South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-09
RAIL WAY OPENS
new MARKETS
Completion of the Carolina
Clinchheld and Ohio Railway
means much to Merchants
and Manufacturers of
the Central West.

The completion of the E1khOrn Elk
tension Of the Carolina. Clinchfield
and Ohio Railway to connection
with the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
way at Elkhorn City. KY, and the in
auguratiOn OF a fast through-freight
service between the Central West and
Southeast, effective July I, 1915, re-
moved the handicap which has here
tofore restricted the trade between
these two prosperous sections. Close
neighbors, geographically the Central
West and the Southeast have been al
most strangers commercially for the
great Appalachian Mountain barrier
had heretofore stood as an impossible
obstacle 20 direct communication. The
trade of the CarO1inas and the South
eastern states, which has previously
gone to Eastern markets now lies at
our very door, for the CarOlins. Clinch-
field and Ohio Railway gives us a
quick service short line directly
through the mountains, reducing the
time OF freights by two days and Civ
ing our shippers an equal opportunity
in the markets or the Southeastern
states
The new Railway also increases our
opportunities for trade in the great
Appalachian region through which it
passes. The country is rich in natural
resOurces,-cOal hard-woods. iron,
zine. nickel, mica, kaolin. feldspar,
limestone, marble, etc. Mines are be-
ing opened, factories are being built,
agriculture, horticulture and stock
raising are stimulated and prosperous
towns and embryo cities are springing
up like mushrooms. The products Of
field, forest and mine offer our manu-
facturers a new and convenient source
Of supply for raw materials in eX-
change for our finished products Mer-
manufacturers of
tral West will do well 20 personally
investigate these new fields which arr
opened up by the completion OF the
Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Rail-
way.
The road itself extending from Elk
horn city, Ky, where connection Is
made with the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway. through southwestern Vir-
ginia. Eastern Tenn lessee and Western
North Carolina TO Spartanhurg, :. c.,
IS a revelation in modern railway engi-
neering and construction. With a max
imum grade OF 1.2 per cent. il cuts d.
rectly across four great mountain
chains. the Cumberland Clinch. Great
smoky and Blue Ridge. comprising the
Appalachian System. The Construc-
ton is of the highest standard known
TO modern railway science. involving
80 pound steel rails, a rock baflasted
roadbed and steer trestles with con-
crete piers.
The daylight ride from E1khorn City
10 Spartanburg. distance OF 277 miles
has no competitor from q scenic
standpoint in the Eastern half Of the
continent The Road follows the trail
OF D0nieI Boone through the maEnift-
cent gorge Of the Nolichucky River,
approaches Mt Mitchcl1S the tallCst
peak east or the Rockies, and works
its way up 70 crest OF the Blue Ridge
Mountains at AItapass, y G., where
a delightful resort hotel commands
q view OF the Hottest peaks and most
spectacular scenery of the entire APP
palachian system. The descent OF the
Southern slope OF the Blue Ridge in
wolves panoraT1as OF bCwildering beau
" and grandeur as half a hundred
mountain peaks. over a mile in height.
pass in magnificent review before the
astOnished gaze o. the traveller.
a wonderful road through a Won
derful country Is the exclamation OF
practically every one who for the first
time travels over The CIinohfield from
the upper Ohio Valley through the
Appalachian Summitland 10 the Pied
mont region or the Carolinas.
A hearty welcome awaits the manu-
facturer, the merchant the capitalist
and the home-seelxer. Come see the
country for yourself study IL first
hand and lay your plans for the con
quest OF its trade Write today for
descriptive literature including tho
scenic. resort. agricultural. horticul-
tural stock raising. mining and man
ufacturinr features Address Chas. T.
Mandel. A. @. u. A. Carolina. Clinch
field * Ohio Railway, johnson City,
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