Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-09-05
For the Advertiser.

IuiC SL'usC duu .Nmcty.SlA RduIUdus
Mr.. EDrToR,-I agree with your Rail
road correspondent in your issue Of the
22d, that nearly every ryland-holder in this
County has a large surplus upon whiclr
he is paying almost ;ruinous taxes, and
that every land-holder along theproposed
line of Railroad could, with certainty
Of realizing profits, subscribe one-fourth
of said real estate to a road, provided the
land is assessed at two-thirds ofits value
before the road has an existence
tits plain to the understanding that
the land would be increased in value
from fifty to one hundred per cent, thus
paying, by increased value, more than
the subscription and your correspondent
is right when he says that the building
of road, upon the plan proposed, would
be money-making Business to each
subscriber, particularly as the terms Of
subscription shall be, that each subseri-
Der shall have the privilege of redeem
ing his land, at assessed value, when the
bonds issued upon the basis of these
lands become due. And further, as your
correspondent says, there will be no in.
terruption to the cultivation Of these
lands until the bonds mature. In fact,
if the plan is examined carefully it will
be found that Road can be built anu'
commence operations as road, without
one dollar Of Indebtedness, thing that
has not happened heretofore in any en-
terprise of the kind.
A road from Pine House Depot to, say
Ninety-Six, without dollars Of indcb'-
ednoss when finished, would be novel
thing, but it can be made reality. If
such is tho fact, and it can he demonstra-
ted that there is moro idle real estate
along the line from Pine House to Nine
ty-Six than would build two narrow
=auge roads, t'len let it be done.
Dnt. Alr. Editor, your correspondent
has made this mistake, i'll my opinion.
lie hats attempted to cover too much
.;rountI, at once, to start II successful en-
:""priSc. II is true that the Charter OF
liz, l:ra embraces tie territory from All
';'a' To S.mrtanburg, but there is no nc
.....i" :or Ill this, but Il, the distant fu
".aG i;lriliue$; Simrtanburg will have
- s;,5i, ag .ns' Air Line is completed.
i,esidcs, NC .;hl De III communication
with Spa:,anbllrg Ey our proposed lina
from Pipe Aou:c 10 Ninety-Six, via
Grecnvillc, whicii vii be sufficient at
present. And VIC would be in commu-
rica,ion with Aiken, and to expend
$i0a.0 " unnecessarily, ill the infancy OF
.,n enterprise, wcal'l be useless. The
>anie idea also holds us regards Spartan
burg.
The Enterprises practicable at present
in the limits prescribed, viz: Pine House
10 Nincty-Six-notatall dorJting the final
utility and practeability of building The
entire Chartercdline.
Now, let rs sechow this would work.
In the first place Augusta would open
her eyes, and perhaps her purse. Say
inc present terminus Of the road is at
Eincty-Six. What surrounding coun-
~ of the upper prtion of Newberry, of
the adjoining portin Of Lanrens, nearly
.!alr of Abbcville, and all OF Edgefleld,
rom which to attact trade. Does any
one think a sane :ty would not lend a
uelping hand, WHITTIER or not the road
llnally passed to iken? The up-coul-
Try prodnccis tocole down anyhow, and
it will be in communication with two
markets, Charlcsto and Augusta; and
it would not tlke :great augur to foretell
i'll this case. Here the conclusion is
that aid from Augsta would be certain.
The writer has onversed with many
persons in the uprr portion Of Newber-
ry, and the Saludaide OF Laurens, and
they all say that Railroad from Au-
gusta to Ninety-Si ould be quite sufli-
cient for them at resent. We Of Edge
field all know VIII what tenacity the =
people of Lauren and Newbelry hold 9
on TO Augusta. rs reasonable therefore :
20 suppose thatlargo subscriptions, Il
either in money Glands, would be forth. t
coming, and tL' subscription in the
Ninety-SiS portn of Abbcville would
be large certainl.
Under the CIRCUMSTANCES then believe ,
we aught to raisithe stock within tho Il
points in0icated.Ca the stockholders y
.ogether and conpl that portion Of the =,
road at present, ID wait for future de- II
velopmerts. SUI rs the Blue Ridge II
Road &c. BY tb road, We will bo in i
communication it'll the Air Line, and q q
perhapsat at somelture day CINCINNATI. c.
The road here 4icated is an absolute 5
present necessity 1.-THE other portions oi ID ID
the Chartered liEa road is not present
necessity. Thefore let us with one W
mind and strolh, and purse, pursue k
the matter to itsnal completion. We F.
will then have @ad, if built npon the Ii
basis indicated, shouta mortgage upon ly
it-a paying roa-at least its expenses. E
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