The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-06
ATLANTIC COAST
LINE TO ATLANTA
May Build Its Own Road to Con
meet With Louisville and
Nashville.
NEW sEABoARD TERMINAL
Deepwater and Tidewater Rail
way Will Be Extended to
Charleston, w. Va.

According TO a report from Atlanta
Ga, the Atlantic Coast Line will either
build its own road between Atlanta and
Macon Ca, IS miles, or else make q
traffic arrangement with one of the ex-'
isting roads in order to secure u con-
nection between the Louisville and Nash
VILE in Atlanta and the Coast Line at
Macon, which is reached over the Macon,
Dublin and Savannah Railroad. 1t is also
possible that the company will build q
cutoff from Nidalia TO point between
Jesup and Savannah about GO miles. In
order to make a more direct route. If 1t
is impossible to make n traffic arrange
ment with the Southern Railway or the
Central of Georgia the Coast Line will,
it is said, undoubtedly build its own
line. According 10 the talk about the
situation. the present purpose of tho
Coast Line Is only 10 provide a through
connection with the Louisville and Nash
Vile via Macon and Atlanta, and not
10 become a competitor for local bust
ness in Georgia. although if it built its
own road its attitude would be changed
Rogersville to Moccasin Gap.
The Hoston River Railway has been
chartered in Tennessee to build Il line
from Rogersvlle to Moccasin Gap, near
Gaze City, Va. about 20 or % miles. and
no far from Bristol. 1t will follow the
valley of the Hoston River and will con-
meet with both the Southern Railway and
the Virginia and Southwestern Railway.
Construction is to begin in the spring.
and the road will open rich farming
and mineral country.
a report that the Virginia and South
western Railway, Henry K. McHarg' $
line, was interested was denied by j. ii.
Frantz, one of the incorporators. The
Others interested are j. n. Frantz. j. b.
Wright, Howard Cornick, Charles o..
Iutz and John NJ. Thornburg, all of
Knoxville. Tenn.
1t is said that three of the incorpora-
tors are connected with the Louisville
and Nashville. Railroads legal depart
ment ut Knoxville.
The route to be followed by the line
was seecuAdr Il long time ago by the
Knoxville. ard Bristol Railroad Company,
and while survey was made, the line
was never built.
Make Southport Terminal.
The announcement that the Seaboard
Air Line will lay 90-pound rails on its
line running southeast from Hamlet, n.
c., to Wilmington, N. c., is accepte as
indicating a purpose of the company TO
operate in connection with the South and
Western Railway that is now being ex-
tended to Rutherfordton n. c., and
Spartansburg, S. c., both of which are on
the seaboard system. It has been antici-
pated for a long time that the construc-
ton of the South and Westerns extern
sion would result in the making of ans
other great coal terminal either at Will
nngton n. c., or at Southport, but this
declaration that section of the Sea-
board which has hitherto been of minor
Importance would be brought up to q
high state of track efficiency Is the first
sign to Indicate that some such terminal
plans are under serious consideration.
Reports from Wilmington say that tho
Seaboard is making surveys for an eX-
tension. possibly to Southport, which is
about 20 miles south of that city
Deepwater to Charleston.
An interesting report is circulated in
West Virginia to the effect that the Deep
water and Tidewater Railways, which are
being built TO make continuous line
from the Kanawha River to Norfolk. Va,
will be extended westward from Deep
water w. Va. along the Kanawha to
Charleston, W. Va. connecting there with
the recently completed Coal and Coke
Railway, owned BY Henry q. Davis,
Stephen p. l1lkins and others. This
would give the Deepwater and Underwater
line a connection to Cumberland and
Baltimore, Md, as well as to various
points in Vest Virginia, and when the
Western Maiyland's extension from Cum
berland to Pitsburg is built as projected,
that important city would also be
reached. The distance from Deepwater
to Charleston is about thirty-tive miles.
20 that the amount of new track neces-