The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-07-12
NORTH NAROLlNA, !
DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE,
I>f,fICP ATIoN OFFICE RaJFIGH

ICliCIdl ltlluifSi dliOit t1SCul.
NORM CAROLINA, }
DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE,
IMMIGRATION OFFICE, RALEIGH. }
DEAR SIR: What ure your citizens
doing to advertise yaur town There
are many people who are looking for
locations in the South. Some wish to
come as farmers, some as fruit grow
ers, to purchase small farms, some as
manufacturers, some to find desirable
climate in which they may live with
less discomfort and pain than at their
present home in the more northern
sections of the United States.
Do you want any such people to
locate in your section If SO, you
must aid in advertising your attrac
tons.
The following editorial from the
Salisbury Herald, live North Caro-
lima journal, will apply to many
towns and sections in our State:
ADVERTISE YOUR OWN TOWN.
What do the citizens Of our town do
towards advertising Salisbury We
are sorry to say thar they do nothing.
While we see in large and influential
papers towns and cities advertised at
considerable expense, we lean back in
our easy chairs and wait, zOalt, WAIT.
Advertising without having any
thing to back it is folly. Can we ad-
vocate the claims of Salisbury without
deserving the name Of braggarts and
blowhards When a merchant wishes
to know how he stands financially, he
takes stock suppose we take an IN
ventory of our stock. Well, first we
have Climate. Located in the Pied
mont Belt, 500 feet above sea level,
far away from fevers of the sea coast
and lower towns, far away from the
tornadoes and blizzards Of the North
and West, we enjoy an even climate,
never too cold, never oppresslvely hot,
a climate matchlesS and un5urpassable
in the United States for health and
comfort. Oar factories can work all
the year round. Our water-power Is
available all the year round. Bltum-
inous coal can be had by the car load
at s3.75 per ton, and good oak ano
hickory wood at $3.50 per cord.
Next we have Labof. We have
good, reliable labor at very reason
able price, whites and blacks anxious
and willing to work. Strikes are un
known; the anarchist and soclalis
} finds no sympathy here. We hav
Cotton enough growing at our doors t'
! supply It least six large cotton nllls
Enough Tobacco is raised near her
: and marketed in Salisbury to keep te
9 times the amount of factories goln
0 that we have now.
4 Farming Lands in this county ar
4 = not held at extravagant figures, an
the quality of the soil is above tn
average.
7imbsr.-Hard woods, as we'll
all others, in great quantities at ver
reasonable figures. In regard to mn
"a erals, we have gold, iron, copper, 81
,e yer, lead and others at Our very door
We have the Richmond & DanVil
1t Railroad to connect US North, la
d and South, and the Western Nor
e, Carolina Railroad going West.
t. TO enumerate all of SllisburyS a
F. vantagqs would fill more than twent
It. eight columns of our paper, but enou;
Is Is are given here to assure US that We ha
Te a right to advertise our town al
10 county. In order to reap any benet
V. from the present boom and prosper
lie of the South, we must let the outsl
ID world know that We are here. Wlthc
De that we remain terra !Afognif1
eeI1 the outside world, we remain a de
n town and are not worthy OF any &C
sideration. Knowing so we'll the
nt vantages of our country, we must
Ia imagine that others know it as we
~ We must do work, we must lndu
el people to come, we must be prepaI
-, TO receive them, we must have har
as books, phamphlets and circulars to
,is them know.
- Our town (as well as county, co
Ia missioaers could not better serve
~ interests of our citizens iAan to spe
rd little mony every year for the P
" pose above named. To show "
Others are doing, we clip the follow
from the Augusta (Ga-) Chronicle
ht. "Texas is going to have immlgra
M for her rich acres, or know the rea
IN why. Dallas county alone gives
tly State Immigration Bureau $1,000
the month, and almost all OF the OF
uld counties also make handsome contrI
md tons
be North CarolinianS, the State Dep
we'd ment Of Agriculture has provided
len with the Bureau OF immigration
zhc assist in advertising, and as the chic
go. that Bu.eau, ! am not only ready