Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-09-05
For tba A5.yert;ser

Plne EtonSe aud .Nmcty-S1X Railroad
Mr.. EDIToR,-I agree with your Rail
road correspondent in your issue Of the
22d, that nearly every land-holder in this
County has large surplus upon which
he is paying almost rrlinous 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 road, provided the
land is assessed at two-thirds ofsits value
before the road has an existenL,.
1t is 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 a money-making Business to each
subscriber, particularly as the terms of
subscription shall be, that each subscri-
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 he built and
commence operations as a road, without
one dollar of ndebtedness,-a 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 indch'-
ednoss when finished, would be u novel
thing, but it can be made reality. If
such is the fact, and it can he den,onstra-
ted that there is moro idle real estate
along the line from Pine House to Nine
iy-Six than would build two narrow
.raugc roads, then Let it be done.
Bnt. Mr.. Editor, your correspondent
has made this mistake, i'll my opinion.
he has attempted to cover too much
.:rou;h, at once, to start II successful en-
'"rprisc. II is true that the Charter OF
.:::;s .:r:: embraces tic territory from All
';an Is s;.artanbu-g, but there is no nc
......ir :or Ill this, but liz the distant fu
g.ati lpriliueS; Srarranburg will have
Is so1i, aa .hs' Air Line is completed.
Besides, wc ,sl. be III communication
with Spa:;lnburg Ey our proposed line
from Pipe Aou:e 10 Ninety-SiX, via
Grecnvillc, whic.i viii be sufficient at
present. And We would be i'll commu-
nica;ion with Aiken, and to expend
$685. q unnecessarily, i'll the infancy OF
IN enterprise, wnul,l DC useless. The
SAME idea also holds us regards Spartan
burg.
Tue Enterprises practicable at present
in the limits prescribed, viz: Pine House
TO nety-Six-notatall biting the final
utility and practkability of building the
entire Chartered line.
Now, let rs .echow this would work
In the first place Augusta wonId open
her eyes, and perhaps her purse. Say
,he present terminus of the road is at
Ninety Six. What surrounding co,ln-
~ of the upper pation of Newberry, of
the adjoining port.'n of Laurens, nearly
..alr of Abbeville, and all OF Edgefeld,
rom which to attact trade. Does any
one think q sane 'ity would not lend
1elping hand, whthcr or not the road
lna!ly passed to 4iken? The up-coult-
Try produccis tocolc down anyhow, and
il will be in communication with two
markets, Charlcsto and Augusta; and
it would not tuke great augur to foretell
in this case. Here the conclusion is
that aid from Augsta would be certain.
The writer has cnversed with many
persons in the uprr portion Of Ncwbcr-
ry, and the Saludside Of Lanrens, and
they all say that Railroad from Au-
gusta to Ninety-Si would be quite sufli- :,
cient for them at resent. We of Edge
field all know wh what tenacty the
people of Laurcn and Newberry hold
on to Augusta. Is reasonable therefore.
20 suppose thatlarge subscriptions, :
either in money Glands, would be forth. t
coming, and til, subscription in the
Ninety-Six portll of Abbcville would
be large certainl.
Under thccircustances then believe
we aught to raisthe stock within The II
points indicated. Call the stockholders i.
.ogether and conDl that portion Of the ,
road at present, ID wait for future de- n
vclopments, SUI as the Blue Ridge u
Road &c. BY ts road, We will b0 in j!
communication ith the Air Line, and .
perhaps.at someIture day Cincinnati. c
The road here dicated is an absolute 5
present necessity the other portions OF y, "
the Chartered lin road is not 4 present
necessity. The'ore let us with one W
mind and strerl,, and purse, pursue X
the matter to itsnal completion. We e
will then have lpad, If built npon the Il
basis indicated, .hout mortgage upon iy
lt-a paying roa-at least its expenses. +
LID CAMBRIDGE. n n
EiuarI ku htuX.D