Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-02-10
WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY FEBRUARY TO- 1881

interest OF both sections will be advanced
by greater facilities of intercom munioation
than wo now have. The Cincinnati South.
ern Railroad, finding its terminus at Chat
tanooga, does not answer all the requirements
Of active business between the parts of the
county of which you speak. The difficult
ties 10 tho WY of building the railroad,
| though great, are by no means insuperabIe.
| Exaninatious mud surveys are continually
pointing out advantageous gaps and water
| ways, by which grades can be reduced, and
heavy tunnelhng, in great measure, be
avoided. The new routes to which you
aiurc tend ia the samo direction. Lstely
much Interest ns been excited in Ciuein
natl by proposed extension Of tho Ken
tucky Central R.ilroad and the louisville
and Nashville Railroad to the Tennessee
State line, there connecting with the road
to Knoxville, und the prospect is that this
extension will bo speedily made. The
roads loading South from Knoxville, com-
bioing with this extension, will accomplish
tho purpose which you have in view"
Coning, from one Of the largest stock holders
of the Kentucky Centrul 2alrood this letter
was highly encouraging, and tho extension
spoken of, as wo have sccu, is now deter
mined on. In publishing tho letters of
! Senators Batter and Pcndetpn the Edge
field Adeeuiser says:
"No doubt when Senator Butler wrote
thus to Senator Pendleton he had in his
minds eye the late change in the ohnrter
of the old SaSunnah YslIey Ra,lroad Com-
pany AT tho last session Of the Legi>.
ture this charter was 80 amcnded that,
instead Of running from Anderson, on the
West side of Rocky River, down the i'm
mcdiate valley of tho river to Hamburg, us
was the original intent, the Company may
now run their road oD the East side OF
Rocky River to Bolton, aud ftom Belton,
due South, to Dorn's Mpc, somo fifty miIcs
on the Eiysfield aud AnbuviiIe line. This
they havo dctermiued to do; and although
they failed to secure convicts TO labor on
this route, stll. nothing dauuted, they are
at this very time advertising to give out
contrasts for the grading of twenty miles
Of the road, commencing ut Anderson Court
House. ~. the next session of the Legs,
lature they will again apply for convicts,
md will doubtless get them. Aud of
course the ultimate design Of the Savannah
Valley Company is to push on their rond
to meet ours at Ejgrfold. From Dorn's
Mine to Edsefsd is twenty four niles, and
rallroad route u!rcady carefully reeonnoi
tered makes it only twenty two. From
Edg' field to Aiken, by the road nov in
progress, is twenty one miles -
$50 in this year Of grace 1881 another
grand opportunity opens itself to Elsef.d
aud mare particularly to Charleston And
if Charleston would do her duty-tor there
i, no doubt of this being tho shortest and
most direct route to Gincionati-we balievc
| Eig"liala would do hers. Both Charleston
aud EdgrfieId have missed too many grand
ch 'nces in the past to be slumberiug now
over perhaps the last one
So there is no diilicni,y in getting to the
sea fron Knoxville, ty Que OF The projected
routes, aud thcro is some talk Of opening
an additional liuc from ConWhia to
Charleston. Til. can be dnue hy bu!iiu.
u road from the Wilmington Columbia aud
| AGgustn Rni!ront, via MarniDy, to the
Northeastern Railroad. The pcrsobs ut
the brrk nf !.i, are the capitalists later
csied IN the Grrrnvi!r aud Uulumbi, E,il.
road ani Atlantic Consl Line But tbr
true p'4n,a, po'mt, IN the Northwestern rail
rod '.'nvr'Drnt is tnc tnnth C.lniinl R,i
road whettrr the connection with U,,rics-
! fnn Is to be made by way 1T Columbia or
hy the Savannah Valley Rairnad Unrii
the South CaIo!inn RaiIrpad is uu. uf court
"nd in the hnnGs of lis ow nrrs, the ten
i!'inn dnilars which the road rc,resruts
ne dormant, s"d nrc unavailable as an effco
i've inrru in ruiIruad cnn, t,ations
| The tlrS thing to dn IS to put the South
Carolina Railroad in first e!nss condition.
Frnm Charleston To iS,nnchvile the track
has been id with steel rnl az d sncl, rails
are being lu,d fron Brauchvliin to Conrh,,
aud Angustn. Much has ben dnus to-
wards pn'ing the dcpn's and platforms in
order. But the Ch,rieston steam 0ert
aust he augmented, nnt the South Caro-
Ina R,llio,d trucks must be run to the
water side. The new steamships will be
ready by The f,!l. il there DO no delay in
sr''ing and rcorgauzing the road, aud the
w"Tb OF cXteu2lug the tracks 10 tho Conpa,
| River can begin ut once. With more swift
Struluers for the New York line, and the
means OF discharging and loading heavy
fr"'2A' NJ the wIter SIDE the South Huro-
/ tl"n R"I'i"": Viii Ur Ih position 10 acrnm.
nod'tc oil The business that cnn be ohtaino
eh, aud will reach out for business that ia
the Knoxville oonnurt!on some day; and we
! shall lave II soon, it tho South Uarulin4
Railroad can TO sold and rcorgnnizeh durin.
the spring and summer There is 90 ob-,
struct'on "o believe, except by the holders
ot comparatively snili amount of Npn
mortgage bonds, "ud by the old Syndicate,
! wao ctnim fees amounting to twenty five
thousand dollars, which the NV Y.rk
! Purchasing CuIumttcc are unwilling to
/ 10 u.Il L.. T.,