The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-13
DARIEN & WESTERN
TO EXTEND LINE
is SURVEYING TWO ROUTES
TO LIBERTY CITY AND To WAL
THOURVILLE AND HINEsVILLE.

Will Also Extend Its Southern Ter
River-May Build. Through Town,
or to Rear of It-InjunctiOn Sc
cured by James Il. Clarke to Pre-
vent Use of First ROute-Plans of
Road Announced by ii. ID. Elmer
son, Vice President and General
Manager.
The Darien and Western Railroad ex-
poets shortly to extend it's line sew
eral miles westward over one or two
routes that are now being surveyed,
one of which will be selected within
sixty days at latest. This information
was made public by MIR. H. D. Emer-
son, vie president and general man
ager of the road who was in Savannah
yesterday.
The road now extends some eight
miles west of Darien Junction, where it
connects with the Seaboard Air Line,
though trains have not been operated
over this short section for some years.
The present plan is to start from the
end of this extension and build to con-
meet with the Atlantic Coast Line in
a direct line west to Liberty City, or
else build in a northwesterly direction
to reach Walthourville and Hinesville.
The choice of a route will depend, Mr..
Emerson says, on three things: which
will be the best line, which will pro-
duce the most traffic, and for which
route the people interested will offer
the greatest inducements.
This is not the only improvement
that is contemplated, however. for it
is planned to build a short line that
will reach a point on the Darien river,
having a greater depth of water than
can be had at the present terminus OF
the road, and also having the adV1n-
tage of being some three miles nearer
the mouth of the river. and therefore
that much nearer the ocean. Here, too,
two routes are under consideration.
Injunction stopped Work.
1t was first planned to build this
stretch of road through one of the
streets of Darien, and plans were be-
ing made to that end when an inJunc-
ton to prevent it was secured in the
United States Court by Mr.. James K.
Clarke. This injunction will be heard
on May "a.
Mr.. Emerson says he will not be in
terested in this case, as it is imma-
terial to the road which route is Sc
lected as the distance in each case
will be practically the same. 1t seems,
he says, that the people of Darien want
the route through the town, and if this
is the case and they are sufficiently
interested as to have the injunction
dismissed, then the line will be built
by this route, otherwise the other
route will be selected.
GeOrgia's Possibilities.
Mr.. Emerson is of New York and
still registers from that city, but he
is very much interested in the develop
ment and the possibilities of this state,
especially in the section Of the south
east. in territory tributary to his road.
He has investigated the entire country
pretty thoroughly, and finds many
signs of progress and une1oampled OPP
portunities for further development.
AS citing but two cases he said that
he finds that in a small section of
Liberty county, where some 1000 acres
of sea island cotton was planted last
season. the acreage has been increased
to $4,000 this year; and that one man
near Liberty City succeeded in clearing
during the present season $S5 from
patch of Strawberries not more than
100 feet square, and next year will
plant an acre, from which he expects
TO realize about $1,000.