The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-05-21

teacher, Prof. L. A. Williams.
Ihere Is also primary school taught
in town.
There are also two free schools, one
for the whites and one for the colored
people, taught about four months dur
ing the year.
Newspapers.
The Fisherman and Farmer is the |
newpaper of the town, Mr.. A b.
Mitchell editor and proprietor He is
young man, working hard to develop
his section, and we hope that the bust
ness men of the town will patronize him
well, for there is nothing OF more benefit |
to any Town than a live newspaper.
Mercantile.
There are about fifteen general mer-
chandlse stores, two drug stores, three
furniture stores, number Of groceries,
a coach shop, one harness shop, tin
shop and good many other small lines
OF business to be found in a town of
$500 inhabitants
Climate and Health.
People from the upper country
are apt to think that this sec
ton is the home for malarial and
chills and fevers, and that the citizens of
this section are thin, sickly people
Why, there never was a more fallacious
or exaggerated idea, as the appearance
of the citizens will prove They are a
healthy, robust people. The record, so
far as the death rate shows, is II deaths
per month during the year. The winters
are mild and pleasant. 1t is unusual for
the thermometer to register 10 to Is be-
| low freezing point, while So is consider
ed to be a fair average for the summer;
nlnety-four being considered very high.
Main Edenton has eight Or twelve miles
Water front on the South side of the
town across the sound, and seldom ever
| fails to have a pleasant fresh breeze
| blowing. 1t is but reasonable to say that
with the steam and smoke arising from
the mills and this breeze, it is
almost impossible for chill to
tarry long here. 1t is very unfort-
innate for any section, and very wrong
for anyone to grasp at exaggerated re-
ports about q place being sickly. We
think the better plan would be to do a
little more Investigating and pay less at
tention to what others say.
Some Possibilities.
There are great many enterprises
that could be started here on paving
basis. For instance a greater diversity
of the main business of any country,
farming, could be engaged in. The soil
and climate both have an advantage
over good many other sections, and
can put into market good many arti-
cles Of produce much earlier than some
other sections. Trucking could be in
creased to a much larger extent if peo-
pie would come here and purchase land.
Fruits and vegetables of all kinds flour
lsh here. Grapes Of all kinds do as well
as IN any country. This has been de-
monstrated by practical experiments,
and in this connection let us ask why
would not canning factory be
a very profitable industry? There would
be no trouble to get any quantity of all
kinds Of material to can. All that is
needed is for some one to come here and
start it who understands the business
We are told that truck which is shipped
from here can be put into Northern
markets from "a to Sc hours after leav
ing, and while the trucking business il
carried on here now to a considerable
extent, the business could be very great
; ly increased.
, A gentleman who is in position t.
know, told us that Edenton is accessible,
to 1000 bales Of cotton during the sea
, son. This does not mean from ChOwa1
2 county alone, but from the adjoining
counties that ship through this town t.
Northern markets. So why would i
not pay to build large cotton mill her.
: as we'll as in other places. There woul(
: be no lack for raw material This is bust
;, ness that is needed and we don't thinl
5 that the citizens Of the town would b
c slow to entertain a proposition iron
s some capitalist or corporation with
s view to starting such business.
!, With so much timber here of as man
5 different kinds as grow in any section
e it does seem to US that many kinds O
q workshops and factories could be starte
g that would pay those who would max
e the investment. A sash, blind and doc
e factory is needed ere, and the home de
o mand would pay the proprietor of sue
Is a business, for everything of that kin
n needed for house building must now l
( ordered from abroad, and in a goo
Is many cases it is manufactured out O
the very lumber that is shipped frol
here.
n Timbers.
D There is any amount of gum timbe
Now why would it not be proftab
* business here as we'll as it is in SON
N other parts Of the country, to turn tn
y timber into wooden plates ard dishe
IS Certainly if it will pay at OF
place it will pay where Il
re raw material grows. This san
d. timber could also be used for GOO
IL many other purposes. There is also
ne this section a plenty of oak, hickor
cd cypress, and other woods, which gro
in these sand-loam and river botto
ne lands, as we'll as other timbers, tn
be could be worked up on the spot in
en- the many hundred useful and necessa
ne articles and implements that are us'
1. on farm and in work shops. All th
he is needed is capital. A large coa
shop could be profitably established he
ne from the fact that so much mater
as could be prevented at such a small CO..
ng A barrel factory would also pay, a.
Is if some one would put up a factory
he this kind, We venture to say that
)o would be marvellous to see, in she
e, time, the numbe of casks and barr
II of all sizes that would be shipped from
10, Let's see now who will be the first {
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