The Daily Dispatch: June 2, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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Western North Carolina

The extension of the Danville railroad to Greensborough, N. C., will be an important event for this city. It will add largely to its trade, and increase very much the facilities of its intercourse with Western North Carolina and Western South Carolina and Georgia. --Especially with reference to Western North Carolina will the benefits from this improvement resulting to this city be of a very considerable magnitude. The country is productive in respect to its agriculture, rich in mineral wealth, and in a high degree picturesque and healthy. To this time it has been to us a kind of terra incognita; but it will soon burst upon us in all its beauty and vast resources. The railroad in course of completion will bring us near to it and make us entirely familiar with it. Already the improvement begins to give shape to plans and prospects in that region.--Villages are about to spring up along the line of the road. To-day an advertisement appears in this paper bringing into market a piece of property eligibly situated for a town. We mention it as the first movement of a series that are to exhibit an activity and enterprise commensurate with the value and resources of a region destined to add immensely to the trade and wealth of Richmond.