The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-09-21
B00NE'S BLACK DIAMOND.
Coming Stes! Trunk Line, Proiec.
ted In the Interest of Low
Grade Railway Syst.m, by
Colonel Albert e. Boone,
of GAINESVILLE. Ohio


Colonel Albert E. Boone,
of GAINESVILLE. Ohio.
MIR. EDITOR: The time is upon us
when every one, old or young. who
claims to have an interest in Anderson,
the interest of the Black Diamond
Railroad. AS has been stated before,
let me repent, 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, voIupt,,ous
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 Gnul under
subjection to Rome.
1t takes wOrll-untiring wOrk-to
lay out and construct Il great railroad
afterwards, the scheming manipulation
conceived tho 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-
bilitty for manipulators to buy up inter
in the interest of present combination,
whereby completion will be stranglcd,
and, therefore, it is utterly imprnctica-
BILE and unheard of. Col. Boone has
not projected his system in the interest
Of existing railroad combines but in
the interest OF the people in the sec
tions through which the road will run.
The Dover (ky.) Neps, Sept. Is, 1898.
outlines the objects of this system MS
follows:
"All lines laid out with IL special OBJ
ject i'll view, viz: TO develop the mines
OF raw materials i'll the country ira
versed and to find n market for them,
as we'll 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 2 snasylvazia, 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. coruhdum, kaolin and manga
nese, i'll addition to passing thorugh
oceans of hardwood timber.
''The line through South Carolina will
pass through the heart Of the Cotton
Belt and will tap tho great Phosphate
(Bone) Deposit at Port Royal, S. G.
''The Black Diamond System of Rail
ways is destined to be the great coal
system OF the continent. 1t will touch
the Atlantic Senboard at three points,
c., and Savannah, Ga. It will not
stop construction until it has it's own
lines into Pittsburg, Wheeling, C0lnm-
bus, indianapolis, Peoria, Louisville,
Cincinnati, Chicago and Fargo Moor
head.
cit will cross cut every Trunk Line
oust anu wo6U u v.i1; n.iesissiPpl 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. G., with
branch lines into the scaports of
Charleston, 8. c., and Savannah, Ga.
1T. will be built upon q 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 doing
the work. This is the plan the older
corporations always adopt to cripple or
place at their mercy new railway
Here we have it in a nutshell SO to
speak.
One man said: "Well, maybe after
all when Boone gets his plans all laid,
such SUI M remarks I % are onIy I8e thinkime go Of what what
they would like to do if they had the
opportunity.
In the first place, believe Col. Boone
expects to make some money. If he
did not, then he is not like the rest of
the American ne0nle. for all nra after
the Almighty: dollar. Yet there are
some who will not botray q trust for
money. If the people in Ohio, Ken
standing behind Col. Boone, as we nre
led to believe by their action, there il
not o line with which Col. Boone's sys-
tenn will come into competition, would
be able to put up enough money to buy
of Col. Boone and his associates.
In the second place, there is some-
thing better than money in store for
Col. Boone upon the completion Of this
great mass of the American people.
there is that noble feeling and sense Of
honor that inspires every one who con-
ceiveS q great undertaking to press