Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-13
TIE RAILWAY WORLD.
Gossip Gathered Everywhere in Rail-
road Circles.

road Circles.
The Mississippi division of the Georgia
| Pacific railroad changed It's gauge on
! Saturday to feet s. q inches, 60 as 10 con-
! form with the gauge Of the Mobile and
/ Ohio railroad, with which line it con-
meets, and which line made the same
| change.
The directors of the Buena Vista rail-
road have changed the name OF the
road TO the Buena Vista and EllavilIe
railroad. The road, though only com
! pIeted last February, has done in six
months fOur-ffths as much business as
war expected Oft in twelve months.
Rapid transit between this city and
Augusta is something that is badly
needed. The increase Of travel between
this city and Charleston and Florida is
evidence OF what fast trains will do. Can't
the Central give Savannah and Augusta
a fast train leaving each city early IN the
morning?
The charter Of the COyingtOn and Macon
railroad has been amended by a vote OF
the directors, giving them a branch line
from COVingtOn TO Athens, and from Gov
ington to Griffin. The survey had been
completed from COvingtOn TO Monticello,
and estimates made. and the survey from
COvlngtOn to the Richmond aud DanYille
first shipment Of iron tor this road is now
on Its way to COYingtOn.
james Anderson, General Superntend-
ent Of the Asheyille and Spartanburg rail
road, the new short line from Charleston
TO the West, announces that he has filed
a mortgage deed on the road 10 Sc cure
100000 Of first mortgage bonds, upon
which money Will be raised to complete the
road under the terms Of contract made
with the Connecticut Construction Com
pany. Nearly all the bonds have been
subscribed for by New York and Western
capitalists. There are "A miles Of road
vet 10 build to complete the link between
HendeTsOnyille and Ashevlle and work
is being rapidly pushed. The road Will
be open for business about Jan. - next.
ACedartown special says: A letter Of
recent date from a prominent New York
capitalist to a citizen Of this place con-
tains the following in regard TO the Rome
and CarrOlltOn road: sit has been repre-
scented in the newspapers that the rail-
road from Rome TO Carrollton would be
! built right away. But after talking with
parties Interested in the enterprise, ! am
led 10 believe that the road will not be
| built-at least that portion between Ce-
daTtOwn and CarrOilton-uutll there is a
change made in the Railroad Commission.
The rates now imposed on the railroads
by the commission are such as that it is
almost impossible to obtain money in
New York on the bonds of Georgia rail
roads"
The work Of changing the guage Of
Southern railroads to the standard Of :
feet So Inches is progressing steadily, il
not rapidly. The change Of the Mobile
and Ohio "wlll leave only two of the i'm
] !, 4
Ohio river OF feet gauge, and both Of
them are already making arrangements
for the change to the standard guage."
| The Louisville and Nashville Will,
/ it is said. make the change within
the next few months, and the Gin
cinDati Southern system will fol-
| low suit as sOOG as an arrangement can
be made with the trustees. The 5-foOJ
/ gauge will then be practically limited to
the seabOard Southern States, and will
doubtless soon disappear. On the Allan
tic Coast line the standard gauge
| now extends as far south
as Wilmington, and the roads in that
line from Wilmington to Charleston
will soon be OF the same gauge, while the
Savannah, Florida and WeNern Is ready
to make the change at the same time with
the connecting lines to the nOrthward.
The Richmond and Danville and its con-
tr0lled lines are already preparing to
abandon the old gauge, although no def
mite time has been stated. BY the end of
next year it is altogether probable that
the Norfolk aud Western and the East
! Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia will be
the only important lines still retaining the
5-fOOt gauge, and their alteration TO the
! standard will then become actually "a
matter of necessity, the time depending
chiefly upon the financial condition Of the
companies.