Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-02-01
SOUTHERN BUILDING OUTLET.
The New Jine Out of Knoxville May
E| Go to Seneca.
(Knoxville Sentinel }

NNHoNVllle sentinel.
The Bushnell extension Of the
Southern Railway will give Knoxville
another and very valuable outlet to
the Carolinas and the Atlantic coast.
+ At present there is a controversy
over the ownership Of the title Of
land along the proposed right-of-way
| or the extension from point on the
North Carolina-Tennessee boundary
| to point about sixteen miles into
| North Carolina.
1t Is said that the Southern Rail-
way Company desires to build the
! extension along Little Tennessee
| river, parallel to the boundary, and
! save q difficult cut over the noun
talns III North Carolina but that the
fiSht or way Is in dispute. 1t is said
that the landowners desire to build
| dam In the. Little Tennessee river,
| put that this might cause an over
! HOW and an inundation Of the tracks.
me matter will doubtless be cleared
up within a few months--at least
that seems to be the general opinion
and 1t is said that the work on the
extension will then be pushed as
rapidly as possible.
The Bushnell extension Is of para
mount interest to Knoxville. Within
| the past few years veritablo net
work OF railways and extensions
have placed this city in touch with
| the markets of all Of the surround
ing country, but it is said that the
Bushnell extension is needed TO
thoroughly complete the network.
On account of the necessity Of get
| ing the exports Of this section to
the coast at the least mileage possi-
pie, the southern Railway Company
n Il l.>
SION. 1t Is proposed to go over the
old>Rat'.n Gap route, part of which
has already been surveyed. Until
the new extension reached the
boundary line the work was rapid
ana the new road was pushed. AS
| soon as the present controversy is
| cleared up there. seems little doubt
that 1T will be pushed quite as rap
idly into the Carolinas as it was in
| Tennessee.
The route of the Bushnell extern
sion from Knoxville is over the Knox
vile and Augusta railroad to Mary
vile, distance Of 1G miles. From
Maryville 1T was proposed to build
an extension to Bushnell, n. c., a
distance OF G5 miles. From Bushnell
1t IS proposed to build the road to
travel over the Murphy extension
branch Of the Southern Railway to
Almond. n. c., thence on new line
to Franklin, n. c.
From Franklin the route rms
through Rabun Gap to either Corne-
liza, Ga, or Seneca, S. G. Corneia is
put miles north Of Atlanta
Mileage of Proposed Extension.
The mileage Of the proposed eX-
tension is as follows: Knoxville to
Maryville, over K. and A. Railroad,
16 miles; Maryvile to Abrams
Creek, 25.6 miles; Abrams Creek to
TennesseeCarolina boundary line,
1925; State line to Bushnell, N. c.,
26.14 miles; Bushnell to Almond, s
miles; Franklin to Cornelia, over
the Tallulah Railroad, controlled by
the Southern Railway Company, 81
miles. Total from Knoxville to Cor
nelia, 1854 miles.
The chief objective point is, of
course, the Atlantic coast The adj
vantage Of the Bushnell extension is
that 1t will afford very low grade
being only 35 feet to the mile, which
is considered slight. Fast time can
be made and long trains can be haul
ed over such route, thus very con-
siderably facilitating the handling of
traffic.
The road is being built by subsid-
larry corporations Of the Southern
Railway Company, that portion in
Tennessee being constructed as the
Tennessee and Carolina Southern,
and the section in Carolina being
done in the name Of the Carolina
and Tennessee road.