Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-23

Gossip Gathered Every where ia Rail
ROAD Circles.

road Circles.
Up to Monday night Columbus had sub
scribed SIT coo to the Georgia Midland
railroad.
A body CT $50 hands have just gone to
South Florida 10 work on the South
Fl0r.da railroad from Barlow 10 Lakeland
and Fort Ogden.
The general Offices Of the -. j. and L.
T.. r. K. division Of the Florida Southern
will in the near future, be removed from
Fert Mason to Eustis.
There are now some or miles Of the
Blue Spring, Orange City and Atlantic
rsiir0ad completed, and hands are at
work grading or miles beyond the half
way grounds from Orange City to New
Smyrna. ,
Rolling stock for the Americas, Preston
and Lumpkln railroad is now arriving % t
Americus. Each freight train from below
brings something connected with the road.
Ten freight and seven open cars have
already arrived and the engines are daily
expected to arrive. Several miles of iron
have been lad. 1t viii be completed in
time for the fan crop.
An order has been granted on the bill
OF Jr. Cpmak and others, of Athens, re-
straning The Mayor and Council Ct Ath-
ems from SO modifying the contract Of
West Point Terminal Railway and w are
house Company as to release that com
paay from Obligations to extend the
Northeastern railroad to Clayton until
further orders. Dr.. Camak. the leader OF
the movement for Injunction, mad already
threatened to take such IA step, stating as
reason that he was Il stakeholder in the
Georgia and Central railroads, and hence
the proposed line to Columbus would Sc
riously imperil his interests.
DR. W. 4. Sylvester, President Of the 5.
s., o. and G. Railroad Company, tiled for
record in the Office Of the Secretary Of
State on duly H. a trust deed and mort
gage Tor $4,000 900. The ). $, O. and q.
Will be the first standard gauge road in
Florida, as well as first-class in all its ap-
poiuments. In less than a year the Flor
ida halfway and Navigation will adopt
toe standard gauge. Tue Plant Invest
ment Company, which includes the Flor
ida southern railway, will follow
suit. All the leading roads in the coun-
try have and are being made standard
gauge. Tho popular Louisville and Nash
Vile 10 making arrangements now to
change their entire system to the stand
ard gauge. ~ -
siSpeaking with an experienced railroad
engineer, aud one who has been in one
way and another connected with the con-
struction OF many new roads, he said
that crOsSties, heretofore q small matter in
railroad building compared to many
others, viii in 2 few years more be one Of
considerable magnitude. Now" he said,
In this country all desired can be had at
small outlay, but from the report on this
subject, made by the Department Of
Agriculture at Washington, it is
stated that the ties now needed
for railroad construction are a heavy
draft upon our forests In France
and England the country does not raise
sufficient timber TO furnish ties, and they
have to be imported from abroad; and in
Mexico and south America, nOtwlth-
standing the great forests, many ties were
similarly imported. In this country, on
the other hand. we are exporting them;
but the time will soon come when the de-
mand VIII test the supply. II requires
II 100000 acres, or 26,500 square
miles OF forest TO furnish the present
demand OF the railroads, and At
the rate of progress in building
new lines, 10000 square miles Of
forests viii have to be set aside for this
purpose within a decade. The present
price paid for crossties in the United
States-an average OF 3jc.-is pheunme-
naliy low in comparison with other couu-
tries, and is due to the fact That so many
of our railroads traverse well-wOoded dis
tricts. 1t is inevitable that with the de-
structi0n Of our forests their price will
rise, and that the railroads of the future
will find cr0s5ties among the most eN-
pensiVe articles OF construction