The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-02-25
WILL Be BUILT
Raleigh to Ellington, Fayette-
Vile, lumberton.
Some Railroad Talk With Inc Folks VITO Usually
Know What's VIVA. in Railroad
Ctyrtes

You are getting mighty hot, said :.
gentleman Who keeps posted about rail
road matters yesterday in writing about
that new direct line Of railroad from
Ealeigh 10 Charleston, via Sippehaw.
Ellington, Fayetteville, Lumberton am
| Marion. $. 6. II is going 10 be buil:.
and Will do great good TO Raleigh and all
the section through which il passes. DO
NOT ask me- exactly how il Will be built.
whether by merger Of the Mills road
with the Carolina Northern or some othe.
way. But that line is going 10 b. built.
and will be running before a great many
months pass by. Just make a note Ct
that, If you please"
was examining the map today With \
! View 10 seeing how the route was be-
tween Raleigh and Lumberton, via Lii
~lington and Fayetteville. If You viii
draw i line from Sippehaw tFuquay
SpringS) the present terminus Of the
Mills road CRaleigh and Cape Fear) you
viii find that it is as straight a line a.
the crow flies. 1t is 2 perfectly straigh,
line, and runs through . heavily timber
cd country. 1t is siNty-tAree miles from.
Raleigh TO Fayetteville. The Mills road
is already built twenty miles, leaving
! forty-thfee miles TO get TO Fayetteville.
The plans nave already been made and
bonds sold to build il fifteen miles fur
ther- South 1t is something Xix" thirty
miles from Fayetteville 10 LuHbertoc.
The road South Of L~u1nberton is already
built TO Marion. S. G. and Is IN opera
ton. Mere Than that. il Is paying inter
est on its bonds and Is earning i di&i-
dcnd besides. II has plenty OF capital
behind it and wants connection 20 RAJ
eial1. Mr.. Mills is geinS South and
wants connection to Fayetteville and
Lumberton. The road is soing 10 be built
and bsforc a great While you can get on
q train on the Mills road and go into
Charleston without changing ears.
The conference held in Raleigh be
tween Mr.. Mills and Mr.. P.crtor, repre-
scnting The Carolina and Northern road.
| Will beer fruit within . few days.
The air is rife with railroad talk. /
heard 4 mar yesterday talking about the
Angler road. built by Angler and DGke
from Apex TO Angler on the edge of Far-
nett county. II has stopped at Angler.
and nobody can find cut what its plans
are. AR. Angler was here yesterday,
but. Of course. gave out no information
-, to extension. ii, indeed. he has ma
tured any plans yet. Last year they
bought q lumber plant and short timber
railroad leading ont from, Dunn. aud il
was then thought the road would be
built on to Dunn and thence into Samp-
son county INFO a rich farming and tim
Der section. But nothing looking TO that
direction has been done. A gentleman
who usually knows what is going on IN
railroad circles. though having Eo1hinI
TO do with The railroad business, said
yesterday:
Il am rather surprised ct the probable
junction Of the Carolina and Northera
| with the Mills road. I have always held
an. idea that ultimately the Norfolk and
! Western, which reaches Durham, would
buy the Angier-Duke road and extend it
TO Durham And then l have thought
: they .Would buy the mills road or make
traffic arrangements with it whereby tho
Norfolk and Western road woulc enter
Raleigh. If they did these things, OF
course il would then extend the road
from Sippehaw or Angler on to Fayctto-
Vile. and they might then form a traffic
arrangement with the Carolina and
Northern. That's q notion / have had.
but YOU never can tell about where Il
railroad will go or what it rill do
4 suit has been brought by Louis