The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-05-27
Advance of the IRON EH0rsc
Correspondence Of the News and C"mjr,)

(CorrcWondrncro Of the News and C",D.j2)
Troy, May 13 The delegation
from this place to the Carolina, Cum
berland Gap and Chicago Rail Rout
meeting at Greenwood to-day has ius
returned. Col, r.. T.. Bowen, Of Pick
ems, acting president, and Mr. Hcnn,
Bonner, of Duo West, secretary, were
present.
The report Of Mr.. SrhoGcld, the fl,
nnncial agent of tho company, who
has been i'll New York, London and
Scotland for some time in the interest
OF the rail road company, WAS very fn.
vornble. He reports that foreign cap
italists have been interested sufficient
ly to invest $500, 900 in this, tho
biggest railroad enterprise in the
United States. Nh Benson, the
agent Of the London Banking Cnmpa-
ny, is now in Knoxville, Tenn, and is
going over the entire line. We can
certainly hope to have the line c0mplc.
ted rs fur az Edyctcld Court Hnusc
by December I, commencing at
Aiken.
This line shortcns the distance hv
rail hatweenth Grcnt interior citic;
OF Louisville, Cincinnati and Chicago.
and the ports Of Charleston, Port Roy
nj and Savannah by $50 to 1871 miles.
No other lire competing with This one
can be constructed, for it occupies the
only available gaps in the Cumberland
and Blue Ridge Mountains. The Lou
isville md Nashville system, the only
one which by any possibility could be
considered at all competitive, is urg-
ing and assisting in its construction.
1t opens up the largest area not cross
ed by n railway in the Unitcl States
east Of the Mississippi River. Il be-
Rinson the north IN the fumo.s Blue
Grass region ofKrntucly, crosses and
opens up to mar'.e,s the mrcnt bitmni-
nous and camel coal fields Of eastern
Kentucky; passes through the ada
cont and extensive hcm1titc iron orc
beds of Tennessee (now without either
coal or markeD and from the foot Of
tho Blue Ridge in North Carolina to
the cities of Aiken and Charleston Cts
southern tcrminD it passes through
the finest cotton and tobacco territory
in the South. The hitlnniuous and
camel coal fields of Kentucky exceed
in area the entire PENNSYLVANIA cooI
fields or the entire coal area of C1,cof
Britian. Ten thousand square mi)As
Of this coal including the largest arco
of camel conl in America, are crossed
and supplied with an outlet to market
by this road SO valuable is this coax
ing coal along its line that Prof. Proc.
tor, the State geologist of Kentucky,
says that it can be hauled to Birming
ham, Alabama, and there compete
with local Goals for use in iron and
ste1l manufacture; but an abundant
market awaits it in Louisville, Cincin-
natl and neighboring cities on the
north, in the adjacent iron ore fields to
the south, in the United States naval
st,tio1l and coaling yards at Port Roy
nj, SO, and in the demands for ship
ping at Charleston, Port Royal and
s ayannah. Aside from the coal and
il on ore trafc the route passes through,
iii the States of Kentucky, Tennessee
end along the French Broad River in
North Carolina, the finest bodies of
hard woods, (such as black walnut,
hick6ries, ash, yellow poplar, cherry,
birch. &c. left standing in the Uni
ed States, so far as known. Already
ai spg arnounts of Scotch capital arc in
sseste in these timber lands.