Immediately to connect
the South Carolina Railroad via Spartan
burg, Henderson and Wolf Greek with
tho CINCINNATI Southern Road. A feet
s OF new and splendid steamers Is to be
PLACED on the New York and Charleston
line. Thege, It'll said, will eclipse those
ncw plying on the Savannah line, and
are intended, amongat other things, to
accommodate the Florida trade.
The Syndicate already own about 40,-
600 shares of the stock Of tho sonth Car
o1ina Railroad Company, one of its mem
hara alone holding 20, 900 shares. They
do not look to any unfair combination
with other roads, but expect to win sue
cesseby dint of the completion Of the
shortest and most direct route from the
Ohio River TO the Atlantic seaboard.
They aav that the March rennrt will ahny
the South Carolina Railroad to be in. ex-
cellent financial condition.
& The Ns,cs and Courier and the Register
have commanded largely upon the ques-
tions involved in tha selection of the
route for crossing the Blue Ridge, and
have agreed in advocating the Spartan
burg and Ashayille route. In advocacy
Sf thisroute the following table Of dis
s tanGta is given tlt5s
charleatan TO Colunbis...,.......180 miles
Columbia to spartanburg. g......... 93 /"
SpastanbuTg 20 Asheville......... 50
Asheville 70 Mcrristown... 80 "Fi
Moriasown to Knoxyilie......... 81
Total ~. s.. /. . |.
The distances over the Blue Ridge
route arc as follows:
Charleston to Columbia. ...,.1so miles
CoInmbia to Anderson .126 I"
Anderson TO Knoxville..... 6
Iotai:.s..s J. 4. i. J. .. :, ........,451
But by adopting d different line from
Andersen by tho Savannah Valley Road
to Edgefes'ff Aiken and Charleston, the
distance would be reduced by more than
fifty miles 10 that this would be the
shortest possible line from Charleston to
the Wet,
which appear TO rs to have been oyar-
looked IN these calculations. The Spar
tapburg aud Ashegilie Railroad y as, for
i've miles SIC have been informed. d
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