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without adding a dollar to the means neccs-
sary to secure the completion of the Road
to Grccnvillc. This route also, as proposed,
will run on line nearly 10 miles fro ..r
Saluda river after crossing it, thus cutting
Oft Laurcns and compelling its people to
wagon over bad roads to Ncwbcrrv, at dis
| tances from 90 to so miles. If the advo-
Gates OF this route do not come TO the pro
prosed compromise route they may loose all
LIST, because the stockholders of the Road
generally will not consent to their circui-
tous and expensive route, und ut an inius-
tice to Laurens; ed, because they cannot
raise 100000, the amount necessary to
obtain it; Sd, because with that addition Of
capital the problematical question whether
the Road will at all pay costs and some in
terest upon the investment will address it.
self not only to themselves but all parties.
Though compromises Of principle and of
political and constitutional rights orc not to
be tolerated, yet in these matters they gen
orally prove useful and successful.
/ Nov as to the Laurems C.. IL route.
If that is pursued there will be neither sub
scription nor but little freight from South
west of the SaIuda, That fine section of
the State will be left hopclcssly dependent
on bad roads and want of a market. Lau,
rcns itself, If certain OF the route, and know
ing that it will come at least to its borders
or be carried through by others, may not fu!-
ly subscrlbc-she has as yet shown great
apathy. A direct route would not sulli-
GENTLY accommodate the middle and South
western up-counlry Of the State. The
Northeastern will find its facility and de-
velopmcnt IN the Columbia and Charlotte
Road route that the State should proba-
bly, prefer to the Camden for that reason.
AS the Laurens G.. H. route would not, by
any means so eflectually as the proposed
compromise route, decelop the resources
and obtain The business of so large md
productive q section of the State,
the latter is decidedly preferable, and
will cost but utcompartivciy little more. This
is the great and paramount consideration at
any rate that should govern alldeliberalions
and projects as to extending Railroads
through the upper portion of the State. AS
obtaining the generous aid Of the State is a
leading consideration, and in all probability
indispensably necessary to the success Of
The enterprise, it should be observed that
this recommendation vii! address itself for
chilly to the mind of the Legislature. But
it should be particularly borne in mind that
enlisting through its interests and aroused
zeal, the power and influence of the strong
section Southwest Of the Saluda, may have
determining and favorable bearing upon
the liberality and enterprise of the common
mother Let Laurens and all sections re-
member this.
We can now realize the advantages Of
the proposed compromise route-having
those of either or both the other routes, and
none of the objections, except that it may
cost little more than one, though much
less than the other. Its distance would be
near about one and twenty miles, ten miles
only more than the Laurcns c. H. route.
The extra cost would then be, from this
fact, only 100000. A bridge across
Reedy River ia small stream) could not be
over s25,O0O, probably not $4,000. The
subscription for this route by Laurens Dis
trict would, l think, be as large as for the
one by the Court House but say it is less
by $4,000. Here then, in comparison
with the Abbeville route, we have ond cx-
ira sum to be made up Of only Sl5O,O0O to
100000, a saving from not crossing the
Saluda River of S25O,0OO. But, as the
portion of Abbeville and Anderson concern
ed would have from one route nearly equal
advantages with those from the other, they
should and would pay this Sl5O,OOO, and
probably subscribe largely more, while the
Laurens subscription would be obtained
and saved to the general means of the Road,
instead of lost
1t may we'll be estimated that the gene
raj means Of the Company, for the road
along the compromise route, to complete it
to Greenville, over and above the ezra sum
for the extra lengths@ may be increased
100000, upon considering the probable
amount Of the AbbeviIe, Anderson, and
Laursns' 'snbscriptions,h that it will command
This route, then, willhayethe advantage of
accommodating on the whole the larger
section of country at the cheapest cost, re-
gasding the two together; Wilktherefore be
thsmost easily carried out, and hereafter
theamost profitable and useful; and will
prevent injustice to, and reconcile the feel,,
ings and Apbserye the interested, all sections.