The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-03
OTHER SAND HILL CROPS

Irelgnt, rates loF fdyeJteVlIle truckers
are cheaper than from any other point in
the State except Wilmington.
OTHER SAND HILL CROPS.
The sandy lands in the vicinity of
Fayetteville produce most field crops
abundantly as the following picture dem
onstrates.
This is picture showing a son of Mr.
Newton H. Smith sitting on horse back
in the midst of his fathers corn field
with riding whip in his hand pointing
upwards to the top of the growing corn.
This picture of comparison shows the re-
lative height of the corn, pretty fine corn
it must be conceded The ears of corn
from this field shown the writer by Mr..
Smith were we'll filled out and heavy,
being perfect specimens.
MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS.
The following cotton mills are at and
near Fayetteville. Holt Morgan mill,
Tolar, Hart & Holt mill Holt William
son mill, Fayetteville MILL Hope mills
No. /, No. 2 and No. g., Manchester mill,
| Cumberland mill. There are also the La
| Fayette knitting mill, Ashley Bailey silk
mill, Spiritine mill, Australis Manufac-
| turing Co. (wood products), Merchants
mills (wheat roller, corn, rice and cotton
ginning) Fayetteville Manufacturing Co.,
| tpants, shirts, etc.), and many other
smaller concerns.
Ashley Bailey Co. will soon put up
! another silk mill here as they claim
climatic conditions are better here than
! elsewhere for working silk.
AN IDEAL SIGHT FOR A GREAT COT
TON MILLING INDUSTRY.
Because of it's situation in the cotton
belt, with home market for raw cotton !;
it's mild climate, its healthfuIness, and
/ it's high but democratic social character
/ istics; it's cheap sites on competing rail-
4 ways and rivers, and it's unequaIled
freight rates for conveying it's produc-
/ tions to the world Fayetteville is an
ideal site for great cotton milling in
dustry.
QUALITY OF RAW COTTON.
Cotton is the staple product now. $4,000
bales being marketed here, and $4,000
bales in addition being within call from
the tributary country should there be a
further local demand
The cotton marketed in Fayetteville
possesses generally clean, pearly color
ed, fiIefbred and strong staple, fully /
to 1B inches in length. 1t is carefully
harvested and ginned, and generally free
from dirt and trash. The average grade
is strictly middling, and it is highly
priced at numerous Eastern mills. Their,
is also a considerable quantity of the
long staple cotton raised in this neigh
borhood and marketed here. They have
here the cotton market of the State on
account of the high prices paid for the
I. same.
OTHER ADVANTAGES.
To the manufacturer of articles made
from wood, the surrounding forests ant
the river bottoms supply unlimited guam
titles of both varieties of pine, of several
of the best oaks, of hickory birch, beech
sweet and black gum, dog wood, per-
simmon, cypress and juniper.
/ Nor can a better point be found any
where, and few anything like SO good
as manufacturing and distributing
point for soap, paper, bags (cloth and
| paper), crates (for truck, barrels, etc
etc.-the present trucking industry in
the immediate vicinity being already
large enough to consume the whole out
put of an ordinary establishment making
such articles as truckers require foi
marketing their produce.
The advantages offered by Fayetteville