The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-09

; New Railroads
) That May BE Built
In North Carolina.

connecting mere WITH
the main line of the Seaboard Air Line
and making the shortest and straightest
of all the railroads from the South Caro-
lima coast to the North.
Trains on the Carolina Northern Rail
road are now running as far as Page
Mill, in Marion, county, S. c. 1t is only
question of short time before the
road will be completed to the town of
Marion. 1t is expected that work on the
railroad from Georgetown to Marion will
be commenced in the near future.
The Wilmington Messenger quotes Mr..
1. c. McUeeley, superintendent of the
Carolina Northern Railroad, as saying
that twenty-five miles of track have been
laid on his road, extending from Lumber
ton to Pages mill, just over the South
Carolina line. The entire roadbed has
been graded to Marion, S. c., with the
exception of a few thousand feet. Track
laying is going ahead with rush and
MI. McNeeley says the road will be laid
to Marion in two months The length of
the road is about fifty miles and it runs
through a very fertile and highly favored
country in both States. 1t is also a mag
nificently timbered country and numbers
line.
Except for few hundred yards of its
soil, nicked off by the Southern on its
way to Murphy, Ma
A RAILROAD con county now has
FOR no railroad within
MACON COUNTY. it's borders.
But We are going
to how - in
Commissioner Samuel l.. Rogers who
halls from that neck of the
woods. survey has just been com
pIeted from Tallulah Falls, Ga, to
Macon and 1 am told that work on it
will begin in the near future. In fact
they have already commenced clearing
the right -of-way at the Tallulah end of
the road. The new line will be an ex-
tension of the Tallulah Falls Railway, and
about 50 miles in length. The road now
runs from Cornelia. Ga, to Tallulah and
| when completed will run from Cornelia,
Ga. to Franklin, n. c., with a possible
further extension to Knoxville, Tenn. At
Cornelia it will tap the Southern.
"The men who are promoting this en-
terpriSe," Mr. Rogers went on to say, ARE
said to be men of large capital and good
long had their eyes on the rich section
through which this road is to rum and I
think now they have come to the con-
clusion that they must either develop
it themselves or allow someone else to
tain region there are signs of a coming
development such as are to be seen in
few sections of the South. There are
also any number Of Northern people who
have recently been convincing themselves
that the great natural wealth of this sec
ton is soon 20 be turned into money, and
they are preparing to take advantage OF
it. The people of Macon also are watching
every move and hoping to see the dream
Of a lifetime realized. There is untold
mineral wealth in all of these noun
tains, but it is useless until transporta-
tion is provided, and the same is true
of the great hardwood forests
"The resources are there continued
Mr. Rogers, 1.-The water power is there,
the climate is there;
RESOURCES everything, in fact, to
OF THIS make this particular
FINE SECTION. section of Georgia,
North and South Car
manufactures before another generation
has come along There is practically
nothing that cannot be manufactured in
that section for there's the water
power and the best labor ana climate on
earth. and raw material in greatest album
dance right at the factory door
''Then there is the great timber wealth
hard woods, pine forests, tan bar!s. all
in the greatest abundance and in the
finest quality.
1.-THE mineral resources are also as yet
practicaily undeveloped, but there is much
prospecting being done. AS is usual with
All such countries, lacking in transporta-
ticn facilities or removed from the marts
of trade, mans first incentive is to dig
for the more precious metals. He takes
out all the gold he can get conveniently
and without cost and then he goes to dig
cling into and tunneling the mountains,
then crushing the ore. In this way val
liable minerals are found and thus one
important line of industry follows another.
So it is now in this wonderful country. AS
soon as the extension of the railroad
puts it in closer touch with the world
there will be more searchers in the field
and therefore the field will be more thor
oughly searched. Then will the experts
begin to take hold and then will capital
flow in
correspondent of the Newbern Jour
nal advocating a new railroad to Swans
boro says: Swans
SWANSBORO borO is a small town
WANTS on the coast directly
A RAILROAD. on the Atlantic ocean
in Onslow county.
containing about three hundred inhabi-
tants, situated at the terminus of
White Oak river at it's mouth, and
Bogue Sound, directly opposite Bogue
Inlet and the beach, about two miles
| from the ocean on the main land, with
large body of water intervening, and in
terspersed with some islands, which fur
nishes the best facilities for fishing, sail
ing and boating in every conceivable man
ner; situated on a high bluff, on hard soil
overlooking the water, and in full view
of the ocean, a finer view, and more
picturesque landscape is not to be found
| anywhere, between Sandy Hook and Flor
ida, and the natural conditions of this
beautiful spot is not to be surpassed by
any location in this whole Eastern coun-
try, and with this place developed, More
| head City and Wrightsville would be