The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-20
MAY LINK CITIES BY TROLLEY.
Talk of CoIumbia.Augusta Line is Re-
vived-COmmissi0n Issued to Pc
titiOnerS.

Columbia, Aug. 15.-The importance
of Columbia as commercial centre
will be vastly increased when the
Carolina and Georgia Railway COM
pany build their proposed line from
this city to North Augusta, a commits
sion having been issued to this COM
pany this morning by the Secretary of
State, the petitioners begin James u.
Jackson, A. A. Walden, L. J. Williams,
J. L. Barksdale, Walter NJ. Jackson, Jr.,
all of North Augusta, S. c., and Frank
E. Courtney, o. Augusta, Ga. The
company organizes with minimum
capital stock of 100000 with the right
to ultimately increase this to $3,000,O00
or more if they so desire.
In the petition the promoters de-
clare their intention of building rail-
road or electric line from Columbia to
North Augusta, distance of seventy
five miles, and the route the line will
follow is through the city of Columbia,
thence through the townships of Con-
garee, Lexington, Platt Springs, Boil
ing Springs and Black Creek, in Lex
ington county, and the townships Of
Giddy Swamp, Rock Springs and such
towns as may be along such route, and
also the townships of Gregg and
Schultz, and the towns of Grainiteville,
Warrenville, Bath, Langly and North
Augusta, in Aiken county. Either elec-
tricity or steam will be the motive
power used.
1t will be noticed that one of the in
corporators for this new road and the
moving spirit behind it is James u.
Jackson, the general manager of the
Aiken-Augusta electric line, and it is
presumed that the new railroad will
absorb or become part of the Aiken
Augusta system and thus give a
through trolley line from Columbia to
Augusta, Ga.
It is stated here that this road will
surely be built and work is expected
to commence at an early date on the
construction Time and again for sew
eral years it has been talked that an
electric line was going to be built from
Columbia to Augusta, but the matter
never got beyond the talking stage.
However, it is said that business is
meant this time.
Is the Seaboard Air Line railroad be-
hind this proposed electric line? Such
is whispered here, and it is intimated
that the Southern Power company is
interested. If this is true it will mean
big things and the supposition that
these two powerful corporations,
which are closely affiliated concerns,
are behind the new road lends conf
dence to the project. 1t is we'll known
that the Southern Power company has
! been trying to get foothold in Co.
lumbia for several years. They. are
now engaged in developing new pow
er plants On the Savannah river, and
| it is natural that they are looking to-
wards the territory embraced in the
route through which this proposed
railroad will run.
The section between here and Au-
gusta is a fertile farming country, en-
! bracing some of the best farming lands
in the State. It is Southern railway
territory, and if the Seaboard is be-
hind the proposed electric line it will
be only carrying out the plan which
has been the result of building the in
terurban system of electric roads
through the Piedmont section in North
and South Carolina.
In November, 1910, a group of gen
tlemen, Allen w. Jones, of Midwife
Ca: A. E. Padgett, of Edgefeld; Dan
Crosland, of Aiken; G. r. Coffin an'
C. c. Howard, of Augusta, Ga, obtain.
ed from the secretary of state char
ter for the Georgia and Carolina Rel
way company, with a minimum CAPT