The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-05-15
THE NEW TRUNK LINES.
Progress of the Work on the Three c.
and the G. c. & Y. K. K.
Gorkville Enquirer.

ing G the line, which includes the I
Augusta division. He will arrive here
to-day and 90 by private conveyance
Oh tour of inspection over the line
from Blacksburg to New5erry. The
position he fills is separate and distinct !
from that held by Col. Molesworth. !
who is chief engineer of the Three C's |
Railroad company. General Manager ,
Johnson has ordered work OF the !
Augusta division pushed as rapidly as !
possible. The resident engineer, Mr.
Noble, has reached Broad river, and is
now engaged in sounding the river TO r
bridge piers. The bridge will be five
spans Of $50 feet, the centre pier resting
on Eagle island. The line from Broad
river to Blacksburg will be carefully
revised and relocated before work is
commenced on it. The building of this
line will add eight and a half miles
more to the mileage of railroad in
Cherokee township, that being the dis
tance from the Broad river crossing to
Blacksburg.
PUSHING THE WORK IN VIRGINIA.
Southwest Virginian.]
The Three C's railroad is certainly on
a boom, if one is to judge from the loud
reports of blasting, which come from
it all along the line. The work seems
to be pushed as fast as human skill and
labor can push it, Work is being done
all along the line and the grade is
finished at many places. Track-laying
has commenced on it this side ofJohn-
son City and the day is not far distant
when the train will pull into st. Paul.
LOOKING TOWARDS PORT ROYAL.
Augusta Chronicle.
A prominent railroad official says
that the Three C's is working in reality
towards Port Royal via Augusta; that
the engineering hand and fertile brain
of Col Frank Coke is beneath and be-
hind the plan and that in close SYM
pathy with his work ale the Apple
tons, his felloW-townsmen, of Philadel-
phia. There is now after all that has
been published of the route and adj
vantages of the road clear under
standing of its aim and scope. Modern
rail-roading is tending every day to-
wards minimum Of time required in
transfer and short direct cuts to destina-
tions.
This line, it is proposed, will make
the artery from the Ohio Valley to the
finest port on the Atlantic coast that
will when largely owned by those in
terested in the road) be developed to its
fullest possibilities.
THE G. c. & y. X. r. MOVING BRISKLY
ALONG.
1Abbevile Press and Banner, lst.
The cars now run to the Tiger river,
six miles west Of Fish Dam, or about
twenty-four miles this side OF Chester.
The track was finished to Fish Dam
! last Monday week.
There will, of course, be some delay
in putting Up the bridge across the
Tiger.
We believe the grading is nearly
finished from the Tiger to the Saluda.
Coming this way from the Saluda,
all the work has been finished, except
Immediately under the tracks OF the
G.. & G. and the a. & K. roads. The
piers are now going up, and it is thought
that work will be finished by this day
week.
The frog for the joining of the A. & *.
with the @. 6. & \. was put IN last
Friday evening, some three or four
miles this side Of Greenwood.
The construction force arrived Oh the
same evening and pitched tents.
About twenty miles OF iron IS now at
Port Royal waiting shipment, and 4
train load of it was expected to arrive
at the frog Friday night, when the
construction force would Immediately
commence the work Of laying the
track.
The track runs parallel with the A.
& X. road about four miles, this side
of Greenwood.
The cross ties are already on por-
ton of the track.
Iron will be laid from the junction or
frog toward Greenwood, the track
LAYERS expecting to reach Greenwood
by the time the track is ready, when
the iron-laying force will proceed to
the Saluda, without interruption, and
in time to have the bridge placed in
position by the time the track-laying
force from Chester reaches that point.
While the bridge builders are putting
the bridge acrOs the Saluda, the track
LAYERS will return and lay track this
way, making ready for the putting IN
Of the bridges at Gull Tail and Long
Cane creeks.
The supposition is, that the track
will be completed to Abbeville by the
time the track is finished from Chester
to Saluda, so that when the train on
the eastern end of the line is ready to
cross the Saluda the track will be in
readiness for it to proceed right along
to Abbeville, when it will be hurried
westward to Little River.
Another company of track-layers Will
soon begin work from the Savannah
Valley road, some fourteen or fifteen
miles west Of Abbeville. The graders
have been ordered to make preparation
for connecting the two roads. This
connection is made for the purpose Of
expediting the track laying and bridge
building. Coming this way from the
Savannah Valley road few miles
Little River is reached, where the stone
piers are going up and by the time the
track-laying from the east side of the
Savannah Valley road reaches the river,
the rock masons will be ready for the
bridge.
In the meantime the track-laying on
this side of that river will be pushed
westward.
With two track-laying forces now on
the line, and with another soon to 60
to work the public may expect rapid
work in Abbeville and Laurens coun-
ties. Many hands make light work.
The grading force about Abbevllle is
making reasonable progress, and it is
thought that all will be finished be-
f.,-o the first of August. With track
levers coming from both ends OF the
line they would need to hasten. The
grading east from the Fair Grounds to
Long Cane, four miles, is light, and
the hands are already at work.
OPENED TO FISH DAM.
Especial to Charleston World
CHESTER, May 1.-The railroad COM
missoners have to-day made an lnspec'
ton of the section of the Georgia, Caro-,
lima and Northern railroad from West
Chester to Fish Dam. In this section Is