The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-05-30
THE OLD NORTH STATE.

THE OLD NORTH STATE.
Mr.. c. b. Lewis, ON. Quad''), of |
the Detroit Free Press, who was re-
Gently in North Carolina for the pur-
pose of writing about the State, its peo-
pie and its industries and resources, in
one of his letters to his paper dated
from Raleigh, says:
From one end of North Carolina to
the other the towns are alive and BOOM
ing and the Old North State is grand
domain-rich in its broad acres, rich
in its water powers and waterways
and blessed with thousand advan-
tages denied to other sections. She is
to-day working gold mines in thirty-one
counties and silver mines in five others.
She mines and markets seven-eighths of
the mica used in the United States.
She supplies the country with the
| emery of commerce.
''She has 112 varieties of native
timber which is disable and marketable.
She has l76 varieties of minerals. She
has water power estimated at 5000, 900
horse power. She can grow any grass,
fruit or vegetable known to the United
States. She has an honest, conserva-
tive administration, a low death rate,
a high standard of morality, and in no
State in the Union is the law more re-
spected or more closely Obeyed. She
has the coal and iron and timber to in
vite manufacturers-the climate and
soil which promises the best reward to
the farmer
The above extract is from cOmmu-
nication to the Detroit Free Press from
G.. B. Lewis, better known as M
Quad''-the world renowned writer
and humorist. He is completely car
rled away in ecstacy over the thousand
charms and attractions that are nursed
upon the bosom of our beloved State,
and goes into perfect rapture over the
advantages that lie within her reach,
/ and which, when improved, will ena-
BILE her to roll along on the highway of
prosperity in the luxuriOusly cushioned
carriage of regal and opulent splendor.
With climate unsurpassed perhaps by
that of any other land on the globe :;
with the surface of the earth covered
with the finest forests and most valu-
able woods; with the earth underlaid
with mari. iron, coal, lead, tin and every
other useful metal, and her bowels en-
crusted with the finest gems, and lined
with precious metals; with all healing
and health giving springs of pure limpid
waters bursting from beneath every
rock, watering every valley and trick
ling down every hillside and mount ain:
with the whole State drained in every
direction by rivers affording at the
same time water power in untold guam
titles to port, and excellent naviga-
ton facilities to other portions Of the
State; with grazing lands for the herds
of millions Of people with fruits of all
, varieties in their greatest perfection
5 with its waters both coast and inland
, teeming with fish of the finest varie-
, ties; its bays and sounds the natural
home of the oyster and other shell fish;
with birds and game of all kinds in
great abundance, this dear old State is
indeed loved by man and favored OF
God
Yes. indeed, Heavens richest bless
ings do fall in brilliant showers OF
precious comfort upon our native land
, the land of pitch and turpentine, OF
cotton fields and fragrant meads, OF
sunny skies and balmy breezes, where
flowers grow in every month of the
=, year, and sweeten with the odors OF
their precious breath even the cold
winds that come to us for only a day OF
two at the most, and tell of the rigOrs
of region that sleep under cover Of
eternal snow, and lie wrapped in the
! glittering spreads of one vast frozen
scene of shimmering ice and drearies1
desOlatiOn. Here, even amidst the
+ coolest days of January and Februar,
! the birds, while bathing in the glitter
: ing streams of brilliant sunshine, seen
= to forget the death of summer, and tina
{ short but sad divorce of the trees from
] their once clinging and fondly huggin.
II foliage, and sing in joyous notes of rap
: ture of the glories of our matchless ant
t splendid Southern cline. IT'S true W,
s have snow to visit us at times. but it
6 welcome is not such as to bid it a lon.
and cordial stay. for the balmy beam
ings of our melting skies-that warn
Il nursery of golden sunshine in which
the young flowers are nursed into Wig
+ orous growth and fragrant bloom an,
r luXuriant beauty-are not in cOnsO
h nance with or congenial to its nature
r and soon it begins to feel the warm an,
v tropical like throbbings of the SUI
s kissed bosom upon which it is reposing
:, and in little while it begins to melt
:. and is soon swept away like dream
= that is told ilson Mi7row.
The disadvantage of living in tn
n Northwest was strikingly illustrate
e by the tempest of wind and fire whic
swept over South Dakota and Mime