The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-05-11
THE RICH PEE DEE COUNTRY BECOMING
NET WORK OF RAILROADS
REACHING FOR TIDE--WATER
Seaboard Air Line Figures Promi"
2 nently in Railroad Development
in this Section. Comprehensive
Review of the Situation.

railroad Is 10 be extended from
Brownsville to Sellers at once, and
is to be completed by September.
All the preliminaries have been
completed, and grading and con-
struction is to be begun this week
or next. There are now many car
loads OF crOSSties stacked up at the
end of the present line at Browns
vile, awaiting the construction
force.
y The Route.
After making several surveys the
route has been finally located. 1t
defects little eastward from a
straight line, and runs for several
miles near the Bennettsville and
Marion public road. In this way it
runs on the high sandy plains and
misses most of the broken slopes
and branch heads that divide tho
nigh lands from the low lands
Beginning at Brownsville. the
line bends considerably to the east
ward, crossing the lands of H. NJ
hodges, estate of Henry Rogers
Carabo, Bailey, Ammons, G. w
Harper, c. p. Hodges Argyle place.
Chum Jackson, Steve Smith, Jack
Crowley, Sheriff S. V. Lane. and
passes about 500 yards west of
kirby's cross roads. Thence it,
crosses the lands of Messrs Lundy.
Giles Love, Fore aid ]. Rich Hayes,
passing about 200 yards west of Mr.
Mr.. Hayes residence Continuing
> 1t crosses the large plantation OF +.
Llde Berry. going about 200 yards
east OF Mr. Berry'S home: then the
lands of Lorenzo ID. Manship and
the Tilghman Lumber Company, en-
terlhS INTO the west side of the
town of Sellers is nearly IL miles.
The rights-of-way have practic-
ally all been obtained. The two
tlrSt places crossed were settled by
arbltration, one man being the ar
, Dltrator in each case For the
henry Rogers estate, Senator J. b.
Green was agreed upon as arbi-
traitor. and he assessed the railroad
$500. II. NJ. Hodges and the rail
road company selected c. f. ENum
as arbitrator and be fixed the sum
to be paid at $500.
Heavy Rails to KoIIock.
The road from Bennettsville to
ho'lock is now being laid with so
pound rails. The old rails will be
} used on the Sellers extension. The
work of replacing the rails has de-
layed the beginning of construc-
uon on the extension.
; Another Road Coming.
There is another railroad being
the line OF the b. and c. extern
!, sion.
several gears ago, the Marion
County Lumber Company, owned by
the Camps, started to build a road
northward from Marion, and got a
charter 10 come to Bennettsville
under the name OF the Marion and
Southern railroad. They had large
timber holdings up the Pee Dee
river into Marlboro county. They
started TO build the road and got il
ten or twelve miles from Marion.
) They crossed the main line of the
Coast Line about two miles south
west OF Sellers, and built their road
up two or three miles this side of
Sellers. Then the panic came on,
the company got into financial
stralghts, and work was suspended
for three or four years.
Recently this piece of road has
been bought by men who are close
ly Identified with the Seaboard Air
Line, which has Il branch running
from Lumberton to Marion. 1t is
said that the buyers have contract
ed 10 extend the roads as far north
ward as the Marion County Lum-
Der Company has timber, which is
up near Drake and Blenheim.
The surveys of the b. and c. and
IHe VI. ana >. are nearly two miles
apart ~ Sellers, but gradually CON
verge TIL they cross each other Just
below Brownsville, from where the
Nj. and ). survey comes up on the
east side of the b. and G. toward
Blenheim.
Work has been commenced again
or the NJ. and S. and il is being
pushed northward. 1t is now about
half way from Sellers to Browns
Vile
VIII They Connect?
INC general impression among
outsiders has been that the roals
would form some kind of coaIi-
tlon or arrangement by which the
two roads would connect. The of
llclals of the road say, however.
that they have no intention of con
meeting, and that each road is go
ing to build it's own line, and the
surveys and construction are now
leading the public to this concIu-
SioIi
Ihel" are many unconfirmed ru-
mors. however, as to what may ul-
lihGtely happen. One of these is.
that the NJ. and s., or Seaboard,
is laying it's plans to buy the =
and c., so as to connect the IMm-
nerton and Marion branch with
the main line which is to be built
from Marion to Charleston.
Another rumor, which is also
Without confirmation, is that the
NJ. and s.. if it fails to get the p.
and C.. will build straight north
ward via Blenheim and Bennetts-
vile to Hamlet.
Four Roads Close Together.
Inc building of the two new
roads will put four roads running
north and south NOT far nnnrt In