The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-11-03
CITY OF M0REHEAD!!!
GREAT SALE OF LOTS!!


ON THE ELEVENTH Q1TH> DAY OF
November next, at the City OF Morehead will be
sold public auction, the Lots of said City.
This is the new City laid off by the "Shepard's
Point Land Company" at the terminus OF the At
lan'lc and North Carolina Rail Road, at Beaufort
Harbor, N. C., Immediately at the Atlantic Ocean.
The various Reports OF the u. ). Coast Survey
establish the great exec liences OF this Harbor, for
facility of entrance, depth OF water and security
from wind or wave, whilst Fort Macon completely
commands the entrance.
The interior communications by water and land
must make this great Commerce i City. The
vast productions of the fertile valleys of the Roam
oke, Tar and Neuse Rivers and the commerce of
those great inland seas-the AlbemarIe, Currltuck,
CraOtan and PamlicO Sounds, will reach this tne
Harbor through Core Sound on the north, whilst
Bogue Sound will bear on its bosom the agncultur.
al products, lumber naval stores and fine ship TIM
Der of the regions lying south.
The A. & N. G.. Rail Road which will be ready
for by the first of January next passes through
the entire length of the City to its wharf in l9 feet
water at low tide, and connects with the great N.
c. Rail Road (ot which it is continuation) at
GOldsboro'. * h.
The N. C. Rail Road, among the best in the
Union, 223 miles long, is completed to Charlotte,
where it connects through the South Carolina and
Georgia Rail Roads with ALBANIA and the south
west; and by its western extension now IN rapid
progress, 1t is contemplated to reach the trade OF
Memphis and the Mississippi Valley by the net
work of all the rail ways that connect at Atlanta,
Chattanooga, or with tie East Tennessee Rail
Road.
The Port of Beaufort, Chattanooga, Memphis
and ST Diego in the Pacific, are about the same
parallel of latitude and that parallel be extend
ed across the Pacific, it will reach Shanghai the
nearest great Port on the eastern Continent -
therefore, if the Pacific Railroad ever be construct
ed (and that should be done forthwith why may not
this new City become the Atlantic mart for the
commerce of the East Indies?
Two short Railroads will connect the two great
Coal Fields OF the State, lying on the north and
south of the North Carolina Railroad, with that
road aud it confidently expected that vast
coal trade will be carried on through the new CITY:
j! so, may not Beaufort become a great coalng
Port, not only for purposes OF commerce. but to
furnish the supplies to steamers passing near
the entrance going north and south and may not
the new city become that great centre depot" be-
tween the north and south, to which able and
distinguished countryman, Lieut.. Maury, refers
in his unrvaled Staesmanlike paper on the CON-
nercc of the Amazon, South America and the
Gulf of Mexico ?
The city of Morehead is situated on beautiful
neck of land or dry plain almost entirely surround
ed with salt water: its climate salubrious /; its
sea- breeze and sea thing delightful; its drinking
water good, and its fine chaybeate spring strongly
mpregnated with sulphur, will make it a pleasant
watering place.
As not lot has been or will be sold until the
day of sale, all will have equal chance to
gel the best lots and TO suit themselves.
1t will be the first instance of an entire new
city on the Atlantic coast being brought into
market at once and capitalists may never have
for great city must and will be built at this place.
J. NJ MOREHEAD,
President of Shepherds Point Land Co.
September !, 1857. Ilw