266 THE RAILROADS OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



The Atlantic, Tennessee a^^d Ohio Railroad, 

 47 miles long, connects Charlotte with the Western 

 North Carolina Road at Statesville, passing through 

 the northern half of Mecklenburg and the southern 

 half of Iredell county. It is leased to the Richmond 

 and Danville. 



The Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad 

 is in operation from Fayetteville, the prospering head 

 of steam navigation on the Cape Fear River, to Gulf, 

 Chatham County — a distance of 47 miles — passing 

 through Cumberland, Harnett and Moore into Chat- 

 ham. Its further route is graded and bridged from 

 Gulf through Chatham and Randolph to Greensboro 

 in Guilford county, 52 miles ; and is graded from 

 Greensboro to Walnut Cove in Stokes County, 30 

 miles beyond. The Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley 

 Road also owns the graded route of the Fayetteville 

 and Florence Road from Fayetteville to the South 

 Carolina line, 48 miles. The whole route will be 

 rapidly completed after a slight change in the charter, 

 to be made by the Legislature in January, 1883, and 

 when finished will pass from a point on the Carolina 

 Central Railroad through the counties of Robeson, 

 Cumberland, Harnett, Moore, Chatham, Randolph, 

 Guilford, Forsyth, Stokes, Surry, Yadkin, Wilkes, 

 Caldwell and Mitchell. 



The Carolina Central Railway passes from 

 Wilmington, the largest city of the State and a sea- 

 port of great and growing foreign and domestic trade, 

 242 miles to Shelby. It traverses the counties of 



