. The Southern States. at Central Railroad of Georgia, and toCharleston by the South Carolina Railroad,both running successful lines of ocean steamersto Northern ports, and Savannah already enjoy-ing direct trade with Europe and SouthAmerica. Thus is Augusta the immediate PEN SKETCHES OF GEORGIA CITIES. 21 beneficiary of three splendid ocean ports—twowith established ocean commerce on a largescale, and the other the coming ocean port ofthe South Atlantic. Turning northward, we find the road toColumbia, northeast, connecting with twogreat through lines north, the Richmond &Danville by Charlotte
. The Southern States. at Central Railroad of Georgia, and toCharleston by the South Carolina Railroad,both running successful lines of ocean steamersto Northern ports, and Savannah already enjoy-ing direct trade with Europe and SouthAmerica. Thus is Augusta the immediate PEN SKETCHES OF GEORGIA CITIES. 21 beneficiary of three splendid ocean ports—twowith established ocean commerce on a largescale, and the other the coming ocean port ofthe South Atlantic. Turning northward, we find the road toColumbia, northeast, connecting with twogreat through lines north, the Richmond &Danville by Charlotte, and the Atlantic CoastLine by Wilmington. Then comes the Savan-nah Valley Railroad to Walhalla, Greenville,and Spartanburg on into Western North Caro-lina. The Georgia Railroad, one of the bestmanaged in the whole country, runs directlywest to Atlanta and southwest to Macon, tap-ping northwardly the Air line, and connectingAugusta with the greatest railway systems andrichest farm sections of the South. The nar-. BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. row guage road from Augusta to Sandersvilleis the seventh of her railway lines. In addition to these seven important railwayfeeders, linking Augusta to the full points ofthe compass, other lines are new and valuable South Bound from Sa-vannah to Columbia is the short line intoFlorida, and is to have a branch to Augusta and Knoxville is to give a newwestern connection, and the Augusta andWest Florida another southern outlet throughThomasville to Florida. The projected Au-gusta and Chattanooga railroad will give astraight shoot to the West, saving the round-about run through Atlanta. Augustas electric railway in the city andout to its beautiful suburbs, with its investmentof a third of a million dollars, and its twenty- five miles of track and public-spirited manage-ment, under Col. D. B. Dyer, is a powerfulfactor in Augustas prosperity and is one of the best-handled city railway sys-tems in the South
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