The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-24
-urwEsrERN RAILRo D.
.seting Of the Commissioners
A further Extension of
Time Granted.
CLINTON N. O. Nov. l.

uoordisg 10 al JpuIuiACnt ana ~ pre-
acCogreement. Commissioner Vance
vi the f~ollowiug resolution, viz:
oHtP,,obcd. That the Governor Of the
- he Informed that the failure of
~,ssigHees of the Western North
t"]n-,Iina Flilroad to complete said road
o'ps;ut rock and Pigeon River by
Wv 1881. and heretofore reported.
. captisued for ninety days and
a. liz. from said July 1st until this
aat. November II, 1881, and that the
lied States Trust Company be also
!.forues Of SAID failure on the part Of
.aid ~sssignees to perform the;rcontract
nd that. III the opinion Of the com
~;uieners, they have forfeited the
commissioners Worth and Jarvis re
lard their vote. in opposition to the
S-eooins resolution of Commissioner
Tsnce. they assign the following rea-
cons therefor, to wit:
The commissioners on the Both of
snril msda the following record, to-wit.
me commissioners, Z. B. Vance, j. Nj.
Worth AID II Jarvis, met in the city OF
Raleigh on the 30th day of April, 1881,
10 consider An application made for an
extension of four months time in which
"a eouplete the Western North Carolina
R,ilreaS to Paint Rock and Pigeon
River. The application wasin writing
and sisssd oy A. B. Andrews, presi-
dent. After reading the application
and considering the reasons therein set
forth, the commissioners agreed to give
--.arnp of ft~A va, ~. -
being presented to them signed by A.
$, Baford, w. p. Clyde and T. Nj.
Logan, sssignees, and upon itscontain-
ing So additional agreement to put. six
hundred additional hands TO the con
yict force at work on the road as soon
IS they could be employed at reasonable
compensation, or Its equivalent in con
tract work, and that 1T least three bun
dred Of this force be put at work and
kept at work on the Ducktowp line, and
: farther provision that the extension
sIould not apply to any other provision
OF the contract.
:. The application, reformed strictly
as agreed upon, signed by the assignees
aad containing the required conditions
wa, presented t. Commissioner Jarvis
for signature Oh the 9th day of May,
and to Commissioner Worth on the
18th day of May. When the applica-
ton was presented to Commissioner
Jarvis, on the 9th day of May, the State
Board of Education was then in session,
aud without calling Commissioner
Worth's attention to it, he directed
Col. Andrews, who presented the ap.
plicatien. to hold it until the meeting
OF the commissioners. which was then
expected to take place the next week
The sssigAees, relying upon the agree
ment with the commissioners, were
actively engaged in collecting a large
force on the work, and in %perfectine
their arrangements to let the most OF
that part of the work from Asheville t.
Pigeon River to contract on the 18th
Of May. On the 18th OF May Commis
sioner Jarvis reviewed a letter from
Commissioner Vance, requesting thal
Col. Andrews be at once notified thai
he withdrew his promise to any extern
sion Of time, and that he did not hold
himself any longer bound to accept hi.
proposition when made. The with
drawal of Commissioner Vance from
this agreement WAS, if the declarations
OF the management Of the road were to
be belived, about to stop the work OIL
the road, so that, in the opinion of com.
siorsrs Worth and Jarvis, a condition
of things had been precipitatcd upor
them by the withdrawal o. Com mis-
sionsr Vance which made it absolutely
necessary ior them to sign the extension
at once. This Wa. done by Commits
sioner Worth en- the 18th, and by Com
missioner Jarvis briefly on the 18th
but more formally on the 10th or May
At the time they signed the extension
it WAS unknown to tbem hat there wa.
another patty willing to undertake The
work If abandoned by the asslgnees
Tuey had hen never heard of the Bos
ton syndicate. 1t is true that the Hon
r. r. Bridgers waited the commission
ers at their April meeting and Offered
to take the contract and TO pay thu
State . bonus, but he was told by th'
commissioners, Commissioner Vance
acting as speaker for the commissioners
that they had no power to put him il
possession of the road even If the.
should declare the contract forfeitet
and put the assignces out; h q tn
only power the commissioners had wa
10 declare The contract forfeited, ant
the sole result of this would be to throw
the road back upon the State, and tina
before he or any one else could get 1t
the Legislature would have to pas
another act authorizing it to be sold
second time. 1t was under these cir
cumstancs., and in the belief, then a
now, that they were serving the be.
interest of the State, they signed TIL
extsnsion.
3. The Commissioner Worth an
Jarvl. have all the time regarded tia
act binding UPON them both in la
and in conscience.
That the time given by said e1tensio
did not expire till the first day of Nc
vember, 1881.
5 That the notice set ou in the mt
ton of Commissioner Vance cannot /
siyen till after the expiration of ninet
day. from the first day of Novemb'
instant.
vANCE'S REASONS.
Commissioner Vance, in declining
assent to the application of the assigne,
Of the Western North Carolina Raj
road for an extension Of the time II
the completion of said road to Pail
Rock and Pigeon River, enters his re
.op On the record briefly as follows:
/. Since acquiring possession of sal
road the assignses have developed
purpose to obtain control of all II
transportation lines in North Carolin'
from Raleigh west, and constitute
ready a MONOPOLY dangerous to bot