The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-09
PUSHING RIGHT AHEAD.
300 HANDS AT WORK ON THE
MACON AND ATLANTIC. ..-

! MACON AND ATLANTIC. ..-
The Macon, Dublin aud Savannah
Nearly Com Dleted to Dublin, and a
Connection to be Made There With
! the Macon and other
! Connection to be Made With the
| South Bound Near Savannah-Th9
New Road Giving Boom to the
Country 1t Travsrsss -Ls ~
The Macon and Atlantic railroad appears
to have recovered from its recent entangle
msnt through the failure of the Macon
Construction Company and to be on its feet
again financially. Parties who have re-
Gently returned to Savannah from Macon
and the section of country traversed by the
line of the Macon and Atlantic report that
there are 800 hands at work upon the road
between Dublin and Pineora, and that rapid
progress is bsing made.
A gentleman in the city from Emanuel
county yesterday said to MORNING NEWS
reporter that large number of hands are.
at work between Brewton AMI Stillmore.
THE NEW ROADS CONNECTIONS.
1t is understood that the Macon and
Atlantic will connect at Dublin
with the Macon, Dublin and Sa-
vannah railroad, which has nearly
completed its line from Dublin to Macon,
and that it will build toward Savannah to n
connection with the South Bound at some
point in Chatham county. In this case the
Macon and Atlantic aud the Macon, Dublin
and Savannah would be operated on one
road.
The little town Of Statesboro in BullOch
county appears to have good prospects of
becoming a railroad center. 1t will be one
Of the stations on the Macon and Atlantic
when that road is built, and the Middle
Georgia and Atlantic railroad people have
about decided that they will run
their road on an air line from Savannah to
that point. This will give Statesboro
splendid connection with Savannah and the
outside world, which is all that is needed 70
make hourlshing town OF it. 1t is said,
however, that the Middle Georgia and At,
laltic will build TO Statesbor1, and that the
Macon aud Atlantic will then come in on
its track, auc perhaps the South Bound
also. This would save the construction of
about forty miles of track.
KEEP RIGHT ON BUILDING.
The tightness OF the money market ap-
pears to have had but little effect upon
railroad enterprises in which Savannah is
interested, though it seems TO have retarded
railroad building in other parts of the Goun-
try.
The South Bound will certainly be ready
for business within thirty days with the
best equipped railroad that was ever built
in the south.
The Seaboard Company, owning the
Middle Georgia and Atlantic railroad, is
pushing its subscriptions, and there is every
prospect that with an easy money market
it will, at an early day, give Savannah
short line to Atlanta
1t IS an open secret that the Savannah,
Americus and Montgomery railroad is
moving everything to build into SaYannah
from Lyons.
A gentleman. speaking OF the change In
the attitude Of the people of Savannah
toward new railroad enterprises, said yes.
terday 1t is due to the fact that they now
have no financial interest in the Central
and the Savannah, Florida and Western
railways
NOT TIED DOWN.
When the stocks of these companies were
held by Savannah people no encouragement
was given to building railroads which we're
likely to interfere with their business. That
selfish policy retarded the prosperity Of the
city. The growth Of Savannah during the
last five years was largely owing to the
Central and the Savannah, Florida and
Western railways changing hands. The ex-
tension or these two roads into new territory
by their new owners has brought more busI-
ness to the city, and their release from their
allegiance to them has left the people free to
aid other railroads seeking outlets on the
sea coast.
The devotion of the people of Savannah
to the Central was the cause of the building
of the Macon and Brunswick railroad, now
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia,
and the Port Royal railroad. This DON
cluded the gentleman, has all been changed
and Savannah. by its liberal subscriptions
to all public enterprises, is fast outstripping
all other seaboard cities.