Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-03-11

w PAeoeuts Dut ueJouu tillS VIC nave lines
that are open every day OF the year, that are
never blockaded by snow or ice and that
have tow expensive grades or works.
Better than all, our lines arc not loaded
down with watered stock or With heavy
capitalization. When fully equipped with
steel rails and adequate rolling stock, our
lines will not cost over ouc-tbird of what
tho Northern lines cost. We have, there
fore, to earn dividends on less than one
third of what tho other lines are burdened
with. There is no doubt that wo
can make the limo thoroughly successful
one."
"Do you intend, as has been suggested,
to ask OF the commissioner for the four
trunk lines of tho North and West share
OF the business that has been pooled be-
tween them"
emo, not OF present. In tho first place,
we arc not prepared TO do the business even
IT VIC had it. We are frequently 100 cars
day short, az our local business more
than meets our fullest carrying capacity.
We are straining every nerve to meet tho
coming pressure. Our shops arc turning
out $50 new cars month, and Mr.. Wad-
ley is now in New York for tho purpose of
ordering five now steamships We shall
need at least 700 new cars to inaugurate
our through limo. Even when wo get
everything ready do not think wo need
mako any demand for business. Our
relations with tho trunk lines are exceed
ingly friendly md pleasant and there is
enough business for all of US. Tho upper
lines arc blockadcd at certain seasons and
arc gluttcd with freight nearly all the
time. A million dollars was raised the
other day by tho managers of the Wabash
system to put bargos on the Mississippi
and float the surplus grain gathered at St.
Louis down to New Orleans. 1t is only a
part of the surplus that wo want. You
see, tho establishment of these trunk lines
has unlocked vast areas heretofore ahut out
from the word for tho lack of cheap frcights.
BY perfccting the carrying system to such
a degree that wheat and cattle raised West
of st. Louis can be marketed proataby in
England they have stimulated production
in the far West to such on extent that
there is no telling whore it will end. l
certainly look for an increase in tho receipts
ct ST. Louis and in the demand in Europe.
This increase will give us all wo want and
leave more than enough for tho Northern
trunk lines besides. Wo shall only ask
what we arc entitled to receive, and have
never found any serious trouble in getting
that. You must understand, too, thnt our
local frcights arc already so large that VIC
need very little more to give US all that wc
would care 10 manage. Kentucky and |
Tennessee ruise large quantities of wheat,
corn and tobacco that con be exported.
We shall get q great bulk of freight for
M &c
trade we shall foster and encourage by every
possible means. Tho mere fact that we
control line from ST. Louis to Now York,
and that our freight tariff is made for the
whole line will develop tho production of
articles for export in our territory"
"Will you put on line of steamers at
Savannah for Europe ut once7"
TIE NEW LINE TO HAVANA.
awe shall do that in time, as tho trade
seems to demand it, and wo have offers
already of steamers that We can use when.
ever VIC want them, We shall run n
through line from New York to Havana at
once. We shall start train for Havana
out Of New York on Saturday afternoon at
two o'clock. On Monday morning it will
bo at Pensacola, and in two days moro at
Havana. BY this route we will save two
days at Ha1ana. by this route We save
two days in time and the long dangerous
ocean voyage. This is great deal to the
Cubans, who are proverbially poor sailors
Tho first ship of our line will be the Admiral
which carried tho OK President to Cuba,
and which will make nineteen knots an
hour Besides tho passenger traffic VIC
expect to do an immense business for carry
ing flour, grain, DC, to Cuba, aud iu i'm.
porting tropical fruits. AS it now is, the
oranges, bananas, &c., are shipped to New
York and distributed thence to the West,
getting them into market ten and twelve
days after they leave Cuba Wo propose to
bring these fruits direct and put them into
St. Louis and Chicago within four days
after they leave Cuba. We are now hay.
ing number of freight cars built with
passenger trucks, SO that tho fruit can stand
tho high rates of speed. Wc arc also
goiDg to put line of steamers from Pcnsa
cola to Vera Cruz. Our general manager
is in Pensacola to-day arranging for this.
We learn that there are 10000 passengers
who 60 or come from Vera Cruz to Europe
every year. BY putting on rapid line of
steamers we can catch all this travel, bring
it over to Ponsacolc and carry it thonco to
Now York and thus save it tho tedious and
disagrecablo trip around tho Florida reefs.
l hope for q great deal from tho lines of
steamers We shall put on at Pensacola. l
believe they will open up an immense car.
ryng trado not heretofore developed and
little thought Of"
"Is your systom of roads complete at
present."