| From the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph |
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| September 10, 1861 |
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| {Macon &} Brunswick Railroad |
| The writer went down this road
on Saturday as far as the track is laid -- a distance of twenty-eight
miles from town. We found the track in as good and smooth a condition
as could be expected from a road-bed not yet fully compacted by time
and use. A good deal of labor has been expended during the past season
upon the track through the Ocmulgee swamp, which being thrown up of
soft swamp clay, settled very much. This part of the road has been
raised a foot to eighteen inches, and is now considered safe from any
possible rise in the river. The grading is going on slowly and
steadily to Hawkinsville, and the company have iron for the
superstructure that far. The bridge over the Ocmulgee, which we
noticed at length while in course of erection, is the best wooden
railway bridge we ever saw, and rings like a fiddle string while the
cars are passing over it. Not a timber creaks -- everything is taut
and secure. Of course, not much can be done towards pushing this great
enterprise forward during the war; but that it will work its way along
until the, and spring into new and masterly activity the moment peace
returns, who can doubt? The energetic President, Judge A. E. Cochran,
is doing all that can be done -- is in fact completely absorbed in the
undertaking. A daily freight and passenger train has been running on
the road for the past six months. |
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