The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-04
The Land of Lands! Home o
Manly Men and Womaniy
The Old North
State Forever!

i,ent citizens of Mississippi, and Presi
psnt of the National Cotton Planters
A.soc;ation,' sends us a copy of his article
IN Wmters Journal describing his recent
visit to North Carolina to urge action by
this State for an exhibit at the New Or
leans Exposition. The article is headed by
a splendid electrotype of Julian 5. Carr,
E.q., of Durham, and it is certainly a very
light and handsome face which looks
out from the page before us. We should
enjoy printing all Of Col. Morehead's ar
,i.Ie: but the following extract will show
how our old State impressed the new
coming, though oid-time friends:
1T seemed to him, on that
March morning, that 10 truth and 10 fact
he had entered the fairest of all fair lands.
You may listen to %accounts of this eli
mate or that, you may hearken to boasts
Of the healthfuIness of various localities,
but If YOU want to see ruddy checked
lads, rosy-cheeked ~lasses, s~tslwart men
aud blooming women, North Carolina is
the place to find them.
Our first stopping place was Durham,
a own whose magic growth entities 1t to
a place In the list with Birmingham.
Admission and Roanoke. As the cars
from Greensboro pulled up to the station
at this bee hive town, the attention Of
all the passengers was attracted to a
building that would look very much lar
ger than most of it's %neighbors even ia
New York or Chicago, but which here
strikes the beholder as almost 'megath-
erian," as Barnum calls the big tent of
his ''own and only show" This build
iug Is the Jumbo of the worlds tobacco
factories.
But let us pause at the doorway of
this immense establishment and make
the reader acquainted with the gentleman
whose master hand has lone a hon share
If the work in making it what it is-Mr.
Julian 5. Carr. President of Biackweli's
Durham Tobacco Company. There will
be found, as a frontisplece to the Pint
e4 .JarBri, an engraving which, while
true to life, will by its almost youthful
appearance cause the reader to wonder
how so young a man can be at the head
of five times the largest tobacco manu-
factory in he world. Later on we will
endeavor to tell how it all happened, and
At the same time illustrate what ua.siid
a while ago about the kind of new blood
that has done 81 much to r~ejuvenate not
only the old North State, but in great
measur- the entire South.
The town of Durham contains four
thousand of the busiest inhabitants to be
found in America In 1870 it was mere
Is a station on the railroad, with about
two hundred and fifty PEOPLE living In
the vicinage. 1t now has SIX smoking to-
baccO manufactures aud one large plug
factory, while at three establishments
cigarettes are also manufactured. Among
its other industries are three sash, blind
and door factories, two buggy factories, a
smut and screening machine factory, a
fertilizer factory and five newspapers.
There are five churches, lone of the lat
ter a very imposing one and three of as
good schools as exist anywhere in the
Union. Ten years ago property in the
town could BIO had almost at the pur-
chaSer's own figures; now lots in Durham
are in demand almost at the sellers own
price. All this has been brought about
b. the manufactures that have sprung
up there during the past few years.
Farming lands adjacent to Durham
have likewise Increased In value and are
now in greater demand than ever before
since Sir Walter Raleigh founded the
colony. But what is true of Durham APP
plies likewise to perhaps a hundred other
communities where mills and factories
have been built. From present indica-
tons these will continue to increase till
the music of the spindle mingles with the
nuslc of every stFeap and streamlet IN
this favored State, whose wealth OF water
power stands unmatched the wide world
over. Indeed it is only a question of
um6, and a short time at that, when
North Cardinals ma gi0al tobacco towns,
ike Durham aud Winston, will be dupli-
Gated by cotton cities that can but prove
to the South what Lowell and Fall River
are to New England.
Among the North Carolinians who have
helped to place their State close up to-
ward the |, ad of the industrial process
sion, we may mention Col. Thos. Nj.
Holt, the euterprising and successful cot
ton spinner at Haw River, and his broth
ers Messrs. James, William, Banks and
Lawrence Holt. and his brothers in-law
Jamps and John Williamson-all cotton
manufacturers. In fact, here is one SIN
gle family of men whose energy and &C
tivity would alone suffice to leaven a
whole States lump Oflnertla.
Then there are the Oats brothers, the
successful cotton manufacturers at Char
lotte; and H. and T. Freize the cotton
and wool %spinners, tanners aud merchant
millers at Salem Thomas Mcmahon of
the spoke and handle works at Green's
boro X. +. Hoke, President of the North
Carolina Car Company at raleigh Col.
A b Andrews, President Western North
Carolina Railroad. and one of the Vice
Presidents ofthe Richmond and Danviile,
the Brown Brothers, the great plug to-
bacco manufacturers of Winston Col. j..
N. Heck whose efforts in the develops
ment of North Cardinals coal and iron
interest are well known; Jas ) Battle, tie
cotton spinner at Rocky Mount; Col Ju-
hus A Gray, Turner Morehead. of the
cotton factory at Leaksyille DIR w k
Capehart, famous on account OF success
ful enterprises alike in agriculture and IN
the great fishing industry j NJ and } a
Odell, of the cotton mills at Concord,
the latter being also President of the cot
ton mill about 10 be erected at Durham ;
and the Steeles and the Walls who are
identified with the extensive cotton man
ufacturing interests =. Rockingham.
To the names al -dy mentioned we
should add that of w q Primrose presl-
dent of the North Carolina State Expo
sition to be held next October at Raleigh.
And with like propriety we NAV name
John G. Angler, President ofthe Durham
WOODEN mills, now IN course of construc-
ton s Morgan. President Durham
Bull Fertiliziug Company Eugene More
head, banker. at Durham, and President
of the Watts Coke, Coal and Iron Com
pany. and EJ Parrish, also OF Durham
who is probably the m ost extensive to-
bacco w~arehouseman and leaf dealer in
the Golden Belt,