Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-09-10

Hut QUO HAS ever DeeO ulScOntlnueQ.' Ihey
have ali, too been sustained and kept up
by their income from freight and trayel.----
They have benefited, likewise, to an meal,
cuIable extent, the country through Which
they pass. Labor has increased in value,
lands have risen in price, and COMMERCIAL
wealth and prosperity have been diffused
throughout the country. Is the Blue
Rpigc linllroad to be an exception to this
NnreFsal experience of thewhole civilized
wordE Surely pot. There is no reason
for It, None can be assigned that will bear
investigation, 'Fhe. Blue Ridge Railroad
l's all the advantages OF: similar railroads
constructed in Georgia 0nd Virginia, which
are doing well and paying handsome .diyi-
dendst ~, 'N|'.' 'N'-i'' - ''.'!
Some of the railroads in Europe have
cost hundreds. of thousand of dollars per
mile, and yet they not only sustain them
selves, but are profitable investments to the
stockholders. I will venture to say that
every railroad which has ever been built has
doubled. and tfebied all ,.coleulatiou and
can be.uQpe, as to the extent of travel and
freight op ;railroads, New species of
freight sprung UP, and. new. Inducements
to t vcLarise, which were ucver coutelupla-
ted and could not have been forcsecn,-
The item of copper as Freight was unknown
III Georgia when their railroads were con
structed. Now copper ore stands next to
cotton as an article of freight ovcrthc Gcors
|. .siaRailroad When we were making cal,
.cuiations' to induce subscriptions to'thc
GreenNille and Columbia Railroad, no one
thought of freight on corn'to Greemvilie.
MI the calculations were made for its trans.
pdstalttioin the other. wayt But it has so
happened that this item of freight on corn
brought from Columbia has been, for seye-
raj years, yerysconsiderable, 21,., ,.,,y
1t would, be amusing, now, to look oyer
the calculations of the friends and advo-
Gates Of railteadS, when first projected, as
to'thcir probable freight and travel, and
compare those calculations with the actual
receipts Of thcroad$. At the time they
We're made, they were supposed to be fool
ish e%aggcrations, and yet time has shown
that they have been doubled and treblcd.
Ten passengers day was the estimate made
for the hamburg Road between Charleston
and Augusta , This was regarded a3 too
large; but instead Of ten the daily ,aycr-
nGe has .Boan huhdfeds When the Creep
vile RAILROAD was spoken of, a distinguish
ed mcaber Of: ,the Ear in an adjoining dis
trict favorable. to railroads, declared. pub
-Iicty, III spcoch, that inas,nneh as Green
tiile>was not n cotton growing district, we
had no use for a railroad. aud could not
sustain one. All. old Irishman wcut, so
far as toPrcdfct thatIwe would not ba,gbIc
TO send from areenville more than one
freight train cvcr.n ycarJ: but experience
has shown that ii daily freight rraiii is nee
css4fy, and always comes and departs hoav-
ily laden. - ~. =
' b., Il is. said that .this. Blue Ridge Roaa,is
80 terminate at n little town.in Tennessee,
surrounded by mountains, where they have
very littlc'td send to market. pq'his issa
great mistake IN every poihtNf view Tn
the first place, the lsiue Ridge RoAd viii
not stop al Kno&yille torany where else his
side.of the Mississippi RIVER, perhaps:.this
side of the,Pacifc Ocean 1T will have no
western terminus at all, by reason oFIits
eOnnection#ith other railroads ThewhoIc
valley Of the West viii be. opened to it,
and viii freight it and all its railroad con
.heetiods with the immense and iperelsiing
'tadG Of tHegrGat. valley Of the AIissSsippL
Ro9ncsean suppose it possible, that. odi
road will stopn at Knoxville, when both
Tennessee ond'' kemueky are ready and
wihhSo cNtehdit to roads already Con:
stfhctedfrdm theSMississippi. ,.,,.., ..,,,
1t matters not whether Knoxville be a
small town or a large onoI situated in the
mountains or far,removed ftohi thcm.n' 1t
is not the produce of Knoxville Or 'the
trade of Knoxville that We arc 'contcndfnH
for, but that of the bonndlcSs West. AZ
welt hniglrt 10 be af"ed Tint Anderson,
where the Blue Ridge Railroad has its
COMMENCEMENT, is asmall village, and will
offgr no market for the produce of. the
West. Knoxville and Anderson situated
at the two ends of the road, are only toyds
through which the freight and. travel of
the Blue Ridge Riilroaf will pass III GoiiE
and returning from the 4ytlantic to The
Mississippi. :, -. .'ot - 'h.s'
!; What their trade and commerce have
done for the northern citi@ssI 'haJ6 already
mebtiohcd. j hatespokGn of It's cffccts'og
Georgia and Tier fssaiffoa@}s AidbaipS Is,
likewise contehding for ,tEiis same trddt.;
aHdis exteaaine>. her rsilfoads to Che Mis-
sis5ippi. afNorth Carolina, the good old 4
Rip Van Winkle Of the South, is goinjsoR
with her CentsnI .Railpads and will .uti-
itately fopn,a competitor with. the Nipsia- (:
ia, ,apd Tennessee, >RailRpd. When thislist
done South Caroline. .Rillba ,literslly. = cut
off from, tho western, trade, and ,isoh,tedllSy7
the Georgia .Rsilroad, on one sido, aud,thee
North Iarnlina rnad OIL. the athAr = IL