The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-02-28
ANIMPORTANT VISITOR.

~ 1MHOhIANI tkS1lOR.
North Carolina will receive a visit
during the present month from a gen
tleman whose special field puts it with
in his power to. do the State a great
good if the result of his visit and OBJ
servations warrant him in fully en-
ploying his opportunities. That gem
tleman is Mr.. c. B. Lewis, DIETER
known as "M Quad'') of the Detroit
Free Press. The object ofMr. Lewis
visit is to acquaint himself more thor
oughly with North Carolina, its re-
sources, its people, &C., and the GOLD
LEAF hopes his reception and enter
tainment, and the result OF his enquiries
and observations, may be such as to
favorably impress him.
A brief sketch of Mr.. Lewis, togeth-
er with fair likeness ofthe celebrated
humorist, will be found published on
the first page of this paper. The Will
mington Star says this of Mr.. Lewis
visit to our State:
Mr.. c. B. Lewis, the an. Quad" of
the Detroit Free Press is to spend the
month of March in North Caroina.
He comes on kindly mission-to
help fill the State with desirable immi-
CRAFTSMEN of means and industry.
In letter of the date of the 2Sth ult,
to the Star he says:
"The times are ripe for a great
movement Southwark, and one will
begin within year. If I can help
North Carolina to boom shall be only
to glad too have hand::in it. I want
to meet every variety OF people, look
closely into every industry, and pub
lish facts to interest not only the peo-
pie of the North and West, but of En-
rope as well.'
Mr.. Lewis will be cordially well
coined. North Carolina really offers
wide and inviting field to the better
sorts of immigrants, American and for
eign. Its variety of production and
extent Of undeveloped resources, as
we'll as unbounded opportunities for
investment, are unquestionably and
nnmlstakably great. A tour of pros
pecting from the Albemarle to the
trans-montane sections will reveal
much of the hidden riches and the in
viting fields of North Carolina. 1t is
so long-more than 500 miles-that it
offers great varieties even of climate as
we'll as of productions A line drawn
across the map from Cherokee to Cur
rituck counties and then holding the
thumb upon the latter ane turning it
northward will place yon in Lake
Champlain. The mineral wealth of
the State is certainly extensive. All
products of the American Union are
found in this State. Tobacco and
: rice, cotton and all the cereals, and
the grasses are all grown. Parts of the
State present the best opportunities for
sheep husbandry and dairy farms.
! North Carolina has more than eighty
rivers. Its eastern bays and sounds
are filled with fish, oysters, &C., and it
is the best watered of all the States.
The grape ripens to perfection, as de
all of the best fruits. The apples are OF
unrivalled size and have taken the pre-
miums in the Worlds fair in New
York and at other Fairs. Its forests of
the best timbers are we'll known and
are very extensive. Not more than
one third of the State is yet touched
with the axe of the forester. But to
undertake to hint even at the variety
and extent as the resources and pro.
auctions of North Carolina would be a
big task. Let the Northern men who
desire a more genial climate and fields
for investment come and see them fol-
| themselves.
We may say here that the husband
men can work out doors in three fourths
of the State quite eleven months in the
year. In this section there are but few
days he canpot do so. The tobaccos
of the State are beyond all questions
the finest grown on this Continent.
| The best farmers of the best tobacco
sections make from $500 to $500 to the
acre or from 5000 to 5000 to the hand.
Men must learn of these farmers how
to grow the golden leaf and prepare it
for market. There is fortune in it,
Then the manufacturing and handling
of tobacco for other markets has grown
to be big thing, and several of the
most fourishing towns, Durham, Wins
tan, Riedsville, Oxford, Henderson,
are almost entirely tobacco towns.
The Fress Press issues weekly edi-
ton in London, the circulation; OF
which is $1,000. II will be seen how
important it is that North Carolina
shall be properly reported in this pa
per. Mr.. Lewis says scores of inquir=
les come from England and Scotland
He says these indicate "the same rest.
less spirit among the people there as at
the North; search for new homes,
better climate and greater returns for
labor"