The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-19
RAIL AND CROSSTIE.

There is considerable talk in Carrollton
Just now over the prospect of building a
new raiIro ad from Csrrollton to Marietta.
The Savannah and Western division of
the Central railroad of Georgia has re-
celved four beautiful new coaches from the
Ohio Falls Car Company at Jacksonville,
Ind. The cars are of the latest improved
order.
A Knoxville director of the West Point
Terminal contradicts a story that the Queen
and Crescent system had not been secured
by the East Tennessee. He SAYS the con-
tract aforesaid has been secured and will be
managed by the East Tennessee. In rail-
road circles it is said that the two great sys-
TENS are being managed as one.
The Birmingham Nel0S says: "a gentle
man who has just been down on the line of
the Macon and Birmingham railroad, in
Speaking to NeICs man this morning about
the progress of the work on that line, said:
The company has 1900 men and 600 mules
at work grading and laying track between
the Alabama state line near LaGrange, Ga.
and Savannah. The most of them are at
work between Macon and Savannah, but q
good crowd are engaged on this end of the
line. In short time the construction force
will be grading in Alabama. and coming on
rapidly toward the Magic City,"
Col. e. G. Machen of the Macon and At
lantlc road thus discussed to a reporter day
before yesterday: There was
convection in my MUD"
said Mr.. Machen, that this country was
growing 50 rapidly that the line was i'm
peratively demanded by the increase of
business on the one hand and the certainty
on the other that great city growing at
the rate of Atlanta, with live. sagacious.
active, tireless merchants, would not leave
themselves dependent solely upon one sys-
tenn of roads TO get to the sea. Sta istics
show that the great STA ole crop of this
country seeks the shortest route to the tide
water Atlanta is to great too be without
the shortest possible line that can be built,
and If it were not built this year,
1t would certainly come in the very
near future from necessity. The reasons
why it will be sustained are
matter Of interest to the people of Atlanta,
for it not only opens up new territory to
them, but the economical theory upon which
it is being built will enable the owners to
give the public good servics and rates in
proportion to its cheapness of cost. "Since
the war liquidation in almost everything has
taken place. The cost of material has been
reduced and engineering science has pro-
gressed until to-day railroad can be built
at so much less than heretofore that the
people who are interested in this ENTERPRISE
believe that, combined with this present.
day cheap building, the shortness of the
line and the wealth of the country through
which the road will run will make it
profitable, even if the road is forced to
do business at one-half the present
cost OF transportation in Georgia 1t is pro-
posed to build this railroad at the very low
est cash cost, so there will be no water to
squeeze out Of it. Water has been squeezed
out of the price of cotton, coffee, sugar. cal
leo and almost everything else but railroad
stocks and bonds, and it is almost uniyer-
sally believed in Georgia that the public is
paying too much for transportation, and
the time has come when, it we didn't build
this road, somebody else would. The time
has come when transportation rates will be
fixed upon the basis of the actual cost of
railroads, and not upon a fictitious valua-
ton. This road is going to be built with the
belief that it is better to have the public
working with it than abusing it.
1t there is enough ability in
the management to keep it in har-
mony with the public, that will be done
There has been an idea abroad that Geor-
gia had ali the railroads she either needed
or wanted. I have pledged my friends
that this is one line that is absolutely neces-
sary which is yet unbuilt. | have assured
them that they will meet the cordial SYM
pathy and cooperation of these people to
an extent that they do not believe, and will
not believe, until they meet them /;
that the time is ripe for the building of
this road, and that it has become a public
necessity. And | want to say to you here
what have said to them; that if they
don't build it Atlanta will Nobody has
been asked for money in Atlanta to aid
in this enterprise. The gentlemen are
abundantly able to build it alone, but am
delighted to state that in the most unex-
pected quarters gentleman have come to me
and said: 'Machen, we desire to Join you
not only with our sympathy, but with our
money Ole ofthe most sagacious and sue
cessful business men in Atlanta told me to-
day that he was ready, if it was agreeable
and desired, to put 100000 along with these
gentlemen who are coming. A combination
OF circumstances not necessary to mention,
but familiar to every business man in
town, will make him a sympathizer with
this project, regardless of who builds it, so
that it is known to be an independent enter
prise coming here for competitive business.
as this does"