The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-06-03
MOCKSyILLE,


and said the county was an agricul
tural one. They were twenty miles
from railroads, in the forks of the
two Yadkin rivers, raised 100000
pounds of tobacco. yearly. A roa6
bed had been partially graded through
the county and $4,000 voted to it
but it had not been utilized as yet
and could be turned over to the r.. &
S., and anything else needed te
bring the road would be forthcoming
In the southern portion of the coun
ty were immense deposits of magnet
ic iron ore. Mr.. A. Leazar spoke fol
MOOT WILLIE.
A scheme to bui.. ! narrow guage
road to Winston hal been attempted
and the road partly built, but when
the Baltimore and Chic was expect
ed to come through they organized
the North Carolina Central, made
the survey, provided the road bed and
had spent 100000 on it. The R. &
d. defeated the enterprise and now
they offered this work and money to
the Roanoke & Southern. They han
died 5000 bales of cotton yearly with
a discrimination against them by the
Richmond and Danville of ten cents
per bale. If they had railroad facil.
tiles they could handle 10000 bales.
He wanted the Roanoke and South.
ern as relief from oppressive exac.
tions of the Richmond & Danville,
when the Roanoke & Southern came
to Mocksville they would give them a
charter and the money to build to
Mooresville. Maj. Graham of
LINCOLNToN, N. c.,
next addressed the meeting. He rep
resented fine agricultural country
and his town had cotton mills, steam
mills, grist mill and was the depot
for large and prosperous area of
country, fine body iron ore ten miles
in extent and for which remarkable
to say no limestone was needed for
fiuxing, and no where else was this
the case on this continent. They had
also a marble vein one and one half
miles wide, also lime.
The Lobdell Car Wheel company
used their iron and it was also used
in plows, chains, cables etc., and it
had been pronounced by experts the
best in the country. Guns were also
made of it which were much sought
for. The first cotton factory south OF
the Potomac was built there. They
had also an agricultural implement
factory. A line for the North Caro-
lima Midland had been surveyed
there and found easy grades and no
bridges. Shelby and Lincoln coun.
ty would give $4,000 which would
grade the road through Lincolnton
and Cleveland.
Mr.. j. G. Moomaw here read the
following letter from r. b. Miller, OF
Shelby.
SHELBY, N. e.. April 18Th. 1855.
Col MOomau, Roanoke. Ia.
DEAR SIR:-Enclosed you will find
the proceedings of the railroad meeting
held here in the interest of the Roanoke
ard Southern railroad. Cleveland coun
ty has voted recently subscription oil
$50, 600 to the Southern and Western
Air Air Line, which can be trans'err
to any other company after February
28th. 1887, that will construct road
through the Northern part of the coun
ty 10 this place. This amount can and
will be transferred to the Roanoke anG
Southern if not used by the other char
ter, which is not probable. We have
voted to the North Carolina MIDLAND
$25, 900. which is good for that charter
if butt. However, at any event, CIeve
land county will subscribe $50, 900 fol-
this extension of the Roanoke an(
Southern railroad. provided it is con
structed through the county.
We would be glad for you to presen
these facts to the Roanoke railroat
meeting on the Goth inst.
Very II spectfully,
r. B. MILLER, Chm'n.
sPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA
beirg next Mr.. d. r. Duncan, of tina
city, took the floor. He said tina
they had heard of this fair young lad,
Miss Roanoke, now scarcely out O
her teens and while she had doubles
many suitors they had come to so
licit her hand. Spartanburg count,
was the second in wealth In Soutl
Carolina, third or fourth in popula
ton and first in railroads. They hat
expended $4,000 in railroads an,
had paid off $3.50, 900 of it all within
the last fifteen years. We should OF
ganize in Virginia, North and Soutl
Carolina and then consolidate an,
the money would be ready. Ii goin,
through the immense shops here b
had been more forcibly impresse,
than ever with the conviction that tn
law which controls the country is tn
law of the locomotive engine. Whel
ever men cultivated the earth or mar
ufactured the products the locomotiv
would come to take it to the markets
no patter how inaccessible the place
The genius of the engineer and th
energy of the Anglo Saxon race ovel
came all difficulties. Let the enginee
set out with his Jacobs staff and la
out the line and Spartanburg woul
come forward and do her duty. Sh
never said she would vote subscriI
ton and did not do it. If Spartan
burg did not prove the line they di
ask the Roanoke and Southern I
come there and they would await til
result of the investigation with a
confidence. There was an indepel
dent line from Spartanburg to Augu
ia, thence to Atlanta and also to s.
wanna, Port Royal ard elsewher
just let Spartanburg know what
wanted and they will do it. Mr.. Bot
of Spartanburg followed next. Spa
tanburg had increased $4,000 in POI
ulation in ten years and next
Charleston the wealthiest city in ii
State, all owing to the building
railroads. In 1870 had to work
get subscription voted to railroa
but since then SO great were the be
, eflts that there had been no troub
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