The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-09-09
The Land of the Sunrise.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRONICLE

Especial Cor STATE CIfEoNICLE.
50 much mas been said Of the "Land Of
the sky that something should be said Of
that fine, but neglected Land Of the sun
rise, which lies between Ua and The ocean.
Draw :; line from the falls Il lie Roam
oke to Ransoms Bridge, thence to near
MilbuGuie, then Oh crossing the cape Fear
below Haywood and thence 70 Rocking
ham. The traveller crossing that line any
where sees the Well defined boundary be-
tween level country and the hills. That
boundary, countless centuries back, was
the shore Of the ocean. Al chat level
fertile land living east of it was once the
bed of old ocean. Countless mari and
phosphate beds, many Of them yet undiS-
covered, preserve the bones OF fish and
aquatic animals and sen Shells for the fer
tilization Of that section.
The great level plane reaching from that
line to the ocean contains by far the most
fertile soil of North Car lima. 1t is the
Egypt Of the State. Its capacity for pro
duction is beyond calculation But it
needs development. The natural bauties
of the Western landscape have drawn at
tention away from the practical side of
the question that the wealth Of the state
as an agricultural commonwealth is i'll the
Eastern lands. Our big crops must be
made on them.
The entire vast plain is almost as level
as plank floor. Railroad building there
is a mere nothing in comparison with the
middle and Western parts of the State.
! Nowhere else are railroads more needed
or would pay better They would make
| the country garden and infuse new life
| and energy into q fine but despondent
population.
A thousand miles of new railroad are
needed and would pay in that section.
! The vast territory lying east Of the W. &
| W. Il. r., and south of the a. u \. G. K.
| R.-ths great triangle which has Whining
| ton, Goldsboro and Beaufort for its cor
| ners-has not yet a mile of railroad in its
borders. Yet there lies much of the best
| land in the State If New Berne wishes
! to go ahead it must rouse up and bulId 4
railroad by the Quaker Bridge road to
Onslow. a branch road from Core Creek
! to Trenton would develop Jones county.
| Another branch from knston to Snow
/ Hill would develop the fine county of
| Greene. Numerous branch roads could be
! built cheaply and are needed badly all
! over the East he great pecuniary sue
cess of the Tarboro branch and of the
Scotland Neck branch prove how hand
somcly branch railroads pay both the rail
road and the towns to which they are
| built. Greenvile should have a branch
| to Wilson. The branch railroad extend
ing from Wakefield to Williamson could,
/ by little extension at each end be made
a Raleigh and Plymouth railroad, connec-
ting the capital with the Albemarle coun-
try. y dozen or more desirable branch
roads could be built.
| The East needs development, Railroads
alone can give it. They must be built.
They will not come of themselves. Time
is passing and why stand We idle here
every hour? The present generation is
standing still The East must look to her
young men to take hold and build her
railroads and develop the fines and best
part of the State. They will find that
railroading will pay them better than law,
medicine or politics. G.