The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-02-02
NOW FRANCE.
WITH HER WINE AND HER SILK
AND HER DELICATE CUISINE.
Comes to Make Herself at Home in
North Carolina. and 10 Help us Ban-
1sh CoTn.Juice and the Fry-Pan.


ish Corn-Juice and the Fry-Pan.
And so the silk industry is about tn bs
gin in earnest In North Carolina. and 81,
Moore county herself. the prouis.. IL. shsl
flow With Freueh-nada wine. NJ. viriot
des Laurier>. formerly Superintendent o
the New York six Exchau.e. and one o
It's founders a Fr,nthman VITO has .
practical knowledge OF The hu.inrss tha
he j. engaged i'm. came down here frou
\ y rN on Saturday. aud made a pur
chase Of land from M James l.. Page, n
keyser. Three or four French famil;e.
viii Immediately be settled O. II, ant
Others viii soon follow
" des I.4uricrs is sire that lie ia, solved
a very veXed problem about French immi
grafton. "Thr French TIE -ay-. do LOT
ike q 20 West Lane c3,;s more there
and the climate i not pleasant for thetu.
Here they can Get land ~ cheap a. il ca4l
be bought anywhere. which i, adaptcl IL
the growth both If the mulberry aud a
the vine. and in A climate where Fr.n2l;
people will feel at home"
The colony is not TO be another atternnt
at an impracticabie community establish
ment, like the English colony at Rugby.
Tennessee, and like so many others whiell
have failed, or at least fallen short of the
success hoped for. Every family has
enough money to buy a small tract o.
land-say twenty-five or thirty acres-and
TO erect small house. That" says Nj.
des Lauriers, is all they want
They will spend the rest of the winter
i'm ma king preparations for Agricultural
work i'm the spring. Then they will ID
gardening. making their own living and
sending such truck to market as they can
find sale for
They will 90 on until vines and null
berry trees have time to yrow-which Of
course, will be planted as soon as practi-
cable NJ des Ia,1ri,rs will sunnly them
with everything they need TO BEGIN six
culture. He is a mariner. il will be re-
called. of Mr.. George Y Wise. in the
Virginja Silk Farm and Mulberry Nurse
ries at Genito. Powhafan connfv- Va.
After a little Will. other French fami-
lies will come down. and every man set
tlinn ,I.wl on his own little farm will very
soon literally he under his own vino and
perhaps also his own fio-tree.
Danger there is ahead of tLis COLONY.
everybody must admit. One oreat dancer
is that the French peasant. like the peas
antry ito call them such, of every other
country. will not find the presence of Ne
gro labor pleasant. Another GREAT danger
IS the dans,ar that comes from o,r snarse
nonnlation ard CONSEQUENT lacL of NOR.
kets. suppose. for instance. these neoole
in Moore county GROW enouTl, of thc tiner
vegetables to bring a GOOD return in New
York: thev have Vet to learn nerhans
that the facilities for TRANSFORMATION arr. .,
such a nature that Moore county can We,
hardly be made garden even for Raleigh
or Charlotte, to say nothing OF New York.
These dangers were spoken of bv one
of The CHRONICLES staff But ii. des
Lauriers smiled as only a Frenchman can
smile, shrugged his shoulders and lifted
his eyebrows and declared with all the an.
imation that English pronounced like
French is capable Of expressing, that he
and his colonists knew these things
"They are accustomed to work" he
said, land every one of them desires a
home OF his own. Give them that and
they can make their living. Then, when
the silk and the wine begin to yield profits
-and there are large pr fits in hoth--they
will have good chance to do very well y
The colonists have learned their trades
beng farmers amt SIX growers anu wine
makers-and they prefer TO do such work
to living IN New York where some of them
have been for several years. They have
made their living in Summer by work i'm
restaurants and similar occupations, and
the Winters have not been made very
cheerful In any way.
M des Lauriers is a man OF wide Obser-
vatlon and long experience, and OF course
ne knows his own people. He is not,
therefore, making thOughtless venture.
tie has counted the cost from the begin
ming and is certain OF success. Success he
will achieve it his colonists have endur-
ance as well as pluck to hold on till the re
turns come in. The land they have bought,
all who know anything about the subject
agree, is we'll adapted to their purpose.
At present, however, it is in the woods,
and to make a sudden transition from
pines to vines or from black jacks to mul-
berries will require a good deal Of labor
One thing, however, may be counted on
Ut must be counted on) the pt Ople Of Kew
ser will be especially kind to the new com
ers. Few OF them will be able TO speak
English, and i'll many little matters they
hinus OF Htl1e attentions 81. des Laurlers
VIZ oiiuS oilis q IecI 'laAS WHO, ne
.rar,a t,,ra1 p"oN oi'o"Sh " iHy tie