Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-06-19
00MMWNloATGQM9. .
FOR rnn kEowEr COURIER.

FOX TIE kEoN sb NOVhIhR'
Ed. Cou,ie, notice call in your paper
on the candidates for the Legislature to ex-
press their opinions in relation to the Blue
Ridge Railroad.
AS seek nor desire no concealment ofmy
opinions, L have no hesitation in declaring
them. am and always have been in favor
of that road and, if elected, will warmly ad-
vocate its claims for further State aid.
Lam only surprised, that such 9 question
should be propounded to the candidates. of
Pickcns district, for | takoit for granted that
not only every candidate, hut every citizen of
thc district It's friend dofthcBlueRidgc Railroad
1 believe that no district in the State is moro
interested, or will be more bonohtted by
railroad than Pickens District.
Hitherto the products ofcur lands have been
shut out from market by distance and the
cost Of transportation q railroad, in great
degree, remedies this evil, and by the facility
and chcapness Of transportation will increase
the value of our products.
Every farmer of our district has already re-
allied this to some cxtcntby thencarapproach
ofthc railroad to our borders, and the demand
for labor and provisions which the road has
created. Markets have sprung up along the
line of the road during the progress of it's con
Structon, where every thing finds ready sale.
The beautiful town of Walhalla which was
| founded few years before the road was com
mcnccd by our industrious aud entcrprising
German population, has received q large ac-
cesson ofbusincss from the road. 1t affords
now fine market for all the surrounding
country, aud is an ornament and credit to our
district. In fact, there never was time since
| llp In pfp Il 1iSfr ,nf 81,
greater degree of prosperity was enjoyed in
every branch ofbusincss. than since the COM
menccmcut and progress of the Blue Ridge
| Railroad.
But / consider the greatest and most per
mancnt benefit of the road will he in the en-
hnnced value of our lands. Our population
isvery sparse, and large PARTON of our lands
arc still unoccupied, and in state of nature.
The railroad will bring our mountain district
into notice. We havo the fiuest climate on
the continent, and that TO the pallid check
and sallow complexion of our lower country
population will be temptation enough. We
have the grandcst mountain scenery in the
whole range of the Allcghanies-bo
us on the North and West, which to the low
crs of nature will here find to the fullest and
most ample qualification. Every inhabitant
ofPickens District should feel proud of these
fine specimens of natures grandeur and sub
Unity. should feel proud to lie the repre-.
sentative ofsuch district.
My remarks have been confined to the ben
eft which the railroad will confer on Pickens
district alone. will not trcspass on your
columns by entering into the argument that
it will confer incalcul0ble benefits to the State
at largc-hcncfts which we will feel the loss
Of and dcplore for all time to come, should she
adopt the narrow policy aba toning the CHI
tcrprisc. Respectfully,
RoR'T. maxwell, JR.
FOR THE KE0WEE COURIER.
M. NtH0r: The Nuriuus nominations
through your columns, for the Senate and