The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
Among the. Railroads.

| Vice-Presldent Barr of the Seaboard
| Air Line and General Superintendent
Maher, passed through the city yesterday
en- route to Columbia, S. c. They were
| joined here by Superintendent j. M. Turn
er Of the second division, who accom-
panied them on the trip. Mr.. Barr went
to make an inspection of the property OF
| the company.
Mr.. R. f. Bunch, general passenger
agent OF the Seaboard Air Line, is able
to be out on the streets after his recent
severe attack of fever. Mr.. Bunch ex-
poets to be able to return to Portsmouth
next week and resume his duties.
| One Of the conditions of prosperity of
THE South is the prosperous condition
of it's railroads. The Seaboard Air Line
is one Of the prospecting ones and it is
doing much to build up the country
through which it passes.-North Caro-
lima Presbyterian.
The Greensboro Telegram says: 1.-THE
Southern rallwa yis completing the
laying of eighty pound rails from Char
lotte to this city. The heavy rail has
1 a
half of the station and in short time the
work viii be completed. The rail being
put down is five pounds heavier than
the one already down. When the work
| is completed to this city the road will
have eighty pound rail from Washing
ton to Charlotte. The heavier rails
have been down for some time between
here and Washington
The growth of street railways in the
last decade has been most marked. In
1880 the total mileage of the United
States was 1850; in 1890 it was S,123; in
1897 it was 1918; in 1899 the figures
were 17,72S.56, representing gain in two
years almost equal to the total mileage
in 1880. The roads existing in 1899 were
capitalized at total of nearly 81 $780,
coo, 900 and were recording gross earnings
at an approximate rate of 10 per cent
1t is interesting to- notice that be-
tween 1890 and 1899 the mileage given
over to electric power increased from
1862 to 1904. Cabel power mileage
shranlS from 4SS to 4S5 in the same pc
Rod with an intermediate boom to
500 and horse power from 5,661 to 60S.17
The Knoxville Sentinel says j. M.
Fawcett, the assistant chief engineer of
the corps making the survey of the Ten
ressee and North Carolina railway from
Newport to Waynesville, spent the day
in this city en- route to his old home in
Canton, Ohio. Mr.. Fawcett stated to
Sentinel representative that about
fourteen miles Of this line had been
completed and the construction train is
running over that much of the line.
How long before you will complete
your survey?" was asked by the re-
porter
We'll it would be difficult to answer
your inquiry, for l do not know how
much further the construction of this
line will go at the present. The final
destination of the road is Waynesville,
N. c." %
The Seaboard Air Line Railway has al
ready spent IN the neighborhood of ST.
| 100000 upon it's Savannah terminals
which were begun in April 1899, and put
in operation in July, 1900, since which
| time improvements costing about $780,
600 have been made. Hutchinson Island
contains about 1900 acres. OF the 200
| acres owned by the Seaboard Air Line
| Railway, 100 have been improved and
! raised eight feet above the original level
the filling in having been done largely
with material derived from dredging three
| slips about 200 feet wide and twenty-one
| feet deep at mean low tide, and 1.507
| feet, 1859 feet and 1882 feet in length
| respectively. Here there are four piers.
| At Portsmouth it has spent 1906, 1851 i.
| improvements, including the purchase Of
| several valuable wharf properties. 1t has
spent STAT, 900 at Fernandino, Fla. AL
| together it has spent sl,5O0000 improving
| it's terminals.