Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-05-28
For the STANDARD
ANOTHER PLANK ROAD.

MT. EDITOR s. 1t never rains bat it pours - is IN
old adage of very frequent ver6cation. few years
ago North Carolina felt but little interest in Internal
lmprovements-now ii seems TO feel nothing else.
The farmer is finding out that he must have better
and quicker means of transit for his produce, or
Will be useless for him TO it himself and his
taml must have opportunities 10 60 and see the
world, or they viii deterloate in the midst of i'm
provement; he must have of obtaining the
manures which are deposited in various parts of our
country, awaiting only energy in distribution to cover
The face OF that country with new beauty. If the
farmers In one part OF the country in neigh
borhood have plank road, their Eegbors must have
TOO, or they will be ruined. Our people need to
learn mat time is money to mnca greater degree
than they feel 1t now; they are building railroads.
and plank roads, and improving rivers, and pros
pecng for coal and copper, and gold, aud they are
devisng schemes for hitherto unth ought-of-en.
erprses. But this is, hope, only the begi ming Of
the end. Our monied men bare ly close their purses
from paying plan for neighborhood Or gen.
eral improvement but there is another presented
as urgent. Well, tn is is right, and no one ought
ever grudge mite in such cause. Every lilIIe
helps, if not directly and Immediately, still indi-
rectly and mediately.
There Plank Road meeting at Mornings
the old stand the road to Raeigh-on Saturday
last A large crowd was not there-but it seemed
to be determined crowd-determined not 10 be lag
CARDS in he prasewor,hy strife for improvement The
Hon. William II. Battle of the Supreme Court, was
Chairman, and Mr.. George Moore, Jr. was Secretary.
President Swain, MIR. Hugh Waddel and MIR. Cias.
SucceSSlVelY addressed the assembled neigh
bors, arouse their attention the indispensable
necessity OF connecting themselves once with some
point the Central Rail Road, or with Raleigh, or
with the Coal fields, and SO with Fayetteville.
On motion Of Mr.. WadGcl it was
ResolUed, That the Commissioners named in the
Act for Incorporating the Chapel Hill and Raleigh
Plank Road be requested at their earliest convenience
to procure a competent Engineer. who shall survey
the respective routes, and report Id them the most
eligible one for said road.
E}V Gov. Swain:
ReSokped, That said Commissioners shall call
meeting OF the persons most interested in the said
route at as early day practicable at such place
the Commissioners may deem most suitable.
The good people of Raleigh should not be indiffer-
en TO this movement. The plank roads are the farm
er's roads, and much oniribute the towns where
they terminate; they are feeders TO rivers and
railroads; they invite the retired farmer visit the
world frequently, and take his wife and daughters
with him. Charmed by the agreeabeness of the
road and of the company with him. he does not, as
hitherto object TO new dress fashionable BON
net. So trade is not at all injured by plank roads,
There two plans proposed for this plank road
from Chapel Hill 10 Raeigh-one along the line of
the present stage road Morriss' station, on the
Railroad; the other by Williams mill. or New Hope
all the way to Raleigh. This road might ntersect
the proposed plank road from Raleigh to Haywood,
and the Goa beds at nedr Salem Church-on the
present road from Raleigh TO Haywood-and SO
- kill two birds with stone.' 1t will shorten
the road be built from Chapel Hill, if it is TO be
completed TO Raleigh it will increase the amount
of travel on the Haywood road, wh Their, at Salem,
the wagner or traveller chooses TO visit Raleigh or
to go towards Deep River.
We all know bow hard it is to change the chan
nels of trade when formed. The citizens of
Raleigh ought 10 be wide awake to these schemes
for centerng trade and travel at their town, and they
should so contrive that these schemes do not inter
fere with each other. So when the Commissioners
advertise the next meeting about the Chapel Hill and
Raleigh plank road let there be gentlemen of
Raleigh present to provide for their interests and
help their neighbors to come and see them.
Yours respectfully,
THE PLANK ROAD MAN.