Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-01-07
MORE RAIL ROADS.
TWO COMMUNICATIONS FAVOR
ING TWO DIFFERENT ROUTES.
Suggestive Letters which Every
Live Business Man in Winston-SaIem
viii Read with Interest.


will Read with Interest.
EDITOR SENTINEL One has
said we most always act with
two motives may be sell
fish, the other for the good Of others.
Another has said children and tools
will tell the truth. Now, sir, in what
| may say about a railroad, self inter
est may be involved, BUT if ! tell the
truth it is not because [ would claim
to be Solomon.
The signs of the times unmistakably
point out the necessity Of something
being done to give Winston increased
railroad facilities, which, if neglected,
can never fully be overcome by action
in the future.
There are many people in Davie
and 4adkin who are anxious for a
railroad and they care not much from
where it comes The action lest week
in Mocksville, as reported in the Davie
Times, shows that they mean business,
rs books for subscriptions are to be
opened. Any one can easily sec how
a railroad from Salisbury up the 1ad-
kin Valley to Wilksboro or Mt. Airy
would open UP trade and travel which
we would never see. It ought to be
rememberedthat Salisbury has several
warehouses and is already making in
roads on the Winston trade in tobacco.
Greensboro has three warehouses and
when the Yadkin Valley is completed,
very large amount OF the tobacco
from the section Of the country through
which it passes will go to Greensboro
or Mt. Airy. Wnston's only hope for
holding her own is to take or adopt an
active aggressive railroad policy. Some
OF the statements made by some OF
Winston's distinguished sons about
railroads have gone out and it has
gotten to be pretty well settled on the
public mind that Winston's policy i'll
the past has been wholly selfish, as
one Of her prominent lawyers is re-
ported as saying they did not want any
more railroads, Winston at that time
being at the head of Navigation" 1t
is believed her policy cost her the loss
of the Yadkin Valley.
Now, viii she sit still under the de
lusiou that she is established with her
factories, warehouses, etc.,-that she
| has nothing to loosel and see herself
g run around, out hanked and left
like boat lifted by the waves ant
breakers on the shore 70 dry and de
cay? 1t is the tobacco interest thai
makes Winston what it is and this los
she must necessarily loose in trade anC
prosperity. Would it not be wise tc
| seek the concentration of all the rail
| roads she can, so rs to make her mar
| kets the great center Of all this Pied
mont country? Would not the exten
sion Of road west through Lewisville
Iadkinville and back intoWilkes anC
Wautauga make these counties tribu
tary permanently to Winston? Could
not such road be built by building
narrow gauge road and get these coun.
ties enlisted in the enterprise to the
extent to grade the roads through then
or even do more ? Could not thu
Richmond & Danville road be brough
into the enterprise, as it would be ;
feeder for them? | believe that Yad
kin county at this time would 90 il
full length in a road, and as Winston
is the principal point from which sh,
receives the greater part of her mer
chandise and supplies, more could b.
done to get road from Winston thai
any other point.
The philosophy Of success in life i
the seizure Of opportunities and
seems to one living out OF Winston
that something will have to be don
and that quickly, or lose the aid W
might now obtain. If these countie
west become identified with some othe
interest We will loose their co-operatiol
in building road. | believe a liberia
subscription could be raised on th
Gadkin, and in the vicinity Of Levi:
vile if the road should run throug
it. Let the bali be put in motion an
keep it rolling until our county shal
be marked all over with railroad.
We would be glad to give Winsto
" the right hand of fellowship whe
che is ready to extend it.
IIEWISNIILE.