The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-03-08

JuuSe Nldlk bell, are not Cnly inter-
esting but valuable. The Judge has
just returned North from trip South,
and in letter upon the, subject says:
am asked to give through your
columns the impressions of that beau
tiful portion of the South through
which the Seaboard Air Line passes,
from Portsmouth to your beautiful
city, and the views of New Yorker,
as to the claims of the Piedmont sec
ton Of your State, both as to climate,
health, and desirability for permanent
homes or the investment of capital to
Northern farmers or capitalists desir-
ing to better their condition.
Too much praise cannot be awarded
DIR. w. c. Vile, of Danbury, Conn,
for promoting and organizing the
party of Northern Medical editors, and
their friends, thus bringing to their
attention the unusual advantages of
the Piedmont section of the Southern
seaboard States to Northern emigra-
ton.
Either North Carolina or Georgia
must be regarded as the paradise of
the fruit grower. | have had a large
experience in vine growing and wine
making in western New York, having
planted one of the first vineyards on
the shore of Lake keuka, and being
one of the promoters of the Urbana
Wine Company, and l am familiar in
a practical way with that most remu-
nerative culture Of the black raspberry,
in Yates county, New York, which fur
nshes the evaporated dried fruit SO
much now in demand, and may fairly
be classed as one qualified to speak, in
a practical way, as to the general feat
ures of fruit growing. The wine-grow-
ing industry, yet in its infancy in
North Carolina, has gone far enough
to demonstrate an assured success in a
lucrative way, to those who carry on
It's production on business methods.
The experiments made at Southern
Pines, n. c., have gone far enough to
leave no manner of doubt OF splendid
suits in the near future.
The difficulty with which the north
ern grower has to contend are the
high price of land and labor and the
early frost. Labor in both Georgia
and North Carolina is abundant and
cheap. Eight dollars per month will
cover the wages of men with rations,
which can be computed at $3.50 per
month. Frost is quite out of the
question. The cost of land in desira
BILE locations as low as s. to $40 per
acre, and if unimproved land is taken
a net of $40 would be ample to put
good land ready to plant the vine.
The plow can run in both the States
every month in the year.
BY way of Norfolk, the markets of
New York and Philadelphia are as
accessible to the fruit growers of these
States as is western New York, in both
time and rate North Carolina seems
to have been chary of the immigration
of foreigners. Of that great flood of
European blood that has for the past
twenty five years poured into the ports
of New York, neither North Carolina
nor Georgia have received anything
worth naming. 1t has swept like an
enormous wave over the west, but not
on the south Atlantic seaboard. You
would secure those who are desirable
and by proper work could do SO.
The citizens of Northern States do
not correctly understand your section.
They should visit and carefully look
into the capacities Of your State.
Nothing dispels illusions like contact
and personal examination. The North
is full of active, iEergetic, industrious
men Injured to labor who do not know
what advantages you offer, or they
would food into and buy up your un-
occupied lands and form a splendid
factor in the new South now forming
Would the Northern settlers be hospi.
tably received? At the North thi:
would be controlling question. Gen
eral Manager Winder, of this railroad
assures me that in his State the North
ern settler would be most welcome
En- Governor Jarvis, of North Caro-
lima, in recent conversation, assured
me that the southern welcome would
be whole -souled, full and free from
the slightest interference. l have
equally high authority in Georgia, o
similar state of public sentiment
Northern settlers would, strange as i
| may sound to you, need to be assured
in these respects.
The present depressed state of finan
cial affairs is not against such an i'm
migration now Your splendid rail
ways should give especial facilities il
reduced rates to actual settlers. Austi
Corbin, one of our greatest rallroa
workers, transports free over his rail
ways every pound of material an actus
settler puts on his land in improve
d. ments | would advocate free trans
portation of the household goods {
every actual Northern settler by you
great railway lines.
do not dare to state what thin
of the future of North Carolina an
Georgia within the next fifty year
. Yes, twenty-five years. No Georgia
,s or Carolinian would believe as muc
N N as l see coming in the next generation
,' With a climate tha, not only rival
= !: but excels that of Italy, l say to Geo