Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-01-30

BY your Christian name You could easily
put stop to it, BY telling him that it is i'm
proper. However, I shall take care to save
you the trouble" gs,i 81, a ..ass
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s'a CHESTER AND LENOIR RAILROAD. Y
Should tie Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley
Railroad, referred to in the 'Obser.ver, yester-
day, be extended from Greensboro, through
Winston in Forsyth, and up the Yadkin Val
ley, through ,Yadkin and Wilkes counties, it
could make al. advantageous connection at
Patterson, in Caldwell, With the extension Of
the Chester and Lenoir Marrow Gauge, at
present designated as the Caldwell and Wa
tauga Railroad. At the same time the Surry
connection could be made by a branch road
through Dobson to Mount Ally, penetrating
the centre Of the county, and perhaps afford
ing larger facilities to the people Of Surry
than are contemplated ia the Mount Airy and
Greensboro scheme rus i2ft,5-..a f.tst. 2f.5,
The Caldwell and Watauga connection,
uniting at the Cranberry Iron Works with
road building by that Company from Gram
berry to johnson city, on the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia Railroad, is an enter
prise yet in embryo, but it is in such hands,
and the movement has taken such earnest
steps, that tits as certain Of accomplishment
az the railroad from Chester to Lenoir, the
the county seat Of Caldwell, which already
has fifty miles of its line in operation, that is
to say from Chester, South Carolina, to Dallas
in CASTOR county, and but six of the forty.four
miles between Dallas and Lenoir at present to
grade, and by all reasonable calculations the
work will be completed ready for the super.
structure by May Of this year. The distance
then, from Lenoir to the Cranberry Iron
Mines, is fifty miles, q gap between the Ches-
ter and Lenoir and Cranberry and johnson
City roads that cannot fail to be closed.
Aclose reconnaissance of the route has been
made by Chief Engineer G. s. Dwight Of the
Chester and Lenoir Road, and he reports
feasible and comparatively easy route for the
construction Of narrow gauge railroad. He
suggests, as the maximum cost of such road
from Lenoir to Cranberry through Cooks Gap
by way Of Boone, Vale Crucis and along the
Watauga Valley, an average not exceeding
eight thousand dollars per mile, completed
ready for business. There are no tunnels to
be made along the route, and the maximum
grades will be one hundred and eighty feet to
the mile, FIVE feet under grade daily ascend
ed, without difficulty, on the Milton and Suth-:
erlin Narrow Gauge. The maximum grades
on the completed portion Of the Chester and
Lenoir are one hundred and fifteen feet to the
mile, and these the writer ascended on q ten
ton engine, Of twenty-five horse power, draw
ing thirty tons offreight, first and second class
mail, baggage, and express cars, with scarcely
perceptible decrease in the rate Of speed,
twelve, miles an hour. The maximum grade
on this road will be one hundred and twenty
FIVE feet at the Catawba River, six miles from
Hickory, and the maximum curve ten degrees,
with radius of FIVE hundred and seventy
three feet Grades Of one hundred and eigh-
ty feet on the upper connection, are not ex-
traordinary, and two hundred would not pre-
sent serious obstacles to the successful and
profitable operation of narrow gauge roads
throughout our mountains.
The projectors of the connection between
Lenoir and Cranberry, among whom Senator
Council is prominent, have already secured an
Immediately available subscription of twenty
FIVE thousand dollars, and they have begun the
building of stockades, and making other prep.
aratons for the reception Of the convict force at
present employed on the Chester and Lenoir
line, (which, it is understood, is to beturnedover
to them on the completion Of the work, and
having selected their Chief Engineer, in the
person Of Capt; Dwight, they are ready to be-
gin operations at any moment when the force
Of convict labor shall become available. Their
correction at Cranberry is assured. The
company owning the iren works at that point
are constructing road from johnson City,
which is at present half completed, and apor-
tien already in operation. A Chattanooga
company of iron manufacturers are aiding
this enterprise with the rails, j and they have
promised that when the road is. graded and
ready from Lenoir to Cranberry, they will iron
it for first mortgage bonds of the company.
1t is q reasonable expeatation.that within the
present yearthe cars will!run from Chester to
Lenoir, and good years work ought to COM
plete the grading from the latter to Cranber-
ry 90 that inside Of two years, at most, the
narrow gauge connection; should be complete,
from Chester, South Carolina, to johnson
City, Tennessee In this view Of the prospect,
the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley enterprise
cannot be too vigorously pushed. There re-
mains thirty.eight miles Of grading ito reach
Greensboro. From that point to Patterson,
in Caldwell, is about one hundred and fifteen
miles, but an arrangement is possible, with
the North, Western North Carolina Railroad,
to temporarily lay q, third rail from Green's
booro to Winston, and thereby save about thir-
tY miles of grading, until the connections can
bs completed, and the company able to con-
eentrats is force S 81 9p the gap between Green's
A connection With the road from johnson
City to Chester would appear to be desirable.
It would tap the great universal grass and
stock raising, counties of the extreme north
west, bring rich stores Of commerce to our tide,
water, open up an outlet through the port of
Wilmington for the iron and copper ores Of
Allegheny, Ashe, Watsuga, and Mitchell,
and bring the products of the plaster fields of
southwest Virginia and the lime beds ofnorth:
eastern Tennessee to the agricultural centre OF
the State. .t > p: ,-gs .uL9i, ,,ll lls.-Lg,lc
The people Of northwestern North Carolina
are alive to the Importance of railroad con-
nection, and the internal wealth of that sec
tion is fully appreciated by the people Of 9th
er States. South Carolina is stretching out her
hands toward it on the one hand, Virginia and
Tennessee on the other. Tdewater North
Carolina cannot remain an Indifferent specta-
tor to the diversion of such wealth, trade and
commercial advantages, the, magnitude Of
which no man can begin to forecast o., d- Raleigh
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