The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-27
HAS USED SEAB0ARD'S
CONTRACT PREVENTED SPRING
HOPE ROAD FROM BEING
BUILT.
WORK ON THE RlDGEwAY ROAD
Cape Fear and Raleigh Road Now Sixteen Miles
Long Southport through Line Now
Directed 10 Charleston
Other Railroad Notes.
Other Railroad Notes.

The Atlantic Coast Line has at last
determined to build n bridge for its own
use over the Roanoke River at Weldon.
1t will also construct Il branch road from
Weldon to Garysburg.
LIS may or may not mean much to
Raleigh. 1t certainly means that with
the completion of this bridge the Atlantic
Coast Line is ut liberty to build the
branch road from Springhope, Nash
county. to Raleigh, if it chooses so to do.
AS is well known the Atlantic Const
Line. so long as it made use of the
Seaboard Air Lines BRUCE ut Weldon,
was not at liberty to construct n compel
ing line from Springhope to Raleigh.
Now, however, that it has determined, ut
very great cost, to rid itself of this
obligation, let us hope that the Spring
hope branch will be built, the fertile
Wakefield section be opened Hp and Raj
eigh be given a fourth railroad ana the
three great systems of the State brought
into competition here.
The contract for building the Rich
mond, Petersburg and Carolina railroad,
giving Raleigh short line TO Richmond
has been awarded to the Colonial Con
struction company. 1t is stated that
they will complete the road to Ridge
way at an early date. Il. w. Johnson
is superintendent of construction.
The Seaboard Air Line is constructing
a branch between Lawrencevile and
Logansville, Ga. 1t has already been
graded and it is expected that the lay
ing of rails will begin in few days.
Work on the Cape Fear and Raleigh
Railroad is progressing rapidly Four
teen miles are already graded and trains
are running on II miles of this. The
work will not be stopped until at least
20 miles, and possibly many more, IRE
built.
Recently the News and Observer re-.
ferred to report that arrangements
were being made to complete Il system
proposed several years ago from Eastern
Tennessee to tidewater at Southport y.
c.. by combing the Carolina Central,
Bristol, Elizabeth and North Carolina
and several other lines. The Manufac-
turer's Record quotes dispatch from
Bristol, Tenn, to the effect that another
plan is being promoted for combination
which will terminate ut Charleston. s.
c., in which the Ohio River and Char
lesion will form an important link. Ac-
cording to the report, the South htltntic
and Ohio Railroad, which was recently
purchased by the Clydes, of New York
will form the connecting link with the
Louisville and Nashville system ut
I<londike Junction. At Bristol connec-
ton with the Bristol, Elizabeth and
North Carolina Railway owned by the
Pennsylvania Steel Co.. will be made.
which takes the new road to Elizabeth.
1t that point connection is made with
the East Tennessee and Western with
Carolina Railway marrow gauge, run
ming from Johnson City, Tenn. to Gran
berry, y. c. This will be converted into
a broad-gauge road, and connection with
the three C's' Railroad will be made al
Johnson City. The Three C's, now the
Ohio River and Charleston Railroad, is
completed TO within fifty-ive miles Of
Charleston. This distance will be bAilt
at once. thus completing the through
line from the coal. coke, timber and ore
regions of East Tennessee and Southwest
Virginia TO the seashore
Already the feet of commercial enter
prise are treading on the heels of war;
and foremost among the hustlers are the
transportation companies Of the country.
According to dispatch from Louis
vile,F Ky. the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad is considering n plan to estab-
lish line Of steamships between one OF
the Gulf ports and the Island Of Cuba
A number of rumors are also current to
the effect that other large Southern sys
TENS may also take advantage of the
opportunities offered in this market and
place fleets in service