The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-05-23
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Tha N-ws and Courier, Of l3S5 Thurs
dav. says II mas been grud many years
slDce anyihing Tx III a:UlV!ty I3ic
nas prevailed recently na' breH n +u-
ifes:.d III CnArl-s Gu railroad ntfalTs.
re iIteres' in he r~c-n' 5a!a Of III
South Carolina Railway and Tpe NOR"
recent formation OF th- South Cal0ilna
Ani G~orgla r .llfodd Company has, u
course. beeu universal and vetQ absorb
ing. In the furry which has aifeGGed
these events sight has hem DralaIy
lost OF s0ma oih6r N ,t%erS |Gic1 are
Of great Importance TO Charleston. Re
Gently there mas been SADd deaf ot
talk about one company or another b.
ing orgauiZed to build d road between
Charleston and Augusta. The first
rumOr Of this effect originated ia
Augusta. 4 dispt tth from tha. city,
which was published scma time aSr in
The News and Courier, stated that the
Louisville and Nashville systems lad
soma IDEA Of purchasi"g the Port Roy
al and Augusta Road, aGd OF building
a line 1909 Fairfax 10 this city. For
a while fhis scAem3 was pretty eE'en
sivelg discussed, and created co.,
considerable comment IN more
than one section of the c0un-
try. Interest in such project S
now very yividly revived by certain
statements which were m2d3 yes erday
The facts given came from reliable
sources and are worth consideration.
A gentleman who did not want lis
name given, but who said his lnf0Tma-
tion was thoroughly reliable, SAID to a
Reported: "Were you aware that at
this very moment the Atlantic Coast
Line system is engaged IN making
preliminary surveys for a line CT road
between this city and Augusta? It Is
fact. ana you will be perfectly safe
in making the statement: AS | under
stand the matter the Cost Line people
have been thinking about this project
for some time past. Their idea is to
build road from Ashley Junction IN
as straight line as is practicable to
Augusta, and they now have out d
party of engineers making survey for
such route. The Coast Line never has
much to say about its own business,
but when it makes up its mind to do 8
thing it generally loses very little time
In doing it. 1t is a powerful system, with
practically unlimited means at its COM
mand, aud it can very easily build this
new road if it has a mind to-" Anot-
her gentleman who knew the facts
which are stated above said: My idea
about it is that the Cost Lice is very
anxious to gat into Augusta. That
system has been restive ever since it
was shut out of participation IN a
very rich Georgia tarfie by the loss OF
the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Road. The management has never
ceased to cast around for some means
of recapturing the territory thus lost.
| have been Informed that the surveys
foe the Charleston and Augusta road
are actually being made at the present
time, and as take it there is something
more than mere talk in the scAem-.
The Coast Line is al ways on the alert.
1t Is always reaching out in one direc'
tlon or another The Wilson Short Cut
was no sooner f0ished than the Den
mark extension Was begun, and now
that Lae Dsnm lrk Road is being c0m-
pleted it will not be icng before you
will see the CoastLlne laying another
track. II il is not between Charleston
and Augusta It will be somewhere
else"