Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-02-27

Monday. Good Daily Journal Of yesterday.
The Wilmington, Charlotte ~ Rutherford Rail-
road Compamy .----Fay ettcvlne and the Coal
Mines.
The stockholders in the Wilmington, Charlotte &
Rutherford Ruilr ad Company will shortly meet for
the purpose of acting upon the amendments to the
charter of that Company, passed by the last Legsla
ture.
In connection with this, various matters will en-.
ga &c the attention of the stockholders and the public
am every idea suggestion bearing upon the sub
iec directly or Incidentally, ought to be duly and
respectfully considered, and with this view and under
this impression, invite public attention to certain
views and suggestions contained in letter from
gentleman in fayetteville to another in this town, by
whom these views and suggestions have been placed
in our hands with the desire that they should be
given to the public
The writer refers to the fact that the charter of the
Wilmington, Charlotte & Rutherford Road has been
so amended as to allow that work 10 commence at
Fayetteville he then goes to say that the first
ten or twelve mile of the Fayetteville and Western
Railroad already graded the line of the best
practicable route from Fayetteville to Rockingham,
the first point west of Fayetteville mentioned in the
bUAAN
the road on this ne from Fayetteville West, at least
ten miles would be already graded, and only fifteen
remain to be done before the State could be called
for an endorsement Of bonds to the amount Of $780,
900.
Fir IN Fayetteville to Rockingham, by the route
suggested would be about fifty five mes-a straight
line between the two places is fifty lone miles From
Rockingham to Fayetteville would be seventeen
miles less than: rom Rockingham to Whitevlle.-
Taking the Fay tteville 70 lie, the Robson County
subscription wou of course be lost.
Says the writer -" At Fayetteville you will have
the advantage of te river, long 1t will be found
sufficient to transport the produce to your town, and
when it does not afford sufficient avenue, then your
Weldon Road can make another which will throw the
produce and coal the Wilmington side of the river,
and forever prevent coal deposite below you or
rival town to shar the business"
FAYETTEVILLE and Cumberland, l think will sub
scribe $500 900 towards the work, and the Coal Fields
Read probably as much the value of that road as
far as it will be used"
The writer thinks that by uniting the interests and
efforts of the friends of these works-the w. c. &
R. R., and the Fayetteville and Western R. R.
both will be more certain of ultimate success and
prosperity, while the unfortunate alienation of feel
ing too we'll known to exist between Fayetteville and
Wilmington, and which under the influence of irrita-
ting newspaper articles is daily increasing.
We se out simply with the view of laying this mat
ter before our rea rs well, or least as clearly
as we could underS tand it, and having done so, we
mean to stop without any expression of opinion either
for or gainst it. is desirable that two eommuni-
ties united by geographical position, should also be
united by the ties of friendship and friendly cooper
alton. In order to this an understanding must be
arrived appropriations. formal or informal must
mutually be made and mutually considered, and al
though no particular proposition may be accepted in
it's entirety still gu of the intercourse so carried on,
an agreement and an understanding may arise Our
own views on this matter of union with Fayetteville
and the coal mines have already been expressed and
need not now be repeated But whether this, that, or
the other proposed mode of efectng this connection
be adonted we are for some mode of uniting the in.
terssts and securing the minerals