Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-09-17


Charlotte, n, c.,
In the Interest of the Knoxville and
Augusta Connection,
And Consolidation Effected, With the
Above Name.
Gen. R. N. Hood, president of the Knox
vile and Augusta Railroad, returned We'd
nesday night from a trip South in
the interest of his line of road and
connections. A CHRONICLE representative
had brief interview with him yesterday,
and found him apparently very well pleased
with the results of his trip.
He attended last week a meeting of di-
rectors and representatives of the Clyde syn
dictate at Charlotte, where there were pres
ent besides himself Gen. G.. J. Foreacre, of
the Augusta and Knoxville; Gen. T. M.
Logan and Francis Smith, Esq, of New
York; Col A. S. Buford, pres
ident of the Richmond and
Danville, and Colonel T. NJ. r. Talcott,
Danville At this meeting the preliminary
steps were taken, and the requisite papers
drawn up for the consolidation of the
Knoxville and Augusta with Rabun Gap
Short Line and the Clayton Railroad Com
pany, forming the "Raburn Gap Railway
Company" by which name the entire line
will be known hereafter.
On the 18th of October, as is ADVERT sed
in this issue, meeting of the stockholders
of the Knoxville and Augusta Company will
be held in the Atkin House in this city, for
the purpose of taking formal action ON the
question of the above consolidation.
General Hood seems entirely satisfied
with the prospects for an
early completion of this con-
nection to the coast, and expresses the
| confident belief that this road will GER
tainly be built; and that the connection
from Knoxville to the Cincinnati South
ern, by Emory Gap, will also be built in
due course of time
Correspondence of the Anderson Intelli-
gencer: 1t is generally known to our peo-
pie that in their purchase of the Greene
vile and Columbia Railway, the Clyde syn
dica boughta controlling interest in the old
Blue Ridge Railroad from Anderson, S. c.,
to the Tennessee line, and thereby they be-
came practically the owners of it. By sub
sequent purchases and adjustments of out
side interests, their ownership has been
assured and they now own, besides, all ex-
listing charters and parts of roads along the
line to Knoxville, and have purchased a
chartered route to Emory Gap on the
Cincinnati Southern Railway, and all this
has been accomplished, it is said, with the
view of completing the Blue Ridge and ex-
tending it to Emory Gap, and that in the
near future. But up to this tiAe, Unsteady
of completing or adopting the old line from
Walhalla, it has been in contemplation to
build from some point on the Atlanta and
Richmond Airline in Georgia, coalescing
with the old line at Clayton and thence to
Knoxville. Now, however, 1 am informed,
indeed L may say assured, that if the
people of Anderson and Oconee Coun-
ties will make liberal subscription, say
5000, 900 or $3.50, 900 in the aggregate, to
the. stock of the new company when or
ganized, they can secure the building of
company is soon to be reorganized and the
opportunity will be afforded. What will
our people say to this -? Are they as eager
now for the completion of the old Blue
Ridge as they were few years back? and
are they as willing to aid in its con-
struction
The Keowee Courier says: THE survey
of this long talked-of line continues with
out any knowledge Or intimation as to the
real purposes of the Danville syndicate. 1t
is generally conceded that the survey is
with the view of ascertaining how much of
the work has been done and what will be
the cost of completing the line. On this
depends the final determination of the syn
dictate. We hear that unusual care is OBJ
served in the survey, and that the estimates
will be as accurate as science can make
them. For this reason progress Is slow and
a month or more may pass before the esti-
mate can be made. We understand
that SO far about 80 per cent. of the
| work has been done including repairs to the
grading, &C., from time and decay. 1t is
! believed the line to Clayton will show over
| 20 per cent of the work done. If the road
| originally was not cranky idea, we may
| suppose that a company owning this work
and all connecting lines will hardly regard
| 80 per cent. of cost hazardous investment.
| Considering the advantages this company
enjoy, the length and shortness of the line,
its connections with the grain growing Sec
tons of the country on the west, the sea-
| board on the east, with the fertile and unde
veloped country it traverses, its complexion
warrants the belief of a paying investment
constantly increasing.