The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-17

tndu IL Stil-ItItNllSs iOl WIN PhoPNi
care and management they VIII last
forever. Soil. moisture and tempera-
ture are SO perfectly adjusted IN our
State that barren fields will grow up
again into forests within n single life
time.
MINES, FISHERIES AND WATER
POWERS.
Our mineral resources are practical
ly undeveloped. With the growth of
technical education and the invention
of new processes for extracting ores.
with increased use Of machinery and
with facilities for cheaper transporta~
ton, our mines may some day be
productive of great wealth.
Our fisheries. like our truck regions,
are placed bv nature. where, II prop
erly used and developed. they will re-
main forever source of large annual
income. But our opportunities here
have not been fully utilized. We need
to study with the care, patience and
intelligence the nature and habits OF
all fishes that frequent our waters and
of new species that may be intrcduc-
ed. The catching of fish should be
regulated by law; their shipping and
marketing should be conducted more
economically and on a larger scale.
the dishonesty and eXertion Of middle
men should be circumvented sc enc"
and invention should utilize for food,
for fertilizers and for the arts fish
products now wholly or largely
thrown to waste: our inland streams
should be stocked with fish for food
as well as for sport, thus increasing
- 4 e., nd
seekers: and our two great sounds,
wonderfully adapted for fish planta-
tons. should be utilized TO the fullest
extent by all processes now known to
science as we'll as by new discoveries
of our own.
Our water-power is large and con-
slant. It's transmission over long dis
tances through electric motors prom
Uses to settle the question of power
for all time in North Carolina. The
time must come when, every stream
in our Piedmont sections will be
transmitting power from every fall to
mills and factories suitably located
for shipping.
HEALTH RESORTS.
Our health an6 pleasure resorts fur
nish large opportunities for wealth.
No other State is SO richly endow-
ed. Our mountains. our SeaShOre and
our region of pine barrens offer rare
combination of attractions. Their
utilization and development will bring
annually into North Carolina in the
not distant future more wealth than
is now produced by all the farms in
the State.
CLIMATE AND POPULATION.
come now to our greatest source OF
wealth; climate and population. for
without these all others would he un-
availing. OF what avail are fertile
soils or towering forests, mines, fish
cries and water-power in climate
where life is perpetual struggle with
cold or heat, with dust and drouth
and insect pests?
1t may be said of North Carolina
as Charles !. said of England. "A man
can be abroad here and at work more
days in the year and more hours in
the day than anywhere else on the
globe" North Carolina has been call
cd "a nursery of men for other
States" Certainly she has been a
nursery Of men. Her climate is the
golden mean between the cold Of the
North and the heat of the Sout'
United States possesses, broadly
speaking, four climates. J. The At
lantic Coast; 2. The Mississippi Val
ley 3. The Rocky Mountain Plateau:
4. The Pacific Coast. The best of
these climates is the Atlantic Coast
and the best climate on the Atlantic
Coast is in North Carolina. This is a
fact of tremendous significance; it
means a never ending supply Of
strong, vigorous. self-restrained man.
hood and capable. healthful and beau
tiful womanhood. Our population.
now almost entirely native and
sprung originally from the hardest
stocks in the world. English, Scotch,
Irish. Dutch and German. have shown
themselves, under the most trying
conditions in peace and in war. TO be
made of the finest and strongest fibre
They are the best human ore in exist
ence, and they will become the sharp
est and most efficient Instruments
for the creation Of wealth. il only
they are hammered into steel AMI
fashioned into tools by the power OF
education and training.
Ours is the age of machinery, and
machinery demands educat or. The
Spaniards at Manila was provided
with the best machinery, but lacked
skill to use it. a modern battleship
is a mighty store-house of machinery.
encased in armor. To manage IT effi-
GENTLY requires more technical skill,
more training. more education and n
higher perfection of mechanical in
genuity than is employed in the lar
geSt mills and factories. The inability
Of the negro to use machinery and
acquire a high grade Of tie ,hnical
skill dooms him to work forever in the
toughest simplest and least profitable
lines Of labor. The inability Of the
Indian to employ even the simplest
agricultural machinery has sealed his
fate and marked him for speedy eN-
tinction. Steam and electricity, ira
versing the globe or rivers Of steel,
is bringing all nations close i''2e;her,
and making the struggle for existence
fercer and intenser thar ever il WAS
on the desert or il tie 'ungle. At
every moment III Tie t,ay yon can
place your fingr" on the wire and
feel the pulse OF the l'nlTcISe. It re-
oi1ired three hundred years for the
European races to conquer America