Unknown County GaArchives History .....GEORGIA INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS 1840 1840
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Francesca Henle-Taylor henle@fmfproductions.com August 3, 2004, 2:18 pm

The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the year 1840

Boston: Published by David H. Williams.
New York: Collins, Keese, and Company
Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait, and Company

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1839, by
David H. Williams,In the Clerk’s Office of the District of Massachusetts

Cambridge: Folsom, Wells, and Thurston,Printers to the University.

_______________________________________________________________________

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.

     [Communicated by L. 0. Reynolds, Esq., Engineer of the Central Railroad, 
&c.]  During the last year the Central Railroad has been in regular progress. 
The road is now daily traversed by trains 80 miles from the city of Savannah; 
and the grading is finished for 118 miles.	Contracts have been extended 
133 miles, to a point within 4 miles of Sandersville.  It will be completed 
for that distance during the next year.

     The Monroe Railroad has been finished and put in operation as far as 
Forsyth, 25 miles from Macon; and contracts have been entered into, and the 
grading commenced, for an extension of the road towards the Western and 
Atlantic Railroad, in order to effect a connection between the seacoast at 
Savannah, and the West by way of Knoxville, Tennessee.

     The Georgia Railroad has also been in constant progress, and is in 
operation as far as Greensborough, about 80 miles. The line thence towards the 
Western and Atlantic Railroad is mostly graded as far as Madison, 25 miles 
from Greensborough.	It is intended to continue this road to form a 
communication with the West from Charleston by the South Carolina railroad, &c.

     The Western and Atlantic Railroad (a State work) has had a large force on 
it during the year. It is expected that, the grading will be nearly or quite 
finished during the present year (1839.)  Agents are now in Europe for the 
purpose of procuring the iron.  The road will probably be in operation in two 
years from this time (July, 1839.)

     The Brunswick and Florida Railroad (from Brunswick to the Apalachicola) 
has been surveyed during the past year; but the work is not commenced.

     The Brunswick Canal has been in progress during the year, and three 
quarters of the excavation are completed; and it is expected to be finished 
and in operation on the course of the year 1840.  It is contemplated to the 
fill the entire canal by raising water with pumps worked by a steam engine.

     The Savannah, Ogeechee, and Alatamaha Canal is undergoing repairs and 
improvements.  The Lock at Savannah river is rebuilding, of sufficient 
dimensions to admit brigs and schooners, and that part of the canal which 
bounds the city on the west, is in the course of being made three times as 
wide and twice as deep as it was before, (100 feet wide and 10 or 12 feet 
deep.)


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/unknown/history/other/nms29georgiai.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/

File size: 3.4 Kb