Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-05-05
The Development Of tho Railroad
Campaign.

Inc UcVolopmenC OF tho Railroad
Campaign.
The Railroad campaign, 80 far as it effects
the Carolinas and Georgia, develops rapidly.
Three combinations arc at work, and an idea
Of their plans can now be formed. The
three o,mbnation are: |. The South Atlantic
alliance, consisting Of the South Carolina
Railroad, Central Railrond of Georgia and
the Georgia Railroad, with their branches
and leased lines. 2. Tho Richmond and
Damvillo system. 3. The Baltimore und Ohio
Railroad, with tho Virginia Midland.
Taking up these combinations cut Of their
order. we find that the Baltimore and Ohio,
via the Virginia Midland. is striking out for
tho Southern and South Atlantic trade. The
extension OF the Midland Railroad from Dan-
Vile to Mocksvillc is determined on. and cons
nccions will DO made with Charlotte, or
Spnrtnnburg or Greonvilc. Tho objective
point appears to be Atlanta, but Port Royal
is also taken into account. There is sume
talk Of utilizing the Augusta and Knoxville
Railroad in connection with the Midland cx.
tension, but wo do not SEQ that there is any
money for the Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad
in the Port Royal connection. Augusta and
Atlanta can he made competing points, where
Baltimore will meet tho South Atlantic or
Wadley> Fisher combination. and the Ian
vile system, but il cannot be expected that
freghts viii be drawn from the neighborhood
Of Port Royal and hauled by rail to BaIti-
more, or tha, Baltimore can supply tho South
Carolina coast with merchandise and proyi-
sons by rail.
The objects OF The Soulh Ailantic alliance
are obvious enough. They are to hold aud
Increase their r'escn, business, and to effect
this they will be ready to strike out for new
Western connection. They can also reach
Charlotte easily aud chcnp'Y by IN extension
of the South Carolina K:iirnad from Camden.
We are not able TO say whether the East
Tennessee and Virginia and the Spartan
burg and Columbia Raironls viii work with
the South Atlantic combination, or with the
Dnnvillc people Whit Mr. Cole SAID tho
other day about their lines ending az Cnlum-
bia, making it necessary to come To- Cnarlcs-
tnn hy way Of Florence, l.oks like IL hostile
move. 1t is positively asserted that persons
crested in the Northeastern Railroad in
, tend to build a line from G"nrdln's on that
road to Wedgeie!d on the Wilmington, Col :
umbia and Augusta Railroad. Tnis road
will hc about forty miles long. through n
level country, where little trcslin work viii be
. required, and it is thought Will COS, not
moro than 100000. l, will give IL line
Gron Columbia to Charleston, il is stated,
only l22 miles in length which is less
lhon tho distance by the South Carolina
Railroad Besides this. il will bring Ciaren
don and Williamsburg within cnSy rcacn Of
this market. The people in the counties
through Which ih" proposed rond will pass are
so anxious fnr j. that they viii give every
facility to the pr, jccinrs, and wi! nSo their
eTrts to secure u >ub>cripti"n to the stock by
the County gnvernucG's.
The purposes of the Danviic combination
have not been divugcd They have the Air
Line R.urond. the Columbia and GreenvlIio
ta,lr"ad aud the Western Nuth Carolina
Railroad, ~ well ns the Charlotte. Cnlumbia
and Augusta Railroad. 81 fnr az tl,cv cnn
get the long hnnl for freight by taking it
, over their lines. cnming or going, they have
no use tor Charleston or any other SOu b
Atlantic port. In saying this we assume
TINT business. as far nv IT can 10 controlled.
viii be moved along the lines which the Dan-
! vile ombina.iun are interested in. rather than
. along lines which they d, not own Or lease.
| But il may happen to DC NOR difficult than
/ a expected to force uphill the business
which naturally gravitates toward. the cmst.
In this event provision must be made for
| renchinS Charleston unmolcstcd. which can
ho done by wny of Florence. or hv tho
| Gnnrdin's connection In hike manner it
the Danvillc people get 10 Augusta they can
come on to Charleston hv the Port Royal
Railroad and Charleston and Savannah Rail-
| way. One renort is that tho Dauvlle people
intend to build The oid Blue Ridge Road.
The story is that they have already the c"n-
troll of the outstanding bonds Of the road
and mean to build tho road on tho old route.
| from Knoxville To Walhnlln. From Ander-
son they would naturally utilize their own
prcperty. the Grecnvilie md Cnlnmbin Rails
way. In answer to tho suggestion that their is
nothing to gain by building tho Blue Ridge
Railroad for tho benefit of Charleston, they
say that thurc is moro business awaiting
such limo than the Air Line Railroad and
other lines running to tho Northerst could
possibly accommodate, and that it would bo to