Hall County GaArchives News.....Roundabout In Georgia October 21, 1879
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The Weekly Constitution October 21, 1879
Colonel W. P. Prices writes as follows to the Gainesville Argus:  No promise 
that I ever made your citizens in regard to cheap rates, in connection with the 
building the G. and D. R. R. has remained unfulfilled.  If your merchants and 
farmers would continue to reap benefits from the proposed railroad to Dahlonega 
they should see to it that it is built.  The most excessive demands ever made 
on a railroad in Georgia for the right of way for a few feet of land has been 
made of this road by farmers and land owners in Hall county outside of the city 
of Gainesville.  Unless a better spirit rules the land owners on the proposed 
line of this road in your county I can safely assure your readers that this 
road will not only not be built, but it will not be commenced.  In the 
prosecution of this enterprise I have been careful so far to spend nobody's 
money but my own, and if it has to be abandoned for lack of 
encouragement, ?????? consequence of a want of generosity on the part of land 
owners in Hall county no one will be injured but myself.  But I wish it 
distinctly understood however that when the Gainesville and Dahlonega railroad 
is abandoned cheap freights go with it, and in my judgement the last chance for 
Gainesville's permanent prosperity goes also.  A meeting of those who have 
subscribed to the stock of the road has been called to met at the court-house 
in Gainesville on Tuesday, 28th of October, at 10 o'clock a.m.  I will hope 
that the friends of the road can overcome the cupidity of the land owners in 
Hall county. Their opposition to it has simply been criminal.  In saying this I 
do not reflect on the citizens of Gamesville.  I devoted two days last week to 
obtaining rights-of-way through the city.  My requests were generally complied 
with at once.  Messrs. Wood and Spencer in the country just out of the city 
likewise responded quickly.  But beyond this I cannot report.  I had hoped the 
work would be begun the 1st of November.  Unless a new impetus is given to the 
enterprise a long postponement will be ordered. 

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