| From the Raleigh Standard |
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| February 26, 1862 |
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| Chatham Coalfields Railroad |
| We omitted in our last inadvertently, to
call the attention of citizens of Raleigh, to the announcement of the
Mayor, C. B. Root, Esq., that an election will be held on the 4th
March, to ascertain whether a majority of the people of the City will
vote to authorize the corporate authorities to subscribe $50,000 to
the [proposed Coalfields Railroad. The Road is evidently a most
important improvement, whether in a military or other point of view.
It ought to have been built five years ago, and the government now had
foundries, rolling mills and machinery for preparing munitions of war,
established there. Such a Road would doubtless be of great convenience
and profit to this City. |
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