The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-16

the water out, that he had Just sharvencd
them and sent them down on that day,
now torty-one years ago. when there oc-
CURED the stampede Of the men To join
the army. And, sure enough. when We
goti iown 20 the bottom, there lay the tool,
just where he said he had lcf, them"
Nobody gets excited here over gold and
copper mining, yet it is recognized a. one
of the resources of the country hereabouts
and there are men Of sound business iudg-
ment who believe that there is a substant ial
future for the industry. notwth hist anduC
the black eye il has got from time 10 time
from INSCRIPTIONS practices and from the
absurd antics of n.-n who become sheer
whrlng dervishcs at the first glimmer Of
gold
THEIR own WORK
But the bedrock basis of all tho great
wealth that has 80 swiftly come into being
here within these cvcntful past few years
the force that made 50 much of achieve
mnnt possible. when all is said. lies right
with these North Carolina people them
selves What has been wrought. their
own hands have wrought
OF course. outside capital has flowed in
here. and the stream Of it will increase a.
the opportunities for Investment develop
and are better known. But the people
themselves dug their own way ont of the
wrcckagc e the war under which they were
buried dug themselves ont from under
the even worse chaos of Reconstruct ion.
which came when the war was over.
They had their hands, they had their
keen native intelligence and they had the
stores Of raw material with which Nature
has 50 lavshly endowed their State. With
these they have built mp the splendid in
dustrial structure whose lpreseut ] i'm
posing dimensions and bright future are
away up AZ the front among the latter
achievements of our country which have
caused so many Go yernmcnt expeditions
from foreign lands to come to our shores
of late 10 find out how on earth We do the
things that are threatening to swamp them
In all the markets of the world
II II the people themselves right here on
the ground who have done 1t, Do not get
away from that fact and do not get away
from the picture of wreck and desolation
following the war. which was the cherries
starting point of the mighty task,
1t il necessary to insist that these pre- misses
I've clearly established in the mind before
undertaking to toll the story of Southern
ACHE vement 1t is apt to slip from the
memory of some people.
1t is essential to come back to il again
and vet again II would 10 the biggest
part OF the spectacle were the South one
vast industrial exposition just now.
GrmroRp's SETTLERS.
The people who settled Guilford county.
whose descendants are now carrying on
this great upbuilding and uplifting work
were vigorous stock, sound to the core in
religious faith and in belief in education.
A large proportion of them came here from
eastern Pennsylvania Scotch-lrish Pres
byterans, men "sot" in their ways, quite
disencumbcred Of any shades Of doubt in
the convictions they had embraced; Quakers
thrifty people of simple tastes and whole
some, clearly lives.
There was considerable colony Of
Ouakcrs among the early settlers Of Gull
ford county. And side by side with them
came Moravians from up Bethlehem way
in Pennsylvania And about the first
thing all three of these groups OF people
did when they fairly got rooted to the soil
of Guilford was to 60 to work building
colleges.
Dr. David Caldwell, who was a graduate
Of Princeton and came here from Lancaster.