The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-11
GETTING RlGHTSOF WAY.
TIE MIDDLE GEORGIA AND AT
LANTIC PUSHING THINGS.

The Survey Completed from the City
Limits to the Little Ogeechee, ana
Grading 70 Begin in Ten Days-Gen-
eral Manager McEvoy Says the Road
will be in Operation Between Sa-
vannah and Atlanta in Twelve
Months - The Railroad Situation
Growing Interesting.
General Manager McEvoy Of the Middle
Georgia aud Atlantic railroad, who is stop
ming at the De Soto, has been a busy man
for the last two days.
In an interview last night with a MORN
ING News reporter, Mr.. McEvoy said that
the Middle Georgia and Atlantic manage
ment is not anxious to appear in print until
it builds the road, and then, if tits consii-
cred good road, and is made of the best
material, it would like to have the news
papers say so, and that is the kind of road
the company is building. Iron bridges and
seventy pound steel rails are the kind of
material which is being used.
SECURING RIGHTS OF WAY.
Mr.. McEvoy started a surveying corps of
sixteen men, in charge of Civil Engineer
Bennett, day before yesterday morniug at
the point where the Charleston aud Savan-
nah railway crosses the Ogeechee road, and
the corps reached the Little Ogeechee river
last night. All rights of way. Mr. McEvoy
says, have been secured that far from Sa-
vannan, except from one party who Is 10
be seen to-day. The line is projected north
westerly, and will pass through plantations
owned by A. Minis. A. w. Harmon, Col.
William Garrard, Joseph Z. Grant, Jacob
Cohen, Charles Tallaferro, and George >
Owens.
1t is intended 10 let the first division of
the road at once, about 81 miles, and r. t.
Martin, a wel-Hnown North Georgia rail-
road contractor, is here looking after the
work.
TO BEGIN GRADING IN TEN DAYS.
Mr.. McEvoy says that in less than ten
days the work of grading will be begun at
this end Of the line, and trsck-laying will
also be prosecuted from this end, the rails
10 be brought by steamer 10 Savannah from
the north.
A force of 800 men, Mr.. McEvoy says.
is working on the Covington end Of the
line, aud when the track is laid from Eaton
ton to Covington the track-laying force
will begin at Eatonton and work this way.
TO BE BUILT IN TWELVE MONTHS.
In answer to a question as to what APP
proximate time has been discussed for the
completion of the road he replied that it is
expected to complete the entire line Of 232
miles, from Atlanta to Savannah,
within twelve months, and he
explained that railroad building
now, with improved machinery. is not
what il used to be, and he added that the
Middle Georgia and Atlantic road is to be
built as they built roads in the west, with
all the yigor and rapidity of construction
that improved facilities enable the work to
be done.
TO BE A SOLID ROAD.
AS it takes no more time to build good
road than a poor one, the roadbed and
track will tie of the best construction and
material.
Mr.. McEvoy says that the Savannah,
Macon and Birmingham will form a juno
ton with the Middle Georgia and Atlantic
road somewh here in Emanuel county, as
already stated in the MORNING NEWS, and
the line Of the Middle Georgia and Atlantic
will not take in Milledgevilie or Sparta.
Col. Machen, president of the Middle
Georgia and Atlantic. is expected in Savan-
nah tomorrow on business connected with
the enterprise.
General Manager McEvoy said that he is
not apprised of any arrangement between
his line and the South Bound where it will
use the South Bounds terminal facilities
He said that as matters now stand the Mid
die Georgia and Atlantic is an independent
venture and Is seeking its own terminus
here. The capital is behind it to push il
forward and ne believes that the entira dis
lance 232 miles, viii be laid with heavy
seventy-pound steel rails within the time
specified.