The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-10-13
CITY OF M0REHEAD!!!
GREAT SALE OF LOTS!!

ON THE ELEVENTH QlTH 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
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 Survt y
establish the great exec lencies 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 City. The
vast productions o. the fertile valleys OF the Roam.
Gks a end Nepse Rxfhs aq66 hh
Graotan and Pamllco Sounds, will reach this fine
Harbor through Core Sound on the north, whilst
Bogue Sound will bear on its bosom the agrlcutur-
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 lS feet
water at low tide and connects with the great N.
Z. Rail Road lot which it is contnuatiOn) at
The N. C. Rail Road, among the best in the
Union, 223 miles long, is completed to Charlotte,
where 1t 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 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 lattude and if that parallel be extend
ed across the Pacific, it will reach Shanghai, the
nearest great Port the stern Continent =
therefore, if the Pacific Railroad ever be construct
ed land that should be done forthwith why may not
this new City bec"me 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 and it IS confidently expected that vast
coal trade Will be carried on through the new CITY:
if so, may not Beaufort become a great coaling
Port not only for purposes of commerce. but to
the entrance going north ard south and may not
tween the north and south, to which our able and
distinguished countryman, Lieut.. Maury, refers
in his unrvaied Staesmanlke paper on the COM
merce 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 IS salubriuus its
sea-breeze and bathing delightful its drinking
water good, and its fine chaybeate spring strongly
impregnated with sulphur, will make it pleasant
watering place.
AS not lot has been or will be sold until the
day Of sale, all will have an equal chance to
get the best lots and to suit themselves.
1t will be the first instance of an entire new
market at once and capitalists may never have
again such an opportunity for good investments,
for great city must and will be built at this place
]. M. MOREHEAD.
President Of Shepperd's Point Land Co.
September l, 1887. l1w