The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-09-11

rom "Failfleld." The Che ster and
Georgetown Railroad.
Mess@s. Editors
In summing up the facilities
opened to our town and county by
tho proposed RAILROAD, I failed 70
mention still other competing lines
between Ashevillo. NC. .,and Winns>
boro, viz: the Spartanburg and
Ashoville Railroad to Spartanburg,
the Air Line Railroad to Gastonia,
the Chester and Lenoir, and Chester
and Georgetown to Winnsboro.
This is, you are aware, virtually
completed line to Chester. Again,
the Carolina Central Of North Caro-
lima, which from Charlotte gives us
an air line to Wilmington, is about
to oxtond it's road from Lincolnton
to junction with the Western N.
G. r. r., at Hickory. This gives us
still another competing line, via
Lincolnton aud the Chester and
Lenoir to Chester. lastly, the
Chester and Lenoir Marrow Gauge
and the Air Line Railroad, give us
direct communication with Atlanta
and thence to the entire Western
and Southern country and the
metropolitan cities of st. Louis,
Cincinnati and New Orleans.
With the projected railroad CON-
pleted only from Chester to Winns-
boro, it is hard to conceive of COM
munity more completely fortified
against oppressive freights than this
will bo, toward the north aud west.
Let us now survey our position
toward the south and east suppos-
ingI the Chester aud Georgetown
Narrow Gauge completed TO tho soa
ut Georgetown. First, then, at
Camden we reach the South Caro-
lima Railroad, and secure new and
direct route to our beloved old Getty
by the sea- route almost as short
as the G. @. & A., and free from the
intorminable differences and com
plications that seem to characterize
the relations between the two roads
u state of things that has, we be-
lieve, done great injury to them and
to Charleston; and, we know, has
wrought unspeakable Inconvenience
and vexation to this part of the
State. Surely, Messrs. Editors, this
one connection would justify us in
making the effort necessary to se>
cure it. At Camden, too, we get
not only new line to Charleston,
but another outlet, uia Augusta, to
Atlanta, st. Louis, Cincinnati and
New Orleans.
But another short link, through
fine ridge country, brings us to the
important and fourishing town of
Sumter. Hore we cross the Will
mington, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad, which affords a. direct out
lot eastward to the port of Whining
ton, with the great advantage of
new and independent connections
with oil tho great freight lines to
Baltimore and New York. The
Same road gives us still another
70 ute, Euia Augusta, to all points
south, west and northwest.
We now enter the great pine
forests that offer inexhaustible
stores of timber; and, running along
an almost Sunbroken ridge, reach a
point on the North Eastern Rail
road at either Lanes or Gourdin's s.
statione. BY the North Eastern
Railroad, we reach Charleston in
one hundred and sixty miles from
Winnsboro: it is one hundred and
sixty-seven' ola Columbia. But
should the North>E Eastern Railroad
be at all refractory in the matter of
rates--a contingency rendered most
unlikely by the condition and pros
poets of that road-we have only to
go on thirty six miles to our termi-
nus at Georgetown. There we find
a good port with regular lines OF
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