The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-10-31
OUR BELOVED CAROLINA,
THE GREATEST STATE IN THE
UNION.
Rich in Every Resource and Natural
Element, with Thousands of Fertile
Acres Yet to Feel the Tiller's Touch.
Wilmington AIessengar.J


when it sent its specimens of woods
and minerals to Vienna, to Boston, to
Atlanta and New Orleans was most
wisely done. Under the management
of our esteemed friend, Montford
McGehee, Esq, who for years served
his native Carolina as head of the
Agricultural Departmental gentle
man of rare address, elevation of char.
acter, purity OF lite, superior talent and
admirable accomplishments, as all
know who have the privilege of an ac-
quaintance-the exhibits sent out
were of most striking kind and OF
attraction most marked, because of the
abundance, variety and richness of the
collection. 1t was greatly admired in
all the cities in which it was exhibited,
including our own little capital, Raj
eigh.
North Carolina never showed so
much sagacity, wisdom and forecast as
in this movement to bring into notice
her material products. Her minerals,
her manufactures, her forests, her fish
cries, her oyster fundum, her une-
qualled tobaccos, her rice, her fruits,
her productions generally are of a
kind, both in excellence and variety,
to command the close attention of
capitalists and manufacturers abroad,
as we'll as of persons desiring to find
pleasant and profitable homes in one
of the best of American States, and
one of the most desirable in the
"Sunny South"
Whoever began that work of gather
ing its products of mines, forests, looms
and ploughs was wise in his generation
and deserves to be held in remem-
brance by North Carolinians. Outside
capital knew but little of North Caro-
lima. 1t had never heard that it was
by far the best watered of States-that
it had the greatest variety of climate
and soil-that its productions were
more numerous than those Of any
other State-that its mountains we're
grander than any Others this side of
the Rockeys that her scenery was
more beautiful or more sublime or
more enhancing than that of any
other State-that her valleys were Of
unimagned beauty-that she had
nearly one hundred rivers and innu-
merable lakes, inlets, bays, etc.,-that
her great virgin forests were filled with
the most beautiful and precious tim
bers-that her soil was responsive to
every demand and her skies genial,
warm and agreeable-that her people
were hospitable, kindly and easy of
access-that her manufactures were
already numerous and her railroads
interlaced the State already while
many other important lines and feed
ers were in course of construction
that her vineyerds were filled with the
choicest, most luscious of grapes grown
on the globe-that her apples and
peaches and pears and berries were of
the finest in size and favor-that her
fisheries were many and their products
encouraging and of the best kind
that her tobacco was without rival in
all this vast continent of ours-that
the opportunities for sheep growing
and cattle graising and stock raising
were of the best-that the health Of
the State was equal to that of any
other as a whole, and lastly but not
all, that you could work out doors
, more than eleven months in the year
These are some of the advantages of:
fered by this great State of North Car
olina, and there is scarcely any exag
geration in any thing that is said.
So we take it that the old State
} may the blessings of Jehovah always
rest upon her and abide with her
was wise above her sisterhood of South
ern States when she began this i'm
portant work of collecting her stores
and products and exhibiting them
abroad.
Since that day there has been al
ready, marked progress. 1t has in {
commercial sense sspaid." Her land:
have been taken up some, but there
are hundreds of thousands of rich acre:
yet to feel the tiller's touch. Some o
her mines have been purchased, some
= of her advantages have been utilized
. and some worthy, desirable immi
r grants have come in. But the field il
large and inviting, and as yet no
half occupied. The gates of the Sta.t
Istand wide open, and all can ente
: who will.
t In September two North Carolinian
d were sent North and West to exhibi
some of the States progress at the va
rious fairs to be held in those grea
sections. Well done, we'll done! Thi
}, is the good way to proclaim to th'
: rich sections what land of corn ane
wine and undeveloped wealth stretche
out from sea to mountain, from borde
to border, in this goodly State. Th'