The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-09-01
CITY OF MOREHEAD!!!
GREAT SALE OF LOTS!!

VI
ON THE ELEVENTH Ulrn DAY OF
November next, at the City OF Morehead will be
sold at public auction, the LOIS of said City.
This is the new City laid off by the "Shepard's
Point Land Company at the terminus Of the At
lan'ic and North Carolina Rail Road, at Beaufort
Harbor, N. c., Immediately at the Atlantic Ocean.
The various Reports OF the u S. Coast Survey
establish the great xcellences OF this IIarbor, 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 Commercial 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, Curriuck
CraOtan and Pamlico Sounds, win reach this fine
Harbor through Core Sound on the north, whilst
Bogue Sound will bear on its bosom the agrIcultur-
al products, lumber naval stores and fine ship TIM
Der OF the regions lying south.
The A. & N. C. Rail Road which will be ready
for use by the first Of January next passes through
the entire length of the City TO its wharf in l6 feet
water at low tide, and connects with the great N.
Z. Rail Road (ot which it is contnuation) at
Goldsboro.
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 atlanta and the south
west; and by its western extension, now IN rapid
progress, II ID contemplated to reach the tIade 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 it 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 be construct
ed land 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 the north and
south of the North Carolina Railroad, with that
road and it is confidently expected that vast
coal trade will be carried OF through the city:
if SO, may not Beaufort become a great coalng
Port, Only for purposes OF commerce. but TO
furnish The supplies to steamers passing
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 unrivaled Statesmanike paper on The COM
merce of the Amazon, South America and the
Gulf of Mexico
The city Of Morehead is situated on a beautiful
neck of land or dry plain, almost entirely surround
ed with salt water its climate salubrInus its
sea breeze and -ba thing delightful its drinking
water good, and its fine chaybeaie spring strongly
Impregnated with sulphur, will make il q pleasant
watering place.
AS not lot las been or will be sold until the
day Of sale, all will have an equal chance to
gel the best lois and to suit themselves.
II will be the first instance OF an entire
market at once and capitalists may never have
again such an opportunity for good investments.
for grea; city must and will be built at this place.
J. NJ MOREHEAD,
President of Shepperd's Point Land 60.
September !, 1857. 1lw