The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-22
PRESIDENT FRY TALKS.
THE ATLANTA AND ATLANTIC
ROAD AN ASSURED FACT.

ROAD AN ASSURED FACT.
The Company Has Bought the Rails
for the First Twenty Miles Of Road
way-The Surveys All to be Com
pleted by Dec. 1, and the Line
Located and Let at Once-CoL Fry
Recalls an Ironical Expression and
Says that the Road Win be Nearly an
Airline from Atlanta to Savannah
His Company Trying to Get Fifty
Year Lease of the State Road.
The surveys are being pushed forward for
the Atlanta, Atlantic and Great Western
road from Atlanta to this city. In an in
terview with a MORNING NEWS reporter
President George T. Fry reviewed the prog
ress of the work on his proposed road. Col.
Fry said:
Last week. Tuesday, a corps of en-
gineers began a survey on the lower end of
our line at Springfield, and surveyed from
there to the junction of tie Central and
Charleston and Savannah roads, near Sa-
vannah. The corps then returned to
Springfield, and on Monday of this week
it started at Springfield to survey the line
to Sylvania, thence to Waynesboro, at
which place this corps will intersect the line
already surveyed by Mr.. Wilson, chief of
another corps of our engineers"
SURVEYS THAT ARE COMPLETED.
"What part of the surveys, if any, have
been completedf"
well, that would require a going over
of the ground in a recapitulatory way The
preliminary lire from Atlanta to Eatonton
xpo Gtts- ra1 ,,,l. v.,Hio
mates all made up by Sept. last. Then
the chief engineer, Col. William II. Pryor,
made trip on HORSEBACK over the balance
of the line from Eatonton TO Savannah,
which took up the mont of September. On
Oct. corps of engineers, in
charge of Mr.. Wilson, was sent to
Eatonton to continue the preliminary
survey from Eatonton via Devereaux, in
Hancock county, to Louisville, in Jefferson
county, thence via Munnerlyn, in Burke
county, to Sylvania, in ocriven, with in
structio1s to return from Sylvania to
Waynesboro, in Burke county, and survey
another preliminary line from Waynesboro
to Gibson, in Glasc eek county, from Gibson
to Sparta, i'll Hancock county, and from
Sparta back to Eatonton, SO rs to give our
company the choice of two complete lines
between Eatonton Gni Sylvania.
THE WORK BEYOND EAToNTON.
"On the same day that Mr.. Wilson started
with his corps from Eatonton, another
corps OF engineers, under the direction of
Col. William Fl. Pryor, chief engineer, be-
gan at Atlanta the work of final location
of the line. This work progressed with a
high decree of satisfaction up to Nov. 10,
when, with a view to finish all preliminary
work on the entire line from Atlanta to Sa-
Vannah, Col. Pryor's locating corps was
withdrawn from the Atlanta end of the
linz to 4Ia 1it,,i,,
line from Savannah to Springfield, thence
to Sylvania and thence to Waynesboro."
TO LOCATE THE ROAD NEXT MONTH.
"When do you expect to complete the
surveyP
"We anticipate that by the time Col.
Pryor with his corps reaches Waynesboro
from Savannah, Mr.. Wilson with his corps
will have reac1ed Eatonton, and if the
weather continues fair, we calculate that
this will all be done by Saturday, Dec l.
When the preliminary survey Is finished
and the protiles and. S,imates made no, the
entire engineering force will he cOncen-
trated at the Atlanta end of the line and
the work of location resumed and pressed
forward as rapidly as men and money can
do it. Following the location, the work
will be let to contract and the road built"
STEEL RAILS FOR TWENTY MILES OF ROAD
SIS it fact that you have purchased
rails for any part of the roadF
YES, sir. l have bought 1000 tons of
steel rails with which to lay the firsttwenty
miles of the main line of the road and the
necessary sidetracks and turnouts for that
distance. These | bought at $32 per ton,
| delivered in Atlanta"
$50 the Atlanta, Atlantic and Great
Western road is going to be built, is it.'
Eyes, sir, it's building is assured. The
prospects for it We're never brighter. If
there had ever been doubt of it before,
that vast combination made by the Termi-
nal company removes the doubt Savan-
nah and Atlanta are compelled to have the
Atlanta, Atlantic and Great Western. The
| whole state of Georgia is compelled to have
| it, aud it is not going to be built across the
| top of Stone mountain, as was ironically
| said of it by one of the employees of the
railroad monopolists in an interview pub
| lished in the MORNING NEWS early last
| spring, but it will be built on the nearest
| possible approach to an airline between
| Atlanta and Savannah"
AFTER A FIFTY YEARS LEASE OF THE
STATE ROAD.
what about the rumor that your COM
| pany wants to lease the state road"
1.-THE rumor is well founded. A bill will
be introduced in the legislature this week
| to lease the state road to the Atlanta, At
| lantic and Great Western Railroad ami
| Navigation Company of Georgia, in order
that the people of Georgia may have the
benefit Of an ind pendent and competing
| line Of railroad from Chattanooga,
Tenn, to Savannah. This bill provides
for a lease Of the Western and Atlantic
railroad or, as it is commonly called, the
State road for the term of fifty years at
a minimum sum equal to per cent. per an
| mum upon the value of the property as APP
praised by commission to be appointed by
the governor of the state, or in lieu of
per cent, 25 per cent. of the gross income
of the railroad property, the rental to be
paid monthly. The bill provides that the
lessee company shall give bond to the
amount of 81 100000"
CALLAaAN'S HEALTH BILL.