The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-11-07
C.F.&Y. v. EXTENSION.
A ROAD CONTEMPLATED
FOR HALF 4 CENTURY,
THREE TIMES PROJECT
ED, AND NOW NEAR
ING COMPLETION. g
Twill Give An Electric Thrill TO the
the Industrial and Agricultural
Interests Of Western and
Southern Sampson.
THE COMING TOWN OF PARKERs
BURG AND MANY POINTS OF
INTEREST ALONG THE LINE.

BURG AND MANY POINTS OF
INTEREST ALONG THE LINE.
In 1888 a railroad from Will
mington to Fayetteville was pro-
posed to connect with the ter
minus Of the c. F. & Y. V. at
the latter point. Several parties
along the line of the proposed
road took stock, but not sufi-
cient to make the road q GER
tainty. So the company chang
ed its plan and decided to run
the road to Raleigh, calling it
the Wilmington and Raleigh
Railroad, but for the same and
otner causes this plan was aban-
doned, and the road was 6nally
projected to Weldon, resulting
in what is now known as the
W. & w. Railroad.
In 1854, while the G. F. & Y.
V. was being built to the coal
fields, another extension of this
road was proposed from Fayette-
vile to the proposed Carolina
City," near Morehead, by way
of Clinton. Stock for the en-
terprise was put On market in
Wall street, New York. Col.
W. j. Parker and other parties
in this section invested and pur-
chased lots in the yet unborn
"Carolina City" For some cause
unknown to US this plan also
fizzled out, leaving the proposed
road and city catalogued in the
great dismal realm of financial
myths.
Thirty-five years have fitted
by and we behold to-day the
fourth effort to extend this road
through Sampson to the sea.
But a recent trip to both ends and
to several p ,ints along this line
enables us to say as an eye wit
ness that it is an effort this time
that has passed the confines OF
uncertainty and is rapidly ap-
preaching a accomplished realiza-
|tion. At Wilmington the depot
and warehouses will ba com.
pleted about the first of Decem.
Iber, while the road is completed
and the cars for passengers and
freight are running over it uI
through New Hanover, Pendel
and up into Sampson beyond
Black River, a distance of near
ly forty miles. The trestle
across this river is a quarter Of
a mile long and one of the pret
test pieces of work in the State
At Fayetteville, the handsome
and stylish depot which is near
1v completed, reminds US OF
those seen along the rich ani
powerful roads North. The las
pillar to support the four span
of the iron bridge over the Cap
Fear is now above water, so tina
further progress will not now b.
delayed. One span Of the bridg'
is already up and when other
are in place. track laying vii
also commence from that end q
the road. ~ eel.
/ At Parkersburg, q station o.
theroad, forty-eight miles abov
i Wilmington and fourteen and
bali miles south Of Clinton, "
find a section of country, whic,
a few months since a quiet bach
woods, is suddenly aroused wit
the elixir of progress by thi
great artery of commerce whic
will soon be throbbing throug
its midst. Broad avenues whic
are being cut out through tn
forest from different points {
the compass, pointing to the sts
ton, indicated that it is to th
centre Of trade, commerce an
thrift. The sound of bamms
and saw is heard and building
are going up on both sides
the track. We jokingly aske
Col. w. ]. Parker, who was pr
: sent experimenting some worl
3 if he was building another "Ca
olina City,? With a twinkle !
! his eve, which at the same tin
{ indicated q suttle humor, a fixe
: determination and . confiden'
| Of success, he replied that