| From the Augusta Constitutionalist |
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| January 19, 1865 |
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| The Columbia and Augusta
Railroad {Columbia & Augusta RR} |
| We have been much on the Ridge
of late, says the Edgefield Advertiser, and in that section,
this important road is coming on finely. The gentlemen who have
contracts for work on the Road between Capt. Clint. Ward's and Lieut.
Louis Youngblood's, (a distance of twelve miles,) are working steadily
and energetically. Several of them informed us that the grading (along
the entire track) was, at least, half finished. During the late
Legislature, Mr. Gardner, chief engineer of this work, informed the
Committee appointed to consider the matter, that with 2,800 slaves
(the tithes of Lexington and Edgefield being appropriated to feeding
them,) the road could be completed by the middle or last of May.
Whether such a force has been, or is to be, put at his disposal, we
have not ascertained. Surely, if either the Government or the Company
have the merest ordinary energy, this now all-important route will be
very rapidly pushed through to completion. We are under the impression
that it will be. |
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