The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-06
ZEB VANCE
AND NORTH CAROLINA.
A Great State and its Great
Men.
KILL ARP'S OPINION.

| EXCuauxe.
II any old man has t-eaaured the
impression OF his youth abOnt Old
| North Carolina it Is time be was
waking up from his Rip Van Wins
kle dream. Tn.Ir was time
when the geography thaf We sud
led asked the question:, "W hat are
the products OF North Carolina and
the answer. "Pitch, tar and turpen>
| .lne." There was a time long ago
when the primitive settler, on being
asked what he raised for market,
said: "Fruit and 1--we stoc-. and
lumber" by which be meant pump.
kiDs. 'possums and hoopholes.
There was time when the ma
tives were called "tar-heelS," aud II
one OF them emigrated he hardly
dared to own hts State, aId If he
| did he tempered the dlsctedIt by
saying he was born "purty close to
| the Virginia line" If these things
were ever true they ale not true
now. Old North Carolina has long
| since awakened from her elumber
| and is DOW rapidly forging ahead.
| MY recent visit there aD. the beau.
| tlful handbook sent me by Mr..
Robinson, the Comm ssioner Of Ag.
rlculture, constrains mr to tell your
readers some things they 30 not
know and will be snrprisou to learn.
This handboOd of $50 pages il
Published In the best s.yle Of typo
graphy and illustrative art, and
| would be a good mohu for other
States to lmmitate md emulate. 1t
has forty five beautiful full payed
Photographic views of notable tea>
lures that Illustrate the mountains,
foresls, vineyards, fisheries. farE,e,
factories and railroads OF the State.
1t Is "A book fit for Chicago at the
Worlds Fa,r. wish that Georgia
had one, for sm suie that no stran-
ger can read 1t but who WILL be att
tracted to North Carolina as a most
wonderful aud progressive Stare
1t is just 500 miles from Cherokee
to Roanoke isia;.i, and every poT>
ton from the fisheries vi Alnma.!y
to the land OF the sky has sumt-
thing peculiar aud de,ir ab!e to
boast OF. We have long been boast
lns Of our cotton fact t,ii les IN Geor
gia, bct does Georgia know TIA; t
there are one Or more cotton mills
N fOrty-thiee counties cf North
CarOllua-that there are nineteen
in Alamance, seventeen in CASTOR,
twelve III Randolph, n!ne IN Neck
lenhu1g, eight in Catawha, eight ID
Guilford, and l4O III the State. be-
sides number in constitution
That in these mills are nearly 1O,-
900 LOCUS and over 800 zoo splndits
and they consumed las; ,vac lG5,-
200 bale, OF cotton. Besl.?ca ihess'
there are tbliteen Woolen mills that
ale tu;nlng ouu the best quality OF
ieaus. KerSeye, ca>imereS & blaEkrts,
aud theI, are eight knitting mills,
some OF them Oeing operated icy
and night, and all declaring goOd
dividends. Tneia are ft;S sever
factories tiiat make carriages and
buggles, tnirtA two that make w?g-
ons, twenty five that make fuEni.
ture, tx that make hubs aud spt;k. 8,
and twenty four that make sash,
doo,s aud blinds. Oue of tbete
employ l25 hands Then there are
hunu:ei, of saw mills amy tu1pen>
tine distlleries.
There aro twenty eleht canning
factories tor vegetables aud four
teen for oN >ter>; there are fourteen
Cotton seed o.I fact1.les, niuy four
fertilizer factories and quite nun.
Der tina: make barrels and crates
and baskets and DrOoms.
But on the high top OF this pyra-
mid are the tobacco factories that
far exceed III lumber and capital
those OF i.ry State IN the Union.
vhele arr 1l0 ttat u IKE plug TO-
baccO, nine that make smoking to-
bacco. Durham alone sold 11,OOO,
900 pounds last year aud paid to
the government for stamps $685.
1923; winston paid more than that.
and Asheville sold ovel 5000, OJU
pounds OF Leaf tobacco. These are
the only principal tobacco markets,
and the aggregate of the production
increases with every year. Then
there are the rice fields and cram
berry meadows aDi the immense
truck farms that extend all along