Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-23
AMONG THE RAILROADS.
Gossip Gathered Everywhere in Rail-
road Circles.


About 10 miles of the Enterprise and
Titusville Road has been graded.
On June IL work commenced on broad
gauge road connecting Blue Spring and
Orange City with Mosquito Inlet on the
Atlantic coast.
The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
will build branch from Thrashers Ferry
TO Enterprise to connect with the Enter
prise and Titusville Road.
A meeting will be held in Sanford to-
day to consider the subject 0fTdilrOad con-
necti0ns and to advise ways and means
Tor aiding in the construction of the three
lines now III contemplation.
J. r. Thwing aud Col. Harper were in
Jacksonville last week ordering sh0Vels,
Wheeloarrows, axes, spades, etc, and an
engine and two fiat cars for a cOnstruc-
ton train for the Blue Spring, Orange
City and Atlantic Railroad.
This week President Hillyer, of the
Rome Railroad, aud Col. ID. b. Hamilton
and Col. ID. S. Printup, stockholders Of
the road, will take an inspection trip
along the line OF the proposed extension
from Rome to Guntersville. The early eX-
tension of the road is being considered
and the object of these gentlemen is to
report TO call meeting Of the directors Of
the road.
Judge Goodyear the attorney and one
of the principal incorporators of the new
proposed short line connection between
Jacksonville and the North, is in Jack
sonville in the interest Of the road. The
company, which has been already an
nounced IN the NEWS, was formed several
months ago, and q traffic arrangement
made by which the use OF the line of rail
road known 8s the Fernandina and Jack
sonVille Railroad, from Jacksonville to
Harris Road, was secured.
At that time, says the Times Union, the
company had funds all in hand as they
supposed, TO build the line from Jackson
vile to Jesup, and work was to have
been commenced on both ends by June
70, according to the terms Of the traffic
agreement. Within one month, however,
the failure of the banks in Norfolk and
Portsmouth, Va, seriously embarrassed
the principal hackers OF the company,
Messrs. BAN Bros, and Gen. Whitehead,
and this, added to the appointment of
receiver for the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia system, made
the project seem hopeless. The
gentlemen connected with the enter
prise, however, were not to be daunted.
They kept at work, and at last the scheme
has assumed shape. A contract has been
made with firm OF Atlanta capitalists,
and contemplates the immediate building
of the link from Jacksonville to Jesup.
The contractors engage to do the work on
a cash basis, and receive for their pay
three-seyeuths of the hrst mortgage bonds
OF the company at par and four seventies
in cash, and it is to see what Jacksonville
can do and will do as her share towards
converting this balance of the bonds
into cash that Judge Goodyear is there.
The road VIII be about 80 miles long,
running almost direct from Harris Road
to Jesup. Two iron bridges are to be
built, one over the st. Marv's and the
other over the Satilla river. The contract
calls for broad gauge and heavy steel
rails. In the opinion of railroad experts,
the contract closed for construction is a
close and good one, and is on cash basis.