The Press., 1900-12-20
Northern Mems Success
 In The South.

It has been said that few Northern men going South have succeeded in business, but that is evidently great mistake, for recently we saw where MT. Julius Lewis of the city of Raleigh, N. O., was unani- mously elected by the Democrats to the position of chairman of the County Board of Control, which is the board having control of the entire business of the county in which is the capitol of the State. The local paper, the Raleigh Daily News & Observer, of that city referring to the election said "Mr. Lewis came South some few years ago and has made for tune in the mercantile and manufacturing business. He served through the war of 1861 to 1865 in the Union Army" The ! success of this Northern man is one indi- vidual instance, and we have only to go sixty miles further South to see the bright est spot in the Southland Southern Pines, N. O., to see whole town built up by Northern men and women. Here we sec large hotels that accommodate hundreds | of invalids who desire to escape the severe cold of the North. Manufacturing plants electric lights, electric car line, and thousand of acres of fruit trees and vines, from which annually, millions of pounds of fruit Is gathered and sent to the North ern markets.
 Theinterest In this is so great that when atrain passes through the town the passen- t0 ho vola f. 0f ho md raise the windows to get look at what they admit is the prettiest place in the | South.
 If you will go into the Seaboard Air Line Railway office in Boston at 3O6 Wash | ington St., or to the ticket window of the Merchants and Miners Steamship Co.,, which represents the most popular line leading into the South, you will not have 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 OO brought into cultivation. When they first ! went in there, land could be bought at | fifty cents an acre to-day some of 1t is selling at hundred dollars an acre. The success of Southern Pines has been so great that four other places have been started by Northern people. Leavitt settlement, by New Hampshire people, Roseland by Massachusetts settlers, Pine- hurst by the we'll known Bostonian. MT James w. Tufts, manufacturer of soda water apparatus, and last, but not least, Pinebluff, by an association of business men, known as the New England Manu- featuring Mining and Estate Co.,, from all | sections of New England. At Pinebluff d 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. Pinebluff 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 point to build homes for winter use. It Is six miles south of Southern Pines on the main line of RailI oad, and, one fact that makes this point attractive to settlers is that MT. John Patrick, the Chief Indus- trial Agent of the Seaboard Air Line, has his winter home at that place and is doing a 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 most energetic, smart and reliable promoter. It 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
 Be sure to- go South, via Southern Pines, N. O., as it is the shortest route to
 Florida. For information address J. T.
 Patrick, Pinebluff, N. 0.