The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-14
Among the Railroads.

In addition to the railroad that is to
be constructed from Elizabeth City to
Suffolk, by the Norfolk & Carolina Rail
road, another railroad has purchased
terminal at Elizabeth City and the work
of constructing the tracks has already
begun. The Elizabeth City Lumber
Company has obtained right of way be-
tween Center Hill and Elizabeth City
and will construct railroad upon which
to haul lumber. Center Hill is located in
an important lumber district, and in or
der to obtain greater facilities for receiv-
ing the lumber from that place to the
company's mill located in Elizabeth City
the road will be constructed.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. writes
the Manufacturers Record from Brevard
that it is building 10-mile extension
southwest. and at the terminus of the ex
tension the Toxaway Company will erect
a 25O-room hotel. The contract for this
extension calls for its completion April
80, 1908, and it is the purpose of the
Toxaway Company to have the hotel
completed and open for business by July
1 next. This extension will bring the
other hotels of the Toxaway Company at
Sapphire within eight miles of the rail-
road. AT the new terminus the Toxaway
Company is also constructing an immense
lake fifteen miles in circumference, on
the shore of which the new hotel is be-
ing built. This lake will be completed
within a few weeks and will be stocked
with fish.
The Washington & Plymouth Railroad
Co. is negotiating for an extension of its
line from Washington to New Bern,
thirty-fiye miles, and may make
further extension. The line from Wash
ington to New Bern. Mr.. Surry Parker,
general manager, writes, would extend
through the most fertile trucking Sec
ton in the United States. With sixty
eight miles of track we would shorten
the time between New Bern and Norfolk
ten hours, and would turn all the fish
and oyster business to Northern cities
over this road
The Knoxville & Bristol Railway, a
line forty miles long, extending from
Morristown, Tenn, to Corryton, Tenn,
has been purchased by Bird NJ Robinson.
of New York. who is president of the
Hartman & Northeastern Railroad, and
who, it is understood, is largely interest
ed in coal lands on the Cincinnati South
ern line. Mr.. Robinson has succeeded
H. j. Braker as president of the road,
and Major H. NJ. Aiken has been con-
tinued as vice. president and general
manager 1t is rumored from Knoxville
that the Knoxville & Bristol and the
Hartman 8 Northeastern will be con-
nected; that the former will be extended
to Knoxville, and that the Seaboard Air
Line will build line through from
Waynesville, N. c., to Morristown in or
der to reach Knoxville, and furthermore.
coal properties in which Mr.. Robinson is
interested. He has not yet, however,
disclosed his plans.
1t looks as IL the increased amount
of traffic and travel will compel the
Atlantic Coast Line to put in double
track from Rocky Mount to Wilson or
Contentnea. Thursday (4th) there were
eighteen trains here within one hour and
forty minutes. A double track would
not only facilitate business but make
travelling safer.-Elm City Elevator.
Two railway surveys are being made
from the Blue Ridge north of Marion to
Marion. One, presumably, is the work
Of the Seaboard Air Line. the other the
Southern Railway Company Both corps
are in few miles of town and the re-
spective preliminary surveys will reach
Marion ere long. The Carter, or Sea-
board Air Line crosses the Catawba in
the vicinity of the iron bridge and will
run up Garden creek The other route
will follow the old Three C's surveys, it
is said.-Marion News.
Greensboro, n. c.. Dec. 13-The two
and a half mile spur the Southern Pail
way has put in at Wilson's mills TO the
ore beds of the Empire Steel and Iron
Company of Greensboro, has been com
pleted. The iron works here, which were
fired Wednesday are getting on fine, and
the first blast was made today.
The work of surveying the line be-
tween Elizabeth City and Suffolk for the
Suffolk and Carolina road has begun at
Elizabeth City.