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Monoy for tho new railroad is provided. It means the opening up of tho finest part of Henderson County. Ten miles' of w'txtor -powors
in this soction. which moans millions when developed. An additional 330,000.00 worth of property, to the county. Said to bo tho
most favorable proposition ever submitted to tho voters of a.ny community Enthusiasm growsjdaily for tho groat project.
Prosperity and Progress
Will Follow in Wake
off the Blew Railroad
incornbe County to
. Vote on $200,000
orid Issie for Rotd
What the Ashoville Papers Hqlvo to Say About
The Monitor. Sentiment Strongly in Favor
of the Bond Issue on tho Terms Offered.
Buncombe Coxinty Wa.nts the New R.oad
The keenest Interest in the new rail
road is universal all over Henderson
county, and each day sees the enthusl?
asm for the great scheme grow. - -
The manifold advantages resulting
from the new road are dally becoming
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more apparent to the voters, and the de
sire tor its construction seems to be
uoanlmous.
Probsbly no betier proposition was
ever submitted to the voters of any com
nunity. It is on a strictly business ba
sil, erery interest of the tax payers of
Henderson county has been safely guard
ed, and the money for the great enter
prise is ready as soon as the voters say
they want the road by voting the $50,000
worth of bonds.
The advantages to the county result-'
inf from the new road are so many, so
varied and so self apparent that it is
needless to repeat them here. Bat one
fact should mot bt lest sight of. That
if that two competing railroads will pass
through Henderson county. It will no
lenger be a one-railroad county, but will
have strong competing lines, which
means better rates and better service,
and many other things.
Buncombe county will vote on an issue
of $200,000 bonds, and this is what the
Ashe? ills papers have to say about it.
Bunoonbe ceunty and Asheville are to
have another railroad.
In fact they are to have two new rail
ways cempeting with the Southern for
not only is rail line to Rutherf ordtori" to
be built, and thus the hopes of a decade
realized, but there are brightest of pros
pects that city and county will have an
other railread to Knoxville.
Well planned and approved by sound
business men and substantial citizens of
Buncombe and other counties the reali
ztlon last evening that the people of
Buncombe have it in their power to se
cure railway competition caused genuine
enthusiasm in business circles and it is
certain that a wave of joyful response
will come from eve ry part of the coun
ttyi from, every merchant, and work
fein, each of whom pays a heavy toll on
Purchases because there is now but one
way system herebecause he is to be
freed frees this imdirect tax and practi
cally at no expense to him or the county.
The board of county commissioners met
Juterday and after cordially approving
b plans submitted to the members by
committee of citizens,' directed that
J Popular election be held October 17th,
'or the purpose of voting a loaa' of two
hundred thousand dollars to the oom
Pay which is to build the rail way from
Ajbeville to the Haywood county line
Jbere connection will be made with
road to Knoxville. The terms of
lh loan will be set forth In detail but
ith the statement that the loan will be
tv a firs mnrfcratr on actual
road and not franchises tho route
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and plans for the new railroad should
first be stated.- ' .
The Appalachian Interurban Railroad
Company is to build from Asheville
really to Rutherford, although under
its charter it as a corporation will reach
to fiat Cave, a separate corporation call
ed the Bati Cave railway Company do
Ling the actual building to Rutherford, a
total distance of "45 miles via Hender-
sonville. - and from-Asheville to the
Haywood county line about Turnpike,
the Appalachian Interurban is to con
struct a road about ten miles in length
which will join the road to be built by
the South Atlantic Transcontinental
Railroad Company fronts Knoxville
through Waynesville and Brevard to
Greenville, H. C, and from Waynesville
to join the Interurban. The Bat Cave
Railway Company is to build as part of
the Appalachian Interurban system a
road from Bat Cave through Polk coun
ty to a point on the new South and
Western railway. Thus Buncombe is
to have connection not only at Ruther
ford with the Seaboard system, but at
Knoxville with the great L. & N. as
well as the coming S. and W;
On firm foundation the plaas are laid,
not on the projects of promoters, but
through the actiye and incessant work
for months of the Merchants Associa
tion through its railroad committee and
it with such an introduction that the
plans were approved by the county
commissioners, every one a resident of
the county, and will go before the peo
ple of the oounty for enthusiastic ap
proval at the polls. It will put the
county on the direct line from the cen
ter of population of the ' United States
and the great grain fields and. coal
mines of the middle West to Southport
or Wilmington, the natural ports to the
Panama canal, and it will bring to the
county for construction millions of mon
ey to be turned loose here, and always
more transportation facilities, better
facilities, cheaper rates.
The money is provided for the road
building, of that the committee and
county commissioners were amply satis
fied before they acted, and a responsi
ble contracting company, a local North
Carolina company, called the Appala
chian Construction Company, has un
dertaken the work of building and pro
duced satisfactory evidence of its ability
to do the work, giving a bond as fur
ther assurance. - The county of Bun
combe Is asked to take $200,000 of the
capital stock in the Interurban; this is
to be secured by first mortgage bonds
on the railroad property at $25,000 per
mile and later to be taken up by the
company, the bonds drawing the same
interest as the county will have to .pay
probably on the bonds it will issue so
that it will not be out a cent, yet have
the railroad. . ' .
The interests of the county are safe
guarded as by government bonds. It is
not to be called oil to pay a cent, until
road is in actual operation -from the
Eastern or Southern terminus to within
the corporate limits of Asheville and
not even then will the oounty deliver a
bond until there has been placed in es
crow for it . bonds to -the amount of
$2580 ' a
mile to purchase the capita
stock by
the Bosccmbe county aia
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Tlrfco - a - Weob'Tprld Mustier and So'uth0mIFLura!ista 95c
H E N D E R S O N V I L L E . N :
bonds, and $2500 a mile of bonds to pro
tect the interest charges on the rail
way's first mortgage bonds. These
bonds are limited to $25,000 a mile
one-third as much only as in the case of
other roads, and so the county is abso
lutely secured since the bonds will be
the first mortgage on the entire road
just as in the case of ether property.
Henderson is to issue $50,000 bonds to
the Interurban and Polk the same
amount to the Bat Cave Railway. Hay
wood and Transylvania will vote $3000
per mile to the South Atlantic Trans
continental, also under abolute assu
rances. . -
As It has been stated that the compa
ny or companies have the necessary
construction money secured it may be
asked why it is that tbey desire the
counties to subscribe. The answer is
simple and straight forward; that it is
wished that the people of the sections
through which the roads will be built
may be iuterestad and come to regard
the property In part as theirs. The
proposition to Buncombe for example
that no bonds be issued by the county
to the company until it has a railway in
actual operation from the Eastern or
Southern terminus to Asheville shows
that the real reason Is given and no
county money Is needed forthcoming.
Buncombe and Henderson counties
are more lnteresed in the Appalachian
Interurban for the reason that their
public aidfonds are to' be to It and fur
ther because it fills the ideals of a de-
cade, the hopes rarf6T aspirations" or'rthei good will to the new railroad by
their thonghtful citizens while Tran
sylvania and Haywood counties will be
served more directly by the other rail
way but every county and each of its
townships will be greatly aided by each
road.
The Merchants Association committee
organized by the electlen of H. Taylor
Rogers as chairman and C. Sawyer was
named as trustee for the money sub
scribed by Buncombe people, to ensure
proper expenditure and right well has
that money been expended.
The officers of the South Atlantic
Transcontinental are: Col. S. A. Jones
president; B. J. Sloan, vice president,
L L. Council, secretary, of Waynes
ville; treasurer, W. B. Williamson, of
Asheville; Thea F. Davidson, of Ashe
ville, general counsel; 8. C. Welch, of
Waynesville, assistant counsel; W. .
Breese,7r of Brevard, assistant counsel.
'Few will realize what work has been
done," said Mr. Sawyer last night, "but
-with assurance that the securing of
competing railways now rests solely
with the people of the county we are
happy. It Is needless to suggest even
what it will mean to every resident to
have a competing road, more facilities,
better facilities and lower rates. Every
resident pays a tax now for transporta
tion of freight and this will be lessened.
And think too what It will mean to have
seven million dollars spent in this sec
tlon, that much new capital distributed
among the people by reason of construc
tion' And that expressed the feelings
of the business men and the few people
who had heard of the accomplished
plan?, an enthusiastic approval. No
man in any part of the ceunty exists
who will not feel the benefit directly.
For the assurance ef any possible
doubters It has been arranged to abso
lutely demonstrate that these railroads
organized and officered by local men,
shall be competing roads and to this end
It is provided that if they should cease
to be competitors with the ' interest as
well as the sum of fifty thousand dollars
liquidated damages to the county.
ENTHUSIASM FOR ROAD.
The publication that Buncombe could
get a competing line of railway created
the greatest enthusiasm among all class
es of people and it is certain that there
will be a joyful response to the proposi
tion that the people shall vote simply a
guarantee of interest in the road. Hen
derson, it Is admitted on au siaes win
vote its $50,000 bonds and with the Bun
combe vote Buncombe will get a railway
reaching te the Seaboard Air Line as
well as to the & & W. regardless to the
vote in Haywood and Transylvania on
the public aid to the Couth Atlantic and
Transcontinental.
It will be necessary .t or a majority : of
the registered voters ot the county to
vote affirmatively for the proposition,
and not simply a majority of these who
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actually vote' and therefore it will
be necessary - to get out the vote.
There will be no new registration of
voters except fn the cases of those who
have become qualified voters since last
eltctioD The, list of those registered
will be purged pf the names of those who
have died or removed from the oounty.
Asheyllle Ctyizens.
Tho Opportunity is Here.
Opportunity knocks at the door of
Buncombe cotraty with a gift of a com
peting line of 'railroad to join the Sea
board at Rutlerfordton, the-' county's
dreams and forjd hope for a decade, and
It remains only for Buncombe county to
accept the gift,
Buncombe will accept. For years its
people have labored under the disad
vantage of a one system monoply; .they
have grasped with eagerness at every
bare prospect of another railway and
disappointment has but added to their
longing and their sense of pressing want
of competing lines. It has been felt
tbat the county has needed but a new
railway to cause It to advance to wealth
and great population almost at a bound.
Now comes thq assurance of sucoess.
The plans fof the road were made by
Buncombe Imea and approved by the
Buncombe commissioners after careful
investigation and ascertainment that the
money to build the railroad was secured.
The people of hls and adjoining coun-
ues. are reauy asiceaoniy ?K indicate
tangible assurance. Buncombe Is asked
to vote $200, 0Q0 in bonds rather as a
lean, a pledge of Its good will, although
legal requirements require it in the
shape of a subscription to the capitel
stock. But as the glad news story in
The Citizen; tells, tke stock so taken
must be secured by first mortgage on
the railroad property in favor of the
county, and before any county, bonds is
delivered the railroad must be In actual
operation to Asheville.
And when tle railroad Is completed
It must deliver mortgage bonds to a
trustee for the eountyat the rate of
$5000 per mile of road to ensure the
payment of Interest on the railway
mortgage and as a sinking fund to take
up the county's stock by the railway.
Thus It Is provided In effect that the
eouaty bonds . will be put a loan, a
pledge of interest by the people in the
road, because their interests are safe
guarded by a mortgage on the' road at
the rate of $25,000 per mile, which incl
dentally is only one-third that borne by
the average railway. The county will
pay the interest on its bonds and the
the mortgage bonds it will hold will pay
allies interest.
"its a case oi swapping dollars," said
Mr. Sawyer of the Merchants' Associa
tion commute which has wrought so
well for the county In this matter. The
ceunty will ge the railroad dollars for
Its dollars and.he railway competition
to boot; the railway company will get
Its railway and,. the go:d will of the peo
ple. The railway runs a hazard the
county .none. 'The county could well
afford for that matter to give a compet
ing road outright $200,000 because
the saving in freights and taxes on the
railway would surpass that sum in a year
or less..
The route ot the railway is indicated
in the news cojums of The Citizen. It
will extend from Asheville viaJIender
8onville to Ba'4 Cave where practically
the same road under a different name
will form a junction not only with the
Seaboard at Rutherford ton, but the new
Seuth and Western. And from Ashe
ville a link will extend to the Haywood
county line, where It will be joined by
the South Atlantic Transcontinental
railroad which rwlll build from Knox
ville through Waynesville and Brevard
to Greenville, S; a, thus affording Bun
combe a competing road to the coal
fields and the wjest. This railway plan
is not emphasized here, highly Impor
tant though lt Lbe, because the county
votes nothing to it. . It will be to help
the Appalachian Interurban that Bun
combe is asked, and Buncombe is the
one to decide j.n it, and it must pot be
forgotten that in so doing It will largely
assure a new line to Knoxville.
Bumcombe wll need no urging, its
people are intlligent and know that
not the pooresman Inthe most remote ! slle county aid to the new railway pro
section escayes he payment of the pres- 5 As we have previously stated, the
ent high rallwty tolls and that he will county of Bsnconibe aloss could wt 11
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be the gainer by the aew road. The
merchant advances the freight on the
plow, the wagon, the necessities of life
brought here, but it is not the merchant
at Asheville, Fairview, BaxnardsvUle,
Leicester or Alexander, who pays the
high toll, but the man who uses the plow
and the necessities of life.
And is it necessary to refer to what
it will mean to Buncombe to have turned
loose among the people of the county Of
the vast sums necessary to build the
road? There will be need for workmen,
for teams, for supplies, farm products,
and the money scattered through the
county will remain here. At a time
when money is 'tight" this expendure'
will be a god-send. Buncombe has to
say only that it is willing to take what
Providence sends.
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Twelve Million Dollars.
In speaking of the new railroad pro-,
ject, around which all conversation
does, and should, revolve, in this' end
of the state. We are reminded that
some statements have been made which
may occasion some missunderstandlng
the magnitude of the project. ,It was
stated by us in the beginning, for in
stance, that the whole project contem
plated the expenditure of seven million
dollars. Since then It has been explained
that this seven million dollars had refer
ence merely to the building of this line,
.together
with the equipment, from
Rutherfordton to Asheville which. is
the expendlture -that will be made by
the Appalachian Inter-urban company,
the company in which Buncombe and
Henderson counties are direotly Inter
ested. - ' - -The
whole line, we are now informed,
including the extension from Turnpike
to Knoxville which Is to be built by the
South Atlantic and Trans-continental
Railroad company, will necessitate the
expenditure of somethlog like twelve
million dollars. There Is to be nothing
suggesting the jerkwater railroad about
the road that has been planned by these
two companies, and for which the capi
tal has has been secured.The construct
ion, as we said at the outset, will be in
keeping with the plans of construction
that have been adopted by the larger
trunk lines of the country, with heavy
rails placed on a well-ballasted roadbed.
The heavy freight will not, however,
pass directly through Asheville. The
terminal will be placed on the west side
of the river, and only the freight con
signed to Asheville merchants and the
passenger trains will be brought into
the city proper. It is very likely that
the new company will be asked to use
only hard coal on engines that are
brought into the city, and In this way
there will be no Interference with the
residential section, or with the city in
its character as a pleasure resort for
visitors. It is just such considerations
that haye influenced the Board of Trade
in the step they have taken toward
securing a large tract of land on the
French Broad river, below the city, for
manufacturing establishment. .
But to return to the subect of the
money that will be expended in this
great enterprise, have ;you thought of
the money that will be turned loose In
mountain country while the work of
constructruction is in progress? Ga
zette News.
New Era Dawningt
The Citizen feels that, standing on
the threshold of a new commercial and
Industrial era for this section, it will he
pardoned for dwelling at length on the
subject now' uppermost in the public
mind the new railroad. Had it not
felt that a golden opportunity was being
thrust right Into the hands of tne people
of Western North Carolina, it would not
have gone to the trouble and expense of
issuing an.extra edition yesterday after
noon to carry the good , tidings to the
reading public The Citizen feels, too,
that every man, woman and child In this
section of the state will feel as enthusi
astic as ourselves, and we do not believe
for a minute that there Is a single man
in Buncombe, Haywood, Transylvania
and Henderson counties who will be so
blind to his own interests as to raise a
dessentlng voice te the proposition to
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afford to give the $200,000 needed, with
no hope of a cent's return, to secure the
manifold blessings of a competing Una.
The results which would accrue from
railroad competition In this section
would, without exaggeration, be worth
a million dollars.
The Citizen had made up its mind to
refrain from taking partisan action in
non-political local elections, but it de
parts from this rule long enough to urge
the people of this county to go to the
polls October IT and vote for the bonds,
the new railroad and prosperity.
Asheville Citizen.
The Hustler First
The Hustler was the first paper la
the State tb publish the news about the
new railroad, as It was in type and print
ed shortly after noon. Referring to this
Mr. Claude Sales, who. by the way,
says The Hustler Is the beet paper in
this part of the State, said:
"I was asked by a man In town, last
Thursday If I had read in the -Asheville
paper, about the' new railroad. I re
plied, 'Oh, yes, certainly, I saw it in
The Hustler last night.' He was a tri
fie surprised, and I advised him to pay
75 cents and get The Hustler for a year,
which he agreed would be the proper
thing to do."
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