Date: 1915-06-12; Paper: Macon Weekly Telegraph, published as: The Macon Daily Telegraph

Inspect State Road Want Depot for McCaysville to be Located on Georgia Side:

Atlanta, June 11.

The members of the state railroad commission came back to Atlanta this morning after a tour of inspection of the state road from Marietta to the Tennessee line. One of the principal objects of the trip was to look into the matter of an application to establish a depot at the town of McCaysville, on the Georgia side of the line.

Under the present arrangement the station for that community is in Tennessee, and not in any incorporated town, though near the line of the town of Copperhill. The building, however, is on the property of the Tennessee Copper Company, which is unincorporated, and just outside of the incorporated Tennessee town. Copperhill is only a narrow strip of land, probably 200 yards wide on the other side of the state line. On the Georgia side it is known as McCaysville, and is all one community. The new depot it is proposed to establish will, therefore, be just about 200 yards from the present station but, the contention is, by putting it within the state of Georgia. Instead of Tennessee, it will give the people of that community the benefit of Georgia intrastate freight rates.

 

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