The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1893-03-22
ARP ON NORTH CAROLINA,
THE PHILOSOPHERS VISIT TO
THE Old NORTH STATE.
The Thrifty and Prosperous Caro-
Misunderstanding About the
Great Tobacco fndussry-
And Other Matters.

The Thrifty and Prosperous Caro- |
misunderstanding About the
Great Tobacco tndussry-
And Other Matters.
Atlanta Constitution, Sunday March 10.
If any o,d man has treasured the i'm
pressions of his youth about old North |
Carolina it IS time he was waking up
from his Rip Van Winkle dream There
was time when tie graphy that we
studied asst ed the question, "Nhat are
the products of North Car0lina?" aud
the answer was, ''Ptch. tar AID turpen
tine. There was a time Wien tn
primitive settler, on being aeked whA;
he raised for market. said: Fruit and
live stock and lumoer," by which he
meant pumkins and possums aud hoop
poles. There was a time when the na-
tives were called "tar heels, and if one
of them emigrated he hardly dared TO
own his state, and if he did be ten pereo
'purty close to the Virginia line" Il
these things were ever tue they are nos
true now. OId North Carolina hau long
sirce awak entd from her sjumoer and l.
now rapidly forging ahead.
My recent visit there and the b auti-
full handbook sent me by NJ Robinson.
the commissioner OF agriculture, con
strains me to Tell your rtadars some
things they do not know and will be sur
prlsed to learn.
This handbook Of $50 pages is pub
lished in the best style of Typography
and Illustrative att and woulo be gooo
model for other states to initiate and
emulate. 1t has. forty five beautiful
full-paged Photographic views OF
notable features that illustrate the noun
factories and railroads of ,he state Ii
is book fit for Chicago at the Worlds
fair. 1 wish that Georgia had one, and
| every other southern state, for | an su1e
| that 40 Stranger Can read it bus who
! will be attracted to Moth Caroliua as =
most wonderful and progressive state. Il
| is just 500 miles from Cherokee TO Roa-
II ke island. aud every portion from toe
fisheries ~ A bermarle to the land of the
SKY hae mething peculiar and desirable
to boast /. We have loI g been boast
ing OF cur cotton factories in Georgia,
but dIes Georgia know that there are
one or more cctaon mills in forty thre
C unite of North Carolina; that there
are nineteen IN Alama4ce, seventeen il
CASTOR, twelve in Randolph, nine il
uecktenburg, eight in Guilford and 14(
IN tie state, oesidos a rumber in CON
srucfion. That in tines mills are nearly
10, OUO looms and over 500, 900 spinCles
and they consumed last year l65 20C
bales of cut;0n. Besides these there are
thirteen woolen mills rnaJ are tucnjD!
out the best quality of jeans, kerseys
cassimeres ami blankets, AID there ar
eight knitting mills, some OF them be n.
operated day and night and ali dec'ar
ing good dividends There are fifty
seven factories that make carriages ant
buggies, thirty two that mskca wagons
twenty tive that m AXE furniture, SIX tina
make hubs and spOkes ano twenty flu
that make sash, doors aud blo n1s. o.
Of these works 1875 hands. Then iher
are hundreds Of sawm,lls aud rerpenCin
dlstilleIies
There are tHrentv-eight canning fac
tories for vegetables and fourteen tO
oysters; there are fourteen c. ton see
Oil factories, fifty-four fertilizer fac
tories and quite a number that NJ K
! barrels ana crates and baskets an
broOms
r But on the high top of his pyrami
4 are the tobacco factories that far eX ee
I in number and capital those OF any stat
In the union
There are 110 that make plug tobacco
nine that make smoking tobacco. Du
:. ham alone sold II, 900 900 pounds ia
year and paid to the government f
. stamps Solo, 1879; Winston paid MOI
than that and Ashevllle sold over 5000
900 pounds Of leaf tobacco, Tnese a
~ ouly the princi pal tobacco markets, an
~ the aggregate ci the production lncrea
= with every year Then there ave tt
n rice fields and cranberry meadows al
~ the immense truck farms that extend d
- along the coast and find al early N .rk
:. in Washington, Baltimore and Pniladt
~, phia At Newbern aloue there We
=. shipped in one day $4,000 barrels
~ Irish potatoes and 5000 BOXES OF bean
% % and this IAN every day business, al
~ does not include the peas, tomatoes, d
~ ~ paragus and cabbage. JUDGED, the pl
-, ductions of this coast region seems
- credible. TIL here are the fisher
that employ 5000 persons and SO
boats and ship 80 600, 900 pounds OF Fl
8. in season. Next comes the medicll
be herbs, of which one firm In St.tesVl
% shipped in one month 11S, 900 poun
be They employ 800 agents to collect rh
e. herbs, and do by far the largest busln
re- of any similar firm in the world.
We have in the mountain region OF Geor
in and Tennessee the very same botani
plants, but nobody gathers them
Now, have said nothing of the N
eral springs OR the vineyards or
small fruits nor of the tubert ses that
"a shipped from every large town to
- northern dealers
eo This is a wonderful State and a thri
~ ~ industrious people. More great I
w .no have been born or reared within her
e" ders than any of the Southern States
the long ago my father taught me
Nathaniel Macon was the greatest Of
our statesmen, even though he
lal weather board his house on the inside
ied had the laps up Instead Of down, 50
ing he could pur not water 10 the cracks
elr kill the bedpugs From his day d,
III to 10. Vance the State has not lac
for notable men, and It is safe to say
no one man ever lived In State
WAS 80 universally esteemed and love
ary Vance is by bis people. No one man
OLD ever such a coat of arms, such an ems
ew such an emblem of his commOnWes
,pe. Vance is North Carolina and North
nee lina is Vance. This cannot be said
auv other man in any other State.
Now, what will Geargia do when
considers this record9 How much
R. ger can she claim the honor of b