The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-09-13
NORTH CAROLINA.
HER INDUSTRIES AND RE-
SOURCES.

HEX INDUSTRIES AND RE-
SOURCES.
The World Needs to Know More
About What We Have--Our Miner
ais, Building Stones, Coal, Timbered
Wealth, Water Powers, &c.
Wilmington STAR
North Carolina is a great mineral.
a great stone, great timber and a
great agricultural State, and has the
capacity to become great manufaC-
turing State, because she possesses all
the requisites, save capital, for that.
In her mineral, stone, timber and
agricultural resources she has all the
elements of wealth, and hence NAV
become in time one of the wealthiest
Of States.
And yet with all this there are few
States in this Union about which less
is known outside of her own borders,
or even inside of her own borders.
There are thousands of people in the
Eastern part of the State-and not all
stay at-homes either-who have never
seen her cloud-capped mountains, and
thousands in the Western part who
have never seen the shores where the
sea waves rollick. One reason for this
is that it is, only within few years
that our railroad facilities have been
such as to enable the people of the
different sections to visit each other
without taking long and expensive
round about way to do it, but with
our improved and improving railway
facilities we are becoming better ac-
quainted with our own State.
1t is not surprising that so little is
generally known about the mineral
and other resources of North Carolina,
because no organized effort has been
made to make them known. If the
gold fields of this State were located
IL the North or in the West, their
richness would have been heralded to
the world long ago; if her coal6elds
were located there, they would be the
busy hives of thousands of miners if
her iron fields were located there,
there would be in the midst of them
hundreds of furnaces; if her forests
were located there, they would have
become sources of immense wealth to
the owners; if her water powers were
located there, they would have become
the motive powers of great industries.
We do not wish to imply by this
that Our people are sluggards or lack
the capacity to appreciate or utilize
the gifts that nature has made them,
bus they do lack the assertive qualities
that characterize the people of some
other States, who with one tenth as
much to advertise, would advertise it
ten times as much, not from State
pride altogether, although that would
actuate them some, but as matter of
business. Modesty may be all we'll
enough in an individual-it is jewel
in woman-but it may be carried to
excess in man or in people. The
man who has too much of it will find
himself overshadowed by men of much
smaller calibre, and people who
have too much of it will find them
selves distanced in the race by their
more hustling neighbors who may have
less to show but show it to better
purpose.
We are living in an age of business
rivalry, of not only individual but
inter national and State. Men compete
with men, State with State, nation with
nation and each makes the best show
ing possible for himself or itself, and
the one that makes the best showing
will attract the most attention and
reap the most profit, provided the
showing made has the resources behind
i 10 SUSTAIN it. For this reason it
should be the policy of North Carolina,
and the aim of every one OF her
citizens who takes an interest in her
prosperity to bring her to the front
and show the advantages she offers as
field for enterprise and industry.
The exhibit that our State made at
the Columbian Exposition, for which
she is much indebted to individual
effort and cooperation, was surprise
and a revelation not only to visitors
from other lands and States, but to
many Of Our own people who saw it..
The exhibits of minerals, useful and
ornamental, of stones, OF woods, and
other things, though not as extensive
as some from other States, were &C
knowledged to b. among the best on
the grounds, in some particulars the
best without exception, and yet this
was made without money enough to
erect building in which to make the
States exhibit and with the modest
appropriation of $4,000 where other
States which had less to show spent
ten times as much to do it.
Much Of the future prosperity OF
North Carolina vii! depend upon the
utilization OF her mineral resources,
which are great and varied. We have
a gold field embracing thirty odd
counties-about one third of the area
Of the State-as rich as the gold field.
of the Pacific State..
We nave copper, silver, mica, Co
rundum, and other valuable minerals
which will pay for the working and
some Of them handsomely.
We have many varieties of the finest
building stones, some OF which art
now in demand in Northern cities
and with these We have inexhaustibl.
deposits of marble, ranging in color
from jet black to snow white, will
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