The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-17

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the same being he d in trust by the treasurer of the
Midland Improvement aud Construction Company
pursuant to vote of its dire ctors, June 8, 1881.
1t is perhaps proper to add that $780,
900 ofthis sum was deposited in the Bos'
ton Busted Pacific, though it is said
the "Atlantic's" money is safe.
Mr. Best also gives the following data
of the earnings of the Newborn R. r.
TGoidsboro to Morehead, 95 miles for the
six months succeeding his lease, which.
we believe, began July LIST, 1881, and was
to run 80 years at $40, 600 a year, rental.
Earnings to December 81, 1881, $72, S62..
10, being an increase of 4S per cent.
or 500, 720 over same months of the pre-
vious year. The operating expenses, In
Guiding rent, amounted to 500, 365. 90
net earnings, S~9,496.1s
He adds that Sll 1882. 90 had been
spent in repairs anG improvements.
There is no doubt that Mr.. Best has
greatly improved the road, and enlarged
its usefulness, and benefited the region
through which it passes. This we think
is clear, from a comparison with the con-
dition of the road one year ago. There
is also, no doubt, that Mr.. Best's schemes
for short line Feeders branching of
into the adjacent regions will do more fol-
Eastern Carolina we mean the Neuse
North Carolina System" would have
done so that we, if a Director of the
Midland R. R., should promptly vote tc
give him every facility for carrying out
his plans, -proutded he went ahead ana
shoued by actual cork that he mean
business! Unfortunately, for public
faith, his Railroad talk" for two years
pans out only four miles Of track
HOW BEsT's FRIENDS VIEW IT.
Just here we shall copy an article from
last weeks Newbern Commercial. not to
endorse it by any means, but to show
how a portion of the public feel about the
new complications =
"This directory has all along been re-
garded as hostile to the ~lessees of the
Atlantic company, and it is no less ex-
traordinary to hold such meeting fifty
miles off the line of its railroad than
significant that The point selected should
be the North Carolina headquarters of
the Richmond and Danville Railroad.
"As a matter of fact the Richmond
and Danville Railroad Company holds as
complete control of the State House at
Raleigh as it does of any railway station
building on its line, and when the Di-
rsctors of the Atlantic and North Caro-
lima Railroad meet in tina State House
to adopt a policy or measure detrimental
10 the Midland, but in harmony with the
wishes ard desires of the Richmond and
Danvllle Company, it is impossible for
the directory to escape the reflection of
improper influences operating upon it.
1T is as plain as the nose on a mans
face that it has been determined to drive
MIR. Best and his association of Northern
capitalists out of the State. 1t would
not be in accord with the time honored
policy of North Carolina to do other
wise. Small ambition, selfishness,
a%varice, envy jealousy, intolerance.
sordid sore-headeness, c~ovetousness, in
dolerce, bigotry and intellectual dwar-
fisbness have combined to impede. thwart
and destroy every movement and enter
prise of a public character undertaken
in the State for the past fifty years.
Even the Richmond and Dauville Rail
roa0 corporation, at the shrine of whose
power now worship Governors, Senators.
Judges, Legislators and public officials
of every grade, bad TO fight its way into
and across the State over a hostile pub