| From the Charleston Mercury |
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| February 23, 1863 |
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| Shelby & Broad River Railroad |
| The books for subscription to the Shelby &
Broad River Railroad will be opened this day at the Insurance Office of
W. B. Heriot, No. 179 East Bay, second story, and continued open for
three days. |
| The capital stock is half a million
dollars divided into five thousand shares of $100 each. Five dollars on
each share to be paid at the time of subscribing. |
| This road has been chartered by the States
of North and South Carolina, and its primary object is to bring coal
from Virginia and North Carolina to the iron mines of this State, to
facilitate the development of our mineral resources. Should the road,
however, be extended to Spartanburg C. H., and thence to Greenville C.
H., it will, it is claimed by its friends, become the route of the air
line from Atlanta to Richmond, and will shorten the distance from
Charlotte, N. C., to Atlanta, about 125 miles. The present line of
travel is as follows: |
| Charlotte, N. C., to Columbia |
106 miles |
| Columbia to Augusta |
141 " |
| Augusta to Atlanta |
171 " |
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418 " |
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| The distance by the projected air
line route would be as follows" |
| Charlotte, N. C., to Shelby, nearly finished |
55 miles |
| Shelby to Magnetic Iron Works, Cherokee Ford, Broad River |
18 " |
| Cherokee Ford too Spartanburg |
25 " |
| Spartanburg to Greenville |
32 " |
| Greenville to Anderson, already built |
36 " |
| Anderson to Atlanta |
126 " |
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293 " |
| Difference in favor of the proposed air line route |
125 " |
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