Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-09-26
B00hE'S BLACK DIAMOND.
It's Woes Continue to be Many and Great.

The woes Of Col. A. T.. Bocno's Black
Diamond Railroad continue to be many.
1t was not 30 worry long ago that the pub
lie was told that the proposed system
had been financed and that it would be
ready for work at no very distant date.
OF course the public took this informa-
tion with several grains of salt, but the
promoters of the enterprise would have
it that there was no possible way in
which their wishes could be frustrated.
They talked loudly and confdentially,
and thcro wore not q few people who
really began to hope that the scheme
had something in it and was destined to
succeed. But all of these bright dreams
have come to nothing, and just now the
Black Diamond seems to DO no nearer
completion than it was several years ago.
Tho blame for this sad condition of
affairs, 80 tho Boone people say, is at the
door OF ono Il. @. Dickinson, somo time
financial agent of tho project. A year or
so ago Black Diamond literature de-
clarcd that this same Dickinson was one
OF tho ablost and best of money chang
ers. 1Io was said to DO parsonage who
had tho confidence of tho bondholders
OF two continents; and the Boone enthu-
sasts did not see how it would bo posi-
bio for their paragon of finance to fail to
interest tho capital of tho world in tho
great double track route that was so
shortly to connect tho Mississippi Valley
with tho South Atlantic soaboard. 1t
was Dickinson who brought n titled por-
son from England to spy out tho land for
the pcoplo Of London who had coin
which they wished to burn. Sir Thomas
Tancrcd was tho namo and having Jour
noycd and jaunted from one ond of the
Black Diamond to tho other, Sir Thomas
said great was tho scheme and the makers
thereof. IIo and Dickinson won't back
to England and tho friends on this side
held thcir breath while thoy waited for a
cablcgram announcing that tho bonds
had been sold and that tho whole thing
was "a CO." Aftcr awhile thoy consent
cd to take breath or SO, but they con
tinucd to bclicvo that thoy might wako
up any morning to find the Black Dia-
mond backed by tho Bank of England.
OF course the expected mover happens,
and so it camc to pass that tho confding
directors of tho great Boone system are
waiting yot.
In duo course of time some of them
became impatient and tried to hurry up
the financial millennium that was coming
to them. But the job proved to be a
difficult one, and when this was observed
to be the case the faithful roso up and
said that Dickinson was cursed Dickin-
son said Boone was the man they were
thinking about, and SO the matter goes
at the present time. The Boone people
declare that Dickinson has thrown down
great enterprise for thirty or so pieces
of silver, and the Dickinson faction say
that Boone never was anything but q
buffer anyway. Tho language they are
using is much stronger than that en-
ploycd here, but it is no use in repeating
what friends who have fallen out say
about each other in anger Tho only
thing tho public is Interested in is tho
fact that thcro seems to bo no immediate
prospect of the great Boone scheme
coming to anything. That indefatigable
person declares, however, that it is only
question of time before he will have
the enterprise on it's feet again. He docs
not seem to mind it at all when other
railroad men laugh at the idea of his
doing any such thing. News and Courier.
BLACK DIAMOND OPTION EXPIRED.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, September 20
Tho option granted last year by Boone's
Black Diamond Railroad to II. c. Dickin-
son, William Kirkby and others to con
struct the road over Boones rights of
way expired tonight and tho Boone
Company now claims possession of the
franchises. Officials say work will begin
within year and the road will be
financed by American capital. 1t is to
run from Cincinnati to Port Royal, South
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