St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-22
Northern ITEMS Success in the South.

1t has been said that few Northern men
going South have succeeded in business,
but that is evidently great mistake, for
recently we saw where Mr.. Julius Lewis
of the city OF Raleigh. N. c., was unani.
mously elected by the democrats to the
position of the chairman OF the County
Board of Control, which is the board
having control of the entire business
Of the county in which is the capital of
the state. The local paper, the Raleigh
Daily News & Observer, OF that city, re-
ferring to the election, said Mr.. Lewis
came South some few years ago and has
made fortune in the mercantile and
manufacturing business. He served
through the war of 1861 to 1865 in the
Union Army. The success Of this North
ern man is one individual instance, and
we have only to go sixty miles further
south to see the brightest spot in the
Southland, Southern Pines. N c., to see
a whole town built up by Northern men
and women. Here we see large hotels
that accommodate hundreds of invalids
who desire to escape the severe cold of
the North. Manufacturing plants, cleo.
trio lights, electrical car line, and thous-
ands of acres of fruit trees and vines,
from which annually millions of pounds
of fruit is gathered and sent to the
Northern market.
The interest in this place is so great
that when train passes through the
town the passengers crowd the platform
of the cars and raise the windows to get
a look at what they admit is the pretti-
est place in the South.
If you will go into the Seaboard Air
Line Railway Office in Boston at 306
Washington ST., or to the ticket window
of the Merchants and Miners Steamship
Co., which represents the most popular
lire leading into the South yon will
not nave to wait long before you will find
that many tickets are being sold to the
Yankee town down in Dixie land.
The Northern people have literally
made that section of the South blossom
as rose. They have purchased in that
territory more than hundred thousand
acres of land and it is being rapidly
brought into cultivation. When they
first went in there land could be bought
at fifty cents an acre; today some OF it is
selling at a hundred dollars an acre. The
success of Southern Pines has been so
great that four other places have been
started by Northern people, Leavitt Set
Element by New Hampshire people, Rose
land by Massachusetts settlers, Pinehurst
by the well-known Bostonian, Mr. James
w. Tufts, manufacturer of soda water
apparatuses, and last but not least Pine
bluff, by an association of business men,
known as the New England Manufactur-
ing, Mining and Estate Co., from all
sections of New England. At Pinebluff
very large body OF land was bought at
low prices and is being subdivided into
farms of fourteen acres which are being
sold at one hundred dollars a farm. Pine.
bluff bids fair to catch up with Southern
Pines on account Of low prices of land
and the fact that building sites are given
to actual settlers. Large numbers are
going to that poiut to build homes for
winter use. 1t is six miles south of
Southern Pines on the nam line of Rail-
road, and one fact that makes this point
attractive to settlers is that Mr.. John
Patrick, the Chief Industrial Agent OF the
Seaboard Air Line has his winter home
at that place and is doing great deal to
develop the town and he is recognized
not only in the South, but among the
real estate men OF the Union, as a most
energetic, smart and reliable promoter.
1t is said that every enterprise he has
started or had an interest in, has proven
successful, and that fact gives the people
great confidence in Pinebluff