The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24

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warm welcome. About one mile to the
northeast of the town of Raeford is
the famous Rockfsh Greek, which can
furnish a three hundred horsepower,
approximately, for any mill or factory
This is an unusually fine site for manu-
fadturing or milling industries, and
should be taken advantage of. Any en-
terprise of that kind in this place could
not fail to meet with the utmost degree
of success.
Excellent bright leaf tobacco can be
grown near Raeford and the town can
he made an unusually convenient to-
bacco market. 1t is now very good
cotton market, handling last year about
two thousand bales, of which amount
the railroad carried fully one-half.
The road crosses the creek at the
junction and then runs parallel with a
broad stretch of cypress wood that can
be used i'll the manufacture of buckets,
shingles and various other articles of
general use. Indeed the resources along
the route of this road are so varied and
numerous that it would be difficult to
enumerate them all. We have men
toned, however some of the most inn
portant.
The road is equipped with two loco
motives OF ample power and capacity,
fine passenger coaches and freight cars.
The track is the standard gauge, and
new forty-pound steel rails are used in
its construction. A section force is kept
at work upon the track constantly, and
it is kept up in perfect repair. Regular
employment is given to twenty-five peo-
pie on an average. A large freight traf-
fic is carried on almost all the time.
The lumber it carries is shipped all over
the country. There are numerous saw
mills and planning mills all along the
route due to the fact that the road
was originally built for the purpose OF
getting out the lumber, and has gradual
ly increased the scope of it's business
ever since. 1t is now being extended
from Raeford about six males IN a
southeasterly direction, and will open
up fine farming country ana splendlu
timber lands. mainly long-leaf pine. Al
fer this part is cleared, no better land
for farming purposes could be found.
The following is the time table now IN
use on the road:
NO. 8 EASTBOUND.
Leave Aberdeen $50 a. M.
Leave Leavitts 9:45 a. m.
Leave Junction 1000 a. m.
Leave Endon 1925 a. m.
Arrive Juniper 1875 a. M.
Leave Juniper 1850 a. m.
Leave Endon HOO a. m.
Arrive Junction 11:2o a. III.
Arrive Montrose 11:45 a. m.
Arrive Timberland 1910 p. III.
Arrive Raeford, 1925 p. IN
NO. o, WEST BOUND.
Leave Raeford 400 p. III.
Leave Timberlake 4:25 p. M.
Leave Montrose 4:JO p. M.
Leave Junction 500 p. m.
Leave Ieavitts 5:10 y. m.
Arrive Aberdeen 5:25 p. III.
The distance from the Junction to
Aberdeen is seven miles, and from the
Junction to Juniper nine miles, and
from the junction to Raeford eleven
miles. The new addition, which will
be completed during the present
wear. extends for six miles. The total
length of the road is therefore thirty
three miles.
The man to whom this road which has
done so much for the section of country
through which it runs owes its existence
is Mr.. John Blue, its present president.
Mr.. Blue is a North Carolinian, having
been born in Cumberland county. There
he was reared and educated. He after
wards moved to Moore county, and for
ten years was engaged in the turpentine
business and in buying up land and
timber. Next he took up his residence
in Aberdeen, and very seon started the
building of the railroad; this was about
1889. His original idea was simply to
have a good means Of transporting his