The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-17

in the course OF q year tO'a considerable sum.
But B9t there is negative loss much heavier than
this in not being able to turn their labor to the
best account for want Of facilities for the safe,
economical and prompt transportation of pro-
duce to ready market. This want compels
small farmers to rely upon cotton as O. market
Drop, and from it's cultivation they realize from
twenty-five to thirty dolars to an acre. when
railroad facilities would enable them from
truck patches and gardens to make from two
to five hundred dollars from each acre that
they may be able to cultivate.
The landholders of the county form class
to whose interests tho building of this road is
Indispensable. 1t will not only bring among
open q market for their lands which ct present
are almost valueless. Purchas ,rs will not in
vest in lands alta distance from railroad facii-
ton should very materially decline in price,
which, under the improved system of culture.
we think is inevitable, to what use can onr
!ai1as SO Far frolp market be put2 With rail-
scores Of other productions in the culture OF
which We can most proftably and pleasantly
engage, to which we cannot otherwise resort
At present we need subscription which can
be made available fol securing the charter and
inaugurating the. work at an early day. This
is the present and immediate want. When the
company shall have been organized subscrlp-
tion in land will be available for raising funds
to carry the work onward TO completion.
:. 1t will be necessary to make a conveyance Of
the land to the conpany; but the owner need
not, on that account, be deprived of the use or
actual possession Of his land. If he subscribe
lars an acre he will simply have to pay that
amount in money to Ehe road at some future
day, when it is comparatively easy for him to
do so, when the land, which he has continued
to occupy and employ will be released to him
enhanced perhaps five or ten times in value by
the mere opening Of the road. The company
in the meantime has, without disturbing the
occupant in the possession of his land, simply
employed it as a basis for negotiating loan Of
money to carry out an enterprise which has
made him perhaps ten times as wealthy as he
was before. alt
Public Meeting I'm sumter.
public meeting of the citizens of Sumter
was also held on Monday last, MIR. a. j. Moses
In the chair. ss
Mr.. D. B. McLaurih addressed the meeting,
and stated that the residents of Clarendon had
ming, and had subscribed literally, both in
lands and money, to construct their porto \,
and it now remained for the citizens Of sum
ter to say whether ornot they should have the
tainty that the road from Manning to Gour-
din's would be b.ilt,r and he urged upon the
citizens the great importance Of the enter
prise, and hoped they would not let the oppor-
a condition of independence from the present
monopoly that was now practiced upon them
Mr.. Q. 81. Noise then addressed the meeting,
and read q letter from the present superinten-
dent of the Northeastern Railroad, Mr 8. s.
Solomons, which Information was carefully
considered bythssmeeting. He then stated to
the m Getting the Importance of immediate and
prompt aclion on the part of the citizens of
our town and surrounding country. He advo-
Gated, in strong terms, the great advantages
of the road, as 1T would place us in drect COM
munication with the seaboard. AT the conclu-
sion of his remarks, he offered the following
resolution, which was unanimously adopted !:
ReSoIUed. That a committee Of five be ap-
pointed by the chairman at his leisure, for the
purpose of raising an amount of money sufi-
cient to defray our proportion of the expense
Of survey Of the railroad from Gourdin's to
Sumter. a.sE faa
Mr.. John II. Feriter then addressed the
meeting, strongly advocating the construction
OF the road, and stated that il the citizens of
our ti0n did not rNsi She enterprise. that
others would, and We woaid aaos als;ay. i.s. di.
rect connection.
Colonel j. D. Blanding then addressed the
meeting at some length, and gave some valua-
BILE information regarding the enterprise, and
urged upon all persons who had any interest
in the welfare and prosperity of our town to
advocate the construction Of the road at once,
and he also stated, from his personal knowl-
edge OF the country, that it would cost but
very little, compaI atively, to put the road in
successful operation, as the lines had already
been laid out, and that expense is necessarily
reduced.
Colonel Blanding having concluded, the
meeting adjourned to meet again on Monday,
the Sd day of May, at o'clock.