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New Hanover. Brunswick, Columbus, Bladen, Robe- 

 son, Richmond, Anson, Union, Mecklenburg, Gaston, 

 Lincoln and Cleveland. At Wilmington, it connects 

 with roads leading north and south and with the Cape 

 Fear River and Ocean steamers : at Hamlet with the 

 Raleigh and Augusta Air-Line, which is under the 

 same management ; at Wadesboro with the South 

 Carolina Roads; and at Charlotte with roads in every 

 direction. 



The Cheraw and Wadesboro Road connects 

 Anson county with the South Carolina Roads, and 

 the Carolina Central at Wadesboro gives it an outlet 

 to all parts of North Carolina. Its present length in 

 North Carolina is 11 miles. Its projected northern 

 terminus is at Salisbury, Rowan county. 



The Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rail- 

 road is another of Charlotte's connections with the 

 outside world. Its length is 191 miles, 14 of which 

 are in Mecklenburg county. It is part of the Rich- 

 mond and Danville System. 



The Chester and Lenoir is a narrow gauge 

 railroad, at present 63 miles long, passing from Ches- 

 ter, S. C, on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta 

 Road, through Gaston and Lincoln counties, N. C, 

 to Lincolnton. Twenty-seven miles remain to be 

 built to its terminus at Lenoir, Caldwell county. 



The Danville. Mocksvllle and Southwest- 

 ern Railroad is completed from Danville, Va., to 

 Leaksville, Rockingham county, N. C. It is part of 

 the North Carolina Extension of the Virginia Mid- 



