Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-10-02

none of these Improvements, compafo-
lively; our soil is being gradually eX-
hausted, our Railroads belong to stran-
gers, our farms are mortgaged, our
States in debt, our taxes consequently
heavy, but not as heavy as the hearts of
our people at their inability to. make
both ends meet at the close of the year.
Singular as it may seem, one section
of this great country devotes its atten-
ton almost entirely to the production Of
cotton, while other sections produce
bread and meat, grain and forage in un-
limited quantities and though these are
mutually interested in having cheap and
easy means Of transportation, yet third
parties living in entirely different routes
and sections, are called in to carry on
the traffic, at their discretion, and at their
own rates.
Foot Point, Port Ro,. Sound, South
Carolina, one OF the most perfect harbors
in the wide world, is nearer to Cincin-
natl, Ohio, and all the country West,
than any other City in the United States.
The route across the territory of the
United States from Lake Superior ut
Duluth, via Chicago, on Lake Michigan,
indianapolis, Indiana, Kentucky, along
the kentucky river to Cumberland Gap,
Tenn, Tennessee to Point Rock, North
Carolina, along the French Broad Valley,
to Sassalras Cap, Blue Ridge, into South
Carolina, and then To Foot Point, Port
Royal Sound, s. c., affords an easy, and
the very shortest and most economical
route fora National highway, so much
needed by the country at large. The re-
speculative distances from Foot Point to
important points will he interesting in
connection with un annexed extract Ia
ken from the Chicago Tribune.
"RoUTEs PRACTICABLE"
Foot Point, Port Royal Sound, S. c., to
Savannah. Georgia, 22 miles.
To Charleston, S. c., 30 miles.
To Augusta, Georgia, 100 miles.
TO Macon, Georgia, l72 miles.
TO Cumberland Gap, Tenn, 800 miles.
To Ohio River (Carrolton, Ky.,) $50
miles.
To Indianapolis, Indiana, ego miles
To Chicago. Illinois, Lale) S06 l1iles.
To Duluth, Minnesota, Lake Superior,
/ l,22O miles.
Upon tho whole route from Foot Point
to Lake Superior, there is but one natu-
raj obstruction Of moment, and that is
the Ohio River. -
Hear what the Chicago Tribune says:
WHAT BECOMES OF TIE Corn?
In the heated discussions which are
taking place concerning the rates OF
transportation, q recurrence 10 certain
established facts may be of advantage.
1t is assorted to be the fact that the cost
of transporting corn and wheat and othsr
grains ovor ordinary wagon-roads is 20
cents per ton per mile. Wheat is coni-
puted at 60 and corn at Sc pounds per
| bushel. So long as corn can be sold for
Is cents per bushcl, it can be moved 125
miles, the value to the owner diminish
ing each mile, until it ceases at 125 miles.
AT that distance, the cost Of transporta-
ton equals the value of the corn Wheat
selling at 81 so per bushel may be moved
by the same means $50 miles, when the
cost OF Its transportation reaches its
value. These distances, therefore, are
| limits within which corn and wheat may
be transported by the ordinary wagons
The establishment Of railroads has had
the effect of enlarging the circle in which
the wheat and corn may be transported
by land, and yet retain commercial
value. II the cost of moving grain by
rail be put at one and o half cents Der
ton per mile, and the same prices pre-
vail, corn may be vowed 1000 miles and
wheat 5000 miles without exhausting
/, the value of tho grain. It will be seen,
therefore, says Poor, in his manual 81
railroads, that Sthe area of O circle, with
q radius Of 125 miles, is 40, ,OS7 square
4 miles; that of circle drawn upon a
radius of l,600 miles Is about I60 times
J greater, or S,042, ,A06 square miles Such
a difference, enormous as it is, only
I measures the value Of the new agencies
employed in sportation, and. the re.
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