The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-07
"AND SOUTHWARK WE Fled
A Columbia Newspaper Mans Trim
over the South Bound

over tne south Bound.
a correspondent Of the Columbia STATE
writes breezy account of his first trip over
the South Bound. Leaving Columbia be
paints the trip like this:
The train rolled RAPIDLY aeross ~. a gr.c.-
tul bridge of the Charlotte. Column bia ana
augusta railroad. The Congaree-in n
present. Condition as green and clear "a the
oWannanoa at Asheville -purled softly over
ana among the brown rocks that dotcei NJ.
oosotn' apparently finding peace in the
knowledge that Its waters, az times 40 pre0-
haht with danger 10 the lowlaad planter
along us banks. would at no distant dav
perform through the Columbia canal a
sIels industrial mission. which, in the
soou accomplished, shonld atone for the
devastation erstwhile caused by is swell
ing food. - 40
JUST over the river "Cassy'sn is called in
.. lnatVef-ot-course way as If the first station
S Un an American railway, like the first no.
hcehan on an American force, should bear
al lrlsn name, and The South Bound defects
from tne RichmOnd and Danvilie line at an
angie OF %. And now thu sandbeds of Lex
lnsCon county are under and all around
US; we pass through fields or dwarf
co.'oh plants, bearing heavily for their
slze, however, with here ami there broad
cocKspurs aud petlicoat grass. The laoorerS
VINO nave just completed their work on the
Soau' nave no. yet sought other fields. and
lof several miles after leaving Columbia
eneiF camps, with more or less dirty tents.
ars passed frequently.
The country presents little Of interest. hut
the train moves quickly over the steel rails.
aA9 lttle more than an hour after leaving
Columbia We cross the south fork OF the
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mere the lands seem more fertile. the cotton
stalks are larger and sturdiar and the corn
neid' brlstle with the ripe ears of
the yet ungarnered grain. Nearing the
vicinity OF 9rahams. on the South Caro-
INA railroad, we traverse one of the test
agricultural sections Of South Carolina
peopled by progressive farmers, Rushine
on we cross the South Carolina road. and
denmark! !" is proudly called by the brake
man. Denmark AN embryonic city, soon
70 have the railroad shops of the South
b0und' palace hotel aud many
other desirable things, but now a
city OF magnificent distances and-mag-
nitcent pines. Lots and strests are
married out In the virgin forest, among
stately pines as yet unsullied by the rayish-
ing touch OF the turpentine farmer. In this
Denmark there il not even a suspicion of
uecay-she's too young; but, as the Junction
OF TWO great railways, in the center of q fine
agricultural country aud with abundant
timber near at hand, her future develop
ment is assured.
southwark. Leaving AllendRle five miles
to the right, we skirt the historic Bull
Pond" township, the quondam habitat of
Coon Darling aud Angus Patterson Brown.
and with long whistle from the engine
Fairfax, the junction with tbs Port
Royal and Augusta railroad, is reached.
As we pass on through fertile
fields toward the Savannah river, we whirl
across the treacherous "Duck branch" and
in few minutes reach Estill, the nearest
station to the famous LaWronville settle
menk The farms hereabout are beautifully
worked and the thrift apparent on every
side recalls the "beauty spot" section Of
Marlborough county.
Leaving Garnett, the last station on the
Carolina side, we plunge suddenly into the
great Savannah river swamp. the river is
very low and taking advantage thereof,
lumbermen are seen telling big Expresses
and irving them up into shingles. Here and
there knoll rises to a considerable hight
cut of the swamp and over these elevations,
giant white oaks spread teeir limbs and
strew the ground with overcup acorns,
which on moonlight nights the deer travel
miles to feed upon.
The swamp is several miles wide, but the
river at the railroad crossing is but 500
yards across and is spanned by a beautiful
and substantial steel bridge. The trestIe-
work on both sides, although supported on
round piles with the bark on, is apparently
very firm, and the track is laid two or three
feet above the highest point ever reached by
the waters OF the Savannah.
Across the river the growth changes. The
pines are rougher- harked and the ground liz
thicklv covered with wiregrass and the saw
palmetto. Every one seems busy in Geor-
gia, however, and the houses aud gardens
look clean and we'll kept. The sugar cane
patches grow larger as we 60 farther south,
and a cloud of blackbirds rising into the
pine tops from the stubble of newly har-
vested rice field indicated our approach to
Underwater.
About four miles from Savannah the
South Bound track runs sharply into that
of the Georgia Central railroad, and on
their track we enter the busy city OF Savan-
nah. Clouds of smoke from the machine
shops and cotton congresses hang over the
city and out to the left, along the wharves
of the Central and Richmond and DanviIIe
systems, the masts Of ocean steamships and
sailing vessels are as thick as the trees in a
dense forest.
At II 80 o'clock a. m. central time) Just
nVe hours AFTER leaving the Columbia
junction, the initial southwark bound train
on the South Bound, rolled into the Cen
trails passenger depot.
A word az to the South Bound: The road
is uuquestionably the best for its age ever
built in South Carolina. It's snoothness is,
for a new road, remarkable. At speed Of
forty miles an hour thers was very little
lateral motion and its curves are very slight.
The line runs slraightaw way to the souJh
almost as the crow flies, and the grading is
perfect.
Mark the prediction, that, next to the
completed canal, the South Bound will ban
eft Columbia more within the next five
years than any other agency, more than
her most sanguine citizens have even
dreamed of.
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