| From the Raleigh Register |
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| March 1, 1862 |
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| Chatham Coalfields Railroad Company -- City Election |
| We call attention to the Advertisement of
the Mayor giving notice of an election to be held in this city on the
4th inst., to determine the question whether said city shall subscribe
the sum of fifty thousand dollars to the capital stock of the Chatham
Railroad Company. |
| The object of this election is of vital
importance, and we hope the citizens, in an enlightened spirit of
combined patriotism and interest, will come forward and agree that the
corporation of Raleigh, the capital of the State, shall do its part in
carrying out an improvement, which, when accomplished, will be
fruitful of vast benefits to this city, this State, and the whole
Southern Confederacy. There is no power of over estimating the value
of Railroad connections with the Deep River region. Looking at the
improvement in the narrow view of the benefit which would accrue to
this place in the single article of fuel, obtained conveniently and
cheaply, instead of fuel now obtained most expensively and
inconveniently, and its claims upon the assistance of the city's
means, to a reasonable extent, cannot be denied. Not a winter goes by
that every family in Raleigh does not sigh for good coal at reasonable
prices, instead of swabby wood at exorbitant prices, and burned at the
inconvenience of constantly making up the fire from the time it is
lighted in the morning, until it is permitted to sink into ashes at
night. |
| Go in for coal, then! |
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