Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-11-24
Inspection Completed.
[From the Dover (Ky.) Nows. I

liioih oiic hONOl kNys) NcWB.
Tho following wo tako from tho Gin
cinnati Enquirer of November 10th:
"The officials of tho Ohio, Indiana and
Kentucky divisions of tho projected
Black Diamond hallway system gathered
at tho Grand Hotel yesterday to meet
Sir Thomas S. Tancrcd the distinguished
civil engineer and railway expert, who
has returned to tho Grand from his in
spection of all tho lines of tho contom-
plated system. Sir Thomas submitted q
brief preliminary report. which, while
not mado public, is understood to be
worry favorable as to tho feasibility of
constructing tho road and its earning
capacity, Judged from tho resourcoful
regions through which ii would run and
its terminal facilities at Port Royal Har-
Dor, S. G., on tho Atlantic soaboard, and
at Columbus, Ohio, whore it would con-
noct with the Nickol-Plato system. Sir
Thomas Tancred sails for England Sat-
urday to compile his elaborate notes and
| data, which, in con junction with the
reports and estimates of tho engineers,
will mako up the matter of his full and
| final report, which will not bo forthcom-
ing for four Or five months"
Tho Commercialrribuno of tho same
date says:
"Tho final mcoting of IT,, directors of
the various systems making up tho pro.
posed Black Diamond Railway with the
officers of tho latter was hold yesterday
afternoon at the Grand Hotel. Sir Tho
| mas Tancrod, tho export ongincer from
| England, loft last night and expects to
sail from Now York on Saturday for
!-:Tci pool, aud mir. Dickinson, tho gone
ral counsel, who loft Cincinnati with Sir
Thomas, will spond somo three woeks
moro in America before departing for tho
other side.
'"Tho cntiro rOuto has now boon in
spcctod, and the data Is ready for sub
mission to tho English syndicate which
is expected to build tho road. At o
mccting Yesterday, besides tho directors
and Sir Thomas, Mr.. Dickinson, Mr..
Kirkby and Mr.. Boone, wero w. B. Cren-
shaw, of Knoxville, Tom, suporintond-
ont of surveys, and B. Watts, engineer of
tho Indiana division, the inspection of
which has just boon finished
ct was determined at tho meeting,
among othor things, that tho preliminary
work on tho Indiana division, inter
ruptGd last March, should now be taken
up and rushed to completion"
Sir Thomas Tancred.
Tho report was started ut several points
along the line of tho Black Diamond that
Sir Thomas Tancrcd was not Sir Thomas
Tancrcd at ALL From ono or two points
cablcgrams went to London making in
quiries, and when tho answers came they
came hot. That ho was not only tho
only Sir Thomas Tancrod, but thNt he
""G GIG 0f tiro mosJ ominont engineers
in England, and whatever he reported
would 90 with capitalists. Thon tho
dofamcrs had to got their heads togothor
and hatch out somo other lie tc injuro
tho enterprise. In tho meantime the in
spoction has boon completed and Sir
Thomas will sail to England on tho 10Th
instant to mako his report.
(Ky.O Nows, November IT,
Go Ahead and Build.
It's quito amusing to read occasional
remarks of some papers and correspond
ents of tho limo of the Black Diamond.
ono correspondent from town in Estill
county, which is rated in tho Kontuclty
Gazcttcor as having q population Of
three, boldly says that no has boon "re-
liably informed" tho Black Diamond Is q
wildcat schomo," and will never bo
built unloss "Amcroan capital takes
hold of It," That settles 1t. Sir Thomas
needn't inspect any further. Too bad
too badl Please lot tho English capital
lists go ahead and build..--Dover, (ky.,)
Nows, November 17th.