Editing Railroad history (section)

== Miscellaneous ==

* '''Southern Express Company (not yet researched)'''

* '''Southern Railway Security Company: March 22, 1871-1881'''
** '''''Note:''''' ''I don’t know if SRSC was involved in the Greer railroad story or not.''
*** https://www.jstor.org/stable/23515196 and full text at: https://digital.ncdcr.gov/digital/collection/p16062coll9/id/4174/
**** Pennsylvania corporation which purchased and held securities of a large number of Southern railroads in the 1870s.
**** “The object and purpose of this organization is to secure the control of such Southern rail-roads as may be essential to the formation of through lines between New-York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington City, and the principal cities of the South, by ownership of the capital stock of said companies, by leases, and by contract relations.”
**** Instrumental in developing the North/South railroad infrastructure which remains today.
**** In the South the Southern Railway Security Company was commonly referred to as “Tom Scott,” after prominent official (and president, after 1874) Thomas A. Scott.
**** The Railroad Gazette of January 20, 1872, referred to the company as “a corporation whose headquarters are in Pittsburgh, which is going about the South seeking what (in the way of rail-roads) it may devour, acting apparently for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in that section as the ‘Pennsylvania Company’ does in the West.”
**** Prior to 1873 panic: building the system of railroads. After: liquidation.
**** A pure holding company, taking no part in railroad operations (and one of the very first railroad holding companies, long before that became common and 30 years before the famous Northern Securities Company).
**** Evidence of noteworthy transition of Northern investment in antebellum railroads.

'''Passenger traffic'''

* “One Cent a Mile Rate: 

At the meeting of the Southern Passenger Association held at Charleston on Tuesday the petition of the State fair committee requesting special rates over various lines received careful and considerate attention. After a little discussion it was decided to grant the rates asked for by the committee, which, it was understood, are about two cents a mile for the round trip for a radius of 250 miles.”

* [https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn93067705/1895-08-22/ed-1/?sp=1&q=%22greers+depot%22&r=-0.044,0.75,0.292,0.152,0 The News and Herald] (Winnsboro, S.C.), August 22, 1895

'''Depot agent Tom Hill shot'''

* Condition of Agent Hill:
* Spartanburg Journal, Thursday: The latest reports from T. M. Hill, depot agent at Greers, are that he will recover from the wounds inflicted by a would-be robber at the Greer's depot on Tuesday night of last week. It is reported from Greers today that he is much better and that his condition is hopeful. There has been much interest in his case and people generally are rejoiced at any good news. The people of Wellford, the former home of Mr. Hill, have shown the keenest and most practical interest in his case.”
* [https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026925/1901-10-26/ed-1/?q=%22greers+depot%22&sp=2&st=text&r=0.388,0.656,0.227,0.237,0 Yorkville enquirer] (Yorkville, S.C.), October 26, 1901 “As is usually the case, Tom Hill don't look like a hero. He is one of those small, wiry men whose worth is never known until a great test comes, one of the prosaic looking giants of romance.”
* [https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86063760/1901-11-06/ed-1/?q=%22greers+depot%22&sp=1&st=text&r=0.707,0.641,0.179,0.187,0 The Manning Times] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.), November 6, 1901

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