The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-09-08
CITY OF MOREHEAD!!!
GREAT SALE OF LOTS!!

ON THE ELEVENTH QlrH> DAY OF
November next, at the City OF Morehead, will be
sold at public auction, the Lots of said City.
This is the new City laid off by the "Shepard's
Point Land Campany,' at the terminus Of the AT
| lanic 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 excellences OF this Harbor tor
! 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 Albemarle, Curriuck,
CraOtan and PamlIco Sounds, will reach this hne
HarbOr through Core Sound the north, whilst
Bogue Sound will bear on its bosom the agrIcutur-
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 by the first of January next passes through
the entire length of the City to its wharf in Is feet
water at low tide, and connects with the great N.
Z. Rail Road lot which it is a 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, 1t is contemplated to reach the tlade OF
Memphis and the Mississippi Valley by the net
work of all the rail ways that connect at Atlanta,
Chattanooga, or with the East-Tennessee Rail
Road.
The Port of Beaufort Chattanooga, Memphis
and St Diego in the Pacific, about the same
parallel of latitude and if that parallel be extend
ed across the Pacific, it will reach Shanghai, the
nearest great Port the eastern Continent -
therefore, if the Pacific Railroad 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 is confidently expected that vast
coal trade will be carried on through the new city:
if so, may not Beaufort become a great coallng
Port, not only for purposes OF commerce. but to
furnish the supplies to steamers passing so near
the entrance going north and south and may not
the new city become that great "entre depot be-
tween the north and south, to which our able and
distinguished cOUntryman, Lieut.. Maury, refers
in his unrvaled Statesmanlike paper on the COM
merce Gf the Amazon, South America and the
Gulf of Mexico !?
The CITY of Morehead is situated on a beautiful
neck of land dry plain, almost entirely surround
ed with salt water: its climate is saubrous its
sea breeze and bathing delightful; its drinking
water good and its fine chalybeate spring strongly
mpregnated with sulphur, will make 1t pleasant
watering place . ,
As not a lot has been or will be sold until the
day of sale, all will have equal chance to
get 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
again such an opportunity for good Investments
for a great city must and will be built at this place.
]. M. MOREHEAD,
President Of Shepperd's Point Land Co.
September !, 1857. llw