| From the Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N. C.) |
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| April 6, 1863 |
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| It is becoming a matter of grave
consideration, says the Augusta Chronicle, how our railroads
shall be kept up. The building of locomotives does not appear to be as
difficult as the making of rails -- nor does the procurement of other
rolling stock. To an inexperienced mind, either the building of a
locomotive or the founding of a cannon appears a much more difficult
task. Yet we believe that the first iron rail has yet to be made in the
South. Cannot some of our ingenious mechanics, assisted by our
millionaire capitalists, relieve us from the dangerous dilemma, without
compelling resort to the temporary make-ship of taking up the iron from
some roads to repair others? |
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