The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-10-27
TIE RABUN GAP LINE.
Does 1. siean that the Blue Ridge is Aban-
doncd?

The telegram published in the .Hers ard
| C.gurifr announcing the consolidation of
| The Knoxville and Augusta Hallway
| Company with tho Eabun Gap Short
| Line Railroad Company OF South Caro-
! lima and the CLAYTON Railroad Company
, of Georgia. under the name of the Kabun
Gap Railway Company. created some
talk in IailTo;... circles. The whole line
! extends To Lula on the Atlanta and
Charlotte Air Line iioad, and by these
combinations 20 Richmond and Dam
Willie Railroad has secured the charters Of
the line. oi railway projected through
Ralun Gap and linked them TO their
road. the Knoxville and Augusta. which
had been chartered from that city 10 the
Tennessee and North Carolina boundary.
The knoxville and Augusta Road j.
nOw built from knOSvil.c TO Maryvilie
in Tennessee, and tho new constellation
makes il par, of the Air Line system
oI roGd, and will insure its construction.
AT Lula il viii connect with the
Northeastern Hallway OF Georgia, The
southern terminus 81 which il Athenr.
This road j. now under lease 10 the Rich
mund ana Dauvillc combination. One
condition FIJI, lease i. that tho North
eastern Road shall be finished from
Athens To Tallulah Falls by next June,
Tic construction Of tho road from Mary
Vile 10 Lula and the completion Of the
Northeastern Extension 10 tho same
lfllDl VIII ,-lNc .ttutnS 4 I'lUl' 10 tEc
West ~ way Of Knoxville.
I'llr stockholders of the Knoxville
aA': Cincinnati Southern Railway, known
~ the Emory Gap Road, also met in
knoxville on Tuesday. 81 previous
meeting o: the .,tOckhol,lcrs. All The stock
ol ,hc Knoxville and Cincinnati Sontl
crn Company, except THAI held by two
sto"llliolicr-. w:ls sold and transferred to
representatives. Of the clyde Syndicate.
represented by Gen. g. j Foreacrc and
the projectors iii the knoxville and Au
t,iista connection. ON Tuesday tho en-
ti:c lino wa, turned over formally To the
ncw management. The knoxville anL
Cincinnati southern then elected the fol-
lowing directors; Il. j. Foreacrc, +. NJ.
Logan Joseph Bryan. Francis Smith,
\. :. Bntord a. Il. Haskell, T. NJ. r..
Talrc.t, G.. w Perkins, X. y. Hood.
Tho Same directors were elected Dy tfic
Rabun Gap Company with the addition
of seven residents of North Carolina.
Including the Licutcnant- Governor of
the State making Il board of sixteen.
The two lines arc therefore Under the
same management.
1t in thought that the consolidation OF
the different lines that has Just been
effected will lead To tho abandonment of
the Blue Ridge route by way Of Walhalla
y rcsurvcy OF the route has recently
been made, but it is suggested that the
Richmond and Dnnvilic Combination
would la'!lv want TWO lines To the West
by way ot Knoxville. Nothing definite,
however, is known CT their plans in this
city. Speaking Of the Kabun Gap con
solidatiOn the Augusta Chronicle SAYS:
"AugIsta seems to he in no immediate
| danger Of being injured by this combina-
ton, provided she pushes her projected
| limo on 10 Spartanburg. Here we will
readily meet the North Carolina and
| Tennessee lnrs which will com,
through BY Paint Rock. 1t would be
assurance doubly sure, however, ;C
build up the surveyed route from Au-
Eusta To t.lbcrtOu, when we could
readily reach the Air Line by means oI
the ElEertOn Narrow Guagc. This latter
| road might easily be broadcned and tar
the Air-Line at Toccoa City, not fnl
above Lula, where the Foreacre system
is to stop. Augusta should spectiil,
reach Knoxville by one or the other o
F, these routcs-by both if possible"