The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-01-07
CAROLINA NEST-EAST RAILWAY.
Two Strings to Ones Bow Better Than
One.

EDITOR MANNING TI1Es:-A country store,
judiciously located and carrying well as
sorted stock of general merchandise, is 4
great convenience to community remote
from traffic lines and larger marts; and it
usually makes big money" for the propri-
etor. Two such stores in prosperous neigh
borhood are better than ore for both pro-
pretors and customers; for the lower prices
secured by competitor will lead to larger
sales, and so to greater ultimate profits to
the dealers.
As with country stores, SO with railroads.
4 single railroad isa great convenience: bat
the proprietor Of a single railroad, like that
OF the only neighborhood store, is prompted
by self-interest to put on ''all the tariff the
traffic Will bear" Two railroads, however,
like two country stores, will compete for the
traffic, and, lowering the "taritf will in
crease the traffic to such an extent that
each of the two will do a far more profitable
business than the single one formerly did
at least in the long run.
Manning, with her one railroad, is some
what in the condition Of the country neigh
borhood with a single store. Such neigh
! borhood is largely at the mercy OF her one
merchant But Manning is not Only large
! ly, she is completely, at the mercy OF her
one railroad-subject to all the possible
whims, capriceS, eXtortions and oppreSslons
of the proprietor; and II her citizens do not
suffer, it must be solely because of the pres
ent forbearance of the said proprietor-a
| forbearance which should not be expected
to last forever.
Such being the situation, what ought the
Meaningless and the whole country to do:
for all Clarendon is interested in the matter.
There is but one answer to the question:
Go to work to get another railroad.
Where should that road be located?
| A careful study of the map OF South Car
olina will show that her main east-and-west
line of railroad has yet to be built, and that
when built it must pass through Manning.
The longest west-and-east line that can be
drawn in the State is from about Bordeaux,
Abbeyille county, near the Savannah River,
to the southeast corner of the State, near
Little River Inlet. But that line is deslra-
bic neither in ternlini nor in location. To
the eye Of an engineer, the true west-and.
east railroad line of South Carolina should
begin at Augusta, Ga, on the Savannah:
themes to Manning, los miles; thence tc
Kingstree, % miles; thence to Conway, 81
miles; thence to Shallotte, \. c., 40 miles
thence to Wilmington, 32 miles-a total OF
252 miles, of which about 46 will be IN
North Carolina. The located line Will, o.
course, have to vary little-somet!mes tc
the north, sometimes to the south, according
to obstacles-fro,n the air lines indicated
but the length of the entire road when con.
structed will not much exceed, if any, %:
miles, according to the State map issued
1888 by the agricultural departme Of South
Carolina.
The construction of this road will throw
Manning on a great through route, and wi!
give her all the advantages Of such hne
1t will open a new country, make accessloi
new fields Of timber, and develop much ter
ritory now almost inaccessible.
I Next week, attention will be called to d
north AN d-suuth line.
JOIN NJ. RICHARDSON.
lIs.1. COZ