The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-28
RAIL AND CRossTIE

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= hss resigned, to accept the position OF
trsI, u vardmaster of the Savannah.
gene-;.us and Montgomery railroad, at
r.. cumberland, Fort Payne and East
DiIroad will be surveyed at once. A
eI.I.r1iftee for that purpose has been APP
cOI-.sd It is thought now that the road
P2 Pm - extended from Bridgeport by Fort
parne TO Piedmont and prooaoiy -Artner.
faSbes .i ~ of both these cities named arc
Ine .oo5inglv enthusias ic over the prospect
Iii 1--WE material aid in carrying out
the project
Ca-+sr &. Rogan, contractors on the Chat
80 Southern railroad, have agents
1880 M men to work on the ROAD at Dug
looA .-,1n-l- in Georgia, twenty-five miles
st, chattanooga They want 800 men IN
- "a push the work through as rapidly
.IossihlA. The Chattanooga Southern
IS posI h,,iIt through to Gadsden within the
wiz few months. 1t is coming with O
mighty rush.
pa-tias from Pittsboro report the acct
- drowning IN the Chattahoochee river
49, ..a1ro named Dan Harris. The negro
% Q aattsched to the surveying corps Of the
Se-,arnah. Americas ana Montgomery road,
A1b;cb was engaged III making soundlngs
81 Locating q bridge across the river. Har-
r;s and number Of other men attempted
go rrSS
W " - overturned, and Harris was drowned.
All of the other men escaped.
Tho contract for building the Mont
r,arv Tuscaloosa and Memphis railroad
s;d,a over the Alabama river has been let
" " ~ Phoenix Bridge Company. The road
~ - taan Graded and the work of laying the
.rocr will be commenced in few days. As
W" a. ae tine track is laid the bridge material
III III ha delivered and the work of con-
M
s pa rcad is nearly completed the entire dis
taDce between Montgomery and Tuscaloosa
A Union. Is. c. special says: The grad
;,- If the Augusta division of the Three
re rairoad is being pushed rapidly. The
eor+ractors are doing good work and wher
he road is completed it will have one OF
re hest beds of any road In the south.
Wsssrs Ormand and Goforth, who have
he contract through the town, have moved
mere hands and camps -FOUR miles ABOVE
hoe having finished up below. It il
.bonoht the road will be ready for the
isv,ng of rails in few months The com
- Maid its hands a few weeks ago, leav-
mo them behind only two months.
We have lately heard of dangerous frac-
,nres of new steel rails on two different
-osds one east and the other west, says the
p1iIrond Gazette. The fracture starts il
he tiange, goes up through the web, and
i hen follows along under the head Of the
ali for a foot or two before breaking
t5rourb. One rail is fifty bon; the Other
K hard. but we do not know just tbs
smonnt of carbon. In both cases the rails
ara new and of particularly fine finish. They
were made at different mills. The mill men
are as much at loss TO explain these frac
lures as are the railroad engineers.
At called meeting of the town council
Of Allendale on Sept. 19, the following
resolution was unanimously adopted
Whereas. The liquor license fee of Allen
dale as regulated by the ordinances of tn,
town has been fixed at the sum of S1,675
and whereas Mr.. T. H. Johnson, Jr., has
offered to pay a license fee of 81, 5O(
IN the town to enable the town \tl
subscribe $1,000 to the common stool
of the South Bound railroad as an
inducement to the South Bound railroad
to adopt the Allendale route. Whereas, the
citizens of Allendale have presented petit
ticn to the town council recommending the
said subscription, therefore be it resolved
that we, the town council of Allendale, dc
hereby subscribe the sum Of 81 900 to the
common stock of the South Bound railroad
to be paid out of the said town Zee as fol
lows: One-half when the South Bound il
completed to the town OF Allendale. the
other half when it reaches the town Of
Barnwell.
The RGu1CGy register says: The south
was among the first to enjoy rail trans
portaton after the iron horse made its adj
vent in this country. Still, it was not long
ago that, in speaking of the railways of the
United States, the southern lines were men.
toned incidentally as of only secondary i'm
portalce. But change has come. Grad
ually, almost imperceptibly. it progressed.
Little by little the small lines of the south
were amalgamated and extended. Systems
# grew in geographical extent and financial
importance. New industries contributed
additional traffic, and for some years past
| tie south has led the rest of the country in
E the extent of its new railroad construction.
7 But the roads of the south have not only
taken TO themselves greater Importance
Ed physically, but they have also come up to
higher level in the amount of their earn
E% lngS. For months past the southern sys.
TENS have been showing remarkable prog
res3 IN gross earnings, aud in the table Of
comparative earnings for August last. as
compiled by the financial Chronicle, 6
southern system holds second place among
the large gamers, and out of the list OF
twenty companies reporting the greatest
increase, nine are located in the south
furthermore the strides made by southern
railroads In the past few years may safely
oe taken as an index of what the future vii
reveal The impetus which has been i'm
parted Will carry railroad interests forward
WIN greater power in the future, and the
Importance of southern roads in every re-
Sp9cI viii be recognized to degree hitherto