Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-09-14
MISSING Nj LINKGHS1 CHARTER
A NEW RAILROAD COMPANY HAS BEEN
INCORPORATED UNDER q GEORGIA LAWS. AZ

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FROM Chattanooga TO WALHALLI
The Company Is Capitalized at Three Million
Dollars--Wlll Tap the Southern.
The Missing Link Railroad Com
pany, Incorporated to build and
equip trunk line from Chattanooga
to Walhalla, '. es granted charter
this morning by Secretary of State
Cook. :;
The company, capitalized at three
million dollars, with all the money in
hand, contemplates building, as the
name implies, the connecting link
between tho Southern, which taps
the proposed line at Walhalla, and
Chattanooga, whore traffic arrange
ments have been made with the
Western roads and Chicago lines.
The now company proposes to do
what has long been talked about and
dreamed of--connecting tho South
directly with the West and the great
grain markets.
The Missing Link Railroad will be
$50 miles long, will traverse five of
the richest counties in tho State,
open up for development the largest
quarrics and mines in tho State and
bring another great feeder for the
soaboard cities of Georgia and the
Carolinas. 1t means tho Investment
OF three million dollars, every penny
of which will find lodgment in tho
State of Georgia.
Early this morning Mr. w. L..
Albright, of Ohio, and Mr. Vaulix
Gibbs, of Georgia, called at the Office
of the Secretary of State and asked
for the granting of their application
for charter. They gavo evidence
that the money had been actually
secured and that all was in readiness
to begin bona fide work on the pro.
posed mammoth undertaking.
SAY ROAD WILL BE BUILT.
Attached to the application for
incorporation are the following: w.
l.. Albright, Thos. T.. Greer, w. e.
Gambler, G. j. Welborn, Jr., w. r.
Mcconnell, A. A. Campbell and
Vaulix Gibbs.
"The road for which we have Sc
cured the charter will most assuredly
be built" said Mr.. Albright this
morning. "There is no doubt about
this, as the money has been secured
and all has been put in readiness for
the work to begin and we have been
only waiting for the charter to be Sc
cured before beginning the work.
"Thcproposedlino willrun through
the counties Of Catoosa, Whitfield,
l'annin, Murray and Rabun, which
are rich in their mineral resources
and will be excellent opportunities
Tor investment and development.
Yes, we will begin work at once,
now that we have the charter, and
the road will be built as rapidly as
possible. We arc thoroughly salts.
fled with our Investment and there
is plenty of money to carry out and
execute all that we have planned or
may IN the future plan"
HOW ABOUT THF G. A. AND c..
1t will be remembered that the
Secretary of State has been notified
that the incorporators Of the Chat
tanooga. Augusta and Charleston
have filed application for charter for
this road.
by looking at the map it will be
seen that the two roads are WORKING
for almost the same territory and
connectlons-a line from the seacoast
to the West.
Rumor has it that the Missing
Link is being backed by the South
ern, which is working to get into
the West and probably as far as
Chicago, while the popular belief is
that the Scaboard is backing the c.,
"A. and G. for a similar purpose
Atlanta Journal September 7.