Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-03-31
GOOD NEWS!
Cincinnati Appoints q Commit
tee to Come to Knoxville
And Investigate Proposed Con-
nectiOns with the Southern.
The Western North CarOlins
Road a Certainty.

The Western North Carolina
Road Certainty.
To be Completed by July list,
1851.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
On Saturday and Monday last a
number of southern gentlemen ad'
dressed the chamber of commerce up
on the. necessity OF railroad connec'
tions with the Cincinnati Southern be-
low Chattanooga; also branch from
the line of the Cincinnati Southern to
Knoxville. A committee was ap-
pointed by the chamber, consisting of
Messrs. Joseph Kinsey, Florence Mar
met, Seth G. Foster, J. II. Rhodes. r..
G. Huston, @. w. Rowland and Solo
mon Levi, to investigate the subject
and report for the benefit of the busi-
ness interests of Cincinnati.
This committee met yesterday, and
organized by electing Joseph Kinsey,
ESQ.,, chairman, and O. w. Rowland,
secretary. The subject for their con-
sideratiOn was discussed, and 1t was
decided that rail connections were
necessary between the Southern road
and Knoxville. and between Chat
tanooga and Rome, Georgia. A CONS
mittee, consisting of Messrs, Kinsey,
Huston, Rowland and Rhodes, was
appointed to visit the south and thor
oughly investigate the subject. There
are two or three routes to be examine d
for q line from the Southern road
to Knoxville, one by way of Carey
willie, and the other the Emery Gap
route. This connection Is now very
important one, as 1t is learned that the
Atlanta and Charlotte Airline,
which runs from Atlanta, Georgia, to
Charlotte, North Carolina, is prepar-
ing to construct branch road from
some point on its line near Clayton,
South Carolina, to Knoxville. This,
with the short line from tbs Southern
railroad to Knoxville, would give the
Cincinnati direct connection with
the entire railroad system of North
and South Carolina, and access to the
ports Of Charleston, South Carolina,
Wilmington and Newbern, North Car
olina, and Norfolk, Virginia. This is a
very important railroad system, con-
sistiDg of dozen different lines of road,
and giving to Cincinnati the trade of
a section which she is now unable to
reach by any direct route. The prop
osition Of the Rome (Georgia) people
for aid In construction of the road be-
tween that city and Chattanooga will
also be considered.
There is no intention of this move
ment to call upon Cincinnati as q
city to do anything, but to Offer an
opportunity to her business men to
aid the city while they benefit them
selves in assisting In the construction
of these lines.
THE NORTH CAROLINA ROADS.
RALEIGH, N. c., March 26 The
legislature has been in extra session
since March 18th, considering the
proposition of W. J. Best and a syndi-
cate of New York capitalists to buy
the Western North Carolina railroad,
from Salisbury to Paint Rock and
Ducktown. Strenuous opposition has
been made by ex-senator Merrimop,
State Senator w. Il. Dortch, Duncan
X. McRae and other democrats. AT.
ter a bitter and hard fight, the bill, as
agreed to by Mr.. Best, passed second
reading In the senate yesterday by
vote of SO to IL, and its fiDal reading
in both houses to-day without amend
ment. The vote In the house was SO to
Il and In the senate Az to b.
The following is an extract of the
provisions of the bill: A commission,
consisting of the governor, treasurer
and three other persons, Is empowered
to enter into q contract with w. J.
Best. J. N. Tappan, w. r. Grace and
J. D. Fish for the sale at $l 400 600.
The purchasers are to deposit $500, 900
in United States four per cent. bonds
in the Raleigh national bank as col
lateral, and to execute and deliver
their bond for 81 400 600, payable one
day after date, with per cent inter-
est from date. The purchasers are to
pay the mortgage OF $3.50 600 and all
other valid liens on such terms as may
be agreed upon with the bondholders,
and when they pay off the mort.
gage and the bonds secured thereby,
80 as to relieve the state of all indebt-
edness, 1t is to be payment Of their
bonds to the state to the amount Of til Q
mortgage bonds so paid off by them.
The purchasers are bound to build said
road from its pre- sent terminus to Paint
Rock and to Ducktown, completing 1t
to Paint Rock by July /, 1881, and to
Ducktown by January l, 1885. And
the parties of the sec md part shall at
once put and keep in good repair and
operate the road from Salisbury to
Asheville until the whole road Is COM
pleted. When the road is thus COM
pleted the act Is to operate as a status
tory conveyance of the road and roll.
ing stock to the purchasers. If there
is no failure to pay interest on the
bond of 81 400, 900, then the state is
not 10 enforce its collection until JAM
uary /, 1885, but II failure occurs, the
state will proceed to collect the bond
at once, and Immediately resume posi-
session of the property and proceed to
build the road at the expense of the
purchasers. The 100000 to be de-
posted by the purchasers shall not
only be collateral security, but for any
damages that the state may sustain by
any breach Of contract. The state Is
to furnish five hundred convicts as las
borers, at $l25 each per year, to be
paid in quarterly installrlents, the
state to feed, clothe and guard them.
The purchasers are authorized to
form a company to carry on the
work or to raise money, but
the state is to have no connection with
1t or liability therefor. If the road
should revert to the state 1t shall be
free from any OF the encumbrances
placed upon 1t by the purchasers or
the company formed. If the commits.
sioner should not be able to make such
contract with w. J. Best and his
associates, they are authorized to con.
tract on the same terms with other
parties who, In their judgment, will
perform the contract. The state legis-
lature retains the power to pass acts