The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-26
Among the Railroads.

The News and Observer announced a
month ago that the Durham and Char
lOtte Railway would enter Greensboro.
The road now operates from Gulf, Chat
ham county, to Star, Montgomery county.
Mr.. John b. Lening, of Philadelphia, who
owns the road, has been in North Caro-
lima in his private car recently, and said
that as soon as the road was completed
to Troy, the whole construction force
would be put on the link between Gulf
and Pittsboro. From Pittsboro a line
will be run out to Bynum's on Haw
river, thence up Haw river, taking in the
numerous factories on that stream, and
on by Graham, Burlington and Gibson
Vile to Greensboro. The distance from
Pittsboro to Greensboro is nearly fifty
miles.
The road now touches the Aberdeen
and Asheboro at Star, the Carthage
Railway at Hallison, and the Southern
at Gulf. When Pittsboro is reached
there will be direct connection with the
Seaboard Air Line.
The construction of the new road that
is to be built by the Suffolk and Caro-
lima Company, and that will enter Eliza
beth City, will be begun very soon now.
The order for rails has already been
placed. They will be 60-pound steel-the
same as are used ON the Atlantic Coast
Line, and the road is to be built stan
dard gauge The rails are to be de-
livered by the first of next May if the
right Of way can be perfected imme-
diately so that the grading can be done
before that time. AS soon as the right
of way is gotten in shape so the work
can go on the work of construction will
be rapidly pushed until the road is
finished.
The Mount Airy and Eastern trains
will soon be pulling in at the Southern
depot. as we learn that the third rail is
to be laid from the junction 20 this city.
The arrangement will be highly pleasing
to our people and no doubt add largely
TO the income of the Mt. Airy and Eastern.
Blythe way, one of these days in the near
future this road will tap the Norfolk and
Western 1t is one of the certainties
the future has in store.-Mt. Airy News.
The story of the purchase of depot
site by the Seaboard Air Line goes to
show that the problem is one whose va
stale.
Heretofore the Seaboard has not been
counted factor-or, at any rate, factor
of importance-in this eXasperating and
elusive depot equation. Hope for a solu-
ton of 1t has been chiefly conferred in
the State, the city and the Southern Rail-
way. And that hope, given to waxing and
to waning periodically, has of late
shrunken to the thinnest of crescents.
The advent of the Seaboard. therefore,
is cheering AS like as not that system
may, of course, fail us as completely as
our other resources. But pending such
failure. we are going to revel in the hope
that the beginning of the end is at hand.
The Seaboard we know to be a sin
gularly broad-sighted corporation. It's
history since it was first patched together
out of a lot of little lines illustrates
that, and illustrates also the wisdom of
| breadth in the conduct of affairs. And
| for one, The News believes that the Sea-
board will continue to follow the policy
which has made it so great and so popu-
| lar, and come to the rescue of this az
| flicted town.
Already Atlanta is the geographical
center of the system. And sooner or
| later Atlanta must logically become the
| systems headquarters. Indeed, rumors
are even now current to the effect that
| a great loss for Portsmouth and a great
gain for Georgias capital is pending.
And thereby the Seaboard. aiding us,
will nightly aid itself.-Atlanta News.
| News has reached Marion from Mitchell
| county that the Southern Railway threw
! bomb in the camp of the Ohio River
| and Charleston Railroads surveying
+. corps a few days ago. 1t seems that the