Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-11-23

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Any man who is at all informed in sucn
matters will at once ssc that the Blue Ridge
Rail Road will not bear comparison, in
point of location, with the Western and At
lantic Road, which belongs 10 the State Of
Georgia. That road is sn exception; no other
road has been successfully managed by q
Stale government 1t hay al extensive travel,
aud is one of the great mail lines from East
to West-and has large cotton carrying
trade besides. The great commercial chan.
nels as well as mails and travel, rnn East
and West. The Blue Ridge Road runs across
the country, and cannot form o link-therefore
these are sources of income it never can have.
The Western and Atlantic Road may be com
pared to IL funnel. At one end it is fed by
the Memphis, the Nashville and the East
Tennessee and Georgia Roads; at the other
end by the Georgia Rail Road, West-Point
and Lagrange Road, the Macon and Western
and the Rome Rail Roads. Besides all the
other disadvantages connected with the scheme,
we may suggest that our State will labor I'm.
der that Of working the portion Of the Blue
Ridge Road lying beyond her limits. All
persons conycrsant with Rail Roading are
aware of the thousands Of perplcxing lawsuits
that annoy the managers Of our Roads in this
State, as we'll as others, and how hard it is to
get justice from our own juries residing
amongst US and sympathising as they should
do with the owners of our Rail Road property.
If is so difficult to get justice at home what
may we expect from juries Of other States
where it is known that the State Of South
Carolina is principal owner and is Obliged to
pay most of the damages for loss of life or
limb, OF any species Of property. A hog will
be valued u, $40, cow ut SlO0, man pro
badly at SlUO,OOO. Of what advantage will
the Blue Ridge Rail Road be to the upper
Districts of the State? When this question
is asked the most common reply is we shall
get cheap supply of Western bacon. This
idea has been prominently set forth by the
honorable gentlemen from Charleston.
Bacon is now brought to Hamburg from
East Tennessee, for forty or fifty cents a
hundred pounds, The Blue Ridge Road
might possibly deliver to half tue District
ten cents hundred cheaper. We will sup.
pose the population white and black, to num-
ber furty thousand, and that one half Of them
from the upper side Of the District were to
get their bacon ten cents hundred cheaper
than BY the Georgia roads, and that each in
! dividual, man, woman, and child, consume
seventy-five pounds Of bacon more per an
mum than is raised at home. That would
save the people Of that portion Of the District,
one thousand five hundred dollars, Lr seven
and half cents piece.
We will suppose further that all the bacon
brought into the District came over the Blue
Ridge Rail Road, and let thare all the benefit
of the freights ON bacon, say forty cents u
hundred. The aggregate On bacon for all
Edgetield District would anouMt to ton thou
sand eight hundred dollars (Sl0;S0O) not
enough to pay for tho annual wear and tear,
and running expenses, Oil fur miles of Rail
Road, and We will have hundred aud ninety
live miles to keep up.
IF we pass with this bacon idea to Barn
we'll, and the Districts below, We will find it
cheaper to get it by the Georgia Roads. On
the other side of the State we are to have
tue French Broad Rail Road to supply that
quarter-aud the Eastern and low country
Districts will be supplied through Baltimore
50 that the bucOa idcu sinks into insignif-
canoe compared with the enormous outlay he
cessary to be made, in order to obtain this
mountain Road, besides the great expense Of
keeping it up.
Bacon also seems to be the most prominent
and profitable article named in the catalogue
of imports from Tennessee. The location Of
Blue Ridge Rail Road is such, that it cannot
be thorough-tare for passengers, and if it
has to depend OH the carrying trade, confined
to our supplies, it is bound to be q failure.
How can it be otherwise2 The fact ought to
be kept in view, that, it is not the distance
from Knoxville to the sea-board in s. c., that
is to determine tho value of tho Blue Ridge