The news & observer., 1901-11-01
ON TO HOPE MILLS
Aberdeen and Rockhsh R. R.
to be Extended.
Famine OF Cars Giving Trouble. This Has Been
Year Of Accidents in North
CaroIins.

deem and RIckfish Railroad, who was in |
Raleigh this week, says that he is pre-
pairing for short extension of his road |
and Will have it soon completed to Hope |
Mills, a flourishing mill town in Cum
beriand county,, on the Atlantic and |
North Carolina Railroad 1t runs
through fine country and has caused |
the building of the flourishing town of
Raeford. Mr.. Blues road is now forty
miles long, He started building it in
1889 and has built it on year by year,
carrying on big lumber business, too,
till he has one of the best pieces of prop
erty in North Carolina. He says that |
the lumber business has been very good |
this year.
'The famine in cars is our greatest /
trouble now,'' said Mr.. Blue. I'VE can |
not get cars enough to handle the busi |
ness as promptly as we would like. But
this famine in cars is not al. lie with us, |
but notice that the same thing is true |
also in the North" In fact, Buffalo has
experienced bad business in certain lines
because of the unprecedented famine in
cars.
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Three large timber syndicates have
acquired large interests in the Weldon
sec. lion. One of these will next year
build a railway for Weldon by way of
Brinkleyville and Ringwood, to some
point in the edge of Franklin county,
distance about thirty miles, to get at
SOC, 900, 900 feet of short-leaf pine timber.
The three concerns are the CONNER, the
G. l.. Vincent and the Camp Manufac-
turing Company.
Mr.. E. P. Hyatt, flagman on the
Southern Railway, had one leg broken
and his arm sprained by an accident near
Wilkesboro He lives in Greensboro.
DR.. Stansill was summoned to Hamlet
Tuesday night to give professional at
tention to Mack Harris. 14-year- old
muldtto boy, who was ruu over by
train there Tuesday night. He was
stealing .ide on the train and fell un-
der he trucks, ard both legs were man
gled. He was given the best attention
possible, but his injuries produced death
al ut o'colck Tuesday mig! t.-Rock
ing nam Anglo Saxon.
The corps of railroad engineers who
are surveying the route of the proposed
railroad from Wadesboro to Winston
arrived in Lexington yesterday and to-
day moved their camp to Ebenezer.
three miles north of town. They are
making very careful and authentFs
survey and the Indications are fairly
good that the route they are now going
over will be the one selected for the
building of the new road, although it
is now certain that other routes will be
surveyed before final decision is made
by the romoters.-Lexington Dispatch.
Yesterdays Greensboro Record says:
"The attending physician reports Capt.
Henry A. Williams, wbo was injured in
the collision near Lexington yesterday
morning, to be getting along as well as
could be expected. Hc is bruised AID
scratched considerably from jumping,
but no bones are broken"
DR.. w. S. Taylor was in a wreck one
day last week on the Mt. Airy and
Eastern Railroad. The doctor and Mr.
A. G.. Trotter and another gentleman
whose name we failed to learn, were
seated on fiat car loaded with lumber
when the wheels left the rails. The
truck turned and one draw-head pulled
out Dr. Taylor was painfully bruised
and shaken up by being hurled from
the car. The other passengers were
more fortunate but they all had mar
row escape. Mr.. Trotter in relating his
experience, said: Il have had the bull
let's to knock the dirt in my face, shells
to burst over my head, been louzy, had
the itch, been dog bit, but I've never
been SO badly scared before in all my
life. MT. Airy News.
Mr.. q. l.. Burnett, brakeman on the
Southern Railway, was engaged in
coupling cars at Pinevilie, Mecklen-
burg county, Wednesday night, when
the engine backed into the train, he was
thrown on the track, the wheels of the
box-car passed over his right leg, his
foot was crushed to pieces. and his leg
was badly fractured. His leg was am
putated at the Charoltte Hospital, says
the Observer.
All railroad men express their pleas
ure at the elevation of BILLY" Duke to
the place of general manager of the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Poto-
mac. BILLY" is one of the most popu-
lar railroad men in Virginia, and every
body rejoices at his promotion-Rich-
mond Dispatch.
The proposed railroad line from Ashe-
vile to Rutherfordton, which has for
several years been more or less agi-
tated, and the question again renewed
last summer, as published in The Citi-
zen. is being once more revived The
citizens OF Chimney Rock seem deter
mined to get the road and are MAKING
every effort in this behalf A railway
lire through Chimney Rock would open
up an undeveloped section of mountain
Gus country, unsurpassed for natural re-
sources. Here may be found the finest
timber in Western North Carolina and
an abundant variety of North Carolina
minerals-Asheville Citizen