Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-16
RAILROAD FACTS AND RUMORS.

- -Spartanburg's latest project, is to extend
the Carolina Central Railroad from Shelby
to Spartanburg.
- Two charters for narrow gauge railroads
have been granted by the Legislature Of
Pennsylvania. One is 203 and the other 2OS
miles long. Narrow gauges are coming to the
front.
- Says the Lincoln Progress: "The survey
from Statesville to this place of the Midland
road was finished last Tuesday. The dis
tance was but "a miles, and Col. Andrews,
who made it, informed US that he never sur
veyed better line.
- Says the Shelby IN. CO. aurora "a mar.
row gauge railroad, from Whitaker Station
by Shelby, to Rutherfordton, is the latest
flank movement of the Richmond and Dan.
vile people. We hope they will build it; but
that is not the way we read the handwriting
on the wall"
- The Railroad Gazette reports 1854 &C.
cidents on the railroads throug ghout the
United States for the past year, in which
1856 persons were killed, and 1878 injured.
This is the worst record our railroads have
made, being 250 per cent. greater than the
previous twelve months.
The election on the question Of sub.
scribing seventy. FIVE thousand dollars, by
Laurens county, to the capital stock of the
Greenville and Laurens railroad, and SINH
lar amount to the Laurens and Spartanburg
Railroad. was held on Thursday of last week
and resulted in favor of the subscriptions
President Roberts, of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, has recently paid the
committee of Boston shareholders $15,000,-
900, the amount due on the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad stock,
bought by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com.
pany. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will not take formal possession of the Phila.
delphia; Wilmington and Baltimore road un-
til July 1st, when both roads will be operated
under the same general management.
The Georgia Pacific Railroad Company
was organized at Atlanta, Ga, on Tuesday of
last week, with Gen. John B. Gordon as
president and Col. A. S. Buford as vice-presi.
dent. The following are the names of the
directors j. B. Gordon, A. S. Buford, 7. M.
R. Talcott, A. c. Haskell, Joseph B. Ryan,
H. w. Perkins, E. G. Gordon, A. H. Phinizy
and H. J. Jewett. The capital stock of the
road is $1OOOO,000, all of which, it is stated,
has been subscribed. The road is to be built
direct from Atlanta to the Mississippi river
by way of Columbus and Aberdeen.
The recent railroad election in Laurens
county, was on the question of voting q sub.
scription of seventy-fve thousand dollars to
each of two projected railroads. Seventy-6ve
thousand dollars to aid the construction of
road from Greenwood, the Northern terminus
of the Augusta and Knoxville Railroad, via
Laurens Court House to Spartanburg, ex-
pected to be consolidated with the Augusta
and Knoxville Cornpany-the distance from
Greenwood to Spartanburg being by actual
survey, sixty.six miles. Also, seventy.6ve
thousand dollars to aid in building a road
from Laurens Court House to Greenville,
distance of thirtysix miles.
- The Raleigh Observer learns that the
progress of the work on the Cape Fear and
Yadkin Valley Railroad is rapid. That por-
ton of the line between the Gulf and Greens.
boro will no doubt be completed by the end
of the year, and trains will be running Iron
is looked for every day. The grading is COM
pleted. and ready for it. President Gray