The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-25
COLUMBIA TO SAVANNAH
COL. NIKE BROWN REVIEWS THE
BLACKvILLE INTERVIEWS.

lie Doesn't Want Any Combinations
With Antagonistic Systems-Anen-
dale Will Respond Liberally-The
Two Routes Contrasted - One Is
Through the Woods and the Other
Through Live Towns.
The MORNING News of yesterday set
forth very fully the respective claims of
the railroad committee from Blackville and
the town of Barnwell, represented by Col.
Mike Brown. The Blackville committee
returned home Friday night, but Col. Brown
remained over until noon yesterday, when
he was summoned home by telegram an
nouncing his wife's illness.
Before he left Savannah, however, Col.
Browns attention was directed to the claims
of the Blackville committee, and he said
their statements ought not to go unan-
swered In an interview with MORNING
NEWS reporter he said:
The Blackville committee, consisting of
DR. Lartigue and Messrs. Farrell and
Mlxsou, whose scheme is to run a road from
Blackvllle to Hampton, or some other point
on the Port Royal road, and expecting TO
reach Savannah by the Port Royal road
and the Charleston aid Sa annah road,
cannot but result in the detriment of the
mercantile and agricultural interests of the
community. Its combination is with two
systems, whose interests are antagoniStic,
and their combined interest would be
against us.
WANTS TO REACH SAVANNAH
while there is no objection to friendly
combination, it is only desirable when it
can be had with a system whose interests
are i'll harmony with ours. Our merchants
fn will haE
tried in vain, under the present system, 20
do So Savannah is barred out from us in
consequence of the railroad combinations
now opposing us. 1t is therefore essential
that we come direct, or combine with one
of the systems which promises us direct
connection with Columbia on the north and
Savannah on the coast.
The Blackville committee would have
done well to have compared notes before
submitting to be interviewed for the MORN
ING NEWS. The plans of DR.. Lartigue and
Mr.. Mixson conflict, both as to route and
connections. 1t appears, however, that one
OF the important features of their purpose
is 90 exclude from connections some of the
principal towns en- route, viz. Barnwell.
banking town and the county seat, with
1900 inhabitants. ALendale, another very
important town whose advancement only
awaits seaport connections, which the Old
systems deny her
READY To RESPOND LITERALLY.
''She isready to respond literally to the
aid of our road that she may b. put on an
equal footing it'll the outside world; Law
tonville, in Hamilton county, which speaks
for herself b. offering to open her purse.
and the country ad jacent and along the line
promise their time, labor and land to aid
our road.
Il have noticed very carefully that Peter
Brown and p w. Farrell do not support
Mr. Mixson's statement that $50, 900 can be
raised in thirty minutes in Biackville to
bottle up a road thai starts without a be-
ginning and ends at worse than nowhere
The real policy is to bottle up the trade of
South Carolina so that Savannah is pro-
hibited from sharing in it. We cannot buy
goods al Savannah and we cannot ship
cotton to Savannah.
1T d ,e' not take unveiled ewes TO foresee
the results Of building a road through an
unhealthy and largely unsettled territory
that after going thirty-three miles falls into
the arms of a system VIII CHI is not interested
IN it further than to fix its own freightS
THROUGH LIVE COUNTRY.
ION the other hand our road contern.
plates passing through live and active
towns now ready to furnish large business
and between which lie immense tracts of
virgin timber and fertile soil only await
ing an outlet to put the hoe and plow to
work to produce rich and remuneratlv
harvests"
Col. Brown, in conclusion, said, "my con
ference with the leading business men of
Savannah has been perfectly satisfactory,
and will lead to an early beginning of the
work which will open the very heart of the
trade of South Carolina to Savannah, for
il opens the way for Columbia, Kaolin
Mines, Blackville, Barnwell, Allendale and
lawtonvile to get TO the seaport, and not
be at the mercy of one system OF road
Savannah ought to take as much interest in
an Independent road that opens field to
her which she cannot now draw from"