Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-09-24


distant when the railway and the great
blessings conferred upon the human race
through its fundamentally, will be prop
erly estimated by our citizens.
We want-Sampson county needs, a road
from Clinton to Warsaw, and we are conf
dent that all that is necessary to insure its
completion is the hearty cooperation of
the citizens of the county. And to the
farmers especially, the class of people who
would be most benefited by the construc-
ton of the road, we particularly appeal.
They are abundantly able to build the
road, and it is to their interest to do so,
alone and unaided if necessary, as q few
words will suffice to show. Every intelli-
gent farmer understands full we'll that the
value of his farm is not regulated to any
great degree by the richness of its soil. its
fine timber, nor yet by its "good we'll of
water" It may be model farm in all
these respects, and yet he may not be able
to sell it for moro than from two dollars to
five dollars per acre, owing to it's remote
ness from any commercial centre, and the
absence of any cheap, speedy and reliable
means of transporting the surplus products
of the said farm to good and reliable
market. Let railroad be put in opera
ton IN the county in which said land Iies,
and the land will ut once increase in value
from twenty five to five hundred per cent,
just III proportion to its nearness or re-
moteness from tho road. The price of
products will be regulated in the same
way. As we said before. every intelligent
farmer understands this full we'll. They
all understand that, in traffic carried on
as it is at present, by slow wagons and still
| slower carts, when q market is finally
reached there is little margin for profit left
to the farmer or any one else. The profits,
and sometimes the products themselves.
are consumed in the cost of transportation
The farmer is the one who loses most in
the operation-he loses his own toll and
that of his family, and wears out his farm,
and all because he is improvided with
cheap and speedy method of getting his
own and his households toll to market
The nearer you can bring the producer and
consumers together the better 1t is for
both.
The farmers of Sampson have this matter
of 70 railway in their own hands. They can
go to work, lin what manner we will not
presume to suggest build it, and become
rich from the vase OF property.
| We believe the above to he demOnstrabie
facts, devoid of the least vestige Of bun
cOmbe We believe the construction of a
road from Clinton to some point on
the Wilmington and Weldon Rail
road to be the most practicable mode
| of escape from the incubus of hard
| times, which, for the last four years has
hung like pail over Sampson county, 1t
will be the magician wand that will Danish
the present condition Of things, and canse
riches to flow like a river from one end of
the county to the other.
We ak the farmers of the county to
ponder these crude suggestions carefully,
canvass the subject in all its bearings, and
then controvert. If heg can, the conclusions
We have deduced from tic premises By
the construction of this railway you insure
to yourself better prices for your products
and cheaper goods in exchange, the while
your landed property is enhanced in value,
AS we said before, from twenty-five to five
hundred per cent. Is not this ga con-
summation devontly to be wished ?''-
Should not the attainment of this object
be the one great desire Of your heart
Ought you not to labor for it, and hope for
it, aye, and pray for it until it is done
Most assuredly, yes ! Now. this is your
time to act" time is money to all con-
cerned--so canvass the matter among Your
neighbors.