The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-23

he ramiticatlOns OF business lhes en-
iorse notes and bank paper, and
are not over anxious and inqulsltlve on
of extension, and they fire.
%duently say. IT is as much our interest
a. yours that you should succeed ana
by your success help fill the country
with thrifty people, -.
9th. That as neighbors they visit
our iresides and welcome Us to the
privileges of public worship, and sym
natize in our sorrows and Affections;
that they admire sturdy integrity and
real principle that their definition OF
what these things are corresponds with
the idea of the same OF our nelghDors
In the North held in common with Us.
We find that We are not tabooed nor
subjected to any kind Of persecution
for proper conduct or good Northern
ideas or principles, and though differ
ing from many of our Southern neigh
bors on many essential questions IN pol
tiles and otherwise, we have lived and
prospered here among them, they know
ing these differences.
10th. We find that the South needs
more people badly, and that
none appreciate it more than the
native population, and that they
are willing to offer far IN
ducements to industrious people to
come and settle among them. If resi-
dence among a people and having
/ daily social and business contact them
means anything, then w ask "A fair
consideration by all people of the facts
we herein find, and at least the same
credit be given to our statements that
is given to the unsupported statements
| so swift in their mission Of d~i>sen>ion
and misrepresentation.
18th. That east OF a line drawn
from Richmond, Va, to Raleigh, n.
c., thence to Columbia, ). c., thence
to Tallahassee, in Florida, the country
! on the eastern SIDE OF the South Allan
TIC States contains a vast extent OF
| of rich ~alluvial lands, fine sandy loans,
a considerable extent of swamp and
arid sand. heavy forest of pine and cy-
press. fine fisheries and harbors, i'm
mense water power and vast beds OF
| mail and shell; that in this sea-slope
belt. from the Potomac to the Gulf. Is
grown all products that are grown in
any of the States OF the North, and in
addition fine qualities Of tobacco cot
ton and rice, while south of Savannah
the banana and other tropical fruits
add their value.
10Th. That about so miles westward
Of the line given, the country gradu-
ally rises, and at about the line given
becomes gently undulating, and as
sumes its distinctive character as the
-. - .f4Io Dlrn D,l.a r,,,a ~
mountains and becomes the country
known as.the Piedmont belt, and is
comprised in that strip of country ly-
ing to the west of the line given for an
average distance Of about 80 miles,
in some parts narrower and in others
slightly wider, its eastern limit having
an altitude of from 800 to 400 feet
rising by gradations to a height Of
from 900 to 1, 100 feet on its eastern
line. Within this Piedmont belt are
forest of oak. ash, hickory, walnut ma
pie, breech birch, all the hard woods
with yellow pine and occasional belts
on the higher regions Of white pine.
Rivers and creeks, afford with their
tributaries, abundant water and these
streams fail not, neither DO dry. Alum
udiJ wafer po"cIS, i'ISC huiiDCio VI
them average from II to twenty feet,
and others from 90 to 120feet of nat
ural fall, on streams havinga width Of
| Of from one hundred to seven hundred
feet. Some of these water powers
have cotton and wooden mills thereon,
and any wishing to be interested can
be shown that these are paying hand
somely. The soil is generally q red
| clay or mulatto or chocolate land, gray
loan and black soil. The bottom lands
yield largely, those of the uplands
moderately. On the kind of culture
hitherto followed in the South-which
is no degree up TO the northern stan
dard, yet owing to the ease of 1ranspor-
tation to market, shortness of lines and
| the Kindness of the climate, the money
value of all crops exceeds that of the
fields of Kansas or Minnesota.
A. We find in this belt, mines of
gold, iron, copper, coal, limestone,
mica, barytcs, mineral paint, corun-
dun, etc., etc, which, if worked with
assiduity and appliances as elsewhere,
would furnish labor to a vast popula-
ton, andsequal in yield those of other
States more known to popular report.
G.. We find the climate of this belt
salubrious, invigorating and restoring;
that its summer temperature is lower
and cooler by several degrees than at
the North, that gentle breezcs keep
the summers restful; hat drouths or
failure of crops are unknown hat in
sects and. pests destructive to crops
have no existence; that winters are
moderate and short; that animal life
is easily supported without expensive
methods of care ana constant working
to feed the labor OF the summer away;
that here man works for himself and
his and not for hi. hrn+ns. tint Tiara