The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-17
HOW WE PAY FOR LOCKS
Freight on Pig Iron From South to
New England and Back.@
TRUCK GROWERS HAVE A FINE PROSPECT
Good Prices For Ttb eco, and Farmers Who
Grow the Weed Are Far Better OFF
Than Those Who Grow
King Cotton.

is interested in number of business en-
terprises in the South, was visitor IN
the city yesterday. In the course of a
conversation with a number of gentle
men yesterday at the Marlborough this
New England gentleman of push and
enterprise forcibly illustrated the
South's need of manufacturing enter
prises with an apt text that should ap-
peal to men of captal-and limited cap
ital though it be. The point had been
made by citizen of Raleigh that with
bad crop years business in the South
came to a standstill and he deprecated
the fact that there were not more manu-
featuring enterprises here to offset
the effect Of this condition.
"I'll tell you what we are doing i'm
New Hampshire" Mr.. Guitar said. I'VE
are paying eight to ten dollars freight
ton on pig iron shipped from your south
western section; we are manufacturing
locks from your iron product paying
81 and So day for skilled labor; and we
are shipping this same iron back to you
in manufactured form, the freight for
the return being greater if anything,
than in it's crude state. l am interested
in just such an enterprise as this in New
Hampshire and there are hundreds of
others of the same kind, though their
products are different"
This lesson is one that the people of
the South may we'll learn. With the
prices of their principal products fluctu-
ating from starvation one year to only
fair living at most another year, there
is only hope for the future in diversity
of Industries and manufacturing plants.
Why not make locks and a thousand
other products from pig iron, which ma
ture has lavishly produced at our very
doors. We pay New Hampshire to take
the crude product north and give their
skilled laboring classes fancy prices for
their time, allow the manufacturer a
handsome profit and then pay the
freight on the manufactured product
back to North Carolina.
Mr. Cutler continuing said: 1.-THE bus
mess activity of New England was
never more marked than now. The peo-
pie are making hay while the sun shines.
The open markets of the world are re-
ceiving our manufactured products.
There is employment for every class of
people,
while the prospect is gloomy for the
cotton farmers, said Mr. T. G. Wooten,
of Kinston, the other day, 1.-The tobacco
farmers have made a fairly good crop
and they are getting good prices for
4 hot, Thn f01
are better than last year and are very
satisfactory to the farmers. Kinston has
developed into a large tobacco market.
The receipts this year show a great in
crease. While our county is a cotton
county, still the majority Of the farmers
grow tobacco as we'll as cotton. They
make two money crops and naturally
their condition is not so bad as is that
of these farmers who grow cotton alone.
1.-The tobacco industry has proved a big
thing for Kinston. No town is growing
faster in the State. But the tobacco
trade is only a part of the business of
Kinston. There are factories, a cotton
and knitting mill, furniture and num-
Der of other. The cotton factory has
been enlarged and is profitable in
tion exceeding 5000. 1t is one of the
coming towns of the State
Talking about longevity of life and
visible evidences of the family tree
Western Carolina is just now we'll up in
the front Mr.. r. M. Davis in a COM
munication to the Salisbury Sun mar
rates the following remarkable story:
notice an article copied from the Dam
bury Reporter, headed, -Four genera
tions in one cabin This reminds me of
an incident in my own experience. Some
months ago l was called to furnish
burial outfit for an old colored woman
in the north ward of the city. When I
carried the coffin to the cabin I found
lying dead upon the bed, the great,
great, great grandmother of the family,
aged Jos; sitting in the chimney corner
was the great, great grandmother, aged
rs; standing nearby was the grandmoth-
er, aged so; and by her side stood her
daughter, aged 30, holding in her arms
her own little girl, aged 4. Five genera
lions in all and five generations repre-
sented by a female
1t seems that the distinguished Re-
publican from Wilkes, the Hon. j.
"Ruffian'' Henderson was not favored
with an invitation to the Republican
conference in Greensboro. Though in the
city at the time he was given the privi
lege of cooling his heels on the outside.
The curiosity of the Hon. j. "Ruffian"
does not seem to have equalIed that of
Col "Jeems" Young, who was favored
with an invitation The Winston Senti-
mel arises to ask, has he been RULED out
Of the party" and nothing his presence in
Winston remarks: Ruff was one of the
passengers on this mornings train, re-
turning from the Federal court. 1t is
reported that he lost his hat and other
wearing apparel while in the City of
Flowers
DR.. M. L. I.atta, the President of the
Latta University, will lecture at Metro
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