The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-26
PUSHING THE WORK.
i Hapid Kate of Track-LGying to the Great
West on the Three C's Road.
News and Courier, H4th. I

So much progress has been made re-
Gently on the Thre" C's Road that Col.
J. H. Averill Was asked yesterday by 4
reporter to give in detail the extent Of
the operations up 70 date. Col. Averiii
said Substantially:
To begin with, the business of the
road between Camden and Lancaster
has Increased quite materially and to
such all extent that ii is easy t" pre-
dict Il great future from the cncourag-
ing present. We crossed the Catawba
River OH the evening Of the 18th inst,
and un the evening uf the 2l>t the track
had reached the rr0Ssiil~O tn" Georgia,
Carolina and Northern Road, which
rams from Chester 10 MUnrUr, tW0
miles north OF the tataWha River. 1t is
expected that the track will reach VIVA;
is known rs No. is trcstle this evening.
ut this latter point there will be con-
.,tnlcd about eight days il putting up
the trcSlle. Tie track will reach Rock
Hill between the 9Th and lUtl. OF At
GU; and will be opened for traffic,
passenger and freight, about Tic Dth
OF August. This will pace SiNty-tivc
miles OF the Southern division Of the
road in operation. Thence tl;tcil-Elyin@
will be pushed Oil 10 Io:kvilic. and II
is expected tlut the rouli 20 that point
will he open 10 traffic not later than
September 20. On OF about November
the gap Of tWrutT-fuur miles between
Yorkville and Blacks will he laid with
rails, and ut Blacks the Southern di-
vision will coHnrct will! the RutheT-
ford division, which i now in opera
ton, furty-tour miles from Blacks to
Ruthtrtordton via Shelby. On the first
of November, therefore, the Three C's
will bc in operation from Rutherford-
ton 10 Camden, 4 distance of one hun
drcd ana fOrty-siN miles.
1t is expected that that the line from
Ruthcrfordton to Marion, Il distance of
twenty miles, will be completed and in
operation by February /, 1889, which
will give connection with the Western
North Carolina Railroad 1T Marion
North Carolina.
Col. .Avcriil is thoroughly familiar
with the affairs OF the Three l''S Road,
which ne represents u> we'll as the
south Carolina Railway Company.
| AS to what remains To be done to
give Charleston connection on the
Ohio River Col. Avcrill said that the
whole distance from Camden to Ash
land, KY, is six hundred miles, Ash
land being the terminus OF the road.
From Marion, therefore, there will re-
main to be completed four hundred and
thirty-four miles of track. Gen. Rosser
and Col. Matson, the well dnown civil
engineers, are actively engaged locating
the required additional lines through
the mountains; and it is understood
| that President Harris. Gen. Winder
and others interested in the enterprise
have recently returned from Europe,
| having secured funds enough to make
the completion Of the line 4 certainty.
GEORGIA, CAROLINA AND NORTHERN.
CHESTER, July 2l.-Work on this
road is going forward rapidly. The
$50, 900 bridge over the Catawba is
about finished, and is said to be most
excellent structure. 1t was built by the
Edgewood Iron and Bridge Company
Of Pennsylvania. The bridge is 400 feet
long and rests on five well built granite
piers. Trains are expected to cross the
bridge by Monday at the f;lrthest, and
then track-laying toward Chester will
begin in earnest. The road will be
finished through to Chester, it is said,
| by September l5.