| From the Charleston Courier |
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| December 23, 1863 |
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| Port Royal Rail Road |
| The Augusta Chronicle says: |
| We have been favored with a copy of the
annual reports of the President, Chief Engineer and Treasurer, of the
Port Royal Rail Road Company to the stockholders. The statements of
the officers exhibit a gratifying energy and zeal in carrying the work
forward, and must convince any one, that the road, when completed,
will be a paying "institution." It passes through some of
the richest sections of South Carolina. |
| Our space will not permit even a synopsis
of the several reports. We would state, however, that over thirty of
the eighty-five miles between this city and the Charleston &
Savannah Rail Road are graded. With the force now employed, the entire
distance between the two points may be graded in about two years. Not
withstanding the embarrassments attending the war, the enterprise is
being successfully prosecuted. The President in his report says that
when peace shall invite commerce to our shores, "we will stand
ready to place Augusta, destined to hold an exalted place among the
cities of the South, within one hundred and five miles of the deep
water of Port Royal, when she, and Macon, and Atlanta, will be sending
the rich Southern and Western products that will flow in upon them to
be carried across the broad ocean in exchange for the merchandize of
every nation, relieved of all corrosive tariffs." |
| The officers of the company are: R. J.
Davant, President; a Board of Twelve Directors; C. S. Gadsden, Chief
Engineer; A. C. McGillivray, Secretary and Treasurer; B. L.
Willingham, Superintendent, &c. |
| We invite the attention of our capitalists
to this fine field for investments. |
| We invite the attention of the Secretary
of War, and others concerned, to the fact that certain squatters and
trespassers called Yankees are occupying Port Royal and its environs. |
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