Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-02-16
CEECEENATE SOUTHERN.
Project to Complete tho Blue Ridge
Road Of South Carolina.
Probable Opening TO the Southeast
crn Coast.


crn Coast.
New YORK, Feb. .l3.-VheN New York
Times tells a et3ry OF s. "project bjch
may help t2e Cincinnati Southern t.
reach the sea - The Blue Ridge Rail-
road Comnany Of South Caroline was
cnaitsred III mat Sta,e, Ge0rgjs, Moth
Cayo!ira aud Tehuesse III 1852
The road was to extend from AndsT-
son p G., 70 Knoxville, Tenn, = ttisz
lance of 1876 alllss. The offset uf the
irc3rporators Wss 10 connect CHARLES
TN with tie great Mott lwese, by
direci line Of rails, whica would
shorten tae distance 10 Chieaso aud
Cinciunau over eXiatiCg lines by
about two hundred miles. Ga The
south Carolina aud Georgia end Of the
line over 81 coo Geo we're expended
before the civil war put an
erd 10 the work. OF this
sum. S1uth Carolina and Chgriast0Q
cot tribuEed So O00 600, and the Dstaoce
was raised by voluntary subscriptions
GDd mortgage bonds, nov :he OnlY eE~
isliDg liens On the road. 70 Sofia
CaTUsiua ty-thre3 miles Of tie road
were completed, connecting Auderaoa
with Waih8li2, and this seG.ion II the
roa0 has been in good RAINING order
ever since. Beyond W4iha IL the road
Vas grated as fjr 8s ;he Blue Ridge
Mountains, and d tunnel 6 600 feet II
length was Deguu through the noun
taiua, ana about $500 tc4J Oi this tun-
lei were cOnpieted $50 feet being
bored through Il Mt rock. BY means
IF this tunnel the grade over the
mountain has been reduced 10 20 fest
10 the mile, an easier grade than that
Of any cf the other railroads
crossing t1e Blue Ridge and All
IeEhenie7. Ia Georgia tHo small iun,
neis were part Of the original plan Of
the road. One is entirely completed
and the other very neartQ 80. a IaIge
part Of the grsdiug IN Georgia is ajsO
com pleted. TIE road runs directly
thrUuga the Rsbun Gap, which at
mlts Ot . passage through the nouns
taius It - mpagati7ely tiff ng ex
pepee. On the northwestern end Of
she line Is miles Of The rOai were COM
pieted f.0m Knoxville 10 MarysvlIie,
GenD., and tlis pG. ten uas been in
running order ever SINCE butt At
this end Of tle road about 81 O50 GOO
Wa.e expendcd by Tennessee e uodeT
Iue rational improvement act. One
hundred eu1 tar y five miles of the
road, as olg naiiy surveyed, remain to
be C}tS';uC.
WOrE Gas bel 2 rapidly pros c3t-d
when tBe civil war begun, but hit
put q veto 0u the enterprise watch haa
- t been renewed up so 'ha present
me. s nHmoor or New York and
Boston capitalists are now preparing
10 taBe possession Of the charter and
push tie !Oad 10 completion.
4 promIUtHt S0ulh Carolina citiZau,
now IN New York, said h g Times re-
porter Sunday: ri irDpOrtol ce Of
the aaion about t. be taken toward
the com pit on Of the road viii be ~
pYeC ated bP tiOse " hD understand the
system Of railroads C0uGccing the
great North vest with iha South
eastern Atlantic ports. Louisville and
Nashville and Kentucky Central Rail
read Companies have recently conn
bined with the Knoxville ana Ohio
Company. and agreed to build their
roads 10 the Tennessee line, 90 Gs TO
form q dir ct connection with Knox
vile, and contracts for work are
about 10 be awarded. The Cincinnati
Southern finds itae!f st Chattanooga
dependent on the Louisville and Nash
willie 10 reach the ,Atlant G POI t. Of the
Southeast; and ia order 10 make itself
independent the Cincinnati! Southern
has already surveyed line from EN-
Ory Gap directly east to Knoxville, 8
distance Of II miles. So you sPe the
thT-e great .Tes aTn and S0uthera cor
pOrat 0ns are making hate to reach
Knoxville, the northwestern end Of the
Blue Ridge RAILROAD. At Anderson
the southeastern end, tlere are two
railroad connections with Charleston
Port Morris and Savannah. One il
over the GTenvil anG COumbia Rail-
r al, which has recently he0n pDr~
chased by the lydo IA t.. OF tnis city,
and 5 ewarts Of RichmuD j, the Ctler
is by way OF the Savannah Valley,
which is t0 be built aud route tia
way will lie fl ty miIea shorter than by
the GFeenville road. T1e Z ig--
fi-ld, Trenton anu Aisen Rail
road is rapidly approaching 9
C pietion. The South Carolina
4 thread, the great corporation OF the
~tlfe il about o rass into she hands If
ew YOsk md Bos' on cap.t.lists Il
should be Remembered, continued tAe
speaker, that the only completed rail-
road fgOm The II 'TthWes % the sourh1
east, i the Cnsit>uy0Ea anu Atiai ia
now COntrolsd by the Louisville and
Nashville Company. The freight
Business of this line Is So great thet
trains almo-t touch each other, and fa>
cinties for doing tIs' business Of the
section are totally insGeqnate. The
completion Of the B ue r dge r ad
sill supply want long t. [ Will
be frank line foiIy able TO compete
with the Chattanooga and Atlanta
line, and will re'uce the distance from
Chicago end Cincinnati t. snutheast
ports by about 200 miles. Parties c,n-
trolling tn Blu bR:d;e Rad a b0 h
ends are now organ Zing for its rapid
2ompl' Oh. Estimated cost of work,
So 600 600.