The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1889-10-09
4The Rews.*
By {. [. RAINEY,
TIE COLUMBUS SOUTHERN.
4 Letter From Treasurer Clifford b.
Grimes GIUne SIRIUS and Prospect
of Early Completion.

ers to the stock of the Co.umhus
Southern have not responded gen
orally to the call for their subscrip.
ton, laboring under the apprehen-
sion that the road would not be
completed to Albany.
Mr.. L. E. Welch. Cashier Of
the Commercial Bank, has hand
ed US the following letter for pub
location from Mr.. Clifford B. Grimes
Treasurer of the Columbus
Sothern. 1t gives such informa-
ton and assurance as orr people
have beer anxious to receive.
Mr.. Welch says that he trusts
that the subscribers, uIler these
assurances, will come forward and
meet their obligations.
CoLUMBUs. Ca, Sept. 80, 1889
Rr. L. E. Welch, Cashier, Albany, Ga
Dear Sir: l am in receipt OF
your favor Of recent date in refers
cnce to your collection at Albany,cfI
account OF the Columbus Southern
subscription notes. / regret, ex>
ceedingly, to hear that there is any
disposition on the part Of your poo-
pie to delay the payment of these
notes, as they should uuquestion'
ably be paid promptly.
Our contractors. the Chatta'
hocchee Brick Company, have faith
fully carried out, up to the present
time, each and every obligation
reating upon them in connection
with the road. They have borne
the whole burden OF the road
throug j S very darkest and most
uncertain moments without COM
plant and without assistance from
Any source whatever. They have
done this with a loss of fully 500,
600 staring them in the face and at
the time when there was any ques-
ton as to the ultimate completion
of the road, they did not call upon
the subscribers Tor one cent of their
subscriptions, although there was
at that time fully so per cent. Of
the notes due, according to the cons
ditions of the said notes. Things
have now progressed to the point
where there is absolutely no human
possibility ofany failue to comn'ate
the road.
Over so miles Of the road is now
grlGed, 16 miles of the track is laid,
and the grading force and the track
forces are engaged with al the
energy that it is possible to be
brought to bear in pushing each
department of the work to an early
completion.
The iron for the entire road has
been bought, and 60 per cent. Of |
it is now along the line of our
road and in our yard at Columbus. |
The contract TO furnish cross
ties for the entire line has been let,
and a large proportion OF them dc
livered along the line.
The trestles iron Columbus to
within ten miles Ct Richland are
now about completed. and the
contract tor the erection of the
trestles between Albany and Daw-
sou is in the hands of Mr.. B. H.
Hood, of Dawson, and is b;ing
pushed forward as rapidly as is in
power.
We have bought, and paid tor,
and have in our possession 5 first
class new locomotives, 40 fiat cars
and 20 box cars, and the road will
certainly be completed early next
year, and will be fully equipped
and ready for business, beyond all
doubt, by the LIST of March, 1890.
Our contractors have carried all
this expense within themselves up
to the present time, and until re-
Gently have not called upon the
subscribers for one cent; but they
have ROW reached a point where
they assure lis they need the mon
CIV for these subscription notes, on
which they have counted on col>
lectiug beyond a doubt, and fall
ure on the part o the subscribers
to pay their notes promptly miy
result in some embarrassment to
the contractors, and thereby de-
feat the completion Of the road at
as early a date as they had hoped
for. The contractors have not se>
cured one cent from the Secre-
taries of the company up to this
time, and only a very small per-
centage of the subscription which
is now long past due, and | feel
that it is due them thai all the
subscribers shoull take into cons
sideration these facts, and come
forward ard pay their notes in the
same good faith that the contrac.
tors have carried out their part Ct
the agreement.
We will have a good, substan,
tial, well-built road, in every re,
spect, aud the citizens of Dougher
ty county will derive probably al
great or greater benefits from i
than any county through which il
Iuns, and re do hope that you
with the aid OF Col. Tilt, win i'm
press upon your people, the i'm
portance Of meeting their engage
ment without further DELAY.
We much prefer that The note
s.iould be collected through you
tank, butunless we find that you
collections are better within th
next few weeks than they hav
been up to this time, we will of ne