The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-10-18

F. birds, surrounded by the specimens of all
: things luxurious and beautiful birds
: fishes. grain, woods, and who could cata-
! iogue all these things-haye you seen
: theml If you have is it not
; 4 REVELATION
The first American land touched bv the
Anglo -SaXonS is among the very latest to
be developed; and now out of that vast
virgin region come such evidences Of
great riches the British mariners never
carried back 10 the eager imagiuations of
the first rovers of the sea.
There Is no possibility of enumerating
in these columns either all the separate
exhibits included in that exhibition. or
half the chances that await immigrants
OF that await capital Any man is filled
with despair at an effort to describe it,
Plunging into the middle Of such con
fuslng wealth Of suggestion, | asked Mr.
Frank (. Vaughan, who collected the ex-
hibit from the twelve counties (and might
nave collected 1t from half Of any one
county, what he regarded the best
chance for men without large capital
men of a little money and of great en-
ergy
Il confess that | am confused, he an-
swered. ''Gou can not write book, and
to save my life can't select one or two
chances out of hundreds and say they are
the best The matter with us all is Ma
ture is too kind to us. The great central
fact that you may lay down, however, is
this, that the men there until recently
found it hard to realize that this year
OF Grace is not 30 years ago.
AGRICULTURE.
Take agriculture. An industrious man
can buy a farm for any reasonable price
III almost any accessible part of the Abe
| marie region. and with the first wears
crop pay for it, and have all the remain
| ing years OF his life to wax fat and rich
If he wax not indOlent, great VIII be his
fortune and his success great. | can
name dozen men who have paid for their
| farms with their first years crop.
''What crops! Anything. Until recen-
| tly, however, the system of agriculture
mas made and kept TOO many of our peo-
! pie land-pOor They grew cotton and
! corn on most extensive and extensive |
scale. Even in that there were fortunes.
But now the culture Of rice has opened up
avenues OF quick, sure and lasting wealth.
OF peanuts, there is no end TO the posi- |
! blllty- Let me give you a few practical /
personal examples. Mr.. Charles L. Petit |
grew, at Creswel, Washington county.
has this year grown on 200 acres more
rice than was grown in the whole Abe |
Hldtl IL StCtloll dcCOItllUS 10 uHc census OF /
1880. He will probably have 70, 600 bush |
els, which will be worth $40, 900. Although |
the county invites double crops, few far
mers take advantage of it. Some, how
ever, grow three crops of potatoes on one /
piece Of land. Mr.. a. A Perry of Eden |
ton, for instance, made 81, $40 on garden
peas: then on the same land he now
has crop of peanuts that will be worth |
$115 per acre.
These examples, with names, addresses,
dates and figures, could be repeated in
definitely. The point Of the whole story
is that any man with reasonable energy
can make a fortune
INVESTIGATE IT.
You don't believe it? There is no way
to prove it you but to insist that YOU
investigate it. In the admirable sketch
of the resources of this county which Mr.
Vaughan compiled, you will find the
names and addresses of men who have
done it and you have data for your oNn
investigation. That's all THE CHRONICLE
can say Everybody must stand amazed
before such revelation.
The tendency to go into generalities is
irresistible. Let us come back, then, to
definite statements. In Tyrrel and HYDE
counties, Mr.. Vaughan tells of hundreds
Wherefrom the unthrifty owners make
fat ulous sums Of money without expense.
They even kill every bee in every hive
And hives that have not cost a cent yield
81. 80 each. And there are thousands and
thousands of acres of land that are not
even ''entered.' And men do not cen
ter it because it costs a small fee. And
why should they2 They own all they
wish. And much of the land is not
Syya ann Ian6 ic ofta A,,I |
the production Of honey in all this region,
small thing as it is-affords an outlook
that is almost fabulous.
The truth Is no map ever vet published
no description of the State that has ever
been written, gives an adequate idea of
the country.
STOCK OF DUCKS.
Stock-raisingl In a large part of this
section thousands of cattle run at large
many without owners, and these are
hunted as wild beasts. Stock find pastur-
age all the year round.
You see these ducks here. These are !
not mere fancy things. Duck-shooting is
great industry of Currituck county
There are men who make s., 900 by few
months duck shooting; and there is prob
ably more northern capital invested in :
duck lands and lodges there than in the
manufactures of finished products in the
whole region. (
TIMBER. ;
: OF timber, consider this: if northern
firm can go down in the forests employ ,
1 900 hands, build tram roads and even ,,
steam railroads, cut timber, export it in
the rough, some of it 1000 miles, and
make money every cent of which goes out
of the county,, what profits could there be !.
if this We're manufactured into finished !
products at home. Immense quantities of :
our commercial timbers have been cut and
shipped in the rough, and some sections
have almost been left barren: but as many l
manufactures of such products as shingles
as there are, the finer products Of wood
have never been made. The outlook? 1t