The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-01-15
RAILROAD RACKET.
The Florida Railway and Navi@a-
lion Company TO Build NOrthWard.
Bainbridge Democrat.


Last SUNDAY : Atlanta Constitution publishes
a lengthy article disclosing the partially manred
plan TOR he putting upon The railroad cat cilcr-
board another vast railroad system tor Georgia,
from which the following plans are CLEANED:
Tie proposed system is to begin at Chatta-
nooga Tenn. and running south tap Rome and
Carrollton indeed this much Of the system is
already built and in operation A surveying
corps is now in the field locating route thence
south to Columbus GA, where it will connect
with the new road now being built from Albany
to Columbus forty miles being already graded.
At Albany the system will connect with the s.
F. & w. and the B. & w. railroads, and ocean
connections at Brunswick and Savannah.
AT the northern end of the line the system will
connect with the Cincinnati Southern at Chat
tanooga, and give Albany connection with Gin
cinnati The interesting part OF the proposed
system, however, locally speaking, is embraced
in the following extract from the CONSTITUTIONS
article:
But better than this is offered. The Florida
Navigation Company which owns $50 miles of
road in Florida is anxious TO get an outlet in the
West independent OF Mr.. Plants roads. 1t pro-
poses TO build line from Quincy, Florida, to
Albany TO meet the Williamson system that
proposed) there. When this line is built, the
new system will have an unbroken line from
Cincinnati to every important point in Florida,
through Chattanooga, Rome, Columbus and
Albany Over the Brunswick and Albany lines
it will have direct route from Cincinnati to the
sea.
"The Florida Navigation company must COM
plete TO Albany to meet this new system, or re-
main with its $50 miles OF Florida roads at the
mercy of its rival the Savannah Florida and
Western system. To get entire outlet from
Florida aud thereby make It's business indepen-
dent, this road must build to Albany, and there
connect with this new system. 1t is only sew
enty miles, and easily built, and it is stated as
fact that as soon as Mr.. Williamson and his
friends make it plain that they intend to go to
Albany, the Florida Navigation company will
begin to build to meet them
The line here proposed by the Constitution,
like most lines paper, looks pretty, fstraigh',
but herein lieth the difficulty-so far as the con
nection with the F. r. & N. is concerned in our
opinion. That the F. r. &. n. people are de-
termined TO get a western outlet we have no
doubt but we believe they will seek 1t nearer
home than Albany, and the Constitutions pro.
posed system.
from Montgomery. Ala, which will be done
within the year 1889, the F. r. s. n people will
get all they can hope to acquire by going to AL
bany-and more-by coming to cambridge, and
do it too, by building only 20 miles Of road. A
connection with the Midland here will put them
within It's miles of Montgomery, whence they
have connection with Cincinnati and the North
ern Middle States, and with Kansas City and
Louisville and the great Western granaries-
the store house of the world. The cambridge
connection with the Alabama Midland will
shorten the route into the heart Of Florida over
the F. r. & n. r. R., materially, for passenger
traffic, from and 10 the West, and make the Balm
bridge link of the F. r & n as great thorough
fare into Florida as the Waycross Stort Line has
ever been for the S. F. & w. 4 r. and will de-
velop and bring into prominence. at once, as
beautiful, fertile, and God favored a section of
country as the American continent can boast or
show-a section, large part of which will pro-
duce $500 per acre in tobacco per annum, rich IN
timber and in all agricultural resources.
Instead OF building from Quincy, however, the
more feasible route would from Tallahassee,
whence there is already projected road south
ward, tapping and developing one OF the most
valuable sections of South Florida. Tallahassee
is keen for this connection, and year ago pro-
posed to build the road TO the Georgia State line
it cambridge would meet them there The
building OF the Alabama Midland, with its North
ern and Western connections, as already out
lined make this connection all the more desir-
able and necessary, and we predict lis construc
ton by the time the Alabama Midland is COM
pleted to Montgomery; or within the year 1880
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