Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-12-22
THE THREE C,S RAILROAD.

JOHNSON S1TY, IENN., NOVEMBER ZU.-
EARLY last summer wrote you from Ashe-
Vile an authentic statement of the plans,
as far as matured, of the Charleston, Gin
cinnati and Chicago Railroad Company. I
arrived here this morning to commence a
journey. across the territory that the road
will traverse from this point to the Ohio
River.
The need of an air line railroad of low
grade between Charleston, on the Atlantic,
and the Ohio River, has long been apparent
to business men. The construction of such
a road would have been attempted fifty
years ago if the money could have been
secured to pay its cost. Capitalists could
not see any possibility of dividends from the
business such road would do, and gave
decided negative to all who sought their
assistance. The discovery of the vast
wealth awaiting development in the noun
tains of Eastern Kentucky and Western
Virginia has given a new direction to capi-
tai, and made the construction of such a
road certainty.
Ashland, on the Ohio river, is in the heart
of the famous Hanging Rock region, where
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Some years ago the Chatteroi Railroad was
built from Ashland down the valley to the
Big Sandy River, for fifty-one miles into the
unlimited splint coal fields. Ten miles south
there are vast deposits of camel Goa, extend
ing to the Virginia line. In the same dis
trict are inexhaustible veins of rich specular
and hematite ores. The Charleston, Cincin-
natl and Chicago Company has purchased
the Chatteroi Road and incorporated it into
its system. 1t is now extending that road
into the region referred to, and will, by the
first of March, have twenty miles finished
and in operation, thus carrying these GOALS
and ores to the Hanging Rock furnaces, and
to Cincinnati and other Northern markets.
At the other end of its line it has conn
pleted the stretch between Blacks Station,
on the Charlotte and Atlanta Air Line Road
and Shelby, and is laying the rails between
that place and Rutherfordton. Work will
be pushed with all possible rapidity on the
southern end of the road from Blacks Sta
tion, via Yorkville, Rock Hill and Lancas-
ter to Camden, South Carolina, the county
seat of Kershaw, where connection will be
made with the old South Carolina Railroad
and by it with Charleston.
Johnson City is thriving town, incorpo-
rated by the Legislature in March, 1885. 1t
has now a population of $500, and is the
seat of considerable trade. The East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad pass
es through it, and the narrow gauge Gran
berry Road terminates here. The town has
number of common schools, seven church
es, a large tannery, using annually about
$3.50, 900 In its business; the most complete
modern built and fitted foundry and ma
chine shop in the South, and several small
industries. There are two weekly papers,
the Comet and the Enterprise, which contrib
ute much to the life and enterprise of the
borough. Present hotel accommodations
are not up to the standard of the town in
other respects, but there will soon be
change for the better in this respect. The
citizens are hoping that the "three C's' rail-
road will pass through here, but that matter
has not been decided definitely by the COM
pany. Whether such be the case or not,
that railroad will give this people cheap coal
and enable them to manufacture Cranberry
iron into many forms of hardware.-B. s.
p, in the Manufacturers Record.
w. B. WILSON, JR., AND THE EARTH
QUAKE BILL.-In the House on the 9th in
slant while the Bill relating to the re-assess-
ment OF real property in the counties of
Charleston, Berkeley and Colleton was un-
der discussion, Mr.. w. B. Wilson, Jr., of
York, moved to strike out the enacting
clause. The Bill is intended to relieve the
people Of the above counties who suffered
by the earthquake. 1t provides that the
assessment on property damaged by the
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