Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-08
RAuRoAD INrEL1IoENCE.
Gleaninge from Along the Track and
CrOsaei%s.

Crossti+s.
The receipts for freight and passenger
fare at tie railroad office at HawkiDsville
during the past year were SIP 932 A.
Sylvania Telephones: The great draw
back to the completion If the Sylvania
Railroad has been the failure of the Gen.
trail to deliver the iron as fast as needed.
The supply is again exhausted, which
causes little further DELAY.
The corpOrators of the Wild Wood,
Lady Lake, WitblacOochee and Gulf Rail-
road will! meet at Wild Wood, Fla, Tues
day for tue purpose of pertecting an or
ganizatiOn and transacting such other
business as may come before them.
BY reference to advertisement in an
other column It will be seen that round
trip tickets between Savannah and New
Orleans will be sold by the Savannah,
Florida and Western Railway at $13 80,
good for fifteen days. Heretofore their
special low rates have only been applic-
able t. the special excursion trains leav-
ing Savannah every Monday, but from
now they VIII be good to 20 and return by
any train within the limit specified. The
special weekly excursion trains have been
withdrawn.
President Mitchell is pushing the work
on the Augusta, Gibson and Sandersviile
Railroad rapidly ahead and yesterday
eAANbhNA CbhtApA AAARuAhOAAf FNNo tAi-
braced in the schedule. presidents
Mitchell says his supplies recently Sc
cured in New York will arrive in short
time, and then he is going straight for
SandersvIlle in hurry. He says be will
put as handsome coaches on the road as
are 10 be found in the State, and people
travelling on the Augusta, Gibson and
Sandersville Railroad will not complain
of the accommodations.
Nauv work 1yGnaVab naWo ba
lines nave made formal reduction in
west bound rates to the Two principal
points of competition in the South which,
it is feared, will lead to heavier and
deeper secret cuts. A year ago the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia and the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroads, ON the
one hand, and the trunk lines on the other,
entered into an agreement for the division
of west bound business to Nashville and
Memphis. No division of tonnage or
money settlement of pool balances was
provided for. however. The result was
that the East Tennessee system carried
the bulk OF the business, and rates driited
dOwnwards by degrees. The trunk lines
made reduction of rates on Jan 20. and
further reduction on Wednesday. The
two reductions amount to about 90 per
cent. on all classes OF freight from the
tariff prevailing SIX weeks ago. The
trunk lines claim that the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia
system has been violating tue
Friends of the latter retOrt that it has
been only protecting its interests against
the trunk lines. The East Tennessee
claims that it can with little eXertion
secure 90 to 20 per cent. of the traffic,
whereas its pool proportion was only
about 40 to 90 per cent. Tne Chesapeake
and Ohio was allowed low difftrential
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heavily under that rate, and thu differ
ence was abandoned a short time ago.
The Tennessee people say: This pooled |
business furnishes the bulk of our earn |
ings, whereas it is only an incidental |
source of the receipts OF the trunk lines. |
Consequently we are not only entitled to /
the most from the standpoint of equity, |
but it is natural that we should take ali /
the steps in our power TO secure it.'
The proposed airline road from Angus |
ia to Jacksonville is exciting considera-
BILE interest in railroad circles. The /
NEWS has already quoted the opinions OF |
leading railroad men In regard to it. The |
general impression in Savannah is that it
is paper road, with very little
likelihood of materializIng into an
equipped thOroughfare. The an
nounctment in the NEWS Yesterday
that construction agents with corps of
engineers had started from Millen. the
southern terminus of tee Augusta branch |
of the Central, on preliminary survey
through the pine lands of ScriYen, Tat
nal, Liberty and Wayne counties, has |
given some ground, however, to the state
ment shat the road would be built. Mr..
A. H. Cox. attorney of the GreenVille
Land and Lumber Company, Portsmouth,
Va, is with the party representing the
corporation, which has started out with
the announced intention of putting the
project through.
The direction of the proposed road is
from Augusta, in direct line
TO Jacksonville, distance of 2l0 miles.
From Jacksonville to Harris river the
distance is twenty miles. This line has
already been built, and Is understood to /
have been leased c0nduiOnally. JC COM
mands capital terminal facilities at Jack
sOnvIl!e, and leads straight Rp in the di-
rectiOn of Augusta. From Hart's river, |
sixty miles to Jesup, the road, it is
has been chartered and the |
right of way secured. 1t crosses two
navigable streams, the st. Mary's and the
SItilla rivers, and is sixty miles in length.
From Jesup to Millen the airline is
eighty miles through the timber
ands and pine belts of ScrIven,
rattnall, Liberty and Wayne counties. {
The object of the company is evidently
TO t9p the timber country, and to connect
luGil AO1u Win LuS EiCat LfOl tuCiil anu
Eastern railroad system at Augusta, and
with the great Southern system at Jack
sOnVille. 1t is claimed they will either
make traffic arrangements at Milen with /
The Central, emitting them to facilities '
over the Central tracks to Augusta, or 2
hey will build parallel liue to Augusta.
The line between Augusta and Jackson
Vile will be 125 mites nearer than !
he present route via Savannah. G
The company claims to have already de-
posted in the Brunswick Bank $25, O00 for
rs charter privileges to Jesup, and agrees
( the road is not built within three years
after the land grants in Georgia are made
hat the deeds are void. They expect,
With fair success in the pine sections, to
nave the line in operation within eighteen
months after next July. As fast as pos
;ible surveys will be made along the
routes located and concessions asked, and ]
f Ia, 900 acres of land can be obtained the
movers in the enterprise claim that the
road is an assured fact.
A NEWS reporter called upon President
RaOul yesterday, with the inquiry whether
The Central had been approached in re-
gard to the use of its tracks over the
Augusta branch. eve have received no
at ALL" said Capt. Raoul,
land in fact l know nothing about the
proposed road at all, except what has
been in the newspapers"
'tWhat would be the effect Of such a !
road ii built upon the CentralP'
cit would effect us very little, if at all.
The competition, If any, would be with
The Coast Line SYSTEM
Inquiry in other directions failed to de-
velop any further information than has
already been given in regard to the enter
prise. Toe Central officials do not take
much stock in the statement that the road
will be butt. They do not see where it
can obtain sufficient patronage to MAIN
tain it.
The Inauguration of the popular price
in Opera Puffs Cigarettes goes into effect
to-day. The Opera Puffs Cigarettes will