The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-02-07
A FINE MAP
CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND GAP
AND CHICAGO RAILWAY.


AND CHICAGO RAIL WAY
We have received from our we'll
known friend, Major S. l.. Camp
bell, Secretary, n large and very
handsomely engraved and printed
map of he entire route and sur
roundings of the Carolina, Cumber-
land Gap and Chicago railway. Ii
is most deliberately prepared, and is
lust what was wanted To demonstrate
10 capitalists and to the world the
Importance of this grand enterprise
which is destined TO make Norris
town n leading industrial and CON-
mercial point on its line. The map
shows that the Carolina, Cumber-
land Gap and Chicago railway will
pass through the rich cotton belt of
South Carolina, the valuable timber
and mineral belts of Western North
Carolina, the rich, fertile valley of
the French Broad river; the iron
deposits, marble quarries, extensive
timber forests, health and summer
resorts of Eastern Tennessee; the
unrivalled iron ore, bituminous and
camel coal fields. aud immense
primitive forests of Kentucky
through the great "Blue Grass Dis
trict, connecting with trunk lines
for all of the great cities of the North
and West-thus forming a through
line for the most important ports
and cities on the Atlantic coast, ut
a saving of irty per cent in dis
lance over any other line now in
existence, which makes il one of the
most important trunk lines in the
country. Having no parallel" or
competing line, and opening an en-
tirely- new section of country, which
in agricultural products, fruits, i'm
mense forests Of tie finest timber
on the continent, unequalled depOs-
It's of the richest minerals in iron,
copper, lead ard coal, MAJ bic and
other rock, assuring a large local
traffic on every part Of the line, with
TO dead or uuproductive road to |
operate We thank Mai. Campbell |
for this map, and will be pleased to
exhibit il to those who may feel in
terested in the road. As we close this /
paragraph an extract from the Au- /
gusta Chronicle attracts our atten-
ton and may be worth a peruss.l as
straw indicating the direc-
ton OF the popular current. Speak
Ing OF the proposed lease Of the Au-
gusta and Knoxville rail Dad il says:
). The Central railroad company is
probably the most active and con-
spicuOus factor i'm these negotiations.
Il Is even stated that the Central
may perfect the lease thro'
he Port Royal, making the Knox
vile branch the extension of the lat
.er, and securing thereby better IA
silities for the connection of the two
'oadS through the city The South !
Carolina railroad has made Overtures I
or the Augusta and Knoxville, but
heir interest have not been active
Y represented of late. One of the
most significant and enterprising of I
ers yet made for the road il under
TODD 10 be by n Northern syndicate,
epresenting a consolidation of a !.
lumber of unfinished railroads lead >
ng from Carolina 10 the West IL {
) to be called the Carolina, Cumber- r
and Gap and Chicago railroad"
We add that ex-Gov. Johnson Ha- v
God, of South Carolina, is Presi- c
ent of the last mentioned company, h
nd that Col William III. SchOfeld, a
of the Atlantic and North q
-estern Construction company, con Il
actors for construction and equip "
tent, $50 Broadway, New York, is q
s Financial Agent 81