Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-17
AMONG THE RAILROADS.
GIeanings from Along the Track and
Crossttes

The Green Cove and Melr0se Railroad
will be sold July 6.
LabOrers 10 work on the Palatka Fla.
and Indian River Railroad are being col
lected.
The stockholders of the Americas, Pres
ton and Lumpkin Railroad will meet at
Americas to-day.
G. b. McClenny has resigned the agency
of the Florida Railway and Navigation
at Sanderson. aud j. II. Montgomery has
been appinted in his stead.
Mr.. Herring, connected with the Chat
tanooga, Columbus and Florida Railroad
Company. left Tallahassee Saturday to
make an inspection of the proposed line
between that city and cambridge.
The first train over the Georgia Rail-
road, from Augusta to Atlanta, WAS on
September 10, 1915. The population of
Atlanta at that time was about 500; from
this half thousand her population has
swelled to $4,000.
Work will be begun this week on the
jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Rail
road to Sanford, and it will not be long
before the run to Sanford will be but
few hours instead of the long time now
taken to make the distance by water.
The first deed made to the trustees of
the Tallahassee and ThOmasville Railroad
Association conveyed 800 acres of land as
u donation to the enterprise. The ITALIA
hassee Fi0ridtdn says it is good improved
land, and has four tenant houses on it.
George Ii. Mckee has procured an
order from superintendent Hollister, of
the Florida Southern Railroad, making
Grand View, on One st. Johns and Lake
Eustis branch, a regular station, where
all trains will stop to take on or let off
passengers.
IL is rumored in railroad circles at Ma
con that Maj. Robert Anderson, Superin-
tendent of tho Western and Atlantic, is
soon to resign that office; also, that Rob
ert Schmidt, now Central Railroad Agent
at Atlanta, will he appointed General SUI
perintendent of the Atlanta and West
Point and the Western of Alabama.
The rumor of cut in rates from Ohio
river points TO several Southern points
has been confirmed, but only meagre de-
tails can be learned. The reduction was
made by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
on June 10, on grain from several seabOard
points, Atlanta and Chattanooga. The
Louisville and Nashville and Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroads have
since met the cut, and from all indica-
tiOns bitter railroad war has fairly been
inaugurated. The Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad made the first cut of three cents
anC Lne LOUISVILLE ana NASHVILLE mas gone
seven cents lower. No other lines have
as yet been involved, but the fight will
doubtless begin in good earnest this week
and all the Southern lines will take part.
The Ocala (Fla.) Banner thus speaks of
the railway outlook in that section: "The
Florida Railway and Navigation we have
already; the Silver Springs, Ocala and
Gulf is an assured fact. 1t has broken
ground, making Ocala the starting point.
and is going in westerly direction, and
now comes from an easterly direction the
Sandford, Indian Springs and Ocala,
making the fourth that will reach US
probably before the end of the present
year. And yet this is not all. A notice
of the incorporation of the Silver Springs,
Higley and Southern, which will be extend
ed to Ocala, has already been published.
Our Lake Weir friends are bent on buid-
ing road from the lake to Silver Spring,
which, in all probability, will be run via
Ocala, and in a recent conversation with
Engineer Smith, of the Gordon Road, he
informed us that Gen. Gordon writes
hopefully from New Y Ork that all Obsta-
Giles are being removed that have hitherto
delayed the progress OF his road, and that
preparations for immediate construction
will begin at an early day. His road VIII
run from Jacksonville to Ocala via st.
Augustine and on down the peninsula"