Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-05-26
RAILROAD FACTS AND RUMORS.

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RAILROAD FACTS AND RUMORS.
The vote on the question of subscribing
$4,000 to the Greenwood, Laurens and Au.
gusta Railroad, has been ordered by the
County Commissioners to be submitted to the
voters of Spartanburg county on Saturday,
the 9th of July next.
There is tremendous boom in railroad
stock just now. The Richmond and Dan
vile that was quoted at 96, is now quoted at
lO72 bid and lOS2 asked North Carolina that
was sc is now bid and asked from 80 to 96.
Airline has risen from 73-74 to S23. Char
lotte, Columbia & Augusta cant be bought
- The Railway Age says that it is proposed
to hold convention of State Railroad com.
missioners. Twenty one States having such
commissioners, such convention would
doubtless be of advantage. The place sug
gested is Louisville, and the time sometime
in June. White Sulphur Springs is also
spoken of as suitable place.
The Statesville american oflast week says:
"Maj. Yates, chief engineer of the Midland
line in North Carolina, arrived here by the
morning train last Friday, having previously
notified US of his coming. His visit was
gratifying to our citizens, the object being to
arrange for surveying the route between
Statesville and Mocksville, which will be COM
menced this week, and some engagements
were made for employees"
Says the Lincoln IN. CO. Progress: "The
Chester and Lenor Narrow Gauge Railroad
was the first narrow gauge road projected in
the State and its use has demonstrated that
it has capacity to remove all the freight on
its line, and that it can make a speed equal
to any road in the State. 1t has only cost
one.third the price of any other railroad, and
yet it does all the work and pays good divi
dend Already our merchants are shipping
freights up and down, and passengers are
travelling over it every day. Its completion
here makes an era in our history which will
long be remembered"
The stockholders of the Fayetteville and
Florence Railroad company, Unanimously
ratified the agreement of transfer of its prop
erty to the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley
at its annual meeting in April. All the
deeds and transfers have been signed and the
property delivered. Mr.. Gray, the president
of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Rail
road, will at once proceed to the construction
of the railroad to the South Carolina line
and take measures for its further extension
into South Carolina. The first installment o.
iron for the railroad from the Gulf to Greens
boro has been shipped from London, and vii
soon arrive in Wilmington.
A meeting was held at Rutherfordton
N. c., on Wednesday of last week, to consid
er the practicability of extending the railroad
now being built from johnson City, Tennes
see, on the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Railroad, to Cranberry Iron Works
in Mitchell county, n C.-which will be com
pleted by the 1st of September next-fron
that point via Marion and Rutherfordton
:, N. c., to Spartanburg, S. G. Representative
were present from Spartanburg and Green
Vile, S. c., and Charlotte and Marion, N. G..
and Jonesboro', Tennessee. Speeches were
made by the representatives of Spartanburg
S. c., Rutherfordton and Marion, N. c., anc
Jonesboro', Tenn, which were enthusiastical
ly received. Resolutions favoring the build
ing of the whole line were passed unanimous
ly. Resolutions were also passed that th'
Rutherford and Spartanburg Railroad Com
pany, link in the proposed line for which
charters in North and South Carolina have
been already granted, be organized withou
delay, and that a survey be made at once ane
work on the road be commenced as soon a
practicable.
- Capt. Kirk, chief engineer Of the Allan
tic and French Broad Railroad, informs th'
Greenville News that "it is in serious contem
plation by influential parties in the State, wh'
; have already held a meeting in Columbis
with reference thereto, to build road from
Columbia to Greenville via Newberry ant
Laurens, to be extended from Greenville tx
tap the Atlantic and French Broad Railway
at some point near the mountains. Crossing
the mountains, it will pass through Haywood
county, North Carolina, and pass on through
Tennessee to the French Broad river, abou
so miles from Knoxville. Thence it vii
branch off, one line extending to Nashville
via Knoxville, the other proceeding in the
direction of Cincinnati via Morristown ano
Cumberland Gap, thus passing through the
richest coal and iron region in the United
States, as yet only very partially developed
With regard to this great enterprise, Cap
tain Kirk expresses the opinion that the
parties concerned in it are men of means and
influence, and that there is good reason tc
believe that decided steps will be taken short
ly to carry out the programme as here briefly
sketched. Greenville Capt. Kirk is conf
dent, can be in direct railroad communication
with Augusta in less than eighteen months
probably in twelve-the distance, via Bolton
being 113 miles. Work is being pushed on
rapidly on the Atlantic and French Broad
railway, and the prospects of this enterprise
are very encouraging"
A Chester correspondent of the Charles
ton Neaus and Courier, gives the following in
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