Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-03-13
FROM M0CKS WILL
A RAILROAD FROM MOCKSyILLE
TO JEFFERSON.
A Suggestion that Ought to Take Effect.
Davie County Court. A Brief sketch
of the Town of Nocksville.
Special Correspondence of the sentiuel


Special Correspondence of the Sentiuel.
MocKsvILLE, N. c., March 8, 1884.
TINEL, few weeks ago, signed by
"Scribbler," looming off on the pros
poets of Railroad from Taylorsville
to Wilkesboro, and truly we join heart
and hand with him in this enterprise,
to develop the resources of the Yadkin
Valley of Wilkes county. There are
many advantages these people have
been deprived Of for 10 these many
years, as we'll as the rich county of
Davie. The people of Davie should
be tired of feeding Winston, States
vile and Salisbury. These places
have been built up at the expense of
the people of Davie. Salisbury, be-
fore Winston obtained the Railroad
from Greensboro, was sustained, to
very large extent from the people of
Davie, who carried nearly all of their
produce to that place, and consequent
| ly brought the greater part of their
necessaries there. And to-day, men
will ask as much for their produce
here in Mocksville as they can get for
it in Salisbury, after hauling all the
way there, over a mud turnpike, clay
macadamized and beautiful corderoy
road bed.
If the people of Wilkes county will
aid us in building road from Mocks-
vile to Jefferson, Ashe county, they
will get road in the right direction
for them. Their natural outlet is like
Davies, South. Then by building
road from jefferson to intersect the
Mocksville and Mooresville Railroad,
at Mocksville, the county of Yadkin,
and probably a portion of Surry will
6e tapped by this Jefferson Railroad.
The people along this Jefferson line
are respectfully requested to get ap
of the State, of late issue, and put a
string from Mocksville to Jefferson,
Ashe county, and look at the line
made upon this route, and see how far
it goes from Yadkinvillc, Jonesville,
Elkin and Wilkesboro, by diverging
a letter to the right from Mocksville?
A road from Mocksville to Jefferson
could be>built at great deal less per
mile than many persons are aware Of.
The route from Mocksville to Wilkes
boro, by the way of Hamptonsville,
Yadkin county, could be built for less
than it could possibly be built from
Wilkesboro to Taylorsville. From
Mocksville to Hamptonsville is twenty
miles, as the public road now leads,
but if surveyed in direct air line it
is not so tar, by several miles. This
twenty miles could be graded for a
narrow guage Railroad at cost, not
exceeding $4,000 per mile. am not
SO certain but that there are men in
Davie county, to-day, who have had
contracts on the Mocksville and
Mooresville road, who will under : g
the grading Of this twenty miles for
$4,000 per mile. Think about this
road from Mocksville to Wilkesboro
and Jefferson, fellow citizens of Wilkes
Yadkin and Ashe counties.
The time is not far distant when the
road from Mocksville to Mooresville
will be built, in my opinion The
, people along the line cannot afford tc
do without this outlet. Remember the
man in the East when short of meat
goes for the gopher which he i:
compelled to secure, in order to sus
tain life. We of Davie are compell
ed to aid very materially in finishing
the road begun, for we are being blec
at every pore and the life giving fuio
is nearly exhausted.
,, The most practical mode and tn,
most equitable plan to secure tht
necessary capital to grade, construc
and equip this Jefferson and Mocks
vile Railroad, is to let the land own
crs living along the line, a far as fv,
miles on each side of the Railroad tc
take stock to the amount of one-sixtt
of their landed estate. At this rat,
it would give the Railroad company
$4,000 acres of land upon which I,
l base a loan to secure the money. 80,
900 acres of land, worth, to-day
100000, which could be mortgage(
to capitalists for 100000, this amour
would more than grade the road, pu
: the cross-ties on and build all tn
. bridges. Then mortgage the road fo
. the balance to complete it. In Dor
rowing money for this purpose, TIL
: company should secure it for 80 year
and run their bonds for this length o
time. BY so doing they will be abl
q to command money at Al percent pc
r annum. The bonds should bear inter
, est payable semi-annually. Ye me-
3 of Wilkes and Ashe counties think O
9 this project and discuss it freely il
9 the columns of the WESTERN sen
e rINEL. WILKES AND DAVE.
STAFF Correspondence Of the Sentinel.
l. MocKsvILLE, N. c., March Z, 'S4
IS The first term of the Superior Cour
o for this district is in session now, wit
o Judge John A. Gilmer presiding
n There are no cases of any special il
o terest to the general public.
J. This it very old town and its pet
pie are noted for their hospitality an
good citizenship. Mocksville was cha
= tered by the Legislature of 1888!
u Davie county was taken off frol
is Rowan in 1887. Previous to the ra
2, ification of the act of 1887, Mr.. Hug
le Wilson was the first man to open
store here. Previous to the incorp,
ration, Mocskville had only about tw
$, hundred inhabitants. Before it a
N quired the name of Mocksville, it WEI
u by the name of Mock's Old Fiel,
Z After it was duly incorporated it b