| From the Raleigh Register |
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| January 29, 1862 |
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| The Coal-Fields Railroad |
| The Convention did a good day's work on
Tuesday, when they passed the Coalfields Railroad bill. There are but
few persons in the State who will not rejoice at the passage of a bill
so pregnant with vast benefits not only to North Carolina, but the
entire South. In a short time we shall have developed in the very
heart of the State incalculable treasures of the finest coal and iron
in the world. The valley of Deep River, with its salubrious climate,
its forests of the finest kind of timer, and its inexhaustible beds of
coal and iron, will soon become the seat of a dense and thriving
population. Everything to the manufacture of which the use of iron is
essential, will be manufactured in that region, and sent to the
consumers by our railroads. A bill more replete than the Coal Fields
Railroad bill with benefit to the country, never passed any body. The
bill provides that the Road shall commence at some point on the North
Carolina Railroad within 12 miles of Raleigh, and terminate at such
point or points of the Coal Fields as the Company may select. This
provision will bring the different mines within reach of the main stem
of the Road. The road will be some 35 miles in length, and will, we
presume, be made ready to receive the rails during the present year. |
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