The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-19
OFFICERS ELECT.
OTHER RAILROAD WORK.
sCHOFIELD's RAILROAD PLANS BEGIN TO
TAKE SHAPE.
Prospects of the Building of the Car
oIina. Cumberland Gap and Chi
cago Railroad --- The Country
Through Which the Road Runs.
Nc,CS and Courier.

Ncws and Courier.
TROY, Nay 13.-Thc delegation from this
place to the Carolina, Cumberland Cap and
Chicago Railroad meeting at Greenwood TO.
PicEe acting president, and Mr.. Henry
Bonner, of Due West, secretary, were present
The report Of Mr.. Schoticld, the hnan ciaI
agent of the company, who has been In New
York, London and Scotland for some time in
the interest of the railroad company, was
very favorable. He reports that foreign capi.
talists have been interested sufficiently to in.
vest $S,5OO,O0O in this, the biggest railroad en-.
lcrprise in the United States. Mr.. Benson,
the agent of the London Banking Company,
is now in Knoxville, Tenn, and is going over
tho entire line We can certainly hope to
have the line completed as far us Edgrticld
Court House BY December l, commencing at
Aiken.
This line shortens the distance by rail be.
tween the great interior cities Of Louisville,
Cincinnati and Chicago, and the ports nl
Charleston, Port Royal and savannah by 13O
to l57 miles. No other line competing with
this one can be constructed, for it occupies
the only available gaps in the Cumberland
and Blue Ridge Mountains. The Louisville
any possibility could be considered atall com.
pctitivc, is urging and assisting in its con-
structi0n. 1t opens up the largest area not
crossed by railway in the United States east
of the Mississippi River. 1t begins on the
north in the famous Blue Grass region Of Ken.
lucky, crosses and opens up to markets the
great bituminous and camel coal fields OF
eastern Kentucky; passes through the adja.
cent and extensive hematitc iron ore beds OF
Tennessee (nOw without either coal or mar
ket) and from the foot Of the Blue Ridge in
North Carolina to the cities of Aiken and
Charleston (itS southern tcrminD it passes
through the finest cotton and tobacco terrific
ry in the South. The bituminous and camel
coal fields Of Kentucky exceed in area the en-
tire Pennsylvania coal fields or the entire
coal area of Great Britain. Ten thousand
square miles Of this coal, Including the larg
est area OF canncl coal in America, are crossed
and supplied with an outlet to market by
this road. So valuable is this coaliins coal
along its line that Prof. Proctor, the State &C.
ologist of Kentucky, Lays that it can be haul
ed to Birmingham, Alabama, and there com.
pete with local Goals for use in iron and steel
manufacture; but an abundant market
awaits it i'm Louisville, Cincinnati and neigh
boring cities on the north, in the adjacent
iron ore fields to the south, in the United
States naval station and cOaling yards at Port
Royal, s. c., and in the demands for shipping
at Charleston, Port Royal and Savannah
Aside from the coal and iron ore traffic. The
route passes through, in the States OF Ken.
lucky, Tennessee and along the French Broad
River in North Carolina, the finest bodies o
hard woods (Such ts black walnut, hickorieS
ash, yellow poplar, cherry. birch. &C., left
standing in the United States, so far rs known
Already large amounts of Scotch capital are
invested in these timber lands