Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-08

Gossip Gathered Everywhere in Rail
road Circles.

Gossip Gathered Everywhere in Rail
road Circles.
The people Of Daytona want the narrow
gauge road down the coast from St.
| Augustine.
Work is to commence Immediately on
the Volusa and Astor branch OF the Jack
sonyille, Tampa and Key West Road.
About 400 hands will be at work on the
Blue Spring. Orange City and Atlantic
next week. The hands are now nearly to
Lake Helen.
@. W. Knox donates five acres in the
northeast corner of his StarBe grove prop
erty for the shops Of the Blue Spring,
Orange City and Atlantic.
The depot of the Florida Southern Rail-
way at BrOOksyille will be erected about
100 yards back from Main street, on the
north side of the land donated by Brooks
Vile Railway Association.
J. II. Gardner, OF Jacksonville, has
been awarded the contract to furnish the
crossties Of the Blue Springs, Orange City
and Atlantic Railroad from Blue Springs
to New Smyrna. 1t will require $4,000
ties,
The Macon and Dublin Railroad Com
pany are advertising for bids upon the
grading Of the first 10 miles Of that road.
The bids will be opened Aug. I. The per-
sons to whom the contract is given will
be required to commence the work within
20 days thereafter.
Five hundred tons of 60-pound steel rail
for the South Florida Railroad from Penn
berton's Ferry to Lakeland have just been
delivered. One thousand more are on the
way. It is expect ted that trains VIII run
through to Tampa on the west and San
ford on the east some time in August.
BY this route mails leaving Savannah in
the morning will reach the cities above
mentioned on the evening of the same
day.
The contractors of the Rome and Car
r0lltOn Railroad are subleting the con-
tracts for grading the trestIes and other
work connected with the road. AS soon
as the road is completed, traffic arrange
ments will be entered into by the com
pany with the East and West Railway of
Alabama and the owners Of the Broken
Arrow coal mines to place coal and coke
in Rome at such rates as will induce
manufacturers TO locate at Rome.
The Greenwood, Laurens and Spartan
burg Railroad is now completed to Wood
ruff, C., n distance Of AZ miles from Green
wood, and train service win be regularly
established on and after Monday. The
stations are In the following order: From
Greenwood to Coronaco miles, to Water
lOo ID ulheS, 10 dlgn HOlnb ~ miles, TO
Maddens IS miles, TO Laurens 2S miles, to
Ora IS miles, to Enoree Al miles, TO Wood
ruff AZ miles The road will soon be ope-
rated through to Spartanburg, distance
of Go miles from Greenwood.
The Pittsburg (Pa.) Dispatch outlines
a new railroad project, in which it is
claimed the Pennsylvania is interested.
1t is to be called the West Virginia, Ken
lucky and Tennessee Railway, and is to
start at Washington, Pa, with Nashville
as the objective point. Southwest Ken
lucky, West Virginia and Tennessee are
to be penetrated. This is to be a strategic
move to head of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Road, and will be rival of the Louisville
and Nashville and Cincinnati southern.
1t is big scheme, especially at this time,
when the railroad companies are not sup
posed to be specially anxious to engage
in new and costly enterprises.