Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-02-24
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TO MAKE ONE HARMONIOUS
WEEOLE.
The Effect of the Sale Of the a.,
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McGhee People.

McGhee People.
Special to the Atlanta Constitution.
New YORK, Feb. 2l.-A great many
rumors are af1 pat as to the purchase OF
the Atlantic, Mississippi aud OHIO by
the Louisville aud Nashville for the
Wilson and McGhee system of rosts q.
lam able to wire you positively on
the situation. Col. McGhee, VINO is
here, says that tae Memphis and
Charleston, East Tennessee and Vir-
ginia and Selma Rome and Dalton
are doing an enormous business and
that there is no possible complication
in the future that can rob them of
their business. In reply to SD inquiry
from Knoxville ne teIegrapbed that
no large stock older of any of the
roads had sold his stock Or offered it,
and that ne could find none that was
for sale. Mr.. Wilson indorsed all this
smilingly, and said that be had no
time to attend to the rumOre, but was
busily engaged in fiilingln the broken
links of bis system and its connections
as fast as conservative good sense
would permit.
There are three di,tinct roads that
are now being built to weld this great
system t)gt ther and make it impreg-
| nable within its own territory. One
is the extension Of the Kentucky Cen~
trail to Knoxville, which will connect
the W1lsO1~ McGhee system with the
Louisville and Nashville and Cincin-
natl Southern. This road is being
built jointly by the Louisville aud
Nashville and Wilson and McGhee
roads, the former building southwark
to the State line, and the Ia ter build
ing to that point The wilson Nc
Ghee system has only Is miles to
grade, and the YORK 10 being pushed.
The next is the Western North
Carolina road from Asheyille to Wolf
Greek. The North Carolina roads
built to the State line, and the Wilson,
McGhee company meet them here
having only 5 miles to build. This
short link connect, them with the
Carolina system and gives them as
short line to Norfolk, and as long a
haul as they would have by the At
iantic, Mississippi and Ohio.
The third link is The Macon and At
laDJa extension, which will go very
far towards connecting The Brunswick
! line with the rest Of the system. 1t is
| plain, however, that from Atlanta
| these people must have connec-
tion with their eastern and west
EN- fystem, composed of the East
Ten nessee and Virginia railroad aud
the Memph and Charleston railroad.
To get this, the Georgia Western or
some road running its line must be
built. Mr.. Wilson eXFpt ssed himself
as pleased w th the information that
| General Gordon has made arrange
ments to build across from Atlanta
| 20 ~ A,. -, Ii:
plan feas biz. O1e thing is sure: The
Wilson and McGhee system Is split
apart until It is connected by link
| from Atlanta towards the Alab anna
| line, ami this link they must see SUI
| that arts il with prospect of success
Mr.. Wilson has great conf ience in
and affection for Georgia, and he
showed his confidence by buying the
! Macon and Brunswick road under the
condition that it was to be extended.
With the Kentucky Central ex-
tended to KnOxville-the Western
North Carolina extended to Wolf
| Creek the Macon and Brunswick
extended to AtlaEt, and the Georgia
| Western joining the two systems to-
gether-tne McGhee system will be
strong. rich aud impregnable.
The bist OF running arrangements
have been offered t. the Wilson,
McGhee people by the purchasers Of
the Al antic. Mississippi and Ohio
and it is said that an alliance has been
made that is mutually satisfactory
There is no doubt, however, that the
sale Of the Atlantic, Mississippi and
OniO road has impressed upon Mr..
Wilson the essential importance of
having line of his own t. the coast,
and tnat Brunswick is his oppor-
tunity.
am advised reliably that Mr.. Wad>
ley has put the Wilson, McGhee peo-
pie on Lot ce that if they start the ex-
tension from Macon to Alfalfa, he will
push his road tlrough from CarrolItDn
t. Rome and Chat All the
same, the Macon extension will be
made, aud that too as sOOn as possible.
Mr. Wadley's threat means nothing,
or the road from Chattano ooga to
Rome will be built anyhow as soon IS
the Cincinnati Southern gets INTO
effective bonds-aud the Carro.lton
extension will be built when this is
done win tner the NJ aeon extension is
made or not.
Il may be remarked that Mr.. Wilson
aud his friends are entirely able to
| take care Of themselves. Their roads
have only Sll 900 a mile of hands on
them and IS 900 STOCK being total
OF $40 COO It 'ck and bond liability a
miIe-a great deal less than the simple
bond liability of most roads. The
managers Of the roads are rich, full of
COL fldence in their property, which
they understand thoruugirty-con-
servstive and prudent, bat dt termined
aud persistent. H w. G..