Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1879-01-30
North CaroIi-a Railroads
Gath" in Cincinnati Enquirer.

Gath Ill CINCINNATI Enquirer.
North Carolina has, in effect,
three railroad lines East and West
and three North and South. The
railr Dad from Wilmington to Char
lotte. recently finished. 241 miles
long. reaching to the western
mountains. The railroad from the
coast at Morehead or Newbetn to
Salem, in the western mountains,
is 25o miles long. The line from
Portsmouth, Va, which strikes the
northern houndry to Gainesville,
is 14O miles long These lines are
crossed by the Piedmont Air Line,
$50 miles in North Carolina by
the Raleigh Line. $50 miles, and
by the Wilmington Line, more than
2CO miles. There is also a noun
tain railroad, designed 20 cross the
Allegharies to Knoxville. opened
west from Salisbury III miles,
with a short cut of forty seven
miles to Charlotte BY bnilIing
less than thirty miles along the
Great Pe;iee river, from Hamlet to
Cheraw, Raleigh would only he a
nights ride from Charleston, S. C.,
and the most direct route would
be opened from Richmond to
Charleston. By building across
fifty mites of gap the North Caro-
lima railroads would connect with
the Lynchburg and Chattanooga
line, over a road already built in
East Tennessee, called the Cincin-
natl, Cumberland Gap and Charles.
ton Railroad, thirty-nine miles
long. There is already piece of
railroad, forty miles long, west
from Knoxville, called the Knox
vile and Chic, that will some day
connect with the Cincinnati South
! ecn.
TIE ALLEGHANY WILDERNESS.
A yawning solitude exists almost
from Lexington, Kentucky, to Sal
isbury, North Carolina. IL distance
of nearly 250 miles. The central
spot of this death place, almost
unvi>ited 10y railroads, Is st Bristol,
Tennessee. The nearest point OF
any existing continuous railroad
approaching this region from the
west is at Lexington, Kentucky
only 40 miles south east from
Louisville, and there is IA gap OF
125 miles, air line, between it and
The nearest connection 10 Knox
vile.
NORTH CAROLINA MINES AND MEN.
The wild country of which
speak contains the coal, copper
timber, gold and iron of the South.
which ought not to be many wears
in coming to market. The destiny
Of that region is to he inhabited
by forei IRISH, Welsh, Ger
mans and Belgians. The manu-.
featuring towns of North DINA
will probably be IL the West, as
Charlotte and Salisbury and
Greensboro.
With l 400 miles of railroad al
ready opened, and Western and
Southern connections nearly finish
ed, the orderly and industrious
STATE of Nor'h Carolina bids fair
20 become the Indiana Of the South.
She Is the only Southern State
which can furnish III abundance
and ut low wages, native manutac.
turing and mining labor. similar
to that which existed around The
mining fields of PENNSYLVANIA.
Moth Ca, olina has also, the great
est attitudes iE +he South, such Us
the Black Mountain, Grandfather
Mountain and Mount Michell,
which are higher than Mount
Washington IT airy other peak IN
the Appalachian Range. Good
orGer aud mnlesty will ultimately
get her II summer population. A.
long ago as 1927 Colonel " iIliam
Byrd, of Virginia, laying out the
North Carolina line. wrote: "The
bordereis LAID it to heart if thei'
land was taken in Virginia they
chose much rather to belong to
Carolina, where they pay no tribute
to God or Cesar
Gold was found in North Caro-
! una Dy lltli0 DOy III 1893, the
year Washington died, and in Ca
batrus county on creeks of tho Yad
kip river. In 1851 veins OF gold
aud quartz We're discovered Al
Salisbury III the gold region, An,
drew jackson studied la.w.''
The superintendent approached =
youth OF colei', who was present fol
the first time in snnday-school and
inquired his name, for the purpose
OF placing it On the roll. The good
man tried in vain to preserve his
gravity when the answer was re-
turned. "Well, massa calls me
Cap'n, b'lt my naaielen name is
Moses
4 She was plump and beautiful, and
he was wildly fond of her; she
hated him, hnt womanlike, she