The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-05-18

mile, $569.l6. N' f''-
Respectfully submitted,
VIZ. J. KiRH,
Gen'l Sup't and Chief Engineer.
President J. N. Cochran then read the
following report:
Gentlemen Of The Conrention-In conse-
quence Of the lamented death OF your Pres
acting President of your road since the 9Th
Of January last. When
assumed control of tue road as President
we were at work near Long Cane in the
direction from Troy to Abbeville, with
about twenty hands (hired laborers), which
has been about the average number kept at
work since. We have graded now to with
in about ct miles of Abbeville e. H., dis
tance of ii miles since 18th January. Not
withstanding the continuous bad weather
of January and February, this work has
been accomplished with an economy OF ex-
penditure unprecedented in railroad work
when II is asserted that the work Is all first
class, including the location of line and
character of the grading. We
have not succeeded in oil instances in oh.
tanning the right of way. Professed lovers
OF the enterprise, from whom we least ex-
pected opposition. are in some cases refts-
ing to grant the right. This trouble in
most instances, however, may be obyiated
In the final location consistently with
economy by changing the line upon lands
OF those whose unseltishness aud enlglt-
ened liberality enable them to appreciate
the advantage Of q railroad.
AS TO the future prospects of the road
much might be said. or humble preten-
sion in origin, it was first chartered as the
Bolton, WILMINGTON and Easiey Road.
Now it reaches out its feelers from the
South Atlantic to the Mississippi and the
Lakes. immediately upon my assumption
of the duties of President, q negotiation
was entered into with Messrs Child and
Oliver, Of New York, for the construction
and completion of our line of road through
TIA state OF South Carolina to the Eor.h
Carolina line. That contract was consum-
mated and signed by order of your direction
on the 18th January last. The contract
better than any comments Of mine can do.
We have every reason to believe that this
contract will be carried out in good faith.
BY way of explaining the
connections and advantages proposed by
this contract of construction and the great
system of railroads 70 be consolidated under
IL, have seen proper TO extract an editorial
from the Morristown lTennessee) Gazette,
which says:
The contract just closed for the construc.
ton of the Cumberland railway of Ken.
tucky, from the connection with the Nor
ristown, Cumberland Gap and Ohio railroad
at the Cumberland mountain, by way of
Pineville and Barbourville, to connect with
the Knoxville branch or the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, complete. the link of O
through line from connections on the North
with tho railway system of Kentucky to
Aiken, South Carolina, making direct con-
nections with the railroads in that State for
the cities of Charleston. Savannah, Port
Royal, Augusta, etc. This system of rail-
roads Is composed OF the following roads :
Cumberland railroad OF Kentucky, SO
miles; Cumberland Gap, Morristown and
Ohio railroad Of Tennessee, IS miles Nor
ristown and Carolina railroad of Tennessee,
45.miles; North Carolina railroad, 65 miles !;
Atlantic and French Broad railroad oil
ton anu Aiken raalrCIad " South Uaroliua,