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Ahgusta's Connection With the West
Should be Through Abbeviile
County.

Before it is too late, we would suggest
railroad from Augusta to the immense
grain fields of the West, through Able
vile county. The line of the Greenwood
and Augusta Railroad could be used to
Dorn's Gold Mine or whereabouts, and
thence from a suitable diverging point, a
survey by Calhoun's Mills, and Lowndes-
willie to Anderson, could he made, then
with a helping hand to the President of
the Greenville and Columbia Railroad
and the South Carolina Railroads, who
has acquired the Blue Ridge Road
with all its property and franchises
VIC may soon realize the accomplish
ment Of this most important Of railway
CORRECTIONS.
1t is possible " secure this road and
We hope that u people will be fully
alive to its importance. The building Of
this road would be doubly advantageous,
in that it would make the Greenwood
and Augusta Road a success.
A very large local subscription could
be obtained all along this route, and be-
sides, it is the route upon which a rail-
road could be most easily built. The
line from Lowndesville to Anderson
could be graded with half the cost of any
other route, and then the people of the
Lowndesville county are the richest and
best TODD citizens of any section of the
State. This together with their public
spirit and the earnestness With which
they work at everything they undertake,
truly presents inducements which are
worthy of the highest consideration.
Their liberal subscriptions Of money and
land. together with the convict labor, if
our Legislators would authorize that dis
position of the penitentiary boarders,
would soon put the road ready for the
iron.
Tho importance of this route and the
advantages which 1t presents over any
others, cannot we'll be overestimated by
our people, and they should bestir them
selves at once to lend their cid and in
fluencc in. securing its location on the
Carolina side. Our wide-awake neigh
bors on the Georgia side arc working
with q will, and 1t is to be hoped that our
people possessing more wealth and great
or natural advantages will leave no stone
unturned to secure to ourselves his great
iroE connection. The lands about Cal
houn's Mills and Lowndesville would
increase in marketable value four-fold,
besides building up these towns.
Lowndesville especially needs this con-
ncction az 1t is twenty miles to the near
est railroad, and its people approaching
the need of such a thoroughfare will con-
tribute enough to build the road for ten
miles on either side of the village of
towndesville.
The Dorn's Gold Mine section are
equally as much in need of a railroad,
and with a little encouragement from Au-
gusta this people will be able to build an
indispensable highway, for the transpor-
tation Of passengers and freight. The
wealth Of this rich and p%opulous section
will contribute more than their full quo
Ia for the accomplishment of so desirable
q result, With these facts before us,
what is TO hinder the road to be built
from Augusta to Anderson, with q
branch road connecting with Greenwood?
This completed, the Blue Ridge by a
concert Of action, could be completed in
q reasonable timA when this would be to
us, the most important railway ~c0s,nec-
ton in tho world. As will be seen by
the proceedings Of the railroad meeting
in Augusta, which We published last
ws likely DO built,