The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24

err manufacturers Off armers who VIII
locate.
Chatham county is certain TO take
high rank as a manufacturing ana min
ing county; ii has large deposits on coal
and iron that will make the county llch.
and it has soil capable of the highest
state of cultivation. These AVE not
been utilized fully in the past because
they have not been made known 20 the
world The enterprising citizens OF
Chatham county having seen that they
have untold wealth near at hano, are
themselves doing much to develop 1t and
are giving to the outside world the know
ledge which is the only thing that mas
been needed to secure the investment of
large capital and the immigration Of a
desirable class of farmers and business
men.
Many people from other sections Of
this great country have settled IN this
county in the past few years and they
have been welcomed with old time south
ern hospitality and now constitute Il
good portion of the most esteemed and
respected fellow citizens. Their politi-
cal opinions are respected, there beng
the pargest possible liberty of thought
and speech among these liberty loving
people. They have become . part of
the community from whatever locality
they come and they feel, as do the old
settlers among whom they came, that
this is my home, its people, its conditions
and surroundings are mine, and my best
endeavors shall be to develop the county
in which | have cast my lot and make
two blades of grass grow where only
one grew before" Such people are wei
come-there is room for them. They
need our sio,l this climate and our genial
hospitable civilization, Chatham needs
their push energy and enterprise.
A man who lived and farmed in
Wyoming became so dissatisfied with the
hard times out there that some months
ago he got in a wagon and thus came
through the States looking for the best
place to stop.
His name is W. III. Duhling, and he
settled inChatham county.
Such an experience as that of Mr.
Duhling's is unusual to say the least,
and yet when one recalls the similar
going of Thomas jefferson through
France for the purpose of studying the
people and the country, one cannot but
feel that Mr.. Duhling, by reason of this
rational method of investigation, is, per-
haps. best fitted now, by the process Of
comparison ut least. than others of
Chatham county to speak of the adyan-
tages of his newly adopted home. Writ
ing of the satisfaction he feels in the
selection of new home, Mr.. Dahling.
who purchased the beautiful and desira-
BILE "Hill'' home and farm of four hum
bred acres, says:
Il will say that think Chatham conn-
ty the most desirable place | saw on
the entire trip. | well know that land
can be bought cheaper III some other see
tions of the State but when yoa take
into consideration that here you have
one fo the healthiest sections Of the uni-
ted States with good water and scan
raise anything you can anywhere else III
the State, which you cannot III some
other sections, where land is offered
cheaper, | am willing to believe what
so many of you citizens tell me that
Chatham county is the best place in the
State. and if the pople of many sections
we came through could understand the
situation you would soon hove mere inl-
migration into the county tiaD room To
put them"
Mr.. Duhling is originally from Penn
sylyania and his knowledge Of this great
country is pretty EXTENSIVE, and his
choice of Chatham COURT as q ria,.a
to live. make money and reaa his family
is the strongest possible evidence of his
appreciation of the resources Of tins ~
cality