Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-04-22
AsaE,s Yolls aAlLsoAp.
Tennessee, Georgia and Carolina sufgsyors
Arrive TO DO Built Right Away.
[Andssson Daily Mail, April 10th. i

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The engineer corps Of tho Tennessee.
Georgia and South Carolina railroad
reached Anderson yesterday afternoon.
The party was ip charge of Mr.. nj. Skin.
sner, of Blue Ridge Ga. ono OF the chief
promoters of tho road. Mr. w. 81. Frink.
OF Chicago, another OF the promoters.
has been.in the city for several days.
Tho Tennessee, Georgia aud South
Carollna railroad is projected to run
from Chattapooga, Tenn, to this city
The road was chartered some time ago,
and for several months the work of max
ing the preliminary survey has been in
progress. This work was completed yee-
tsrdaS, the surveyors reaching here from
Walhalla. The road is to run by Town
Vile from Walhalla. Mr.. Frink and Mr..
skinner were in anderson several months
visit here, and they were not very COM
munioative other than TO say that the
road would be built. They did not tell
q great deal more than this yesterday. !.
but they appeared to be very sanguine
about it and did not seem TO care W hether
Aaderson people beloved that the road
would be built or not. SssSs,
Mr. Frink stated that he and his tasso
eiates had had the preliminary work
done at theis own expense, and we're not
asking the people along the route for any
money. Tho charters, and making the
survey, has cost q lot of money, but they
have borne this expense themselves.
Mr.. Frink said that full engineer corps
has been employed, and that as fast as
the survey was made the maps and pro-
files and estimates were also mad.
Men are now employed in getting rights
OF way along the route, and In short
time, he said, the company will.haye
rights of way for the entire distance
from Chattanooga to Anderson.
MIR. Frink stated that lie would be
ready to commence the actual work of
constructing the road as soon as, these
details were completed, and that he ex-
pected to have the grading under way in
sixty days. Mr.. Frink said that it was
the intention of the company to have the
entire road built at praotica lily the same
time, giving out the contracts in ten and
twenty mile sections. >s.tI
Mr.. Frink was assured by the people of
ANDERSON that they would give his pro-
Ject their hearty support as soon as it
was. learned that his company meant
business, but that the people here had
been deceived so often by railroad pro-
moters from the West that it WAS hard to
enthuse over new man.
II appreciate that fact" replied Mr..
Frink. "We know what Anderson has
suffered, and FOR that reason We have not
cared to have great deal TO say until we
began doing something. We have been
spending our own money, and we arego
ing to keep on spending it--and the road
is going to be built. And we have not
asked your people to give us any money,
Mr.. Frink says that his is an independ
ent company, and is not associated with
or connected with any other company
owning or running railroads. He init
mated that the Southern railway might
offer some opposition to the building of
the road, butintimated that he was not
bothering about it.
The gentlemen who were I'm the CITY
were carried to ride yesterday afternoon
by several leading business men, and
were shown number of attentions,
Mr.. Frink and his associates have de-
clined to make public to Anderson peo-
pie the details of their financial plans, as
regards raising the money to build the
road, but to one and all they declare that
the road is going to be built and built
without delay. "We are not asking you
for any money" they say, land until we
do we had rather not tell all OF our busi-
ness. We are going to build the railroad
from Chattanooga to Anderson, and that
is all there is to it. 1t has cost money to
get the survey and do all the preliminary
work, and we would not have spent all
this money If we had not known that the
road was going to be built"
u Anderson people have ltertained
many railroad promoters from the West,
but this is the first crowd that ever came
here without asking for money-and the
first crowd that has ever done any work.
This makes the matter seem very strange
to Anderson people. They don't know
what to make of it.
The gentlemen say they are going to
build the road, and as very little is known
of them hero there seems to be nothing
to do but wait and see what will develop
Mr.. Frink said last night that the party
will leave Anderson o-day, but that he
will be in the city again in few days,
and that he will be in Anderson often
from now until the road is completed.