The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-02
RAIL AND CROSSTIE


On the Teunesses aud Coosa road five
miles of track have ben laid north of
Alfalfa, and the road will be completed to
Guntersville by Jan. l.
The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
has received three Locomotives from the
Rhode Island Locomotive Works, said to be
part Of an order for twenty-five.
| The United States circuit court, at Tyler,
Tex, has ordered the sale of the ST. Louis,
Arkansas and Texas, to take place Oct. %.
The road is to be sold for not less than
g., 0O0, 200.
The Kansas City Car and Wheel Com
| pany has rec lived an order from the Louis
VILE, New Orleans and Texas for 800 freight
cars, and from the Kansas City. Fort Scott
and Memphis for $50 cars.
| The TalIahatchie branch of the Louisville.
New Orleans and Texas has just been COM
pleted- 1t extends from Clarksdale to
Mlnter City, forty miles, and traverseS a
rich cotton growing country.
1t is said that Supt. A. Griggs of the
Alabama Great Southern division of the
| Queen and Creseent will shortly be ap-
pointed superintendent of the Cincinnati
Southern division, in place of Supt. Clark,
who, it is expected, will resign.
| Tracklayng is in progress on the line
from Cumberland Gap easteriy to a connec-
ton, Va. 1t is expected TO open the line for
traffic in February, and possibly earlier.
The tracklaying was begun July 10.
Joseph Coyne of Louisville, KY, has re-
ceived a contract for the Napier branch of
the Louisville and Nashville, which is to be
built from Summerton, Tenn, TO property
of the Napier Iron and Manufacs urlng
Company. 1t will DO eleven miles long.
The officers of the Tombigbee railroad are
securing the right of way between. Moulton
and Decatur, Ala, and subsidies have been
asked of several of the towns. They claim
that grading will begin about Jan. on the
line between Columbus. Miss, aud Decatur.
Rutledge Ware: The railroad survey of
the Central line by the way of Luverne was
completed last Saturday afternoon, and it
( Is found to be most admirable route. In
stead of being three miles further than the
original line, it is found to be only two, and
on safer and more practicable line. The
difference in the cost of construction will De
paid by the people Of Luverne If this line is
adopted.
Grading is nearly completed for the Sec
| ond track of the Norfolk and Western from
Roanoke west to Radford, Va, a distance
of thirty-two miles. and on twelve of the
| fifteen miles between Bluefield and Blue
stone Junction, Va, on the New River
division. Tracklaying has already COM
menced on these sections, and it is expected
TO have the forty-four miles of track in
operation in six or eight weeks. Nearly
5000 men are reported at work.
The Vernon Courier says: Mr.. C. E.
Rodenberg of the Tombigbee railroad was
in town Sunday. He was on his way tc
Columbus, after having worked up the right
of way and donations over the entire line
from Decatur to Columbus. He reports
everything booming along the line, and that
the right of way has been secured nearly
all the way. Decatur and Morgan county
came to the front with liberal offers. Moul-
ton and Lawrence counties drop in $4,000
Marion and Winston are much enthused
The Railroad Gazette says that on
the Georgia, Carolina and Northern
the tracklaying was finished last week tc
Clinton, S. O.. about ninety miles southwest
of Monroe, n. c., the northern terminus
The track has also been laid from Green
| wood northerly toward Clinton for dis.
lance of about fifteen miles to point neal
the Saluda river. The iron bridge across
that river and across the other streams
north of the Savannah river are being
| erected. The grading has been finished a.
far ssthe Savannah and the track will prob
ably reach Abbeville next,month. The dis
lance from that point To the Savannah river
is twenty-five miles. Altogether about
1000 men are at work on the line in South
Carolina and Georgia.
President Thomas Of the Nashville, Chat
tanooga and st. Louis railroad has ordered
a survey from Lebanon to the line of the
Cincinnati Southern railway, to ascertain
the cost of building an extension from
Lebanon, distance of ninety-one miles
This would bring Knoxville within III
miles of Nashville, saving of eighty-si1
miles as compared with the route by Chat
tanooga The Nashville, Chattanooga anc
st. Louis Railway Company would like to
purchase the Nashville aud Knoxville rail
road, but the figure asked for the property
is considered too high. 1t is possible thai
the Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis
company may parallel the Nashville and
Knoxville. TfacKlaying is in progress on
the Pike vile extension of the Chattanooga
road, al t, aims will be running to Pike
vile by Dec. l.