The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-11-04
HOW THEY HAVE PROSPERED
SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT
OUR NORTHERS SETTLERS.
They Tell of I heir Experience in This
Goodiy Iand--The Best Card to Se-
,urf4 m iar

cure immigration.
1T the meeting Of the Northern Settlers
/ Convention held III Raleigh last week quite
/ a number Of the gentlemen OF Northern
4 birth who have made their home IN North
i Carolina gave in their experience. They
1 al with one accord spoke Wei Of their
| adopted State and said that they had pros
/ pered in North Carolina and found this
/ 4 goodly heritage.
| We publish in to-dayS CHRONICLE eX-
tracts from the addresses and letters OF
4 some of these gentlemen.
Mr.. JNo. f. JONES, chief engineer and
! Supt. of Construction of the Massachusetts
and Southern Construction Co., residing
in Cleveland county, says that he has lived
| III North Carolina eighteen months and
| has had occasion to move about IN a way
that makes him conyersant with the people
and the country. He thinks that Western
North Carolina offers more possibilities Of
success to settlers than any State or terri
tory he has yet visited. Its climate is
perfect, heathful to a marked and notice
able degree. Its soil wonderfully produc
tive and as wonderful III the wide range
of its products. | nave come in contact
with such evidences of the mineral wealth
of the State that stand ready to approve
| the oft-repe tied statement that, develop
ed, il IS second to no State in the Union.
To any one who has grit there IS in North
Carolina Il chance to get ahead To every
one who has little with which to start,
and grit and disposition to push, there is
here the opportunity TO get rich.
DOCTOR G. H. SADDLESoN, Of Manly,
Moore county, said that his very pres
ence among the settlers wa. a monu
ment to the health giving influences of
the elevated long leaf pine section of North
Carolina. Five years ago, taking the adj
vice Of the late Prof. Kerr, he went to
Shaw's Ridge, 6S miles Southwest of
Raleigh. He was in a very feeble condition
being much emaciated and having terri
bic cough. He had pulmonary conSump-
ton In SIX weeks he had gained 6 pounds,
his cough was improved appetite lncreas-
cd and condition generally very much
bettcrcd Returning North the Doctor
closed up his business there and made his
home where he had been SO greatly bene
fitted. He then proceeded to describe the
town OF Southern Pines and to tell OF its
magnificent climate and cite cures Of con
sumption effected there.
MIR. d. l.. SAYLoR, of Wadesbofo,
Arson county, said it had been twenty
years since he came from Pennsylva-
MIA to North Carolina. lie landed
as 4 young mechanic without means
and settled in the cotton belt. His be
ginning was only a few tools purchased
with money borrowed from native North
Carolinian Now he has built up quite a
large wagon mandatory. He testified
that the North Carolinians had been uni
formily kind and had generously helped
him sustain his business.
MESsRS. JOSEPH WILLIAMS, DANIEL LU-
CAS- and EDWARD CARR, now of Marion,
Mcdowell county, the first originally
from Massachusetts and the last two
from New York, write: ''AlthOugh we
We're Northern men and served IN the
Federal army and We're strangers to all
the people when we came to North Caro-
lima in 1874, yet We have been treated
with respect and friendship whilst we have
lived here. our land here viii compare
favorably with any other land we have
ever been in and we intend 10 spend the
remainder of our lives III Noggh Carolina
and in Mcdowell county. The people are
peaceable and awablding and the natural
resources of this section are almost lncred-
ible to stranger.
MIR F. HoYT, of Lenoir, Caldwell coun-
ty, says 'Having traversed the greater
portion of the States and Territories Of
our country, and after spending the last
five years in North Carolina, am free to
say that prefer to spend the remainder
Of my days as near as possible to the Blue
mountain springs and streams is so cold
and pure that no microscope has been
found that can detect any animal life in
it. except a few varieties Of fish, mostly
the speckled trout which are abundant.
Land is cheap and fertile and as | intend
to make my home in Caldwell county |
would like to be joined by ten, twenty or
more families from the North"
Mr.. r. p. LENox, of Keyser, Moore
county, came to the State as a poor man
aud-lS a poor man yet. lie however
tells how much easier it is in North Caro-
lima for a poor man to secure a home than
in Pennsylvania and gives figures showing
that it is easier to be economical here than
| in Pennsylvania. Read what he says:
Three years ago | came to keyser and
! was going to do wonders. What did do?
The first year, by mismanagement and
bad bargains, | made a lot of debts; the
second year | reduced them somewhat.
Last Spring | bought 125 acres of land
an old place, that cost me 50. 80 per acre
on time. | have already paid off $75, 90
and will pay off $50 90 mole this year. |
| have made more this year than | ever
/ made in Pennsylvania in the same
| The readers of the CHRONICLE will see
that the testimony is Of all kinds and that
although failure may come the first year
success always follows industry and econ
| omy
Mr.. I. B. ELDRIDGE, editor of the Lex
ington Dispatch, said: For thirteen years
! have resided in North Carolina, and
though | look back with pride 10 think
that was born in the keystone State,
yet with a family of dear little ones
| growing up around me, | would not ex-
change my North Carolina home for anv
I place on this earth. (Applause) l came
to North Carolina when but a mere youth.
and | have grown up to manhood here
and | must say that | have been treated
as kindly and as Hospitality as if | had
been born in the old North State. | do
not know that the fact of my northern
birth has influenced anyone.
| live in the Piedmont section David
son county, as we call it, near the noun
rains of Western North Carolina, running
| along the Pee Dee river at the South Car
olina line, and we have some of the best
lands in the country. We have fine
county with the river for its western boun-
| Diary. We have in our southern section
| a cotton producing country, our northern
section Is given mostly TO the cultivation
Of tobacco; but in the central region is
raised some Of the finest wheat that is
grown in the world; III Davidson county
| we raise more wheat than is raised IN any
| county IN North Carolina and we have all
the water power that is necessary to grind
| it. You may know this from the fact that
we have over forty water mills grinding
Grain and there are wat pOurarc for more