Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-11-26
RAILROAD NEWS.
4. L, IA. & Railroad.

New York Evening Mail: General Man
ager Henry Fink, of the Tennessee, yir-
ginia and Georgia Air Line, reports more
business offered at stations on the line of
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Road than can be done with the present IA
cilities in month An order for 1000 ad-
ditional cars has been given. The report
on the street that the East Tennessee and
Norfolk and Western Roads have disagreed
is pronounced absurd by officers of the
companies. The extension of the Ken.
tucky Central Railroad to meet the East
Tennessee Road is progressing SO rapidly
of June next
Memphis Appeal: The litigation likely
to ensue between the stockholders of the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad and the
lessees represented by Col. Cole has already
enlisted strong array of legal talent. For
the former We learn that the following
named gentlemen have been engaged;
Estes & Elicit, CAN'T Il Patterson, and Tay-
lor & Carroll, of this city, and Mr. Ed.
Baxter ard Col. A. S. Colyar, of Nashville.
For the Cole syndicate the following
named gentlemen have been employed:
Humes i Poston, of this city Evarts,
Southmayde & Choate, of New York, and a
leading law firm of Chicago, name not given.
From this it will be seen that both sides arc
preparing for close, perhaps q protracted
and bitter contest We have the most pos
tive assurances from high official quarters,
in addition to that of the Memphis directors
already published in the Appeal that the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
is III no way nearly or remotely interested
in the movement by the stockholders
to control and direct the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad, nor is it likely to
be. The stockholders believe they have 4
good thing, and they intend to manage the
road in their own interest and that of the
public whom it serves.
Augusta Chronicle: The Memphis and
Charleston Railroad leasC was drawn up by
Evarts and Choate, who stand at tho head
of the legal profession in New York. If they
cannot draw al instrument that is unassail-
able before court of justice, whet 10 the
sense of railway companies employing law
yers at all !?
THE AUGUSTA AND KNOXVILLE.
Augusta Chronicle The track of the
Augusta and Knoxville Railroad has now
been laid to a point thirty miles from Au-
gusta, and large force is progressing at
the rate of over third of = mile day The
stockholders at Greenwood will be able to
ride over their own road to attend the an
nusl convention next May.
The road has just purchased new loco
motive from the Port Royal Railroad. This
engine, which has never been used, has
been named the ar. II. May" in honor of
Augustus worthy mayor.
public meeting will be held in this city
in short time, to take some action in re-
gard to the Savannah Valley Railroad
which connects with the Augusta and Knox
vile at Dorn's Mines. The stockholders of
this road are anxious that it should be in
eorporated with the Augusta and Knoxville,
and run under one system. We understand
that it requires only $25, 900 more to finish
the grading of the road to Anderson Court
House, and if Augusta will sub
scribe this amount she will secure this i'm
portant enterprise. With the Savannah
Valley Railroad, the Spartanbuag, Union
and Laurens, and the Gresnville and Lau-
rsps with the Augusta and Knoxville, the
latter will control 215 miles of road, tap
ping large portion of several Of the most
pl ductive counties Of South Carolina Au-
/ gusta would then secure large trade from
/ that State, adding not little to her pros
| perty. With S25, 800 subscribed to the
/ Savannah Valley Railroad. and &25, 900 to
the Spartanburg, Union and Laurens this
can be accomplished beyond peradventure
/ If we lose the opportunity now we may
never again have it in our grasp.