The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-09
THE ROAD IN OPERATION
TO DENMARK.
Inspected by The South Carolina Rail-
road Commission.
The STOCKHOLDERS EXCURSION.
A Regular Schedule in Eff
feet To-day.

The South Bound railroad was inspected
by the South Carolina railway COM
missioners yesterday. The commits
sioners, E. P Jervey and II. R.
Thomas, arrived from Charleston at
noon. They were met by President Conner
and other officials of the South Bound rail-
road and escorted to the De Soto, where a
special dinner was served.
The inspection train left the Central rail-
road depot at 2:l0 o'clock in the afternoon.
The train consisted Of an engine, one OF the
new baggage and express coaches, the two
new passenger coaches, and a Central rail-
road sleeper secured for the occasion.
The new coaches OF the South Bound are
very handsome. They are painted dar X
Tuscan red on the outside. and the interior
finished In plain hard oak with red plush
upholstery.
THE MAGNOLIA ROUTE"
The cognomen of the new road, Mag
nolia Route" Is emblazoned In gold script
type on each side of the words, South
Bound Railroad" in the usual place on both
sides OF the coaches. The coaches have a
smoking compartment included as part Of
every coach, which is a new departure
holders In the party, besides the officers and
commissioners aud two or three newspaper
men. about thirty in all.
The party was as follows: Commission
ers Jervey and Thomas, President H. NJ
Conner, General Manager Geo. Dole Wad-
ley, General Freight and Passenger Agent ].
#. Babbitt and Il. NJ. Butler, r. Ellington,
]. K. Garnett, L. w. Hasksll, L. Biuswan-
ger, Isaac Minis, D. Y. Dancy, w. j. Wat
son, Frank Weldon, Maj. William Lawton,
W. ID. Krenson, L. Y. Gibbs, C.. II. VIII
cox, J. G. Rowland. J. a. Elnstein, Joseph
Hull, F. d. Bloodworth, w. S. Tison,
c. +. Prendergast, H. NJ. Boley, J. Ran
dolph Anderson and Manager &. j. Max
well of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany.
THE START OVER THE LINE.
The run to the Central railroad junction,
little over three miles from the depot, and
about 200 yards from the Charleston and
Savannah junction with the Central rail-
road, was made in q few minutes. There
the train was switched of onto the South
Bound track Eight carloads Of rails for
the completion Of ths South Bounds track TO
Columbia stood upon the track. They
were taken up and pushed onto the next
siding. number Of carloads of rails were
also seen along the route.
The first station, Wheat Hill, five miles
from Savannah. was reached shortly after
leaving the junction. station has
been built there, and there Is quite
country settlement around it, mostly of
small houses. From Wheat Hill on TO the
Savannah river the road runs through fine
farming country with fine crops of corn,
sugar cane, rice and potatoes.
FINE FARMING COUNTRY.
A great deal of upland rice was seen, and
anumber of luxuriant fields of cane. No
thte cida Of fho ah
river. The soil is rich black loan, splen-
didly adapted to truck farming.
AT Meinhard, eleven miles from Savan-
nab, number Of improvements have been
made and several new houses are being
erected.
AT Rincon, eight miles further on, neat
depot has been built. a general store, post
Office, and a saw-mill.
Almost every station along the line has
one or more saw-rnills in course of erection
or in operation. The road il insured a
large amount of freight from this source.
Turpeutine farming is being extensively
carried on on both sides of the Savannah
river, and the new line will bring con-
siderable amount OF naval stores into Sa-
vannah.
The Savannah river was reached at 8 AS
o'clock. Several heavy washouts occurred
on the Savannah side during the recent
rains, but they had been repaired.
THE SAVANNAH RIVER BRIDGE.
The train ran over on the bridge, and
stopped to give the party a chance to in
spect the bridge. 1t is entirely of iron
resting upon stone piers, and 500 feet in
length. The center span is $50 feet long,
and the shorter spans upon each side
of it are 125 feet each. The bridge
spans the river at right angles. Capt. o.
NJ. Carter OF the United States engineering
corps, who inspected it some time since.
gave 1t as his opinion that the bridge is a
very safe one. In this opinion Commission
ers Jervey and Thomas concurred. The
center span is draw and steamboats, can
pass upon either side of it. There are abb ut
5000 feet OF trestle work on the South
Carolina side, beginning at the bridge.
rendered necessary by the swampy condi-
ton of the land there.
The first cotton field was seen on the Car
olina side, near the river, and was almost
hid In the woods.
THE ROAD IN FINE CONDITION.
The roadbed upon the South Carolina side
is in fine condition, and good time was
made, a speed of as high as thirty miles an
hour being attained. The distance from
Savannah TO Denmark, ninety-one miles,
was made in four hours, including all stops
pretty good time for a new road.
The road after leaving the river runs
through pine country for some distance,
with occasional fields Of cotton and corn.
After leaving Fairfax, the Port Royal and
Augusta railroad crossing, sixty-five miles
from Savannah. the country becomes more
open and the fields of cotton and corn more
frequent. 1t is evidently an older farming
country and very fine one.
THE CROPS ALONG THE ROUTE.
The corn along the route is generally
very good, but the cotton is just the op-
posite in many instances While there are
some fine fields of cotton, there is a great
deal of it very small and all Of it badly
affected with rust. the result Of the con-
tinuous August rains. The cotton pickers
were out in the fields gathering the staple
and number of bales were seen around
the farm houses awaiting shipment by the
South Bound.
Tie train reached Denmark, the crossing
of the South Carolina railway, at 6:l5
o'clock. The road is completed nineteen
miles farther, but this was the terminus Of
the trip. for lack of time to complete the
whole distance.
The party left the train and strolled up to
the crossing to see the express bound for
Charleston pass.
THs OLDEST AND YOUNGEST.
The Oldest and the youngest railroads in
the United States cross each other at Dem
mark, the South Carolina railway