Crisp-Wilcox County GaArchives News.....New Railroad  August 22, 1887
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Savannah Morning News August 22, 1887
AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER:: Supt. Bass of the Americus, Preston, and Lumpkin
railroad informs us that work on the eastern division of the road is progressing
as rapidly and satisfactorily as could be wished under the existing circumstances.
The damages to the Flint River bridge by the late flood have been repaired, and
he thinks that trains will be permitted to cross again by Friday next. When the
river began rising he very wisely had a large supply of rails carried to the
other side, and consequently the work of track laying has not been delayed by
the accident to the bridge, but instead, has been pushed forward as rapidly as
possible. Fifty-one miles of track have been laid on this end of the line, and
as the surface gang follow close on to the track layers when work is completed
as fast as is progresses.The grading has been finished to Abbeville, a distance
of sixty miles,of that place, and if no delay occurs in the work on the bridge
to prevent the carrying over of material, will reach there by September 1oth at
farthest. The surveying corps have long since crossed the Ocmulgee river and are
engaged in making preliminary surveys between Abbeville and points East
Tennessee; Virginia and Georgia railroad, running lines to both McRae and
McVillie, both of which places are striving hard to secure the road. The
contract for the bridge over the Ocmulgee has been let, and altogether the work
is progressing in a most satisfactory manner to the officials of the road.
Hundreds of contented hands are engaged on the work and if everything continues
to move along as smoothly as at the present we will reach, the ocean before we
know it.

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