The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-07
THE TAR HEELS ARoU-1D.
Industrial proe-ess Of the CID North
State.


ton of North Carolina hardly knew
what another section Of the State pro-
duced. People outside don't know, for
North Carolina i a great domain, hall
the length Of Texas with large part
mountainous and but little travcrsed
with railroads, until recently.
The inhabitants from way back were
always quiet, contented and unobtru-
sive and careless withal about business
pursuits. and the early school geOgra-
phles summed it up az One-half wilder
ness. given to naval stores, and the 9th
or half water and sand beach teemlng
with fish. So that for many genera
tions travellers passing east and west
merely skirted the heads OF the sounds
on the South or thanked the pOstern OF
the commonwealth away up north IN
the Ohio river basin. Whenever the
Tar Heel state was mentioned the
thought was Of bears or segregated
game preserve like the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park.
But that was lang syne," as Scotch
man would say. and many Of the early
settlers Of North laroiina were Scotch.
Latterlv the State has gotten al active
move on herself. whereby railroads now
at last penetrate all bu: seven OF It's ~
counties. Wherever there Is a bed OF
ore, or a stone quarry, or deposits OF
coal. tramwavs are sure to be found.
Manufactures have sprung up all over
the State.
No less than 166 cotton mills and one
million spindles are in a steady whlrl,
and $50 miscellaneous factories supple
ment the clatter and hum. Only until
her State exhibit was set up at New Or
leans. ten years ago. and followed by
fairs at Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and
elsewhere. did the industrial world sus-
pect that North Carolina was capable
of ANYTHING but tar and fish. Progress
has gone so quietly and transformations
" since then that the whole country Is
amazed at the development. So insld-
iouslv did the spirit of industry invert
the sleepy old turrentine orchards and
mountain riffs that the ancient com
munitv got awake and astir before its
advanced neighbOrs realized that there
was any excitement afoOt. And now
in the latter day. there is no place be
tween the two oceans equal to the 'Old
North State" for investment. Gould
Corbin and Vanderbilt found it out
soon. and have promptly led the van o.
an immigration from Northern and
Western States which is growing apace
Hundreds of small capitalists and
men of limited means are moving from
the North and West to occupy, where
opportunities best offer, not only in the
mountain and piedmont regions, bu
along the neglected and sleepy seaboard
They are bringing n new industries
and revolutionizing old ones. Under ;
new system OF agriculture they have
lifted the farmers burden Of debt by
causing an acre of land to produce thu
amount OF three Three crops yea
are now raised. instead of one, as hith
ertO, and the profit c. each is enlarged
In the New Berne district alone tn,
value Of the trucking interest ha
reached three and thlee-quarter mil
lions. and is one-ninth of the total TO
the whole United States. Gold is bein:
mined at a profit in thirty-one coun
ties. Seyen-eights of all the mica use(
in the L. S. are claimed to be pro
duced within its limits Its fisherie
engage the labors of dozen vessel
from New Bedford ana Provincetowl
during the summer. Its oysters re
ceive the attention of eight packing es
Establishments. Its lumber output i
one hundred millions of feet per yeal
1t has more popular seaside and noun
tain resorts than any other individual
State, and greater variety of gem
and precious stones
geographically North Carolina j
like Old Mexico, with its three gran,
climatic divisions, only that the peak
of the mountain region are rounde,
o1J ,,o4 90 hiut, b,- b.Jf Tho 1oft;oe