Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-06-01
More About the Blue|R Ridge
Railroad.

. q
A correspondents Of the Charleston News
and Courier writes from Columbia as fol-
lowas
COLUMBIA. May 25.--Mr. j. ". Fry has
prepared table showing the distances from
Knoxville. Tenn., to the nearest ports on the
South Atlantic seacoast. This table will be
printed rs part Of his report on the Blue
Ridge Road survey. aud shows that tho dis.
tance from Knoxville to Charleston, by way
of the Blue Ridge Road is 464 miles. and
that the distance from Knoxville to Charleo-
ton by way Of Atlanta aud Augusta is 5l7
miles. From Knoxville to Norfolk the dis
tance is $50. to Port Royal 492 miles, to
Savannah 504 miles and to Brunswick 598
miles. twill DO seen that Charleston has
decided advantage over other railway
routes from the West to deep water oonneo-
tions. The distance from Charleston to
Memphis, St. Louis. Louisvillei aud Cincin-
natl will also compare fasorably with the
distance from other eeaports. r
(, Mr.. Fry also shows that In the mattor Of
grade as we'll as distance the Blue Ridge
Road sta nds first in comparison with other
roads running between the East and Wes.
and in proof of thic states that .'the maximum
grade going West, ant. in the direction Of the
lightest traffic. is 70 feet per mile; and going
East, the direction of the CeaViest traffic,
is 45 feet per mile. The matter o. grades is
an important one in the operation IT oil
railroads, and tho moderate grades in this
line will compare very favorably with grades
on other roads passing through mountain
Gus country. The grades is the East Tonnes
see, Virginia and Georgia Railroad going
Eastward are 68 feet por mile; on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad, 70 feet; on the
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, ll6 feet;
on the Pennsylvania. SO feet; on the Sunbury
and Erie Railroad. SO. feet. and on the
New York and Eric Railroad, 60 feet per
milo"
The report Of Mr. Fry will be used by the
Clyde Combination as basis for future
operations, and although it is not probable
that the construction of the Blue Ridge Road
will be undertaken at very early day, the
owners of the lines Of which this road forms
so important connection ore exceedingly
anxious to push the enterprise through to
completion. The figures given above show
that the Blue Ridge Road furnishes tho nearest
and most expeditions route from the West
to the South Atlantic seacoast, and there can
DO little doubt that the line will be built as
soon as circumstances will permit.
The oat crop is fine everywhere this year.
and one planter seems to hnve very little adj
vantage, in this respect, over another. But
there is occasionally shade of difference
caused by the soil, or the time of sowing
The largest field and the best production we
have seen is that extensive area at the race
course belonging to Mr.. Charles Logan. We
cav Mr. ilarper's team engaged yesterday in
cutting it with his reaper, and the yield is
most abundant. The machine, with good
team, will cut twenty acres 10 day. 1t re.
quires four hands to keep up with the binding,
but the inventive genius of the age has
already supplied binder which will be at
tached to the reaper,and the cutting and bind.
ing will be done together This is another
move in the right direction. and an important
addition to labor eaving machines. We
should not be surprised if, ip few years moro
a thrasher would DO attached, and the whole
process be accomplished OF once. 1t would
have been impossible to have saved the abun-
dant email grain crop Of this year by the use
of The ordinary scy,ho and cradle. Pal.
metio Pconan
Chief Justice Waite, John A. Stewart,
Governor Colqnitt. Of Georgia. Ex-Governor
r. B. Hayes, OF Ohin. Morris X. Jesup, the
Rev. Dr. James P. Boyco. of Kentucky. s.
@. Gilman, Of Baltimore and William A. .
Slater, comprising, with William e. Dodge
and the Rev. Dr.. Brooks, the trustees named
by John F. Slater. of Connecticut, to have
charge Of his million dollar fund for the
education of the negroes of tho South, met
lnOt Friday and temporarily organized. r.
B. Hayes presided and was appointed at the
head of the committee on the policy to be
pursued by the board. In tho evening
Morris X. Jesup. Treasurer of the fund, en-
tertained the trustees at dinner in his
residence on Madison Avonuo.
Daily Fort Wayne Sentinel.
Mr. s. IL. Joseph, agent Emerson's Min-
strels remarks: l can with truth speak from
experience, and in saying st. Jacobs Oil acts
IN marvellous manner but partly express
my good opinion of it.