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NAMES. BETWEEN 



Seaboard and Raleigh, Williamston and Tarboro. 



Seaboard and Roanoke, Portsmouth, Va., and Weldon, N. C. 



Tarboro Branch, Rocky Mount and Tarboro. 



University, University Station and Chapel Hill. 



Wilmington and Weldon, Wilmington and Weldon. 

 Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta, Wilmington, N. C, and Columbia, S.C. 



Western North Carolina, Salisbury and Paint Rock. 



The Asheville and Spartanburg Railroad 

 has its present terminus at Henderson ville, N. C. 

 Twenty miles of track are yet to be laid to complete 

 it to Asheville, where it will make connection with 

 all the North Carolina Roads and with Roads to the 

 north and west; at Spartanburg, S. C, it already 

 connects with the through lines of travel. Its pres- 

 ent completed length is 49 miles, passing from Spar- 

 tanburg, S. C, into Polk and Henderson counties, N. 

 C. The Richmond and Danville Company controls 

 it, and the Asheville connection will soon be made. 



The Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Rail- 

 road, 269 miles in length, reaches Charlotte, N. C, 

 from Atlanta, Ga., through Cleveland, Gaston and 

 Mecklenburg counties, N. C. At Charlotte, a thriv- 

 ing railroad centre, the traveller finds railroad con- 

 nections north, south, east and west. The Road is 

 the property, by lease, of the Richmond and Danville 

 Company. 



The Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad, 

 95 miles in length, passes from Morehead City (Beau- 

 fort Harbor) on the Atlantic coast, through the 

 counties of Carteret, Craven, Jones and Lenoir to 

 the thriving town of Gorclsboro in Wayne county, 

 where it connects with the great lines of railway 

 north, south and west. 



