Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1884-06-21
NORTH CAROLINA VIEWED BIZ 4
NORTHERN MAN.

To the MINING JOURNAL.
The climate of North Carolina is in
termediate, answering to the highest
favorable conditions to animal life.
Its soil is Of every variety and grade of
fertility. In the east, stretching out
many miles from the bays and sounds
and along the river course, are wide
bottoms Of great depth and fertility
on which are grown annually fine crops
of cotton and corn. Some Of these
bottoms are Of dark peaty soil of
great depth and inexhaustible fertility,
producing from so to 80 bushels Of
corn per acre without manure for the
last 100 years. Under better system
Of enriching and cultivating the soil
this portion of the State could be made
to yield immense profits to farmers.
One hundred miles from the coast is
one Of the finest trucking regions of
the union. An artificial earliness is
gained from the gulf stream, and
truckers can make double crops an
nually. On a single acre of ground
500 worth of potatoes can be grown,
and as high as 1925 worth of peas per
acre has been produced. After these
early crops are gathered $50 bale of
cotton per acre is common yield in
this section. Around Raleigh, the
Capital Of the State, for a distance of
one hundred miles the finest quality of
"gold leaf"@ tobacco is grown, which
commands the highest market price.
This product is valued at from 81 900
to $1,000 per crop.
The Farmer and Mechanic, in speaking
Of the immense advantages Of this
crop says, "it has converted the single
house whereat Sherman received
Johnston's surrender into the town of
Durham with $500 inhabitants and
factories paying nearly a half million
dollars annually revenue tax. This
crop is increasing millions of pounds
yearly" The U. S. Agricultural re-
port gives North Carolina the highest
yield of hay per acre of any State in
the Union, except New York, between
Maine and Texas. And if the same
improved system of farming was OBJ
tanned here, as there, even this single
exception would not be noted, as 1.-the
old North State" has advantages in
climate and soil over New York. In
two counties alone, Hyde and Curri-
tuck, more corn has been produced in
a single year than in the whole State
of New York.
The annual report Of the commits
sioner for the year 1880, showing that
the season was equally favorable to all
sections, gives the aggregate value of
the productions of North Carolina at
$97 ,OS6,32l. Considering that three
fifths Of the native forests yet standing,
and thousands of acres of cleared land
uncultivated for want of labor, and in
many instances, capital, this report is
equal to the best. At the close of the
war these people We're almost destitute
of the bare necessities of life. But
they are struggling forward right man.
fully. In few more years they can
be squarely on their feet.
In the middle and western districts
the soil may be described as generally
clayey and graveily loans, except the
river bottoms which are clnyey and
sandy loans. The climate of these
sections is very salubrious, being free
from all malarial influences. except in
very few localities along the river
course where the waters move slug
gishly. These, however are rare ex-
ceptions. Statistics show so far as that
prevalent scourge, consumption, is
concerned, one of the two small eras Of
total exemption in the whole country
from this dread destroyer of the human
race, is found in North Carolina.
The middle and western sections are
highly recommended for their health
fulness. The middle district produces
the finest cotton of the South: Arson
county carrying away the laurels from
the Atlanta Exposition. 1t has been
tho IA hit of farmarc heratofora IN o,roxu
this crop principally because of the
large yield and immense profits.
Some grow this crop almost exclusive
ly which is great mistake, necessit-
ating them to buy everything wanted
for home consumption. Others not
only raise as much cotton as their
neighbors but at the same time grow
wheat, corn, potatoes, grasses, &C.,
sufficient for themselves and tenants,
and in some instances SurnluS to dis