| From the Wilmington Journal |
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| June 29, 1861 |
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| Deep River Coal |
| The Fayetteville Observer
says: "We are glad to learn that the Egypt shaft, under the
management of Wm McClane, Esq., has been completely refitted, with
proper ventilating fixtures, and will be ready to commence mining this
day, at the rate of from fifty to two hundred tons a day, according to
the demand. |
| "A coal dealer from
Charleston has gone to the mines, desirous to make arrangements for
ten or fifteen thousand tons of coal, to be transported two miles by
wagon, thence to this place by the Western Rail Road, and hence by
boat to Wilmington, and by the Wilmington & Manchester and
Manchester and Northeastern Roads. |
| "We hope some means will
be devised to extend the rail road further into the coal and iron
region, and develop the materials abounding there. |
| Our attention has been called
to the above with the view of having the matter brought more fully
before the public. |
| It would appear that the
gentleman in question is perfectly satisfied, or at least sufficiently
satisfied with the rates for which he can get coal down to Wilmington,
but complains of the rates of freight on the Wilmington &
Manchester Road to Florence, said to be $3 per ton. This, with the
freight from Florence down to Charleston, would amount to a virtual
prohibition. Coal is certainly wanted and desired there, and as
evidence of this we may refer to the following advertisement inserted
in the Charleston papers this week. We clip from the Mercury: |
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| Transportation Office S. C. R. R. |
| Charleston, June 26, 1861 |
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| Coal will be transported to
Charleston over the South Carolina and connecting Railroads, when
offered in quantities not less than the car load, 16,000 pounds, at
the following low rates, viz.: |
| From Atlanta, Geo., per 2,000 pounds |
$4.00 |
| From Chattanooga, Tenn., per 2,000 pounds |
$6.00 |
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| W. J. Magrath, General Agent |
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| To those who know anything of
the distances, we need hardly point out the great difference in the
amount per ton per mile as compared with that on the Manchester Road,
already referred to. It is proper to remark, however, that these
advertised rates are wholly new and experimental, and that the rates
on the Manchester road are those got up when coal was only occasionally
sent, in comparatively small quantities, like any other up freight. We
do not pretend to do more than call attention to the fact that now
possibly a new business may be made, and the interests not only of the
Road but of the whole section promoted by such a course of
encouragement as circumstances will admit of. |
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