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The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1860., [Electronic resource], Message of the Governor of North Carolina. (search)
of the Coal Fields, with an average depth of 8 feet and width of 65 feet. The Fayetteville and Western Railroad is completed to the Coal Fields; in Chatham county; the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad is finished 75 miles from Wilmington and 25 miles from Charlotte. The first division of the Western North Carolina Railroad, extending from Salisbury to Morganten, a distance of 80 miles, has been completed to within eleven miles of its termination and the second division, from Morganton to the Western portal of the Blue Ridge Tunnel, a distance of 40 miles, let to contract, upon which the grading is now being executed. It appears that from 1815 to 1836, a period of twenty years, the value of our real estate actually decreased, while there was only an increase of $2,100,000 from 1815 to 1850, a period of thirty-five years. From 1850 to 1860; ten years, the increase has been $70,400,000. Now, it will be recollected, that most of our works of internal improvement have