Third Annual Report Of The Board Of Railroad Commissioners Of North Carolina PDF Download

Excerpt from Third Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of North Carolina: For the Year Ending December 31, 1893 Since our first report of December 31, 1891, 165 i'o'a miles of new road have been completed and put in operation, and are now assessed for taxation. Of this 114 My miles were 'completed last year and 50-1oo miles this year, before the 30th of June, the end of the fiscal year. The report of the Interstate Commerce Commission will show that in this respect North Carolina leads every State in the Union. The falling off in mileage of new roads constructed this year is due partly to the fact that the greater part of North Carolina is now supplied with railroad facili ties, and partly because of the panic in financial circles which has dis tressed our people so much this year, and which certainly has fallen as heavily upon railroads and manufactures as upon any other class of business. In spite of these circumstances the construction of new roads and the improvement of those already in operation goes steadily on. One or two small roads built temporarily to move lumber and naval 'stores have been either removed to a better locality or abandoned as the timber was used up; in one case, that of the J amesville and Wash lugton Road, had been allowed to get in such a condition that the public safety required that its road-bed be improved. An order was given by the Commission that the necessary repairs should be made for the security and accommodation of the public. The company, how ever, taking advantage of an act passed by the Legislature granting power to abandon a portion of its line, did abandon that portion from Cherry's Station to Jamesville, and has agreed to put the remainder in good shape. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.