The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-04-06
ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA.
Bill Arp Tells Of Her Products and
Enterprises.
TOBACCO And COTTON INTERESTS.
No Longer a Rip Van WinE;e State.
But Among the MossProgressive
in the Union-Fsefs That the Geor-
gia PhilosoSner Has Culied from
= Her ReSently-Issued Handbook.

| But Among the MossProgressive
in the Union-Fsefs That the Geor-
gia Philoso<ner Has Cuiled from
Her ReSently-Issued Handbook.
| Bill arp in Atlanta Constitutional
If any old man has treasured the
impressions of his youth about old
North Carolina it is time he was
| awaking up from his Rip Van Wrinkle
| dream. There was time when the
geography that we studied asked the
question, "What are the products of
North Carolina?" and the answer was,
''Pilch, tar and turpentine." There
was time when the primitive settler,
on being asked what he raised for
market, Said; "Fruit and live stock
an9Tfumber," by which he meant
pumpkins and possums and hoop
poles. There was a 5ime when the
natives were called tar heels" and if
one of them emigrated he hardly
dared to own his state, and,if he did
he tempered the discredit by saving
he was born purity close to the Nir-
ginny line" If these things were ever
true they are not true now. Old
North Carolina has long since awaA-
ened from her Slumber and Is now
rapidly forging head.
~ My recent visit there 'and the beau
t4ful handbook sent me by Mr.. Robin
son, the commissioner of agriculture
something they do not know and will
be surprised to learn.
This handbook of $50 pages is pub
lished in the best style of Typography
and illustrative art, and would be a
good model for other States to imi-
tate and emulate. 1t has forty-five
beautiful full-paged Photographic
views of notable features and illus
trate the mountains, forests, vine
yards, fisheries, farms, factories and
railroads of the State. 1t is book
lit for Chicago at the Worlds Fair. l
wish that Georgia had one, and every
other Southern State, for l am sure
that no stranger can read it but
will be attracted to North Carolina as
a most wonderful and progressive
State. 1t is just 500 miles frone Cher
okee to Roanoke island, and every
portion from the fisheries of Alber-
marie to the land of the sky has some
thing peculiar and desirable to boast
of. We have long been boasting Of
our cotton factories in Georgia but
does Georgia know there are one or
more cotton mills in forty-three cOun-
ties of North Carolina; but there are
nineteen in Alamance, seventeen in
CASTOR, twelve in Randolph, nine in
Mecklenburg, eight in Catawba, eight
in Guilford and 40 in the State, be-
sides a number in construction. That
in these mills are nearly 10000 looms
and oyer 100000 spindles, and they
consumed last year 165, 200 bales of
cotton. Besides these thereare thirteen
woolen mills that are turning out the
best quality of jeans, kerSeyS, casSi-
mers and blankets, and there are eight
knitting mills, some of them being
operated day and night, and all de-
claring good dividends. There are
fifty-Seven factories that make car
riages and buggies, thirty-two that
make wagons, twenty-five that make
furniture, six that make hubs and
spoKes and twenty-four that make
sash, doors and blinds. One of these
works125 hands. Then there are hun
dreds of sawmilis and turpentine dis
tillerieS.
There are twenty eight canning fac
tories for vegetables and fourteen for
oysters; there are fourteen cotton seed
oil factories, fifty-fOur fertilizer fac
tories and quite a number that make
barrels and crates and baskets and
brooms.
But on the high top of this pyramid
are the tobacco factories that far eX-
ceed in number and capital those of
any State in the union.
There are Ito that make plug tobac-
co, nine that make smoking tobacco.
Durham alone sold 100000 pounds
last year and paid to the government
for stamps S616, 129: Winston paid
more than that and Asheviilc sold
over 5000, 600 pounds of leaf tobacco.
These are only the principal tobacco
| markets, and the aggregate of the
production increases with every year.
Then there are the rice fields and
cranberry meadows and the immense
truck farms that extend all along the
coast andtind an early market in Wash
| ington Baltimore and Philadelphia. At
Newborn, there were shipped in one
| day %, 900 barrels Of Irish potatoes
| and $4,000 boxes of beans, and this and
every day business, and does not in
| clude the peas, tomatoes. and aspara-
| gus and cabbage. Indeed, the produc-
| tions of this coast region seem incred-
liable. Then there are fisheries that
employ 5000 persons and 5000 boats
and ship 30, 600, 900 of fish in a season.
next comes the medical herbs. OF
which one firm in 'Statesville shipped
in one month 118,0O0 pounds. they
4 clplOy OOV dScAUS UO CUl&0CU UIloS6
herbs, and do by far the largest bust,
ness of any similar. firm in the world.
We have in the mountain region .ot
| Georgia and Tennessee the very same
botanical plants, but nobody gathers
| them.
Now, I have said nothing of the
mineral springs or the vineyards or
small fruits nor of the tuberoses
that are shipped from every large
| town 10 northern dealers.
This is "a wonderful State and q
i thrifty, Industrious people. More
great men have been born or educated
within her borders than any of the
Southern States. In the long ago my
father taught me that Nathaniel Ma.
] con was the greatest of all our states
/ men, even though he did weather
board his house on the inside and had
the laps up instead of down, so that
he could pour hot water In the cracks
and kill the bedbugs. From his day
down to Zeb Vance the State has not
lacked for notable men, and it is safe
to say that no one man ever lived In &
/ State who was so universally esteemed
and loved as Vance is by his people
| No one man was ever such coat o.