The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1849-08-01
"Wednesday, August =.
rhe Worth Carolina Rail- Road.

The NORTH. Carolina Rail- Road.
~ palaisl il aar i.aler today ies,.r iEeEa
f;ss. SWAMI ID lie Hon. John II. Morshead ~
~ liz suh 90 4 Rail lioads. Il consains much
.aslis information. uAiea 1 ieeouses eseis nan
VII isasa IT. rss4fi y IL oEn intetssi. = IT,
rrllsls r IL stale. seriously . consider. Tie
n.ale tLe subject i examined lie more clearly
Nsl i apfrar, " thilk, ihai ~ improvement
,oalI II devised i ~ would u lie soulee y
snre eA,ellea benefits d he people u III Stale.
than lie construction u Tie proposed gail Road. !.
t,es oser distance Il twe haniiel aid Ten miles,
t.goush she heart y lhe state, ard ihroash r.
.s.n absnnlllns IN agricultural aaA mineral pro-
aas,iaa.. nFisi. want only the Stimulus II N -.
:, access b n.arkes ii make them Tie sources y
ii.sAhaassible wealth.
n has i.een o1jnrsri % This enterprise ilsst NE
inhabitants uFan The hne u 'he Isaa are ioa
sparse and the marketable predictions to scanis
Is furnish business Tor lhe road; that il will 60
down for van, II support. n Nc were !" laak
enly h the crowded slate Of the pgpaiailen AMI
the multitude II tn products ii Tie NeriA in liz
nriehborltooI III tile mil roads whish ttley haze
laiii up. some lnissisings might airs u 70 The
success IL ours but lie sspsriense II ths states
ON our botle4s shows thu, llesc itass nee! 90, II
entertained. Georgia affords an example which
should tle.r l.s ~. She LIS ii operation three
t.ralfl rtaas, tie extent ii NLel. together mike
Il length ID III HUNDRED uiilesi aud till she j.
pressing forward, and before tie expiration ofii,e
years viii have one thousand mics 81 rail roads
IN active operation. These are nearly all The
fruits of individual enterprise and their industry
has no; been eseriei unpraii,ahly the stock IN
IN the roads completed produces handsome disi'
LENDS. and i considerably above rgr. Yet ,sli
years ago tieorgiI was M much III advance Of
North Carolina IN the elements ofprosp-,ly In
taking the census in 1910 il was the duty d tic
Marshals 10 take list 81 the agricultural products
andmanufactures. These were sent on 10 Wash
.ugtau and dieestel into tables. On referring 4
these tables il viii he seen that the products 0
Georgia amounted to thirty milAons Of dol
lars: those 81 North Carolina 10 twcnty.sese,
millions; exhibiting difference III favor d Geor
gin Of on, about four millions. This surely |
mol % large difference as need 10 create despond
lng thoughts; particularly when i Is remembcle,
that increased facilities in reaching the market
add largely 10 the value Of marketable articles
and increased prices stimulate 10 . more sbnndan
production.
Among the numerous facts which have heel
presented il the discussion Of this question. tn
increase in the value Of land is one Of no small
interest 10 nur farmers. The distance from Colds
borough ID Charlotte, over which this road wi
pass, is 30 miles. No one can doubt but tha
a very pereeptible influence will be produced "
OIL The value Of the land to the extent Of at icas
four miles on each side Of The road. This wi
form belt Of eigh. miles in breadth, which wi
he 1000 square miles or ,O15,e0o acres. som
Of these lands will be d1uhlel in value it is los
estimate 10 say they will he increased Oh an ave
.are one dollar an acre. This would be 1875, 20
dollars; more than the amount Of the indisidua
subscriptions required 10 build the road
Iirelt credit il due to ex-Governors Swain
Morehead and Graham for the industry will
which they have collected facts and statistical in
formation connected with this subject, and th
faithful and lucid manner in which they has
submitted them to the consideration of the prurl'
We had the pleasure Of listening to the addres
If Toy. Graham to shs people at Mason Hall .
The 18th nitimo. Gov SWIM and Goy. GrahaI
addressed the people nj Chapel Hill on Thnrsda
last; and Yesterday Governors Mosehead, all
Swain and Graham addressed the people at ii
courthouse in this place. We wish all the pei
PIE Of the county could have heard them; a
doubt as to the practicability and utility Of ii
work, wcarc sue, would have been!quietcd, an
a subscription would have been insured worthy
the erea, enterprise contemplated and the ehara
Ter Of the county Of Orange
We have pleasure in being able to amount
10 our readers that Gov. Swan and Gov. Gfaha
have consented 10 address the people again at IN
place on Tuesday Of August Court and we hol
,hatmany Of the citizens of Orange viii he Presel
10 hear them.
The books for subscriptions TO the stock Of Il
Nth Carolina Rail Road were opened yesteria
and the amount of the subscriptions made W
respectable The boo.s will remain open
thirty days.
Wilmington Rail R0ad.-The "
mington Chronicle states that Dr. De Rosset
that town, who went to England for the purpo
Of purchasing L iron 10 relay the track fthe W
miugton and Raleigh Rail Road, has succeed
in contracting, on favorable terms, for 5000 soi
enough to iron about ono hundred miles of roa
to be paid for, for the present, in bonds Of I
company, secured by mortgage on the road al
It's appurtenances.
For NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. has be
received al New York, by telegraph from Was
ington that q William Carey Jones, whose resi-