| From the Richmond Daily Dispatch |
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| June 2, 1863 |
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| Western North Carolina |
| The extension of the {Richmond
&} Danville
railroad to Greensborough, N. C. {the
Piedmont RR}, will
be an important event for this city. It will add largely to its trade,
and increase very much the facilities of its intercourse with Western
North Carolina and Western South Carolina and Georgia. Especially with reference to
Western North Carolina
will the benefits from this improvement resulting to this city be of a
very considerable magnitude. The country is productive in respect to
its agriculture, rich in mineral wealth, and in a high degree
picturesque and healthy. To this time it has been to us a kind of
terra incognita; but it will soon burst upon us in all its beauty and
vast resources. The railroad in course
of completion will bring us near to it and make us entirely familiar
with it. Already the improvement begins to give shape to plans and
prospects in that region. Villages are about to spring up along the
line of the road. To-day an advertisement appears in this paper
bringing into market a piece of property eligibly situated for a town.
We mention it as the first movement of a series that are to exhibit an
activity and enterprise commensurate with the value and resources of a
region destined to add immensely to the trade and wealth of Richmond. |
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