The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1890-01-17
1000 PER CENT.
THAT is THE RING
GROWTH IN 10 YEARS
In the Steady and Sturdy County of
MOore---It is But at the Threshold OF

| MOOres..I Is lSut III tnc nTeShOlu ol
| Growth.
| Especial Cor to STATE CHRONICLE.
| ABERDEEN, N. c., Jan. IA, 1890. Your
ticle on the development of this section,
put me to thinking. For some time in
common with every man at all interested
in the upbuilding of the South and the de
| velOpment of the limitless resources, |
have watched the trade journals, newspa
pers, and accounts generally of the thou
sands of new manufacturing enterprises
that are springing up all over this land
making something out of practically moth
ing, or by working and re working max
ing valuable something out of a compar-
atiyely valueless omething; rejoicing at
| the material progress, and the new means
Of employing the unemployed thereby
feeding hungry mouths, and making con
tented citizens out of fit subjects for the
Emigration Agent. Your request brought
my thinking nearer home. Somehow when
l heard or read of wonderful progress,
phenomenal growth, my mind would go at
once to the iron fields of Alabama, or Ten
neSsee, Birmingham, or Annlston, and
while the newspaper correspondents from
these fields can never be accused of mod
esty, or lack of booming English
when | came to think of it doubt if any
section in the South, certainly none in
North Carolina has made more rapid strides
than the county of Moore in material pro
gresS and development. Yet, be it said to
our shame from our very silence the coun-
ties removed from it by less than an hun
dred miles laugh at the poorness of its
Sand Hills and the slowness(D of its peo-
pie, either not knowing or caring to know
of its wonderful awakening Having lived
in the county only ten years, and knowing
, nothing of it prior TO 1880, III giving facts
aud figures | shall contine myself to the
, last tea years, 1880 to 1890.
, The Moore county of 1880 was far re-
moved from trade centers with one rail
, road, (built through the county IN 1876
; unoroken pine forests-or broken at long
distances by small turpentlne dlstillery,
the proprietor of which carried his product
thirty to fifty miles on wagons 10 Fayette-
vile; a few thousand sturdy Scotch max
luS iINAAiS eio IiiOs LAHS'N eAAiNA eeA
RI ways will, far removed from ''the mad
f ding crowds gnobie strife, content in the
) peacefulness of their lives, happy in their
seclusion from the great outside world,
religious, fervent, true but without OPP
portunities necessary to the development
| of the vast wealth ia their possession of
3 fl Id and forest. The coming of railroad
| a o,,,
was concerned, and so with its coming
: came new life and activity and the devel-
opment began, and the growth is simpl
: amazing. The exports of the county then
D were easily handled by one freight train
q going South one day and North the next
; a passenger train with schedule of twelve
d or fifteen miles an hour, and very few
t passengers. | can distinctly remembel
t more than once III coming from Ralelgt
e home to have been the only company tht
e conductor had, saTe the the train crew
J. Now three to FIVE heavy freight trains move
b each way daily, and are taxed to their ut
5 most with improved and enlarged motiv,
power to move the product of mill, still
(turpentine) and farm. Branch railroad
E have been built, and every week sees
new manufacturing enterprise started
For every dollars worth of product ex
# ported in 1880, twenty dollars are export
= ed in 1890; for every mouth fed by manu-
k factories in 1886, twenty are fed in 1890
e Two THOUSAND PER CENT IN TEN YEARS
2. The growth is something wonderful an
" ct no time IN the ten years has 1t been 5
5. rapid as it is just now. There has no
1t been one step backward, but a stead
march to the front all along the line
,r There has never been a "booln" in th
u county, no building on ''airy nothingness
y but hard wor.. ana eteady progress every
Y where Nor is this all. With a climat
t, surpassed by no spot on earth, aud equal
d ed by few-a health resort has, within tn
h last few years, been built up in our mids
10 where scores of Northerners, frozen to tn
rt marrow of their bones by bleak New Eng
,y land winters, come to thaw out during GU
V, mid winters, gaining health and strengt
10 sufficient to carry them through anothe
season. Southern Pines is daily grow
IN ing in public favor and patronage, g
n is easily attested by increased building {
ID cottages and hotels Now as resort it
be to have rival in the Jackson Sprin
O. Co., lately organized with some of Ra
- eigh's most favorably known and energet
'e citizens, and some of Moore's substanti;
as men as stockholders. They have purchas
a ed and will improve the famous Jackso
ch Springs in Moore county, thirteen mile
!, from this point, and three miles from We
~ End, station on the A. G5 W. E. railroad
ay OF the water Of this spring it is useless f
ry me to write, its curative properties al
ch too we'll known through all the souther
or section of the State and the norther
counties of South Carolina, and being
the pine belt, with an elevation as gre'
lis as Southern Pines, there seems no reasc
~ why it should not become as famous as
~ Winter resort as it now is as a Summer +
:, sort, for without any hotel or other al
'io vantages hundreds have every SUNNI
es- for years focked there, living in tents ar
as shanties, and boarding with private fam
he lies to drink the healing waters.
~ The new year finds US fully abreast
~ the march of improvement, and yet Il
le. development is in its infancy. Where W
of 1900 find usl At another time l may te
Ter you more of past development, more in d
ng tail, and tell your readers of opportuniti