The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-07-03
Turner Receives a Well
Merited Promotion.
Complete Reorganization of Divisions Rendered
Necessary by Consolidation of the
system.

Some important changes Will go ih'o
effect tomorrow on the Seaboard Ar Line
Railway system. \ complete reorganiza-
tho division of the road has been
oroctive July list. The new divls-
ions together with the superintendent
are as follows:
First division:
Superintendent. T. W Whlsnah', AT
picbnond and Assistant Superintendent
L. A. Boyd. This division eihpraeeS =
Richmond to Raleigh, and 10 Durham anu
from Portsmouth to Ralelgh'
Second divisional i.
Superintendent j. Nj. turner, ASSlotdh'
Sunerintenden William Moncure. En-
bracing from Raleigh to wilmington iiohi
Raleigh to Columbia. and from
ton to Monroe.
Third division:
superintendent E. Burnley at Atlanta.
Embracing from Monroe to Atlanta, and
from Monroe to Rutherfordton.
Fourth division:
Superintendent Cecil Gabbeth. at Sa-
vannah. Embracing from Columbia to
Jacksonville, and from Savannah to Mont
gomery.
Fifth division:
superintendent d. E. Maxwell at Jack
sonville. Embracing all the Florida
roads.
Other changes:
Captain McBee is made general super
intendent of the entire S. A.. l.. system.
A rumor is current that Mr.. J. B. Mar
tin, formerly of Raleigh. but now auditor
at Portsmouth. will not have the same
r., ~ nyN>r
seems to be credited here. but there is
no authentic statement made. Major Mar
tin will doubtless continue with the sys-
tenn, but in a new position.
There are two important links of rail
road in North Carolina that will probably
b. built within the next year or so, and
will mean much for the sections that
they are intended to develop.
One is he extension Of the SeabOard
Air Line to Fayetteville, and the other
is an extension of the Southern from
Madison to Leaksville. Neither of these
gaps is more than twelve miles long,
and you'll amply repay the cost of their
construction by these great railway sys-
tens.
If the Seaboard would come to Fay
etteyillc,' said Capt. Jas. ID. Mcneil at
the Marlborough the other day, lit would
get % per cent. of the business of that
city. We have made some effort to get
the road extended there, but have not
yet succeeded. We hope, however, to be
able to do so in the near future. The
Aberdeen and Rockfish railroad, which
connects with the SeabOard at Aberdeen
and IS understood to be backed by the
Scaboard, is now within twelve miles OF
US and by building can get into Fayettc-
Vile. There IS no doubt that it will
be built in the near future. If it is not
we hope the Cape Fear and Northern
road, which connects with the Seaboard
is now some thirty or forty miles away"
Speaking of the proposed extension Of
the Southern from Madison to Leaksville,
Webster's Weekly says:
~ leading citizen of the county re-
markell a few days ago that if the broad
gauge road was extended from LeaksvilIe
to Madison, few counties in the State
could boast of better railroad facilities
than Rockingham. The main line of the
southern runs by Reidsville, the N. & w.
by Madison, a branch of the Cape Fear
and Yadkin Valley from Stokesdalc to
Madison, and the ID. M. & S. W., from
Danville to Leaksville. The completion
OF the gap between Leaksville and Madi-
son would add much to the county's rail
road advantages. Reidsville has one goO1
opening left, the construction of a line
to pierce the rich agricultural county of
Caswell. 1t should be the first work un-
dcrtaken next year, the beginning of the
new century, so rich in PROMISE