Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1847-11-17
For The Advertiser.
THE RAIL ROAD.

Mr.. Editor BY your permission, ]
will say word through your columns, TO
the people of Edgeie!d on the subject Of
their Rail Road, or rather The contemplat-
ed Aiken and anderson Rail Road. if such
Road be seriously in contemplation. DO
the people Of Edgeield mean TO extend
The South Carolina. or Hamburg Rail
Road from Aiken TO Edge6eld C.. House.
and there stop it? or, do they mean to
carry it, or assist in carrying it, through
Abbey:lIe and Anderson, and across the
,mountaiasl 1.-THE former, am not sur
:prised at their present inactivity on this
sssibject; but il lhe latter, they are pursu-
Esng a course, which, there is not much ha-
Szard in saving, will prove fatal TO their in
iention. For. if the much talked Of Road
/. fiom Columbia to Greenville, be built,
through LamcnS the most sanguine belicv.
er in the benefits of Rail Roads, will hard.
" think it probable that the South Caro-
liua Road will ever be eXlenced from Aiken
via Eds sefield and AbbevlIe, 10 Anderson,
and the mountains; because TIVE roads
running parallel to each, at that distance,
cannot supper, themselves, and, at the
came time, yield a sufficient profit upon
the capital invested; and, therefore, capl-
taisls will not venture their money upon
any such project. EdSeGcld, therefore,
If she be- in earnest in lvishing The Charles.
ton. Road to ertend beyond her own viliage,
has bu: few days to show her rearnestness
in; and the only way in which she can
show it, Is by taking stock 10 that Effect
that the amount subscribed by her. may
be known. and its influence felt, in the
meeting OF the Greenvile and Columbia
Rail Road stockholders, al Newberry, Z.
H., on the 10Th inst.
That The route from Aiken through
Edgefeld aud Abbevile, and direct on to
the mountains, is the true one, by which
70 connect the seahoard with The noun
,ains, no one, who rightly considers The
COS, and advantages of Railway, will,
for moment, doubt. 1t is the nearest
route. and consequently, the cheapest; nor
rs il the cheapest, because i, is the nearest,
it will cost much less money than the Co.
lumbia roule,-mle for mile.-lt MT only
has fewer rivers 10 cross, but the ground il
passes over, is by far more suitable in eve-
ry other respect. 1t would run, for almost
the entire way. upon the Ridge that divide
the waters of The Saluda and Savannah
rivers. Can any one, then. give the rea-
son. why The railway that is 10 connect
the scabord with the mountains, shall s,alt
from Columbia or, starting from Charles
Ton, shall 50 by Columbia-which is moi
the natural roue-which is by far the
more expensiveroute-a which is likely
10 be attended with less advantages 10 the
State, 10 other respects besides The only
reason that can lie given. it seems to me,
is, that they have been little smarter on
the eastern, than we have been on the
western side of Saluda, in applying for.
aud securing, their charter. But the evil
is not remediless. The Road oflhal Char.
ter. is no, yet located; and it is be locat.
ed by the stockholders, aud, as fortune will
have it, not few of those stockholders
will go up from the west of Saluda.
Query:-Car't sufficient amount Of
stock be carried up to the meeting of tho
Stockholders, TO control the location OF that
road, or. if the charter be in tho way, to
suspend its location. until The meeting Of
The Legislature. when ii can be amended
80 as to fix the lo,0er terminus where 1t
ought TO be? Why not? Bullh only way
in which this can be done, however, is by
Edee6ed making very large demoustra-
ton. in the said meeting Of the s.ockhold-
ers. A word 10 the wise, is sufficient, I;
and is said, that "a stitch in lime, saves
nine." In this instance, this stitch would
save more than we could count.
HARD LABOR.