Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-03-08

~ COL: an mn 4 81 On s5Ilf -
AZ amseting of the Dirscters q North Caro-.
ina R.;lrosd, s. ssasbury q. as ioth January,
ls6e stosnm1nies si0} xss 4 Ton Col. Wal
asr Gxynn; Chief lasl Report md;
tsadsring his rss;sA hereupon it was ons
motion, unanimoasly 81
4. Rssolred, 1hst same be accepted to take eff
fectNnsthe compe ION of the track Of the Road So
and thatthe thanks of the Board being due, arc
hereby tendered to him for his able, efficient and
faithful services Chief Engineer of the North Car
DINA Railroad Company; and that he be rendered,
for himself9ud family, free passage for life over
the Road.
1t was also ordered that the President of the Road
cause to be printed one thousand copies of Col
Gwynns Report, and that one hundred copies of the
same be furnished to him.. We lay the Report in
full before our readers, as follows:
To the President and Directors
etthe North Carolina Railroad Company:
GENTLEMEN: have the pleasure to inform you
that the Railroad track is now completed with the
exception of three miles of rails to be laid, which
work will be performed in few days. But for the
delay in getting the iron up from Portsmouth and
Charleston, tho Road would have been finished du-
ring tho past year.
The following is list of the unfinished works:
l. The ware house at Goldsboro', built conformity
with the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad Com
pany. The walls completed the roof framed
ready to be raised the tin for the covering is on
hand, and contract has been made for putting it
on.
9 Engine shed of brick at Goldsboro', not COM
menced or contracted for.
8. Engine shed at Raleigh, the walls erected and
timber got for the roof
4. The walls for the Machine shop raised, and the
roof framed.
5. Blacksmith shop and Foundry, walls erected
and timber for the roofs contracted for.
6. Carpenters shop, Engine and Car sheds to be
built to complete the arrangements for repairs and
the protection of the Coaches and Engines at the
Companys shops.
z. The Steam Engine and machinery for repairs
have been contracted for, and are in an advanced
stage of construction.
8. Dwellings to be erected at the Company shops
for the Superintendent and operatives
9. The timber for the warehouses at McLean's
and jamestown stations gotten out.
10. One section masters house framed, nine to be
built and timber to be contracted for fourteen
houses for water-staton and ehouse hands to be
built and timber to be contracted for, ana seven
wood sheds to be built.
II. A passenger and locomotive shed to be built
at Charlotte.
H. The bridges west of the Emo, including the
bridges across the Emo, not yet weather-board-
ed-a contract has been made for the plank. The
warehouses and wood-sheds are to be painted, and
it is desirable that the bridges should be painted
soon as they arc covered.
H. For bridge across the Haywood road, near
Raleigh, the timber has been contracted for.
IA. map of the line of the Railroad is in pro-
gress showing the right Of way, the dividing lines
between proprietors, and plat of all the land ac-
qured by the Company.
I5 Tracks at the Shops and Turn.outs on the
line.
might here close this communication, for there
is little can say which has not already been COM
municated to you and is generally known to the
Stockholders. But there some interesting facts
scattered through the reports and records Of the
Company which, with view to a more ready refer
encc, beg leave to embody. shall do SO with the
utmost brevty; my aim being nothing more than
bare recapitulaton.
1. The Company was chartered on the 9th day
of January, l849 with capital Of 81, 900 OOO-the
State agreeing to subscribe s., 600 when 81 ,OO0
600 of the capital stock should be subscribed for and
onc-haf the paid into the hands of the Treas
urer of the Company. The first condition, requir-
ing the subscription of million of dollars Of the
capital stock, was complied with in 1850, and ON the
18th day of July of that year, the Company was
duly organized 1t is worthy of remark that the
whole amount was subscribed by individuals with
out the aid of corporations the largest subscription
thus made to any public improvement in the South
country.
2. The surveys were commenced on the 2Ist day
of August, 1850. On the 9th day Of May, 1851, the
results, with estimate of the cost of the Road,
were reported to the Board of Directors when the
location was decided upon.
3. In July, 1851, the graduation and masonry was
let, and the 18th the ceremony of "breakng
ground" was performed at Greensboro, by the Hon.
Calvin Graves, whose casting vote, Speaker of the
Senate for the Charter of the Company has won for
him the appelation of the pilot who weathered
the Storm" although in doing SO he sacrificed him.
self with Roman devotion to its fury. This interest
ing ceremony was performed in presence of the
Stockholders and large concourse of strangers-it
ever be memorable in the annals of North Carolina
an era which marks her engaging with earnestness
in honorable competition with her sister States, in
the great work of Internal Improvement, which is
to raise the State to that rank which the advantages
of her situation entte her to hold. The earth which
was removed was deposited in copper-box to be
sealed up with the Charter of the Company the
names of the original subscribers to the Stock, the
newspapers and coins of the day. with scroll con-
tanning an Address to be read at the hundredth an
University of the celebration Of 81 breaking ground"
when and not until then the seals of the box are 10
be broken From this memorable day, the 18th of
July, 1851, there has been faltering or despond-
ency; an have been united heart and hand in the
great undertaking, the whole State the entire peo-
pie, catching the enthusiasm which it engendered
have forth in their might and majesty battling
in the of Internal Improvement those hereto
fore sgnaized as laggards, now pressing forward in
the front rank On the Southern border an extern
sive line of Railroad has been commenced; in the
language of the patriotic and lamented Governor
Dudley, thanking South Carolina" and turning
Nor.h-Carona trade to North Carolina ports
The extension the Caroline Railroad to the
sea-board at Beaufort, and west to the Tennessee
line is in progress-proving what may be pardoned
for not resisting the qualification to say, the verify