Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1882-01-12
A Deserved CoEpliment-the Rich
mond and DanviiIe.


has had one Of its editors located in
Atlanta ever since the Cotton EX-
position opened. In the issue of
that Journal Of the 31st ultimo ap-
pears the following tribute to the
great railway system projected and
carried through bv Richmond men,
written by their Atlanta editor,
WIN saws that Richmond will
grow, and grow rapidly. with the
enorm III: field opened 10 her enter
prise by the Richmond and Dan
vile system! With this, and what
the Chesapeake and Ohio and
Richmond and Alleghahy will fur
nish, we shall see still larger in
crease in the city's business next
New Year than that shown by the
present, as handsome as that was :
There is probably nc display on
the grounds that is at once ST sug-
gestive and instructive, SO compre>
hensive and yet so detailed, and at
the same time ef so much practical
Importance TO the South as a whole,
as the exhibit made by the
RICHMOND AND DANvILLE RAILROAD.
1t shows almost at a glance the
immense resources of the South,
and, studied in connection with
the other southern exhibits, demon
strates beyond all question that the
field of profitable investment in
this section is practically boundless.
In the display made by the Rich
mond and Danville mbination
there are, from North Carolina
alone, copper ores, masses of great
size and richness; refined copper,
in ingots and plates lead and sill
yer ores; iron ores from many
mines /; corundum, marbles. soap
stones, mica, in clear sheets a foot
square; sandstones, flexible and
other; chrome iron, kaolin, jewels,
amethyst, carringom, green and
lose berlys, true sapphires, zir-
cans, ETC., including fine specimens
Of the newly-found gem, Hidden-
dite, which rivals the diamond.
All these are from North Carroll
ma alone, but the road runs through
Virginia, South Carolina, and into
Georgia as far as Atlanta, and from
every State there are samples of its
resources. Here may be seen ST.
900 worth of gold nuggets, besides
bars of retorted gold of weights
from thirty-eight to fifty-eight
ounces, and single mass Of gold of
the value of $500 in the quartz
that forms its matrix. Here are
samples of woods from each State ;;
corn and tobacco and other agri-
cultural products raised on lands
that can be bought for the profits
OF a seasons crop.
A New York gentleman has
made some observations which are
Interesting, even if they may. seem
utopian, and are of special value in
connection with the Richmond and
Danville display, anG with the road
itself. Water-power for spinning
and for other purposes, he says, ia
supplied by the streams which flow
from the east and west slopes of the
Allegheny range to the Atlantic
and Mississippi, and from the south
ern slope to the Gulf. North Car
ohna is estimated to have more than
three million horsepower in her
streams from the table lands to the
sea. This exceeds that of all the
steam-eneines in the United States
or Great Britain combined.
South Carolina has not far from
the same amount of water-power
from streams flowing to the Allan
TIC ocean, and Georgia from water
flowing to that ocean and to the
Gulf, probably an even greater
amount, inasmuch as the difference
OF elevation between the sources
among the mountains and the
mouths of the rivers in that State
emptying into the ocean or gull
(the Chattahoochee, Etowah, Sa-
Vannah, Broad, OcAdIgee, Flint,