The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-04
RAIL AND CRO3STIE.

One of the results of the heavy freight
movement Of the year is that the car and
locomotive builders are fuller of orders
than ever before.
The Galveston Wharf Company is now
engaged in remodelng their docks and will
construct brick and iron piers at an aggre-
gate cost of 81, 800, 900, the work to be CON-
pleted in three years.
Some idea of the large increase in rail-
road construction in Texas may be gathered
from a comparison made by the Galveston
Ne1os in its trade edition. 1t says the mile
age of the state In 1859 was 1851 miles,
while the present mileage is 9,14S.
Mr. George T. Work, president of the
street car company, says the Macon NetUs,
is now negotiating with the Thompson
Houston Company for four more motors.
They will be of thirty-horse power each and
will be able to haul two cars at q good rate
of speed over any grade in Macon or its
suburbs.
The Georgia, Carolina and Northern rail-
way of the seaboard Airline is now open
TO Clinton, S. c., distance Of ninety-one
miles from Monroe, and will be opened for
bushes to Greenwood (119 miles, by Sept.
Is. At Greenwood this line will tap the
Port Royal and Western Carolina of the
Georgia Central system, which will give
them a connection to Augusta, Ga.
The Raleigh, N. c., NeVs says that Col
A. B. Andrews, second vice president of the
Richmond and Danville railroad system,
has been in Stanly county looking after the
building of the Yadkin railroad. Eight
hundred hands are at work and by spring
the road will be completed from Salisbury
via Albemarle to Norwood, near the Poe
Dee and Rocky rivers, a distance of forty
one miles.
The Birmingham Ne1cs says that the
Georgia Pacifc's new shops are going up
with rush. A large force Of men are at
work on the grounds and things are begin
ming to assume definite shape very rapidly.
The contractors are now at work on the
new office and storehouse building, which is
well under construction. A new round
house and three large shop buildings will
also be erected. These will all be under
construction within a week or two.
West and south of the tunnel, in Walker
county. Ga, the Chattanooga Southern
railroad has twelve miles of additional
track ready for the iron. The west side of
the tunnel is over $50 feet in, and the work
progressing rapidly. 1t was expected that
the boring Of the tunnel would reveal some
good coal veins, but 60 far none have been
met with. though bituminous shale, CO.
existent formation. is plentiful. and they
may yet strike the coal. The work mas
been delayed somewhat by considerable
deposits Of, flint which destroys tie edges Of
the cutting tools very rapidly.
The birinin CHAM Age says: In railroad
mileage Alaba ma is the third state in the
south, being ex ceeded by Texas and Gsor-
gia We are happy In the prospect, how
ever. that during the next twelve months
Alabama will decrease Georgia's present
lead of nearly a thousand miles. The next
twelve months will likely see the compile
tion of saveraI huudred miles of new rail-
road track in Alabama. The Montgomery,
Tuscaloosa and Memphis, the Savannah,
Americus and Montgomery, the Chatta-
nooga Southern, the Tennessee and Coosa
River, the Decatur, New Orleans and
Chesapeake are all under way now. The
three BIS il being extended from Gurnee to
Bessemer, the Alabama Mineral srom 5yla-