The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-02-20
THE AUGUSTA DIVISION OF THE
THREE C'S
Contract Awarded and Work to Begin ut
Sewberry in Ten Days.
Special TO the Grrrnvillc News.

Sewberry in Ten Days.
Special to the Grccnrillc News.
BI.ACkSEvRG, :. c., Feb. l7.-Tht
contract for grading on the line of the
Augusta division has been let TO Ralph
Jones, capitalist and contractor of
Knoxville, Tennessee, and Burrel
Blanton, OF Shelby, y. &. These gen
tlc,uen will begin grading at ewberry
toward this place in the course Of ten
days, and intend reaching Blackshure
III six months.
Why the Three C'si Going to Port Royal
Special to the News and Courier
COLUMBIA, February 14.-Col. r. \.
Johnson, general manager of the Char
lesion, Cincinnati and Chicago Rail
road, left the city to-day, having con-
cludcd his conferences with the con-
tractors who have been crowding about
his hotel during the several days Of
his sojourn here.
Before he left Col. Johnson told a
representative ofThe News and Courier
that he had agreed with firn of con-
tractors upon the terms and prices for
the construction of the line Of the Three
C's from BIacksburg to Newberry, that
large portion of the line would be
completed by January l, 1891, and the
remainder in eighteen months from
March l, proXimo.
The contracts have not yet been
signed, and Col. Johnson did not at
this time desire to have published the
name Of the firm who will do the work,
but said that the members oft were
men Of large means and experience.
The Bureau understands, from another
source, that they are Tennesseeans.
These statements are confirmatory of
the probabilities telegraphed by the
Bureau on the night of Col. Johnson s
arrival.
Referring to the interview with a
gentleman we'll up in railroad matters,
published in The News and Courier
after the appearance Of his views in
regard to extending the Three C's to
Port Royal, Col. Johnson said that it
told only the "old, old storyn that
"there is no place like Charleston, "
and that Charleston cannot be ignored.
He had been very much impressed,
he said, by the possibilities of Port
Royals future, and had been led to
think seriously Of it as terminus for
his road by a consideration of its ad-
vantages as port for the South Ameri-
can and West India trade, which the
three Cs would have to stimulate in
order to secure return freights to the
West. The excellence Of its harbor, its
superior Accommodations for vessels, its
equal advantages with Charleston as a
distributing point for South American
and West India trade, the fact that he
could get good terminal facilities there
free of cost, besides material assistance
in building his line there, and the
further fact that he would have the
local business from Newberry to Port
Royal particularly without competi-
ton, while upon going to Charleston
he would be in competition with the
South Carolina and Northeastern rail-
roads, were all reasons which influ-
enced him in considering the Port
Royal extension favorably.
Npl. JoluSOl SdIu ludI III luet 1uIee
Cs should be built to Port Royal a
branch would doubtless be extended to
Augusta in course of time. The route
of the division from BIacksburg to
Newberry would be via the iron mines
and the Thousand Islands water
power on Broad River, and through
the town of Union, crossing the Geor-
gia, Carolina and Northern Railroad
between the Tiger and Enoree rivers.
The contractors would begin work
upon it within thirty days.