Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-12-31

producer and Tie transporter With tLn
present amount of freight Offering it is real
~ more expensive to transport barrel
of -four from Morganton to Wilminntor
$50 miles than from Chicago to New York
1000 miles. Now let us see what ten miles
we'll cultivated, on each side OF q railroad
could be made to furnish. One hundred
miles of railroad and ten miles on each
side give an area of 1000 square miles
which at 500 acres to the square mile will
leave total of 100000 OF acres. Thie
gives 14O acres to the square mile not used
100000 acres Of cotton at half bale per
acre, &c, coo tons at 40 CT. per b.. 81 CCO CGo
200, 600 acres Of wheat ct IL bush. Per '
acre, so 900 tons at $3.50 per IL. 4O0G OG0
| 100000 acres OF corn at barrels per
acre. liz 900 tons at IS per barrel. 4 Coo OoO
eco, 600 acres of tobacco at 1000 lbs per
acre, 100 600 tons at Is cts per t6 80 OCO ono
200, coo acres of grapes at 200 lunches
per acre, 100000 tons st &c per Ii. 100000
Acres t. 600. Tons $4,000. &l23,OOO CC0
Equal to the work of q trains for 312
days in the year. Not excessive work for
O single track railroad. More tons of freight
than tons of which cotton have been nro.
duced in the South for three years. This
freight at two cents ton per mile or s. fer
the hundred miles would amount TO over
50, 625, 900, to say nothing of passengers
and return freights. Substitute for the
item of cotton, dried fruit, and for Tie
item of tobacco, potato starch, and the
result will work equally well for the
lands, producing q greater amount Of
freight in the Western part of North Caro-
lima. [ do not think if this amount of
freight wero offering, it would be ncccs-
sary to tax the people 20 build rail
roads in the Western Pat of the State,
for it is evident that the dividends
would be very large. This will explain
why multitudes of roads that cost 500. OAO
and 5000, 900 u mile are we'll supported IN
densely populated countries. Northern
roads, that a few years ago were bank
rupt, now transporting agricultural pro-
ducts at l cent a ton per mile are hugely
profitable. There is another popular de-
fusion TO which I would call attention, that
) flight can be transported as cheap in pro-
portion, for short distance as it can be
= for long one. 70 illustrate this, suppose
t train of ten cars were TO start from one
, end OF the road, and one car was to be de
I tached every ten miles, at station, ana
} remain there until gathered up by i.u
train coming bacl. Is it not plain that If
the charges were made per mile, for each
, Car, the receipts wonld have been but one
/ half, if the train had gone ali the Way
t through, and the expenses would DO aa
| much in the one case as in the other? Il
, stock is kept idle, and there is risk Of i'll
surance, risk OF theft, and there is as much
/ clerical force required in the way ul
} making the entries for one barrel Of flour
. transported ten miles rs for o hundred
{ barrels q hundred miles. But above all,
t it is the silent expenses Of road to which
/ each item of freight is obliged 10 contri-
| butte its share. This error arises from con
2 founding the transportation OF passenger
l and the transportation OF freight. 1t uu,t
t be remembered that passengers load ,,nd
unload themselves and about as many get
in as get out, at each station, which is not
r the case with freight. This same rule can
be applied TO q thousand miles OF road
with equal force as to hundred miles o.
, road. It has proven that il has been pro
2 titable with very large volumes OF freight
= that can be transported at l cent Il ton
= per mile. One cent ton per mile, means
, shat q barrel Of flour can be carried eco
miles for 81, q four hundred pound bale
of cotton one thousand miles for 50. And
it is about 1000 miles OF road from Nor
{ folk via Augusta, either to New Orleans,
Vicksburg, Memphis, or Cairo. / think
+ it is plain that the day is not lar distant
3 when al the freight from that region viii
? reach market through tho cities CT Angus
3 ia or Savannah, and it IL therefore no
WOuuer LOaU tLO lGAlIEOutt EDAut8CIS "a
? North Carolina are straining every norve
{ to reach that goal, rather than wait for
. the tardy developments of the agriculture
of North Carolina. And the farmers will
have to cry aloud to make their wants
known.
AS to cheap fares think the Railroads
} in the thinly settled States OF our country
8 have offered all that they can afford, with
| one exception to do at present, taking into
/ consideration the coupon ticket Of LOCO
/ miles, and where there are largo gather
ings of people, transporting them both
{ ways for one fare. That exception is T.
ticket not used in this country at all, bUt
is extensively used in England. Where %
} holiday excursion is proposed the Railroad
} sells one hundred or thousand tickets to
t an individual for q specified sum in pro
portion to the number to be transported.
t These tickets are resold by q Church or
| Society to their members at on advanced
rate, thereby giving the pleasure Of the
excursion, and ct the same time, raising
, fund for charitable purposes. and the Rail.
} road is certain of n handsome profit for It's
, labor by reason Of being able to transport
large numbers Of passengers out OF It's idle
time. I would recommend Railroad man.
ayers to regulate their excursion trains
upon this principle, and [ DO not see why
{ this Association may not use this ticket 70
| increase the funds of this Society.
The Admission of Virginia.
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