The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-09-21
BOONE'S BLACK DIAMOND.
lhe Coming Steel Trunk Line, Proiec-
ted in the Interest of a Low
Grade Railway Systtm, by
Colonel Albert E. Boone,
of GAINESVILLE, Ohio.

Mr.. EDITOR: The time is upon us
when every one, old or young. who
claims to have an interest in Anderson,
should stand shoulder to shoulder in
the interest of the Black Diamond
Railroad. AS has been stated before,
/ let me repeat, millionaires will lend
money to honest people with which to
build railroads. All they demand is
security for their money and interest.
They, themselves, plan not, neither do
they build railroads. 1t takes the
great struggling masses to build great
Industries.
1t was not the idle, rich, voluptuous
Senators, who conceived the possibility
of bringing Gaul under the Roman
power. 1t was Caesar, the maligned
| leader, backed by the solid Roman
phalanxes, who made roads through
| inaccessible mountains. bridged turbu-
lent streams, and brought Gaul under
subjection to Rome.
Tt takes wOrk-untiring work-tO
Law out and construct great railroad.
Formerly short lines were built, and
afterwards, the scheming manipulation
conceived the idea Of combination,
whereby the few have been made
enormously rich at the expense of those
who had constructed roads. Col. Boone
proposes to reverse the order OF rail-
road combinations. That very fact
makes his scheme impractical. Yes,
impractical! 1t will be an impossi-
bility for manipulators to buy up inter-
mediate lines under Col. BoOne's plan,
in the interest of present combination,
whereby completion will be strangled,
and, therefore, tits utterly impractical
BILE and unheard of, Col. Boone has
not projected his system in the interest
of existing railroad combines but i'll
the interest of the people in the sec
tions through which the road will run.
The Dover (Ky.) NcwS, Sept. Is, 1898,
outlines the objects of this system rs
follows:
Cali lines laid out with a special OBJ
iect in view, viz: To develop the mines
of raw materials III the country tra-
versed and to find q market for them,
as well as to tap the, grand bearing
grain fields OF the Northwest, especial
ly those of the valley OF the Red river
of the North, which alone ship upwards
of seventy million bushels OF wheat
annually.
"The lines are laid out especially to
develop the great coal basins OF South
western Pennsylvania, Northwest sec
ton of West Virginia, Southeastern
Indiana, Eastern Kentucky and East
Tennessee. The North Carolina and
Georgia lines will be great mineral
producers for such as marble, granite,
copper, sulphur, tale, iron ores OF all
kinds, cornhdum, ka0lin and manga
nese, in addition to passing thorugh
oceans of hardwood timber.
"The line throughSouth Carolina Will
pass through the heart OF the Cotton
Belt and will tap the great Phosphate
(Bone) Depositat Port Royal, S. Z.
ssThe Black Diamond System OF Rail,
ways is destined to be the great coal
system OF the continent. 1T will touch
the Atlantic Seaboard ut three points,
viz: Port Royal, S. c.; Charleston, 5.
c., and Savannah, Ga. 1t will not
stop construction until it has its own
lines into Pittsburg, Wheeling, Colum-
bus, Indianapolis, Peoria, Louisville,
Cincinnati, Chicago and Fargo-Moor-
head.
at will cross-cut every Trunk Line
east and west of the Mississippi River,
any one Of which will be glad to an
interchange of traffic. -,
"The Black Diamond Lines will also
connect Lake Erie at Fairport Harbor,
Ohio, and Lake Calumet, an arm OF
Lake Michigan, at Hammond, Ind;
with the sea at Port Royal, S. c., with
branch lines into the seaports of
Charleston, S. c., and Savannah, ga.
'It will be built upon a maximum
grade, not in excess OF sixty six feet to
the mile, thereby enabling it to trans
port its traffic at rates no other rail-
wsy corporation could afford to make,
should an attempt be made to destroy
the Black Diamond in its infancy by
reducing rates to actual cost OF dong
the work. This is the plan the older
corporations always adopt to cripple or
place at their mercy new railway
enterprise"
Here we have it in Il nutshell so to
speak. ..
all when Boone gets his plans all lald,
he will sell out.' People, who make
such remarks are only thinklnS0f what
they would like to do if they had the
opportunity.
In the first place, believe Col. Boone
expects to make some. money. III ne
did not, then he is not like the rest OF
the American people, for all are after
the Almighty dollar. Yet there are
some who will not betray 4 trust Tor
money. Ii the people in Ohio, Ken
lucky, Indiana and Tennessee are
standing behind Col. Boone, us we are
led to believe by their action, there is
not Il line with which Col. Boone's sys-
TEN will come into competition, would
be able to put up enough money to buy
off Col. noone and his associates.
In the second place, there is some
thing better than money III store for
Col. Boone upon the completion OF this
system. Be it to the credit OF the
great mass of the American people.
there is that noble feeling and sense OF
honor that inspires every one who con-
ceives u great undertaking to press
forward to the mark. Not only does
money await him at goal, but q crown
of everlasting honor. Col. Boone's
money could be easily dissipated and
scattered to the four winds, but the
honor of success would be u fortune no
winds of adversely could destroy.
Let no one suppose for a moment that
Col. Boone would undertake to barter
away his opportunity for Il few dollars.
When Horace Walpolc uttered the
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