THE RAILROADS OF NORTH CAROLINA. 269 



road, 9 miles long, connects Milton, Caswell count}', 

 with the Richmond and Danville Road at Sutherlin,Va. 



The North Carolina Railroad, 223 miles in 

 length, passes from Goldsboro through Wayne, John- 

 ston, Wake, Durham, Orange, Alamance, Guilford, 

 Davidson, Rowan, Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, to Char- 

 lotte. At Goldsboro it connects with the great lines 

 of travel north and south by the Wilmington and 

 Weldon Railroad ; at Raleigh by the Raleigh and 

 Gaston (north) and the Raleigh and Augusta Air- 

 Line (south) ; at Greensboro with the Richmond and 

 Danville System by its junction with the Piedmont 

 Road ; at Charlotte with the Carolina Central, east 

 and west, and with the Richmond and Danville Roads, 

 heretofore noted, going south and west. It also 

 forms part of a line of completed road, 526 miles in 

 length, reaching from the Atlantic coast at Morehead 

 to Paint Rock on the western State line and to Pig- 

 eon River in Haywood county, and traversing the 

 twenty counties of Carteret, Craven, Jones, Lenoir, 

 Wayne, Johnston, Wake, Durham, Orange, Alamance, 

 Guilford, Davidson, Rowan, Iredell, Catawba, Burke, 

 McDowell, Buncombe, Haywood, Madison. The 

 Road is leased to the Richmond and Danville, which 

 also owns the Road from Salisbury to Paint Rock 

 and Pigeon River. 



The Northwestern North Carolina Road is 

 a branch of the North Carolina Road, owned by the 

 Richmond and Danville Road,and passing from the im- 

 portant and .prosperous town of Greensboro, through 



