The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1849-08-24
NUMBER 43.


2 cen',ve TO exerlion, and their parents sui
ficient reason for aiding literally in efec'
! ting work, which will SO materially les.
sen the buflhen Of setting up their sons in
I. business. If the same amount Of business
can be done with half The capital, i. is man.
, liesI that double the prof, can be made With
. gwen amount Of capital. Thus large
, profits will excite competition, ard in the
J end the whole community viii he bene iiied
} by reduction OF prices.
} But The most obvious and important, I'D.
vantage which will grow out of the pro.
posed rail road project, is the grea. reduc.
ton It will effect in the cost oil transporting
the productions of the country TO market,
and the savings in an economical point of
view which will necessarily result. Let
US examine this part of the subject some.
J what in detail: The cost of hauling bar.
rel OF four from Hlsborough 10 Whining.
ton or to Petersburg is usually Sll. The
value Of the article q, the shipping port is
$3.50 that the producer gives, or ex.
ponds IF he is his own carrier) one third Of
/ his crop TO get it TO market. What an
enormous loss is this 1t is utterly ruin.
Gus 10 the agricultural interest, and &C.
counts for its depression in middle and ives.
tern North Carolina. The Central Rail
Road Of Georgia carries -four for 40 cents
per bb'. distance of l76 miles. II our
road should transport al the same rate per
mile, It would cost US something less TO get
a Dbl. 10 Wilmington, the distance being
less: but suppose from some cause or other
we should no, be able to carry for less than
so cents per Dbl. we shall still save one
dollar per Dbl. and if we suppose the' Of
the 1900 freeholders of Orange county, (as
it stood before the divlslon,) there are one
thousand whose annual exportab bic crop will
average 0 bbls. per man, or the equivalent
as freight, of 10 bbls. -four, in any other
commodity, then there will be clear saving
TO the county of $4,000 IN the single item
Of downward freight, which is per cent.
lnteres, on Sl66, 666s aud would justify the
subscription of that sum by ths county if
no other view was taken OF The subject than
The mere saving OF freight.
II is estimated by gentleman Of Gran.
VILE, who has excellent opportunities OF
Judging, tina, the saving OF cost on trans.
portation in that country is not less than
$50, 600 annually in consequence OF the
rail road facilities 1t enjoys. $4,000 for
Orange must be very small estimate, when
we consider that its territory is as large
and as fertile as that Of Granville, end its
population larger; notwithstanding this, it
is clear that the expor,able productions Of
Granville are vastly larger than those OF
Orange.
Granville produces:
3,7s7, 900 lbs Tobacco, worth at 4 cts s15l.4s0
419 000 lbs Cotton, 6 cts 2S,740
$4,000 bushels Wheat. say a, 100. $4,000
240,220
Whilst Orange produces
2S4 900 lbs. Tobacco, worth 1860
245 900 lbs Cotton, do 1890
rs, 000 bushels Wheat, do $4,000
sll2,O60
From these figures il appears that Gran.
vile produces more than double the amount
Of those articles Of marketable produce than
Orange; and how is this grea. difference
10 be accounted for see but two causes
for it. Granville possesses larger slave
population than Orange, and 10 the esteus
Of that difference, her labour is more etfec.
tive and less expensive. This is one cause;
the other is the stimulus given to production
by the rail road facilities she enjoys. and
being able to dispose Of the products of her
labour without having TO make the enor.
nous sacrifice OF one third of it, as the price
Of getting il 10 market.
Blu, the saving in freight is not all the
wagon system Of transportation involves
the necessity Of keeping many more horses
than will he necessary under the rail road
system. The expense of keeping ho'se
Is serious matter. The stage contrac-
tors, as have understood, pay from 100 10
100 dollars for keeping each horse, annu-
ally. Suppose that farm horses, what with
pasturage and little starving can be kept
for $50, and tha, each farmer in the coun.
ty, on an average, could in consequence Of
the rail road facilities dispense with one
horse $50 would be comfortable saving
TO each, and in the aggregate would be
quite a considerable affair. There are, az
have said before, about 1900 freeholders
IN the county suppose each to be larmer,
and each to save $50, it would amount 10
5000 yearly, which would not only speed.
lily reimburse any expenditure likely to be
made by them m building the road, but
would remain clear annual gain in all
time to come. Ii it should be thought that
this estimate is too high and ought to be
reduced will put i, down to even $4,000,
and yet the annual saving Of an amount so
large will offer a very sufficient reason for
our entering heartily into this rail road
scheme.
leone next to the probable increase in
property. understand from gentleman
who was recently in the western part Of
the State, and in whose word have the ut.
mos, confidence, that while there he fell ia
with an engineer, lately from the Georgia
road, aud now employed on the South Car.
DINA and Charlotte road. who informed him
that the value Of real estate within any con.
yenient dtstanre of the GeoruIa roads, had