Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-01-19
TFrom the North Carolina Star.


Dear Sir:-As some of the readers of your paper
may feel interest in any thing that concerns
Wilmington, ! herewith furnish you the policy ad
vocated before the chamber of commerce. during the
christmas holidays, by member from the extreme
western portion of the State said TO be the author of
the Blue Ridge Railroad, which is in progress of
structon, and when completed will connect the wes-
tern limits of North Carolina with Chattanooga on
the Tennessee and Memphis on the Mississippi who
addressed the chamber of upon the sub ect
of extending Railroad west from Fayetteville with
branches dverging east from that point to the ports
of Wilmington and Beaufort to be extended west from
Fayetteville TO point on the North Carolina Rail-
road thence west to the French Broad river between
the villages of Ash eville and Hendersonvie Thence
through the valleys of the Pigeon and Tuckasege riv
er to the Tennessee river the line of the Blue
Ridge Railroad Thence through the valleys of the
Highwasee passed Murphy in Cherokee county to
the Tennessee line at the Duck Town Copper Mines,
where already from three to four hundred wagons
and teams were employed in the transportation Of
copper. =,
He suggested the idea that the entire road should
be under the control of one company with uniform
guage of five feet from the mines TO the Atlantic
That it would then connect with roads leading to
Vicksburg and New Orleans, Mobile and Pensacola,
on the Gulf of Mexico, which would secure to the N
Carolina Central Railroad from end of the State
TO the other, which it had the advantage of 6O
miles distance in its favor, over any other road that
had been o. would be constructed east OF it, would
secure large portion of the through freight and ira
vel from the Pacific and the Mississippi valley on
it's transit TO the Atlantic ocean, which would cause
the stock to be taken readily than for part OF
the road al a time And he demonstrated by refer
ring to the through road that had been built with
less advantages, that they had yielded nett profit o!
upwards of seven per cent, from which it was plain
that by taxing through freight and travel less than
it was taxed, the road would pay for itself in
about thirty years And then out of the income, the
stock could apart school fund, sufficient to elu
cate every child in the State. And he also demon
strated that the advantage of distance which that
road would have would enable the State to realize
an income from the tax, as which it seems sufficient
measurably to relieve the people of the State from
taxation
He pictured the effect, should road in building
up cities the line and at the seaboard mutually
beneficial to each other; and said when all the States
are connected by railroad which will centre in the
valley of the Tennessee, midway between the ports
North Carolina and Memphis the Mississippi, ir
that New England climate, shaded and protected by
the high peaks of the Allegheny mountai ms, which
rise from the valleys and reaches the clouds-tht
people Of the South will congregate TO spend theil
summers in the cool breezes of the unains-where
they will not only determine their rights, but will
under aay emergency, be prepared to defend them.
charter ii is said will be introduced into the Sen
ate for the above projec next Monday.
Yours very truly,