| From the Athens (Tenn.) Post |
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| August 30, 1861 |
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| East Tennessee & Georgia Railroad |
| The annual meeting of
Stockholders occurs next Wednesday, 4th proximo. The
Directors meet on Tuesday, the day previous. |
| Notwithstanding the disturbed
state of the country and the general depression of business, the
management of the road will show a very gratifying result for the
working year just ended – the increase in the nett earnings
amounting, as we learn, to $66,000. As this paper was among the
earliest and earnest advocates for the construction of the line, it
affords us more than ordinary pleasure to see the prophecies of its
opponents failing one after another before the untiring energy and
skill of the officers at its head and the constantly increasing
resources of the country it traverses. We are just at the beginning. A
few years more will prove that the sanguine calculations of the early
friends of the enterprise, which were broadly ridiculed at the time,
were under, rather than overwrought. |
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