Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-06-01
wALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA,

SOUTH CAROLINA.
"The adoption of this tunnel" Mr..
! Ellis Gays, "involving q total cost of some
S75O,O00, was not the most practicable line,
! but now that so much work has been done
am not prepared to recommend any
ohsnge. l have plotted looation which
shows concusvey thut by lengthcung
| the line about two and two-thirds miles,
and by considerable addition of curvature
and increasing the maximum curve to ten
degrees in two places, but increasing the
maximum grades, the tunnel could have
been avoided ut cost of not more than
Sl5O,O00. The character of tho work to
be done on this lue, from tho point whero
| it leaves tho muin limo to where Cane
Greek is crossed will be comparatively
light; there the line passes through Poplar
Gap with a cut of forty two feet. The
work is then light until the middle tunnel
ridge is struck, which it passes through
with u tunnel of $50 to 200 feet. Then
OF tho ridge running up from Smiths Cut
another tunnel of $50 feet will have to be
made. The work will then be light
until the line crosses itself in Poplar Gap,
| which is crossed second time ou bridge
of fifty feet span at an elevation of sixty
seven feet above the first crossing" Two
locations for
| A TEMPORARY TRACK
over this tunnel have been made. In The
first cuse, on the Enst side of the mountain
| the track would have maximum grade of
| l55. 66 feet per mile and on The West side
OF the mountain maximum grade Of 106
feet per mile. The maximum curve going
West on ascending grade is ten degrees per
lO0 feet and descending is niue degrees
rer 100 feet. The total length of this
line is 1882 feet, and would cost $685..
4O4 46, and although 0525 feet longer
than the tunnel or main line. could be
constructed for &20l ,404.64 less than the
main line.
temporary track has also been located
to avoid the Chauga tunnel aud to be used
in connection with the line above descrb d
! 1t is 4T4 feet longer than the main liuo aud
will be S25, 5,00732 cheaper. The total
length OF this track is 1913 feet and the
total cost of construction would be Sl4,.
3S03
The second line over
STUMP HOUSE MOUNTAIN
avoids b. til the Stump House tunnel and
the CI,auga tunnel The maximum grade
on this line going West is 255 feet per
mile, and going East l50 feet per III lie.
This line is 1898 feet longer tn an the
main line. Mr.. Ellis says: 81 am not in-
Glued to recommend either of these ten
porary lines, unless the object be to save
first cost in 6ui ding the road; for if the
tunnel is pushed with proper energy it
could be completed within sixteen months"
Chnuga tunnel is about $500 feet West
Of Stump House Mountain. No work has
been cone on it except in Tho approaches.
The next tunnel 10 the Dicks Creek Tun-
mel, in Georgia It is 1857 feet long, and
there remains to be done on it 1858 feet.
The last tur mel in the liue is
TIE WAR WOMAN TUNNEL.
II is 1853 feet long and l $50 feet of it
remains to be done. With view of saw
ing first cost temporary track has been
located over this tunnel Its total cost
would be $4,000 S3. 1t is 224 feet
10 niger than the main line but is Si40,424
81 cheaper. 1t has maximum ascending
grade going West of 2ll.2 feet per mile
und going East of 1853 feet per mile, with
maximum curves on either Iiue of eight
degrees per 100 feet.
On the main and alternate lines osti-
mates have been made for all earth cuts to
be taken out eighteen feet wide and rock
cuts sixteen feet wide. The maximum
grade on the uain and alternate lines is 70
feet per mile going West and 45 feet per
mile going East Three alternate lines have
been located, the first to avoid the first and
second CROSSINGS of Milestone Creek,
which can be built at saving over the
main line of the S22 004. IS; the second to
avoid the two crossings of War Womah
Creek in Georgia, which can be built OF
saving OF S34,237 IL over tho main line
and the third to connect with the North
eastern Railroad, of G orgia, about one
half mile from Clayton, iosteud Of joining
it near Rabun Gap as the main line does,
and which can be constructed at n saving
Of $50 ,360.95 over the main line or origi.,
mi survey.
TIE TOTAL COST
of graduation and masonry on tho main
line of Tic road from WalhalIa to its June
ton with the Northeastern road in Georgia,
is estimated at 81 ,3l6,01l; of superstruc-
ture, s2ll,750; Of depots, &C., Sl4 800;
of side tracks, &c., s2l, 500; md the total
cost of the main line is placed at 81 ,56i,-
453.03. Dcduc,ing from this amount the
saving to DO effected by the construction of
temporary tracks aud alternate lines end
tho total cost of building the road is placed
at 81 l0l ,537.05 A still further saving
could be effected by substituting trestlc
work for embankments at various points