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A GREAT SYSTEM
To Be Formed of Railroad
Lines in Georgia.
Atlanta Constitution.]
We print herewith a most im
portant piece of news for Atlanta
aud Georgia.
Saturday night a week ago, tin
following gentlemen, Messrs. E. P.
Howell, L. Lowe, J.
W. Eriglish, R. F. Maddox, P. L.
Mynatt, went to New York to see
what could be done in the matter
of the Atlanta and Florida railroad.
Some of these represented the
railroads, others the city and oth
ers private companies, but all went
inspired with the desire to do what
was best for the Stockholders of
the Atlanta and Florida road, At
lanta and Georgia. The city owes
them a debt of gratitude for thus
giving ten days of their time at
tle-ir own expense to protect its
interest.
NEGOTIATIONS IN NEW YORK.
Several parties were consulted in
New York but we are at liberty to
give the plans of only one of the
syndicates interested.
Mr. J. 1). Williamson, president
of the Chattanooga, Rome and Car
rollton road, accompanied the partv
to New York, and put them in rela
tions with Messrs. Sully, Bogg and
Dow, the capitalists who built his
road. They are. strong men and
command unlimited capital. Only
last month they took a $3,000,000
loan of a New England state at a
rate that nets them only three per
cent. What their judgment indi
cates they have the cash to confirm.
It was first proposed that these
gentlemen should give the Atlanta
and Florida stockholders bonds for
their stock. They objected that
the road owed, SOOO,OOO, that it
would take SIOO,OOO to put it in
good condition, $150,000 for termi
nal facilities in Atlanta, $150,000
for equipments, making $1,000,000
that the road would cost, or about
SIO,OOO a mile, and claimed they
could not add to this $400,000 in
bonds to take up the stock of the
Atlanta company.
It was then urged that the good
will of the Atlanta stockholders
was worth something and that the
syndicate might make a concession
to advantage. They finally offered
to give the Atlanta stockholders
fifty cents of the par value of their
stock in bonds (which would take ,
$200,000 in bonds) ami add $300,-
000 in preferred stock.
This proposition was submitted ,
to Mr. Lod Hill and the friends of ,
the road, who asked that it be ,
modified and $300,000 in bonds be
given, and $200,000 in preferred ,
stock. .Messrs. Sully, Bogg and .
Dow declined to make this change
ami Mr. Hill then agreed to come ,
home and submit their proposition, |
whicii is $200,000 in bonds and ,
$300,000 in preferred stock to the ,
stockholders.
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If this proposition is accepted ;
M .-srs. Sully, Boggs and Dow ,
through President M illiamson, -
agree to build the road from Chat
tanooga to Savannah, Brunswick, ‘
Port Royal, S. ('., through Atlanta !
within twelve months, and to give ,
it full equipment and terminal fa- I
cilities in all the cities it tom lies. :
Here is the scheme: They now
have a road running from Chattan- 1
ooga to Carrollton through Rome.
They are now building this load i
from Carrollton to Columbus. The\ I
propose to start at Cedartown and 1
build direct to Atlanta, a distance
of about fifty miles. From Atlanta ,
they would take the Atlanta and '
Florida road as far as Gulloden. 1
There they would build direct into ;
Macon, and from Macon they would ,
build direct to Savannah, or such
Other points as may hereafter be -
agreed upon. They would proba- ?
blv not use the Empire ami Haw
kinsville road as it would deflect
from an air-line if they went to '
Savannah. They would use per- |
haps the graded portion of the 1
Dublin and Savannah road, and Mr. <
Hughes is now on his way to At- -
lanta to consult. This route going
direct from Knoxville through Ma- -
con to Savannah, will give line ;
Doni Atlanta to Savannah about :
fifty mJ.es shorter than the present i
line.
i here is another route, however, -
from Atlanta southward. They
may use the Atlanta and Florida
to Fort Valley, and thus miss Ma
con and go by Hawkinsville to
Savannah, using the Empire and
Hawkinsville road. Or they may
go to Brunswick or Port Royal and
takes the directest line from Macon
to either of these points. The
route from Atlanta to the south is
not yet decided—further than the
guarantee of President Williamson
and his associates that there shall
be a direct and independent line
from Atlanta to deep water, either
at Port Royp.l, Brunswick or Savan
nah.
Now let us study the situation.
To build fifty miles from Cedar
town to Atlanta would give an inde
pendent line from Chattanooga to
Atlanta. The new road would be
built through Salt Springs by the
Chattahoochee Brick company,cros
sing the river at that point. A
combination would be effected with
the Marietta and North Georgia
road to build across from Marietta
to Salt Springs and there connect
with the new line and use its track
into Atlanta and join it in securing
terminal facilities and building de
pots in the city. This would bring
two new roads into Atlanta.
By building twenty-five miles
from Colloden to Macon, Atlanta
would have a new line to Macon,
and a new system opening an inde
pendent line from Macon to Chat
tanooga. Thus seventy-five miles
of railroad building over compara
tively level country would extend
the now disconnected Chattanooga,
Rome and Columbus railroad into
Atlanta, and Macon from Chattan
ooga, with other lines to Columbus.
It would also give them over the
Georgia Midland an independent
line from Atlanta to Columbus and
by connecting with the Georgia
Southern at Macon, an independent
line to Valdosta.
By completing the line from Ma-
- ......
eon to Savannah or Brunswick, At
lanta and Georgia would have an
independent line from Chattanooga
to the ocean. That line would have
a connection with the Columbus
from Carrollton, with Griftin by the
Griffin and North Alabama, with
Atlanta and with Maeon, with Col
umbus by the Georgia Midland,
with Valdosta and thence, with
Florida by the Georgia Southern,
with Athens and eventually with
the east by the Covington and Ma
con with North Georgia with the
Marietta and North Georgia road,
with Hawkinsville by the Hawkins
ville and Empire road. This sys
tem would practically cover the en
tire state of Georgia, and would
give the ramified system good con
nections to the west and the east,
and with the ocean on the south.
A great advantage it would have i
would be in the fact that it could !
be built for SIO,OOO a mile, which ’
would give it “fixed charges” of '
only SSOO a mile against a fixed i'
charge on the Central system of :
SI,BOO a mile. It could, therefore,
take care of itself even if a fight it
was forced on it.
The Atlanta committee with
President Williamson and others,' 1
had a long talk with Mr. Clyde,and I*
when Captain Howell asked him!
what steamship facilities could be i
had for Atlanta, or Brunswick for.
a new system he replied :
“All that you want. You need!
not have the slightest fear of this.'
1 on touch the seacoast with a new I
system and 1 give you my word
there will be no lack of tiie veryi,
best steamship connections for both ;,
passengers and freight.”
Messrs. Sully, Bogg and Dow !
will come to Rome on Mav 2d J ;
where they will be met by President !:
Williamson who will take them in .
his private car over the road, into i!
Atlanta, Macon, Columbus, Fort!
\ alley, Hawkinsville, Brunswick,
Savannah and Port Royal. They 11
will bring experts with them anil
will make a thorough survev of the,!
situation, and if the Atlanta and ,'
Florida company accepts their of-!
fer the work will be begun at once
and completed within twelve months
A number ot wealthy Georgians!
have joined hands with them and:
have agreed to take $500,000 worth !
of the bonds of the new company,
paying cash therefor in order to
give Georgia an interest in the
work. It is estimated that it will
take $4,000,000 to build the broken
gapsand give tlie entire system a
thoroughly first-class eq ipment.
So much for the scheme of Presi
dent Williamson and his friends.
OKLAHOMA.
i
The Gathering of the People
> on the Borders of the
I Promised Land.
r Arkansas City, Kans., April 21.
1 —Today there is an absolute calm
1 proceeding tomorrow’s rush !
1 The city is comparatively quiet,
5 save for the influx of visitors by
3 rail. The morning trains brought
1 in an aggregate of over sixteen
1 coaches loaded down with people.
' There was
SCARCELY.A WOMAN IN THE CROWD,
nearly all being fully armed men.
The after noon trains brought more
and at least 6,000 people will come
tonight. Not many wagons have
gone through during the day, and
most of the boomers in them will
settle on the Cherokee strip untit
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turned off by the soldiers. It is
the general belief among the visi
tors here that
i
t THE SPRINGE* BILL IS NOW LAW
I and that the president can, by proc- I
, lamation, open al! the territorj- i
necessary to settlement. Local at-'
torneys and others try to disabuse
these illusions, but it is a waste of
time, and so warm is the argument
on this point that hot disputes on
the street corners and at the depot
are frequent. If any man could
have delivered
A THOUSAND SPADES AND PICKS
today lie could have sold them for
ten times their value. If not ex-1
actly a fortune for a spade, cries ’
almost as wild are heard. The
good natured citizent have, in many
instances, met the demand by sell
ing their garden tools, and to their
credit be it said, they seldom a<> |
cept any of the absurd offers made
and only accept fair value. The
opinion gains ground that it is only
necessary for a man to
TURN A SOD ON A TOWN LOT
in any Oklahoma city to secure a
title to it. An interant sigu pain
ter is selling small signs with a no
tice that
* *
This Lot Belongs to
JOHN SMITH.
or whatever the name of the squat - ;
ter may be. There are thousands i
bound for Guthrie and although!
there are 1,500 soldiers here
HLOOSHED IS EXPECTED.
Trains are drawn up on the track
ready to pull out at 8 in the morn
ing. Fortunately the side track
accommodation here is exception
ally good. There are long rows all ;
along the track of freight cars.
Four of these are from Armour’s i
packing house at Kansas City, and
and there are 300 other cars of per
ishable goods. These are all for i
Gusthrie, and scarcely any freight
is here for Oklahoma City. Then
are
SIX CARS OF IRON SAFES,
three with newspaper outfits, over
100 with lumber, and countless;
others with the requisites for a big
city.
Reports of fatal affrays are com
ing in fiorn all directions, but they
lack confirmation. Here perfect
perfect order prevails.
This end of the Oklahoma coun
try is not a farmer’s paradise by
lond odds. The soil is light and
sandy. The grass very scarce and
what little timber there is has no
great value. The northern end is
said to be much worse than the in
terior and men who are passing in
and out say the land gets gradually
better, until where the Cimarron is
reached, the soil is black and ex
ceptionally deep.
The military guard at the point
just where the railroad passes the
boundary is redieulously inadequate.
Nine colored boomers with their
families and wagons, passed in yes
terday, and have located about four !
! miles down the railroad track.
Over 300 other men have gone over.
These will all be turned out in the :
morning. The soldiers will patrol
right up the railroad track and
i make a final effort to clear out the
squatters.
The woods of Oklahoma are
swarming with boomers, many of
■
whom are armed and hence a com
plete disarmment cannot be accorn
> plished. The advance of the army
of wagons from Arkansas City has
reached the Stateline of the Ponca’s
trail west of here. The boomers
1 say that four wagons were lost and
at least three men drowned in the
Cimarron, but the names of those
• lost are not known.
Tonight being the last chance for
i persons bound for Oklahoma to
. move in time to reach that country
by noon tomorrow, the union depot
was thronged with as motley a
crowd as ever assembled in it. The
Santa Fe, in addition to two regu
lar trains, sent out a special of 11
coaches, representing nearly every
line entering the city. The Rock
Island also sent, out an immense
train. Innumerable cases of pock
etpickers have occurred during the
past week, both in the depot and
on the trains. Today it was ascer
tained that three or four sharpers i
have been working a very smooth
' game. They would board an Ok
| lahoma train, gain the confidence!
; of a car load of “boomers” and fi
nally suggest the organizateon of a
colony. The sharpers would pro
duce their pocketbooks and Bug- j
gnst a common fund and the actual
settlers would follow suit. The |
common fund idea invariably failed \
of consummation, however, but the
pickpockets improved the opportu-i
nity by noting the size of each i
i man’s purse, and its place of con-'
] cealment. The sharpers would ride j
out a hundred miles or more, and ■
by that time would have succeeded
in reaping their harvest. No ar-j
rests have been made yet.
Wichita, Kan., April 22.—At ex
actly noon the gates to the promis- {
ed land were thrown open to about .
15,000 people on the old Caldwell I
and Fort Reno trail. It was one of
the most exciting times ever seen
in the West. The people seemed !
very much excited and as they were I
strung for miles up and down the j
line they rushed in as if it was the j
I only land unoccupied in the United
I States. They moved on quickly,
everyone seeming confident they
could get the special 160 acres that
■ they desired. Some were scattering
j towards the claims, but most of!
! them are moving rapidly towards i
: the land offices.
Out of the dust which arose to-1
wards the East could be seen after
■ he train had readied the summit;
:of a high ridge, a wagon caravan
fully two miles in length which was)
being sped to the utmost speed of
| its horses. These caravans were
I plainly outdistanced by horse-back
! riders and after several miles of i
I territory has been traversed il was
seen that the rider had been win
ning the best prizes.
CITY OF AX HOVE.
No one who has never seen a
Western town take form and shape!
lean comprehend how quickly a full
I Hedged city with a double deck
' boom can be put up in running mo-!
lion. Guthrie already has its main
street, its Harrison street, its Guth- j
rie avenue and Oklahoma avenue
and this noon it was a wilderness.
In the afternoon at 4 o’clock the
first municipal election occurred.
The election notice appeared today
in the Oklahoma Herald, a daily
paper published at Guthrie, on the
first day of its existence. A coun
cil will be elected at the same time.
Nearly ten thousand votes were
polled.
The new city is flooded with busi
ness cards of all descriptions, rep
resenting every line of trade and
business, every profession and every
occupation imaginable. A mass of
mail is expected to reach Guthrie
postoffice every day. It is now
being run by a postal el;-rk detail
ed for that purpose, but Mr. Flynn,
■of Kiowa, Kas., lately appoint..!
; postmaster, will take charge in a
day or two.
The fact that Ch vreul lived to
the age of 103 on a very temperate .
diet, perhaps proves nothing. Cap
tain Lahrbush died in New York
a few years ago, aged nearly 125. ■
and until the last he consumed everv
day enough odium to kill the whole
: company with which he fought un
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