Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-09-03
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correspondent of the Franklin N. C.0 OI.
"rrrr, in few words, tells us what the Blue
Ri'lgc Halroad will accomplish, when bnn,
He says:
=" The Blue Ridge Railroad is now finished
from Andcrsont TO Pcndlcton. and large portion
ot the tunnels, masonry, bridges and rrn,lino
has bccu completed to the North Carolina limo
across The Blue Ridge; and as but little cxpen
diture Will be required To extend it from that
point to the town Of Franklin, in the valley of
the Tennessee. it is fair presume that the road
cOuld bc completed that far in the next three
years And IT may not be altogether foreign
To the discussion of the question to notice some
of the results from the extension of the road
thus far in the valley of the Mississippi The
State Turnpikcs which extend from Ashyille.
west. between the Blue Ridge and Allegl,any
mountains, passing through the counties OF
Buncombc, Haywood. Jackson Macon and
Cherokee, TO Duck Town Copper mines. will bc
interscctcd Mt Franklin; and the commcrce
which now mostly finds its way to Athens, Gcor.
gia, will be intercepted and transferred TO the
South Carolina roads; also, the great Mineral
belt containing Copper, Gold, Silver and Lead,
will have been penetrated. Already in Jackson
amt Macon counties, within short distance
from Franklin, some eight NJ ten mines of Con-
per have been discovered; and competent com.
pani"s have been formed to work them ms soon
as the Railroad can reach that point: and il is
probable they would furnish n considerable
amount ot freight, Judging from the quantity
pr"n"ccd by the working of similar mines at
Duck Town during the last five or six years
- But - miles bcluw Franklin, the outlet to
Inc valley OF the ilinwnsscc and Duck Town will
bc reached, and n branch road of 65 miles
through n country aboundng in agricultural
and mineral wealth, favorable TO the construc-
tion Of II Railroad, which would be constructed
If the Blue Ridge road he extended "A little
mil fu tl,nr ~,
Ridge road To Citco, which would become the
head of steamboat navigation on the Tennessee
Here II branch of thirty miles to Athens on the
East Tennessee and Georgia road, has already
been chartered, with State aid but its con-
struction must depend upon the completion of
the Blue Ridge road to Citico This short link
being completed, would give to the Blue Ridge
road railroad connection of the same gauge
with Chattanooga on the Tennessee, and Mem
phis on the Mississipp; and by the extension
to Knoxville, the road to Danvillc. which has
been chartered, with State mid. would be built:
which would secure II connection with Cincin-
natl and Louisville, and all the railroad and
steamboat lines extending more than thirty
thousand miles over the valley of the Mississip-
p And by the Blue Ridge Road. Charleston
would become the nearest seaport on the At
lantic, to the centre Of this vast commerce."
The Editor of the OJ1crrcr also says:
"While there, (nt Tunnel IIilD we had the
pleasure of exhibiting some fine specimens of
marble, in connection with other parties who
exhibited suit of Copper ores that promise
large items i'll the freight lists when the Road
is completed. And we now say and stand rca-
dy to substnntiate our words by facts and fgu-
res, that when the Blue Ridge road is compile
tcd, We will furnish large amounts of freight in
copper ores from jackson and Macon and in
exhaustiblc supplies of statuary marble ms well
as elegantly figured marbles from Cherokee and
Macon. unsurpassed by the finest Italian mar
bic. There are other sources of freight in our
country. One dealer alone paid the South Car
DINA Road. twelve hundred dollars freight on
beef cattle from Hamburg to Charleston last
season. Had we the advantages of Railroad
transportation, the Freight on beef cattle would
be greatly increased. We have many other ar
tclcs that would add to our freight lists These
arc facts which We deem it proper now to state,
and which we stand ready to verify"