Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-10-07
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I .,SNO adv sertiaeinpFpt -reaeeting uron privat
character cha can' under fI ANT oFDoyraTAsess. " +
StI1s.eu:- Il --z4L- LII Era Toa
own interest voaaId thus .dictate.1 aT5en it
wouid be bhta small JOB TO. Complete the
! road to JaeksonviIIsA So here i'd axrother
knoek for the. bugsbear theoxsa ena1tion.
/ Il there IS any such theory or netioao
The real motive, overlapping ayerX 9TH
or, for the action of the Cor1t1iiksi sioners
was to extOrt from the friends of the
! ''Teacheys" and the frie1ds of the evil
mington direct" 5san1eqraha5is indication,
hEbE assntance or want Off assoranee, by
4v9j3denco- 93sie or want Of 'eYidenceh q. lheir
respective routes. We want these ifdica-
tions and expressions made nj adpBotime
to have iheir just and proRF -infUence on
! the appropriation election here. Wswant
| to know before the oath of November, by
these means. whether we shall then vote
for the aforesaid, apprspriation ~ta the
tt'Teacheys" road. We, know rerygwell
that II we once vote the appropriation,
we cannot afterwards unvote it, 1--we, on
that day, vote the appropriation the
|, 'Ieacheys" route we will never yoteTauy
appropriation to the 'tWilmingtou direct
route. If the county votes for the.ssPlant-
ers" appropriation and rejectsthe "Teach-
eys" | think you may take that action rs
signal that it will vote tae same sum to
the Wilmington direct route whenever an
opportunity presents. The banns must be
forbidden on the oath of November or
Onslow may, for many purposes, be forev-
er welded to Norfolk and Baltimore. This
Is fair play. The pole that appears the
longest on the 245h will take the persim-
mon. - 9
Our trade and communication with Ms
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not pay purpose to descant upon the natural
resources of Onslow or the advantages of
its trade. The merchants of Wilmington
know great deal more about that than T.
| The Ieacheys route may not make Norfolk
or Baltimore their rival. They are fully
competent to pass upon that matter also.
And will doubtless give it, or have given
it, all due consideration.
An article appeared in your paper some
time since making some estimate of the
costs of building and running O narrow
gauge railroad, and giving some account
of the operation Of such road in Wales,
if Irememher rightly. 1 don't think it
appeared in tho WEEKLY, and con-
sequently but few of our citizens
saw it. A reprint in the "WEEkLY" would
do no harm if it is not too much trouble.
Are there any such roads in the United
States If so, how do they work I? II
of the centripetal and centrifugal forces
are, I opine, about the same in Wales as
| here. But an account of something hap
peniDg away off there does not make SO
lively an impression, and is not 80 con-
vincing as OF the same thing nearer hom e.
People out here, with whom have talked,
seemed not to like much the narrow gauge.
They fear the carriages on it would be too
ticklish. But this may be the effect of
! ia fn +n
novelty.
| What would he the costs per mile of
the iron. cross ties and grading over the
contemplated direct route, wide gauge p
What the cost of same, narrow gauge p
| What would be the costs Of running and
running stock of wide and narrow
gauge over that route ? The "Teacheys"
road must, by the express provisions of
its charter, be OF the same gauge as the
Wilmington and Weldon Road. People,
you know, must sometimes put up with,
not what they would have, but with what
they can get. The shortaess of the pocket
sometimes cuts down our aspirations. I
have vague impression that the most Of
these questions were anticipated and an
swered in the aforesaid article, but have
lost the paper. ..r ...4
| What is the difference in the amount of
| bridging and costs of grading of the two
|
routes ? This question requires for its
answers some local knowledge, which per-
! haps you do not possess, but may be it
will bring out those who do know. These
questions are calculated to inform US how
much, under all aspects of the case, is to
be done.
Tho following is calculated to inform
as to the Hhelihood and probability of its
being done.
Now, friends of tho "Teacheys' and
Wilmington Direct counties, towns,
railroads, individuals, bodies polite and
natural, with how much are you willing to
prop your respective favorites And
where is the "wherewithal'' to come from
What is tho amount of your solvent sub
scriptions? And what the evidence of
their solvency? These questions may
savot of indelicacy, but it is no time to
sickle for too nice punctilio. We are
very poor ont here ourselves, but we don't
care who knows it. The taxable property
in this county is assessed at over five hun
dred thousand dollars. It is safe to say
that sum is not over half its present real
value. The moment it is certain that
railroad or railroads Will be built, having
their termini anywhete near the centre of
the county, in the twinking of an. eye,
the same property Will appreciate. to dou-
bic its present value-two millions OF dol
lars. Five per cent on that will yield the
one hundred thousand doIlara We can
arrange to liquidate that without any in
convenient pressure. That is not much,
but reckon it is about the best we can
do.
The New Hanover Agricultural Society
holds its neat nloeting, L believe, on the Sd
of November On Topeail Sound. Would
it be ont Of place for the TopsaiI frionds
of the Wilmington Direct :" to say. then
} and there what they would do I? Is o,
would this be ont of time and in.
oppoftnne. as OF too local or sec
tional a character, and not belonging
to the proper object of that meeting. Th,
Cspe Fear Agricultural Society hold thei
Annual Fair in your city fortnight after
+ wards Ii the above objections, or som,
0 her, do not apply here also, think ths
} friends of both these projects would b
very 6 .nerIily represented in meetinI
held then. These are merely suggestion
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