| Annual Report of the Savannah, Albany &
Gulf RR |
| as of May 1, 1862, |
| Engineer's Report |
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| Engineer's Report
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| Engineer’s Department, Sav. A. & Gulf
R. R.
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Savannah, April 21st, 1862
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Hiram Roberts, Esq.
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Acting President
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Sir,
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I submit, in
obedience to your instructions, a short statement of the Trestled Work
filled and proposed to be filled on your Road, and of the progress
made on the Florida branch.
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Of the ten thousand eight hundred feet (two miles 240
feet) of original bridging across the Great Ogeechee River and
adjacent rice fields, 8,673 lineal feet amounting to 112,377 cubic
yards has been filled, leaving, including the bridge across the river,
only 2,227 lineal feet of permanent bridging – and of the 2 ¼ miles
of Trestling in the Altamaha Swamp, a contract has been entered into
with Messrs. Walthour & Snyder to fill 5900 lineal feet, amounting
when complete, to about 143,400 cubic yards, leaving as permanent
5,600 lineal feet.
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It may, and I
think will be found advisable, as the work progresses, to fill even
more of the trestling than is above designated. In the above is
included parts of the bridges across Jones’ Creek, Fountain Branch,
Cypress Flats, Back Swamp, Forrest Pond and the Main Trestle between
Morgan Lake and the River.
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The grading and
bridging on the Florida Branch is completed from the Junction, 20
miles, with the exception of about two miles for Section No. 5,
thirteen miles from the Junction, leaving 7 ¾ miles yet to be graded
to reach the Florida line, which will amount when completed to about
60,000 cubic yards. No cross-ties have yet been furnished, and should
the Company desire any time soon to commence the superstructure, the
force at present engaged on the grading, will, I think, be able to
finish it by the time the cross-ties can be procured and the track
laid over the portion of Road now finished.
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Respectfully,
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J. T. Stone
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Chief Engineer
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