272 THE RAILROADS OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



Catawba, Burke, McDowell, Buncombe and Madison 

 counties to Paint Rock— a distance of 189 miles. 

 At Salisbury, the eastern terminus, it connects with 

 the North Carolina Road; at Paint Rock with the 

 East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Road. The 

 Ducktown Branch is completed from Asheville to 

 Pigeon River, Haywood county, and rapid progress 

 is made in grading the remainder of the route through 

 Jackson, Swain, Macon and Cherokee counties. 



The Wilmington and Weldon Railroad trav- 

 erses the State from north to south. It passes, 163 

 miles, from Weldon through Halifax, Nash, Edge- 

 combe, Wilson, Wayne, Duplin, Pender and J^ew 

 Hanover counties to Wilmington. It owns and ope- 

 rates a branch road from Halifax to Scotland Neck, 

 20 miles ; another from Rocky Mount to Tarboro, 17 

 miles ; and is now locating a road from Wilson to 

 Florence, S. C, which will pass through the North 

 Carolina counties of Wilson, Johnston, Harnett, 

 Cumberland and Robeson, and connect with river 

 and rail at Fayetteville. This road connects at Wel- 

 don with the Raleigh and Gaston, the Petersburg, 

 and the Seaboard and Roanoke Roads ; at Goldsboro 

 with the North Carolina and the Atlantic and North 

 Carolina; at Wilmington with the Cape Fear River and 

 Ocean steamers, the Carolina Central Railway, and 



The Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta 

 Railroad, which is 189 miles in length and part of 

 the gre^l Seaboard through route. It passes from 

 Wilmington into South Carolina through Brunswick 

 and Columbus counties, N. C. , 



