Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-29
RAILROAD RUMBLINGs.
Bright Flashes of Intelligence from Near
and Afar.

Bright Flashes of Intelligence from Near
and Afar.
Seven hundred laborers are at work ON
the Florida Southern Railway, and II is
! being rapidly extended southwark.
A vessel is discharging a five hundred
ton cargo of railroad iron for the florlda
! Central and Western Railwas, at Fernan-
dina.
r. Schmidt. ESQ. General Freight Agent
\ of the Central Railroad at Atlanta, Is In
/ the city on business for the road he rep
/ resents.
The Hawthorne Graphic says the people
/ above Melrose are feeling Juouant over
/ the prospects of the speedy complexion OF
! the Green Cove Springs and Melrose Kali
road.
The Mariana Courier learns that the
I union depot, near ChattahoOchee, is SAID
4 to be a very unhealthy place, the railroad
/ agents having to be changed about once a
| month.
The engineers of the Fernandina and
4 Jacksonville Railroad are engaged run
/ ming their lines through Law lila prepare
/ tory to building a track to connect that
road With the Florida Central and West
| ern.
I r. F. smith. who has been tor the past
/ year head clerk of the Green Line, has re-
/ signed his position to accept an Office
/ with the Plant Investment Company Of
| Florida. w. T. Spalding has been APP
! pointed head clerk to succeed him.
H. c. Ansley has been relieved at his
! own request. of the duties of Assistant
\ Treasurer and Cashier of the Georgia
| Pacific Railroad. and Mr. L. ID. Aylett is
/ appointed in his place. MI. Ansley re-
/ tains his position as auditor OF the road.
On and after the first Of September the
/ Georgia Pacific and Selma, Rome and
| Dalton Railroads Will be consolidated.
They will keep the same passenger dep0ts,
but the freight depots both here and at
| Oxford will be consolidated; the freight
! depot of the Selma, Rome and Dalton
Road will be used at both places.
A Nashville Tenn. dispatch of August
26 SAYS: "The attorneys for the Winches-
ter and Alabama, Louisville and Nash
| vile, and McMinnville and Manchester
Railroads state, in relation to the suits for
back taxes due the State, that in the case
of the Winchester and Alabama and Nc
| MinnVille and Manchester the total
amount of taxes claimed is not over 81, 900.
In the case against the Louisville and
Nashville the total amount claimed is
between $4,000 and 100000. They say it
was ridiculous to talk about $l,OOO,O0O
being the amount claimed against any or
all of the roads,"
The new Georgia Pacific bridge over the
CoOsa river is a beautiful structure. 1t is
a Pratt bridge, built by the Buffalo bridge
works and erected under the supervision
of Major Temple, Chief Engineer of the
Georgia Pacific. The river at the point
crossed is over 800 feet wide. The bridge
rests on five massive piers, three of which
are in the stream and one on each bank,
thus making four spans. Having crossed
the COOsa, the Georgia Pacific continues
to push steadily and rapidly toward Bir-
mingham. Last week nearly three miles
of track were laid Oh the other side of the
river. The incomplete tunnel is now the
chief obstruction between Atlanta and
Birmingham.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors
of the jacksonville and Atlantic Rail-
road Company held at jacksonville Mon
day, a committee was appointed to have
surveyed and plotted out the town at the
beach-the terminus of the road-and
also TO employ competent sanitary en-
, gineer to make a thorough survey so as to
institute and carry out Il perfect system
of drainage from the very beginning,
which measure is regarded as so essential
in all health resorts throughout the c0un-
try. 1t was reported that the right of way
for the entire distance from the river to
the beach had been secured and the sur
yey, which is now under way, will, if the
NCdlHcI pei nllloy NC yum plCltu luC liCo-
sent week. AS soon as the survey is
finished and the profile and specitica-
tiOns are completed, the company will adj
vertise for bids for the construction Of the
road.
The New York Times has the following
additional information concerning a sale
already mentioned in these columns: "By
purchases of stock during the past few
days the control of the Memphis and
t.,I-s, :
hands of persons inimical to the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, by
which it is leased. This will end the
efforts to break the lease. The entire
stock of the Memphis and Charleston
is $5,3l2, 600, of which -, 700, 000is now held
by persons acting with George /. Seney,
the controlling spirit of the East Tennes-
see, Virginia and Georgia. Nearly $780,
600 was bought in the open market during
the decline. The remainder was held by
II. w. Evans and V. X. Stevenson, of New
York, and JamisOn IL Co., of Philadel-
phia, and was purchased at private sale.
Capt. {. 5. Brice, who arranged the pur-
chases, says there will be no consolidation
of the roads. The lease, which runs for
twenty years from July 1, 1877, will con-
tinue. Last winter an understanding was
arrived at whereby the lease was to be
surrendered, but owing to difficulties in
money matters the arrangement fell
through Changes in the officers Of the
Memphis and Charleston will be made
this week."
The Sylyania Telephone says: ''The
survey Of the route Of the proposed rail
road from Sylvania to Rocky Ford on the
Central Railroad has been completed.
Mr.. ;. l.. Fleming, the efficient engineer
who made the survey, has about COM
peted his profile of the line, together with
amount Of the grading necessary to be
done in the construction of the road. We
have been enabled to CLEAN few facts from
this survey, which we will lay before our
readers. The length Of the road will be
a fraction over fourteen miles. The
grading will be very light. as the
route is comparatively level. There are
no large streams to be crossed, only a
few branches lying across the sur
Veyed route. The entire cost of the build
ing of the road, allowing liberal price to
be paid for grading for cross-ties, and for
laying down the iron on the track, will
not cost the sum of $4,000. Mr.. Fleming
thinks that all this work can be done for
a price not exceeding $40, 900, This does
not include the cost of the iron, which, we
understand, the company will procure by
renting, as is done in many other cases.
AS the cost of this road is so much lees
than at first anticipated we are confident
that it will be built and equipped in few
months"