Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-04-01

| them. / ne advantages above seI Ioith are D"
apparent. that we think, they ought to convince
the most skeptica that there will be travel on
It equivalent to, at least, 1000 wagons, lo0
miles each in Il year, which, ut four cents
nil,, will amount to SIS 500 tolls, without tt
king into consideration the carriages, bug9les
and horscmen that will use it.
The effect on Charleston would be- to bring
back. with ten fold increase, that important
wayon trade which once gave valnc to hIhg-
street, an;l I'LL the nt'!r: property III tic northern
part of our city, an in;,nlse might be expected
which wn;li !, in a very short period, extend
the buildings of King and Meeting-streets to,
and even l,cyond the ne.v limits of on" city.
All doubts, iiany exist rs to the benclit the
community at large woAlI derive, Or rs 10 the
profit wI.i::, capital would yirld i!nvestcJ i'll
such works in our State, think will be re-
moved by Il knowledge Of what the State OF
New York is doing. There the whole country
is trarcrsed by canals an: railroads yet we
see Mcidaal1cd roads being converted iato
plank-r roads, and plark-roads by the side Of rail
roads are paying ten pc: cent, after laying by
eight per cent. Tor the renewal OF planking.-
We could quote many Instances were plank
roads are generally 'ayifg 20 and 23 per cent.
on tie capital Invested. One of these COM
panics in New York, in its report to the Lesis-
| lattlrc, states that $4,000 wagons passed over
the road 10 one year. Allowing that each team
carried an equivalent to fifteen bales of cotton
thev would all have carried l,2l5,000 bales
! which is more than all the machinery OF t;c
South Carolina Rail Road could carry in two
wears. So great is the expensive power OF
these roads, that the whole business ofthe year
might be crowded into one month, and not Ct
feet its operation in the slightest degree
| It's certain that the animal power ncccssa-
nv to the production of cotton crop, Is fully
adequate to its transportation to market over il
! blank road, n distance Of 200 or $50 miles.
! In one trim, every horse mule conl'! carry the
result Of his labor to market, which method, III
two or three weeks would dispose of the crop.
! IN no we'll managed plantation would this Sc.
riuusly interfere with the cconomy OF! jn'lclons
agriculture. Bat let us suppose, in order to
compensate for any loss oftimc, that the planter
nuts his own provender Oh the wagon for the
trip, and gets his t!,irty.two bales of cotton to
market with no ontlay but for tolls, (say 359
FOR 2O0 miles suppose, further, that to meet
his expenses, he takes return load OF l2,3Oo
pounds, A. 80 cents hundred. 1hi; would
INV his tolls both ways, and leave him S2l.20
clear nrosi!. The same would cost him, Oh
200 niles of rail road-in freight OIL his cotton
at least l.25 per bale, or $40; this added to
the S2l. 50 earned by the return trip, Owe! and
above tolls, and we have saving OF S5i.5O
| ly three weeks use of the team, WHICH would
have TO b. fed at home if not employed upon the
road. The return loads of sugar, coffee, mo-
asses sat,.iron, and other snrts of nleTc'Ian-
,lise, would not always supply full back load,
lnt it is presumed that such facilities Tor trans
nortaiion would lead to the improvement o;
! land bv the use of lime, gypsum, and "tlci'
stinlulant< of the SOIL Oyster shells, five ani Il
| half tons to the Load, would be good retnrn
load for back country lautcr.
70 make the work complete, such roads
leading from the country should be extended
to the wlrlrvvs-to: team could not haul more
than half loa! over stone paved -trrrt, AMI
not even tl;at, nnlrss the pavement were kept
in batter coz ,lion than they are generally
found to be, after few years wear. have
nothing to say against paving our streets with
stone, for believe it to be the only s'Irc mode
of finally extrrminating the yellow fever from
our city. But there can be no doubt that
good pl lnk-road leading from our railroad to
the whalvcs and wholesale portion of the city,
would reduce the cost of drayage on heavy ar.
tces at least one haf Those who are well
informed on the subject, estimate the drayagr
to and from the railroad, in Charleston, to cost
fully $50 O0O per annum. The railroad COM
panirs which have been receiving and trans
portin. iron over the South. Carolina Rail road
| for the last three years, would have saved
money by tie construction of plank road at
their own cost to the shipping As 70 McAda'
nizcd roads, experience has proved them not
to BE- haia> durable as planking, and every ono
who walks king-strcet must see, from the mud
which is constantly accumulaling, that Mic
Adamizing is but Il temporary work-for, I'M
les, the operation of rcayng with broken stone
is kept mp, the carriage wheels will soon cut
through in the mud. That street, in the
widenad portion, is thirty feet between the
curb stoues and twenty -tonr feet, in the old mar
row part. 4 plank road ls feet wide laid in the
centre and properly archcd; with McAdamizcd
edges next TO the curb stone, would be more
durable cost much less, and answer quite as
well if not better than the present method
lis noiselcss operations render it far preferable
to stone paving, for business street
1t is hoped that the time is not far distart
when South- Carolina will get tired Of keeping
uu the State ro,d and be willing TO give il tO 4