The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-28
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now flock to cities. Then will country
property appreciate to its true com
parative value and our State and coun-
try be better off in every way than
it now Is.
Q.-You believe the Hillsboro prop
erty a suitable locality for the Alliance
enterprises7
A-Those buildings were erected for
school purposes I believe7 L"Yes, sir"
+. replied. The Professor then contln-
ing also a good residence section is
very appropriate. Ny opinion is
what is best for residence or school
purposes may not be the best choice Of
a place for a manufacturing business,
however.
Q.-What is most important in select
ing a factory site?
Al would answer to that question
that in such business where shipments
to and from the factory will be OF
heavy material the matter Of freight
facilities and charges become of the
utmost Importance. OF any two loCa-
tions, then, the actual first cost may
be doubled, with good facilities what
the same plant would cost in another
location and yet return the difference
many times in saving freight charges.
Q.-You think, then, the economy
of locating a factory does not consist
so much in buying a property cheap as
in buying one with facilities for con
Quoting the business at the lowest nee
essary charges2
A.-That is exactly the view I take
of it, and I think it a very practical
business view.
Q,-In regard tofreight charges, etc.,
you will have noticed Mr.. Ivey says
the railroad is disposed to be very
kind to us, and
A.-Yes, 1 noted carefully what he
said in regard to the railroads. But
now, a set of railroad officials who
would not be disposed to be kind" to
a set of business agents who propose
to build up a business on it's line where,
if it amounts to anything, it will bring
in heavy freight receipts, when the
same could just as eeslly be located on
the same line at another point, giving
the great rival of their company for
business an equal chance on the freight
ing, would be an anomaly. The South
ern Railway will get a shorthand on
everything which goes to Hillsboro
and it's competitors the Seaboard Rail,
way will only be a distributor and col
lector to points the Southern Company
cannot reach, while charges may be
advanced at anytime without check
by a competing line.
fQ.I judge by your remarks you
are not tavorably impressed with the
Hillsboro site9
A.-Well, viewed in'the light of what
I have just mentioned, 1 come under
the head of those men Mr.. Ivey demon
mates as 'non-Alliancemen and their
friends" for 1 certainly look at this
transaction much as a business man
views another's good or bad bargains.
AllianCemen who know a good trade
when they see it have been muzzled in
this transaction because they did not
are to begin to pull the Order down,
and they have as much interest to see
this move a success as anyone engaged
in it.
Q.-Do you think Alliancemen gen
orally will endorse the Hillsboro trade,
or do you fear dissatisfaction among
them?
Al know that when it becomes
generally known that fore few hundred
dollars more a location could, and
probably now can, be secured which
would Tighten the charges for freight
while holding those spoken Of by you
they are at Hillsboro, the Order of ALI
ancemen will be heard from all the
way from Currituck to Cherokee, un-
less they are in 80 good control as to
forget the injury of over charges to
taWn about the hands which puts them
on. The brethren will remember that
in the committee report in THE Pro
GREssIvE FARMER great stress was laid
on the location in the same vein as you
put it on in your opening on "Our
Headquarters"
That is all right in its place, and
from an esthetic standpoint no doubt
correct, yet it is fallacious when ap
piled to business where utility out
weighs everything else. 1t cannot be
supported against this that a place can
not De obtained on railroad lines which
can offer hooItbu o~-