Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-10-04

LII 10SSiVS POSSIOIIIGIGS GuaG are
within the compass of this
road. We wish we could give the
report in full, as it is n of the
best of all our State papers on
any subjec5 Of internal develop
ment, and it should be read by
every citizen OF our Common
wealth, but orr limited columns
can only accommodate the fol-
lowing concluding paragraphs
Of this excellent document. but
these will give "a pretty fair
conception of it's value and force.
fitness:
clad the policy of extension and
of building branches urged long
years ago by those who knew the
value of feeders and extended terri
tory, and who foresaw and predicted
the present situation, been adopted,
there would long since have been a
branch through the territory from
Newbern to Jacksonville, now occu-
pied by the Wilmington and New
bern road, and the products of that
rich section, increased ten fold above
what they are to-day, would have
passed over your tracks. Another
would have gone from Kinston to
Greenvllle, and further on; another
would have reached to Snow Hill
and thence as circumstances might
have directed. Another perhaps, ere
this, might have crossed the Neuse
and reached out it's arms into the
rich fields Of Pamlico. The products
OF these teeming territories would
have taxed your resources TO trans
port them, pouring into your lap a
constant stream of wealth, and the
competitor who, with power suHi-
Gent to take it all, now knocks at
your door and with a spirit of gener-
ousity demands but a share of that
which should have been yours alone
would have gone in other directions:
and your main stem might. perhaps.
have reached far into the interior of
d State, and given you an unbroken
and profitable connection with the
markets of the great west.
But instead of the possibilities
which [ have pictured, and which
We're once SO easily ours, what are the
conditions that surround us? The
rival to whom [ have alluded, alive
to advantages to which we, in slotb-
full slumber, have closed our eyes.
has seized the opportunities upon
which we have turned our backs,
and over routes which, for years,
have neld out their hands and be-
sought us to occupy them, has en-
tered our very domicle and crossed
our tracks at u every vital point;
and to-day, instead of occupying the
territory which was rightfully ours
and being, as we could have been,
one OF the great and expanding y :
TENS, we find ourselves without q
single inch Of extension, without q
single branch Or feeder, without a
single artery through which the com
merce of adjacent territory can be
drawn, the same petty local line,
with no additions to it's track but
sidings rendered necessary by the
development of it's old original ter
ritory only, that we were the first
day of Our incorporation. nearly ffty
years ago, and with the iron ribbed
lines OF more enterprlsing corpora
tions, like the crushing and mang-
ling folds of a mighty serpent,
thrown around us, and dependent
for our existence and freedom from
absorption by our neigbbors upon
the protecting power of the State
alone. Are we satisfied with SUCH a
destiny? II we are, we have only to
continue the policy which has thus
far guided our councils. If we are
not. let us listen to the propositions
which will be made us to-day and
shape our future accordingly.