The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-11
RAILROADS AT GOLDsBoRO
Interesting IuiIlors That Are I'm Cir
culatf,E- Surveys Now IN Progress.
Especial to The Messenger,

Especial to The MesSenger.1
GoIdsboro. y. G., August There is
every indication now that there will be
considerable surprises in store for
Goldsboro people in the near future.
The surveys that are being made
around the town indicate that the diff
ferent railroads centering here will
make changes that will entirely upset
the present arrangement for passenger
and traffic service here. Splitting the
town wide open with a system of
main lines and side tracks has proven
unsatisfactory to both the railroads
and the people, besides being both in
convenient and dangerous. The plan
as is guessed at now is to turn theI
railroad tracks around the city to the
west, n build a passenger depot at
the terminus of some of the prominent.
streets, probably Walnut street. A
corps of surveyors have been busy for
h past few days mapping out a line
on the western boundaries Of the city.
and this fact has given rise TO the con-
lecture as to what the railroads in
tend to do. On several occasions the
board of aldermen have petitioned the
railroads and the corporation commits
sion for a union passenger depot, a
convenience to which the city is Justly
entitled by reason of it's enormous pas
senger traffic. The aldermen have also
asked the railroads to lower their
tracks in the center of the city. This
last item would put the railroads to
considerable expense and it is thought
that i'll order to avoid this and in order
to give the passenger depot, the rail-
roads have ~inaugurated a new plan to
carry the tracks around the city. The
plan as surveyed would shorten the
distance for both the Atlantic Coast
Lin and the Southern railway and
would be more convenient for the At
lantic and North Carolina.
In addition to these arguments in fa-
yor of the proposed change is the ru-
NOR that the Southern railway intends
to bring their through freights for
Norfolk to this city, instead of leaving
their line at Selma. This would give
the Southern twenty-one more miles of
road over which to haul their trains,
and would amount to the same thing
4 III <1tiuutlC SOdSt Lllit, DIS luC ulSldllCG
| from here to Norfolk is about the same
! as from Selma to Norfolk. This change
has been rumOred for several months
and if it should be made it would oc-
casiOE no surprise. People with pro-
phetic eyes can even claim to see a
new meaning in the deep water harbo1
| at Beaufort, and in the building of the
railway across the sound between
Morehead City and Beaufort. Such
prophets predict that the Southern
railway will carry their through
freight yer the Atlantic and North
Carolina railway to Beaufort, a dis
lance that would be much, shorter
than from here to Norfolk, The seem.
ing friendly relations between the
Southern and the new management OF
the A. and n. G. and the using of the
same trains by both railroads has Civ
EN- rise to some of these conjectures
All Of these predictions are only III
mors and are not authorized by any
official of the railroads, but the fact
that prominent railroad people have
been visiting this city of late coupled
with the fact that surveys are being
made gives some color to the rumors
that are interesting the people in this
section