The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-28
.S0UTHERNERS ARE
BUILDING ROADS
a Georgia florida Line That Is.
to Become Great by
Consolidation.
NEW LINES In VIRGINIA.
Roads That Will Put Winches-
ter i'll Quicker Comn,unica-
ton With Outer World.
Especial to The rlmes- Dispatch.1

Special to The Times isPntch.1
BALTIaICI iJ5 July 2I.-a notable
development at this time In Southern
roilroad undertakings Is the successful
bit OF financing giving assurance that
tile seven small railroads to be known
a., the Georgia s. FLORIDA Railway are
TO be connected By building about lOf
miles of new line referring to this
Iiojccct which. with the purchase Of
the roads. the rebuilding of portions
OF existing lines and the building of
new ones. Will cost between $5000,000
and sG.u000Oo the manufacturers Re.
cord in this weeks Issue says:
The lines acquired and to be con-.
ncc;eG arc the Augusta & Florida Rail-
way, thirty iniles: the Millen Il South
western Railroad firty-three miles; the
Atlantic s. Gulf Short Line Raiiroau
twenty miles. the Ooillu 4 Valdosta
Railroad (tiazlchurgt diHision) thirty
miles the Douglas. Augusta 6; Gulf
Railway, fifty-seven miles; the Nash
vile q Sparks Railroad, twelve miles,
and the Nnidos:a Southern Railway,
twenty eight miles, or total OF 23C
miles OF completed railroad at present.
The company has ulso an option
upon 45 per cent. of the stock Of the
Savannah 6: Statesboro Railway, thirty
three miles long, running from Cuyler
u Statcsboro, Ga. This latter may be
absorbed by the system, but, leaving
!, out. the building OF the proposed
links will give the Georgia & Florida
u total Of between $50 and $50 miles
of railroad from Augusta. Ga, to
Madison. Fla. the latter point being
about only forty miles from the Gulf
OF Mexico, whittier 1t Is contemplated
to build an extension to suitable
port Other extensions are also con-
templated to Savannah Ga. and a
line might be built from Augusta to
Columbia, S. c., about seventy miles.
making d valuable connection with the
6caboard Air Line.
"a striking feature about this rail-
road is that 1t will run through a sec
ton OF Georgia much in need OF north
and south trunk line facilities, and +.
will cross at right angles all the prin-
clral railroads In that section OF the
K State. namely the Southern Railway,
the Atlantic Coast Line. the Seabord
Air Line tho Central Of Georgia and
the Georgia Southern & Florida Rail
way"
Current reports about plans of the
Winchester & Washington City Rail-
way Company and the Great Falls &
Old Dominion Company. while prema-
ture. point to possibilities of electric
railway building in n promising sec
ton. Preliminary surveys. distances
a- q -. -. 7
etc, are being looked into by the Grea,
Falls & Old Dominion Railroad III 9
general way. with a view#to a gradua
extension OF the road up the Potomac
Valley to Frederick, Nd. and possibly
tn Harper's Ferry and Charlestown. w
Va, and Winchester. Va. The Winches.
ter & Washington City Railway Com
pnny has not yet given definite con
sideration to the feature Of It's charter
providing for the construction Of {
railroad from Winchester. Va. by wa,
of Bluemont to Washington. D. C. 1t!
work thus far has been confined t
the construction OF dam. a racewa,
and power-h house, and the installation
OF machinery to complete its power
plant upon the Shenandoah River fo1
light and power. This has been com
plated, and the current is now being
distributed in Charlestown, w. Va, ant
Bcrryville aand Winchester, Va.