The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-12

low county has grown to be a great
source of our wealth." said Mr.. II. d.
Murrill, of Catharine Lake, who is at
tending the Grand Lodge. Zone night
last week, Mr. w. H. Jarman caught
5000 trout in New River in one night.
Their average weight was two pounds
and the nights catch was worth $1,000
to Mr. Jarman The oyster men have
complained that the storms damaged the
oyster crop in Pamlico sound. There
was little damage to the New River oys-
ters. the best in the world"
State Senator Il. J. Jerome. of Union.
is in the city attending the Grand Lodge.
The Charlotte Observer, in giving a list
of candidates for Attorney General,
omitted Mr.. Jerome's name, and yester-
day printed the following: "Mr. X. L..
Stevens, of Union county. was in the
city yesterday. Concerning politics he
said: i see that The Observer this
morning, in giving list of Democratic
candidates for office. left out the name
of +. j. Jerome. of Monroe, who is out
for Attorney General. Union county will
push him forward for the place. He is
dh dDlc lawyer, dli tStiliittbiC SNHliNilitill
and loyal Democrat.
Our town and county are making
rapid strides these days" said DIR. ]. w.
Iittleton. Of Albemarle. Stanly county,
who is here attending the Grand Lodge.
Ten years ago the population of Able
marie was about 600; today it is $500.
We have two successful cotton factories
L
county is doing as we'll. AT Norwood
there is cotton factory and at New
London there is a cor5lage factory. Work
on the development of the water power
at tbs M, rows HIS srsp nded during
the cold weather. Nearly $4,000 has
been spent by that company which will
make Stanly a great manufacturing
county.
"The day laborers are going to the
towns to work in factories or going 10
work in some mills and it is presenting
a very serious question to the farmers,
said Mr. j. II. Watkins. of Purnell. who
is attending the Grand Lodge. THE
past year was very hard one on farm
ers and the outlook is not much better.
The day labOrers say they can make
nothing on the farms and they are try
ing to better their condition by going
into the factories. The farming inter
ests have felt no Improvement. The
price of cotton is higher. but the farmers
did not average more than a sixty per
cent crop and there is little encourage
ment for another year. | try to make
my own bread and meat, and even then
1T is a close call to make ends meet.
The prosperity in industrial lines, so
marked in 1898 has not helped the farm
ers, and the going to the towns of so
many who find farming Improbable is
not a sign that is encouraging to the
agricultural development of the State.
Col. John S. Cunningham, of Person,
who is here at the Grand Lodge, says
that the tobacco farmers of his county
are greatly interested in the Tobacco
Growers Convention called to meet in
Raleigh on the 18th AT the county
meeting. held ON a very cold day, it was
not supposed that there would be more
than handful of farmers present.
When the time came the court house
was nearly full. There will be Il full
attendance from Person at the meeting
in Raleigh next week" Speaking of the
price of tobacco, Col. Cunningham
thinks the price of tobacco will go up.
He has not yet sold his crop and is hold
ing for a rise. He says:
Il believe that the tobacco now in the
hands of the farmers will sell higher in
January and February. | have always
noticed that tobacco has advanced
when Gotten goes up. As we all
know that there has been a marked adj
vance in most everything except tobac
co. / can see no reason why it should
not advance too.
"The corn crop last fall was short
one. and the weather was favorable for
shipping tobacco.
Il have never known the crop to be
sold as fast. In South Carolina and
Eastern North Carolina the crop is al
most sold. The heavy sales in Danville,
Iynchburg. Winston aud Durham. in
the Piedmont belt, shows, too, that II
large part of the crop has been sold.
With the great demand for tobacco
mean the manufactured product-and
the fact that so much has been sold,
and the farmers forced TO pay higher
prices for what they buy. / can see no
reason why tobacco should not sell high
er.
The tobacco growers in Eastern
North Carolina were greatly dissatisfied
with their prices. 1t is to the interest OF
the spectators to work for an advance
in the raw material now"
.sThere is less cotton in the delta sec
ton of Mississippi than l have ever
known said Mr.. j. D. Hawkins, a
prominent planter of Mississippi, who rs
visiting his brother, Dr.. a. b. Hawkins.
'.AH this talk aboht big stocks on hand
in interior towns is made for the purpose
Of putting down the price of cotton. Each
wear at this time, there was plenty OF
ccttcn i'm the fields in my State. OF this
years crop it was all picked and ginned
by Christmas, and most of it has been
sold, most farmers selling as fast as II
was ginned. l got 9 cents for much OF
my cotton and am holding several hum
6red bales for S14, and l will get it. One
man in my neighBorhood sold 1.100 bales
of cotton the week after he planted hrs
crcD at 53s cents and his cotton seed ri
eight cents. All the fall he has been
delivering cotton and cotton seed at those
nrices when the rest of the farmers have
been getting seven and twelve cents
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