The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-17
THE TAR HEEL STATE.
MR.. HALLOCK TELLS OF HER
GROWTH AND PROSPERITY.
main-PeOple Moving Here From
the North and West.

He Says North Carolina is Great Do
main-Peop!e Moving Here From
the North and West.
Chas. Hallock in Philadelphia Times
Ten years ago the people of one sec
tion of North Carolina hardly knew
what another section of the state pro-
duced. People outside didn't know,
for North Carolina is a great domain,
half the length of Texas, with large
part mountainous and but little
trayersed by railroads until recently.
The Inhabitants from way back were
always quiet, contented and unobstru-
sfve, and careless withal about busi-
ness pursuits, and the early school
Biographies summed it up as one
half wilderness, given to naval stores,
and the other half water and sand
beach teeming with fish. So that for
many generations travellers passing
east and west merely skirted the heads
of the sounds on the south or fianked
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 a segregated game preserve like the
Yellowstone National Park.
But that was slang Syne," as a
Scotchman would say, and many of
the early settlers of North Carolina
were Scotch. Latterly, the State has
gotten an active move on herself,
whereby railroads now at last penc-
trate all but seven of its ninety-Six
counties. Wherever there is bed of
ore, or u stone quarry, or deposits Of
coal, tramways are sure to be found.
Manufacbories have sprung up all
over. No less than 166 cotton mills
and one million SpindlerS are ia a
steady whirl, and $50 miscellaneous
factories supplement- the clatter and
hum. Only until her State exhibit
set up at New Orleans, ten years ago,
and followed by fairs at Atlanta, Dos-
ton, Chicago and elsewhere, did the in
dust rial world suspect that North Car
and fish. Progress has gone on so
quietly and unostentatiously since
then that the whole country is
amazed at the development. So in
sidiously did the spirit Of industry in
vert the sleepy old turpentine orchards
and mountain riffs that the ancient
community got awake and astir be-
fore it's advanced neighbOrs realized
that there was any excitement afOot.
And now, in the latter day, there is
no place between the two oceans equal
ment. Gould, Corbin and Vanderbilt
found it out soon, and have promptly
led the van of 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 on
ly in the mountain and Piedmont re-
= Ho1 nj
sleepy Seaboard. They are bringing
in new industries and revolutionizing
old ones. Under new system of agri-
culture they have lifted the farmers
burden of debt by causing an acre of
land to produce the amount of three.
Three crops year are now raised in
stead of one as hitherto, and the profit
of each is enlarged. In the Newbern
district alone the value of the track
ing interest has reached three and
three-quarter millions year and is
one-ninth of the total for the whole
United States. Gold is being mined
at a profit in thirty-one counties.
Seven-eighth of all the mica used in
the United States are claimed to be
produced within it's limits. Its fish
cries lead all others. Its whale fisher
les engage the labOrs of a dozen veS-
seis from New Bedford and Prince
town during the summer. Its oysters
receive the attention of eight packing
establishments. It's lumber output is
one hundred millions or feet per an
mum. 1t has more popular seaside
and mountain resorts than any other
individual State, and greater variety
of gems and precious stones.
Geographically North Carolina is
like Old Mexico, with it's three grand
climate divisions, only that the peaks
of the mountain region are rounded
and not so high by half, the loftiest
being less than 1000 feet. And we
find In both countries the same com
prehensive plant life exuberant flora.
BotaniStS aver that there are 1900
species of Towering plants alone in
North Carolina, and of course the
soils are various and capable of indefi-
mite production in any direction that
hOrticulturists may elect. The fiat
Seaboard region, which tallieS with
the terra caliente of Mexico, except
ing in feryor of midsummer heats, is
the chosen ground for the fruit grow
er and truck raiser, and it is shortly
to become the seat of extensive dairy
and cattle interests. EXpe1 lments al
ready made at Newbern, Elizabeth
City, and other points prove that the
botanists have all along declared, that
pasture and meadow grasses grow as
luxuriantly as other plant growths,
and that all that farmers need to
make their own good beef, hay, cheese,
butter and milk is to adopt those
courses which common practice else
where declares are proper and right.
Experiments in hay culture and bee1
and milk production are already well
advanced, and the State Agricultural
Experiment Farm has listed twenty
six kinds of grass and clover which 1t
advises to use for hay or pasturage.
The upshot of all this is to demon
| strate what the Seaboard is capable
| of. what the requirements are, and
| where the gates of special opportunity
are widest ajar. Cultivated lands
with improvements and buildings can
be bought anywhere along the line OF
the Norfolk s. Southern railroad,
which traverse the eleven Underwater
counties, at SIS to $25 an acre. Labor
i is cheap-at 65 cents per day, or $S t.
S12- per month and ratiOns-and Ii
tractable and efficient il well trained
and handled and promptly paid
There are plenty of churches ant
| schools and no beggars, tramps, O
| toughs. Farm schools for whites ant
blacks if established in available dis
triets would disseminate much needet
information in respect to many line
| of industry which have been Qeglecte'
or overlooked since the war. Vim
culture would prove most .prohta
business If conducted on 1nteillgen
methods.
Arrested for Larceny.
/ j, w. Vaughn was arrested her