Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-10-17
Carolina Central Railroad.

This company, which bought at q
mortgage sale the Wilmington, Char,
IOtte and Rutherford road, have 1,OOC
hands on their line between Whining
ton and Charlotte. There are 60 miles
bctween Wadesboro' and Charlotte to
lie completed. This work will require
six months, and cars will run into
Charlotte by February 1st. The
United States authorities are dredging
the Wilmington harbor and filing up
inlcts to obtain sufficient water to
enable vessels of large burden to
enter port. When this is completed,
it expected that all the cotton ship
ped from Charlotte will go to Will
mingt0n, over the Central road, and
thence to Liverpool and New York by
steamer.
BY their charter, the Central Com
pany have the right to select any route
from Charlotte to the Tennessee and
Virginia line deemed most advantage
oIts The road is completed from
Charlotte westward, through Lincoln
ton and CASTOR counties, to Buffalo
Paper Mill, cleveland county, SO
miles; IS nearly all graded from this
point TO Rutherfordton, 80 miles; and
the route to Asheville has been sur
vcyed up Broad River and across the
Bl;le Ridge via the Reedy Patch Gap,
which is pronounced by Professor
Kerr, State GeOlogist, to be the most
practicable of any in the State, and
is att:tinable without a tHnnel or grade
higher than 100 feet to the mile.
\ correspondent gives details con-
corning the route and resources of the
line The scenery is by far the most
picturesqe of any mountain scenery
known i'll the State. The soil is black
as night and loose IS ashes. Cattle
turned out in the spring and brought
Zip III October will be as fat rs if
stalled. The soil produces corn, oats.
wheat, Irish potatoes, barley and
b71ckwheat in great profusion. On the
north ide of the mountains and along
the water courses are found apple and
peach orchards of the largest kind and
tho most delicious flavor.
In Iancey, Mitchell, Rutherford and
Cleveland counties, mica, iron ore of
the finest quality, asbestos and gold
arc found. Ia the upper edge of Ruth
erford county, near Brindletown, gold
is found i'll abundance. West of the
Blue Ridge, in Macon, jackson and
Cherokee counties, cOrundum is found
ia great quantities, as are copper and
iron. In Ashe county copper mine
of uneQuallcd richness is being worked
with great success.
The people along the line through
these counties are anxious that the
roads should be completed to the Ten
nessee line. The complications of the
Western North Carolina road are such
that it Will not be completed for many
ycars. The Central Company can COM
plete their road in two years, and thus
make through connections from Gin
cinnati to Wilmington. The immense
freight which now seeks an outlet over
the roads operated by General Ma
hone, from Bristol, Tenn, to Norfolk, |
Will be secured by this line, whenever
it is completed. Some of the Directors !
are Of opinion that it will be better to |
divert their road at Lincolnton, strike |
the Western North Carolina road at
Tavern, and push on through
Mitchell county, by the Cranberry
to Johnson's Depot, on the
Tennessee line. The inducement held
out for this route is the probability of
setting a large quantity of pig iron
rom the Cranberry Works. There is
more iron in Cleveland or Rutherford
han in any other county in the State,
ave Chatham. Great sacrifices will
De made by the people to secure the
Dad over Reeds Patch Gap to Ashe-
lille. The Company are fully deter
mined to extend it through the noun
aims. When the gap between Will
nington and Charlotte is completed,
he earnings will enable the Company
o extend their road very fast. The
cute west will be decided upon next
'ear.-Chicago Railtgay Reriero. !