The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-12-16
Salisbury, Dec. 8, 1868. 'i

Location of the Penitentiary. -if-
Considerable talk has been. had and some
writing in the papers on the purchase of the
!, ,Penitentiary site. Knowing q the section
where it is proposed to erect it,probably as
thoroughly as any one now in the State, 1
venture to offer you few ideas on the sub
ject. .esn:s H llgil lti zaiiliqerq
1t is usual in all ,Penitentiaries to have
some character of work requiring the use of
power to run machinery As water power,
the site at, Lockviiie has not its superior
anywhere in the United States. The volume
of water is not so great as at Hoyoke. but
it is much more controllablei and higher
fall can be had The same may be said of a
comparison with that of the. James at Rich
mond. This water power. i admit, is of
small value now, but with the Chatham
Railroad built, italone would soon he worth
more than the price paid for the whole pro-
perty.5l sls 81 - .d7Hf q Gh.a- .dfJ,..
Then, too, no other water power in this
country has within its immediate neighbor-
hood an abundance of pine and oak timber,
coal, iron, copper, and the best of building
stone-both brown stone and granite, In
fact, upon the land purchased is a quarry Of
granite equal if not superior to that from
the James Quincy quarries, and also vein
of iron ore which, Tor quality and quantity,
is not excellcd this side the Mississippi. It,
has been pronounced, by the best iron
workers of the North, the only ore in this
country from which Besemer steel can be
made clieaply and of the best quality.
q know aneighboring mine, not so worka-
bic, is'valued by its owner at $20C 000 when
he owns only the mineral right to $50 acres
of land. The 5000 acres of land has not been
at. all cut off, but could be made to furnish
charcoal for at least u five ton Il day furnace
indefinitely, tor as fast as cut off the growth
would again string up and have from six to
eight years to mature. ~ 'aL y -
9IH The Deep River country of North Caro-
e lima has never been appreciated, simply from
that faculty of our natures that we are more
willing to believe evil than good of our
aneiehbers. That there is an abundance of
coal of good quality there, will soon be
proved by the present Railroad enterprises,
| which measures, however they may be de.
| cried for party purposes, or may now seem
ito burden the State, will some day be heI
greatest blessings In parallelogram, ex-
tending 25 or 100 miles up Deep River from,
-Lockville, and % miles below, and say
| twenty miles wide. is contained more
varied mineral wealth than in any space
Eioubls the sizeiin the United States, and IL
is, too, one of theamost iertilengficuitura
n sections to- be found anywhere. ajiV ao5f
-nrI have not visited all the pcnitentiaries o
country, but Isdpinc that the greatest requi
sites are 81 s-sht hJs .Vaf5 3.,islsiai3J Us
,y11.I a. central healthy location easy Of ac
!! cess With the Chatham railroad completed
and the Western Railroad joining the Nortt
| Carolina Railroad, no place in the Statt
could be more easily reached. and none suci
ii more centralor more healthy. sl'- 4h7lN2
2. Neighborhood ofd'cheap and goot
building material. have already aludee
itoSthe very superior granite and brown drai
-sandstones i4iIei' : fiHi tii ~ = F'f'
[hs.Ib Cheap fuel to generate steam or !
market price to dispense with it, Tie wa
ter power is there in abundance and Goa
| ,ifsneeded 1Eaiil sol 5l'saI ~ Lfa tIlslsos
fbs4i Location in country where sup
| plies Of fojd. not grown On the premises
may he obtained Chatham is one OF, tin
largest wheat growing counties, and direc
communication would be hid with Ran
! doIpIr, which is the largest, while the sam
with Wake and The Cape Fear country
t grow corn largely " R'ss'.4 h.i'';l''3 y
iel5. "A productive soil for vegetables, ai,s
I IN Better is to lie fi,und anywhere in MORT
/ Car6lina Than in the forks Of Haw am
Deep River on the South bank of Dee
| River. for any vegetable grown in the Stats
-H Then what are the empioyments nsaal i
/ Pententiaries and what is likely to SSs neces
sary to be adopted in ours 7 Some conin
! themselves to specialities. others rang