The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-18
Among the Railroads,

The Caswell Democrat of last week
says: AT this interval there is much
talk Of Yanceyville getting a railroad
and it is creating much interest among
our citizens. The proposition is offered us
by New York syndicate who has re-
Gently bought great amount of timber
land near Finch section and to re-
move this timber it is necessary for the
purchaser to build road in some di-
reetion. The most direct route, and we
believe largely favored by the town, is
from here to Rlanch. Other points have
been suggested to the builders, including
Sonora, Pelham and Danville. This is
a great opportunity and the grasping
fact has largely entered the minds of
Our business people. In a week or SO
full particulars can be ascertained from
the originators, and we will know posi-
lively whether the road will be built or
not"
Charleston News and Courier: The
story printed in The Sunday News yes
terday of the capture of an important
bunch of scalpers' tickets by the joint
validating agency attracted much at
tention in railroad circles. Exposition
visitors who are more or less concerned
in the scalping question were likewise
interested, and they have about reach 4
ed the conclusion that the safest way to
leave Charleston by rail will be on le-
ultimate transportion. The spoilers sent
here from Atlanta have been working
quietly and it was not until Saturday
that the cut-rate dealers learned of their
presence Scores of tickets are under
the eye of the agency officials and are
liable to be confiscated at any time. SO
thoroughly has the agency been waging
it's fight against the scalpers that the
travelling public is looking with fear
and trepidation on the evil and many
persons who might ordinarily desire to
scalp" believe now that it is safer
and more reliable in the end to pay the
regular prices and escape trouble and
annoyance.
The Seaboard Air Line two years ago
bought the park in Columbia, S. c., in
order to make it terminal. 1t spent
much money in grading and made deep
cuttings to get to the place. intending
to have passenger and freight depots
there. But it has now decided officials
say to use it as a yard and to have
the passenger and freight depots in the
heart of the city, at the corner of Gervais
and Lincoln streets. The company will
let the Dozier Lumber Company occupy
part of the park. That company will
build electric elevators in order to get
to the street level This is what the
Sea aboard would have had to do if it had
used the site for passenger station.
MI @. K. KNOCKS has returned
from a trip to Lillington Harnett coun-
ty. He says that everything in the
neighborhood of Ellington is on boom,
in anticipation of the Raleigh and Cape
Fear Railroad. On account of this fact
and the completion of the iron bridge
across the Cape Fear river half mile
from Ellington, property in that town
and surrounding territory has doubled in
value in the past six months. This is
the railroad that it is proposed to event
ually complete, TO Fayetteville where il
will have water connection.-Fa
Vile Observer.
w. A. Elliott has returned from
tour through Mitchell and Yancey coun-
ties and reports that there are about 800
hands engaged on the construction of the
Q. r. C. railway. There are more at
work near Caney Creek in the vicinity
of Bakersville. -Asheville Gazette.
The Asheboro Courier says that it is
reported that new company has pur-
chased the roadbed and four miles of
track which has not been taken up by
Captain Eckout. of the Moore County
Railroad, and the road will be rebuilt
and extended into Montgomery county.
Engineer Harry Frank, of the At
lantic Coast Line, few nights ago ran
from Florence to Wilmington in two
hours and forty-fiv minutes, making
twenty stops that consumed fiftythree
minutes. He really made the run Of
10 miles in H. minutes.-Richmond
Times.
Grippe Knockers cure any cold, or any
case of La Grippe in 10 hours. 25c. at
your druggist.