Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-02
CAMS Yesterday.
At Brooklyn-Pittsburg 10, Brooklyn
IN THE RAILWAY WORLD.
Items Gathered Along the Track
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railroad have been built in Florida.
very neat depot at Armstrong, on
the st. Augustine and Palatka railway,
Will be finished in day or two.
Ten miles of the AUGUSTA. Edgefeld
and Newberry road are graded, and Con-
tractor A. j. Twiggs is pushing the work
ahead.
war in passenger rates is predicted be-
tween the st. Augustine and Palatka and
the Jacksonville, Tampa ana Key West
railways.
General Manager Gault, of the Queen
and Crescent, has denied report that
his road is anxious to dispose OF its lease
to the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia.
Rails have been received and track lay
ing is about to begin on the Montgomery
and Florida road from Montgomery south,
and it is thought that thirty miles will be
completed by sept. To-
The grading on the sixty miles of the
Memphis, Birmingham and Atlantic, be-
tween Iupelo and Holly Springs, Miss. is
nearly finished and track laying bias COM
meuced at both ends.
The Walton Fla Signal says that the
twenty-three miles OF the proposed De
Funlak Springs and Gulf road will be
built in ninety days. Mr.. w. ID. Chipley.
lCt lCSiuCHb VI IL6 1 cHsdCOld anu "a l.
lantic, is the moving spirit in the enter
prise.
All the railroads centerng in Chatta-
nooga are doing an enormous freight
business for the present season of the
year. The shipment of grain, lumber,
iron and watermelons has been unusually
large during the entire summer.
Chief Engineer W. 5. Green reports
that the Georgia Midland and Cult road
is surveyed from Columbus, Ga, to
Locust Grove, and That the contractors
are pushing the work. About thirty
miles OF grading is completed and track
laying is to begin in August.
The East Coast Railway and Steamship
Company of Florida proposes the con
struction OF a railroad from TItusville,
BreVard county, through Dade county to
! Turtle harbor, Monroe county, distance
! of 80 miles. +. A. Protois, G. F. Smith
| and Il. G. SammIs are the incorporates.
The Queen and Crescent route will prob
! ably withdraw from the Ohio river South
ern pool, and this will certainly precipi-
| tate trouble, as the Louisville ana Nash
vile people would pursue the same
course, ana the two lines would then be
free to fight it out. Both, doubtless, have
the inclination,
Grading is in progress on the Atlantic,
! Greenvlle and Western road, which is to
| run from Greenyllle, ). g., by way of
| NInety-siX and COkesbury to the Savan-
| nah opposite Augusta, Ga, a distance OF
100 miles. President Hammett states
that the Dad can be built complete at a
| cost OF $4,000 per mile.
Track 10 reported laid on the Savannah
! Valley road to within ten miles OF Ander-
son, 5. c. The road commences at Nc
! COrmick, on the Augusta Il Knoxville
road, aud is to run to Anderson. dis.
lance OF 5S15 miles. OF this tive miles
| were laid In 1889. so that about As miles
have been laid this year.
The Jacksonville Herald saws that after
| Aug. l the Jacksonville, Tampa and Kew
West railway will reduce its schedule
time between Jacksonville and Sanford
from five to three and three-quarter
hours At that rate tho MORNING NEWS
! will be in the hands OF its readers in
South Florida by dinner time.
The Railway Age publishes this extract
from letter from W. ii. Ferguson 4 Co.
railroad contractors: 1--WE nave graded
some twenty miles of our contract on the
| savannah, Dublin and Western Short
Line, and have some thirty miles now
under way. We hope to complete the dis
lance OF 10 miles from Savannah 10 Dub
lin by Oct. l."
The rates on provisions to points south,
carried by the Chicago roads to the Ohio
river and thence to Memphis, have been
cut from % cents down to Is cents per 100
/ pounds, and promise to go lower. The
roads out OF Kansas City, which partici.
pate in the same business, are threaten
ing general war unless the Chicago
roads restore the rates.
The Plant City, Fort Meade and Lake
Worth Is the name of the new Florida
company which proposes to construct a
railroad from Plant City, HillsbOro coun-
ty, southeast to Fort Meade, Polk county,
and thence TO Lake Worth, Dade county.
The incorporators are j. A. Simmons, j
4. Robson, Hamilton Disston, w. +.
Burts ana {. b. Wilson.
The cost of transporting one passenger
or one ton per mile has practically re-
manned the same on all roads in Great
Britain during the past twenty years. On
New York roads the cost has decreased
81 per cent, and on Pennsylvania roads
70 per cent. within that ume. Five
hundred and nifty Americas locomotives
on the Pennsylvania railroad do as much
work as :, 41O engines on the London and
Northwestern railroad.
> ;. Y. VanPraag, or the Pensacola and
Memphis railroad, says that the pros
poets OF the road are most Gathering. The
books are now open, and some liberal
/ subscriptions TO stock have been already
taken. The entire line TO be built by this
company viii be $40 miles, and the esti-
mated cost is $4,000 per mile, making "A
little over SjOO0O for the road. OF this
sum the company asks the business men
and property holders OF Pensacola TO SUBJ
scribe SO, 900 in stock