The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-08

Despite those already in operation there
| is room for more. as there are very
| large tracts of timber of all sorts, pecu-
| liza to the SOIL near at hand which are
uncut and available for use. 1t is fact
! that there have been exhibited in New
| Bern no less than 80 varieties of furni-
| ture and other economic woods, and these
| beth in the rough and polished samples,
| show that a great success awaits all who
| invest in wood working plants here.
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED.
| Men have made money here and are
making it today and men with energy and
push can continue to make it. To cite
individual instances would be to multiply
| the number of successful men, many Of
whom have come from without the State.
Investigation or correspondence will re-
veal that all that is written of New
Bern in this respect is absolutely correct.
A more favored location for manufac-
tories can hardly be found in the South.
Raw material exists in abundance. The
supply of timber is adequate to meet the
requirements of a dozen woodworking
factories, and the agricultural lands,
rivers and sounds may be relied upon to
furnish canning factories with vegetables
and fruits and fish and oysters sufficient
TO keep them running on full time.
half dozen cotton mills could be operated
in New Bern with profit, as could be
furniture factory wood pulp and paper
mill, starch factory, and agricultural I'M
plenent works. Factory sites are cheap,
taxation low, labor abundant and cheap
and the shipping facilities all that could
be reasonably desired
It's superior advantages as a shipping
point, and the enterprise. energy ana
public spirit of it's citizens and business
men of prominence and influence are FAC
tors that may be reliedsupon for CONNER
cial progress and general prosperity.
HERE ARE POINTERS.
Mention has been made of the 70, 900 600
fleet of lumber shipped annually from
New Bern. To this must be added in the
wav of shipments some other items which
go to show the immensely of the re-
sources of this favored spot which is as
vet almost in the primeval state of its
great possibilities. In one season over
| 25 .OOO, 600 shingles have been shipped, and
vet the call is for more and the factories
can not keep up with the demands made
| on them Bearing these two items alone
! in mind does it not seem that here is
| the SPOT that stands waiting for the capt.
| talist to make paying investments?
A TRUCKERS PARADISE.
No agricultural districts in the United
States are worked with more intelligence
| and profitable outcome than the truck
| farms around New Bern. Over four thou
| sand acres are in the highest state or
| cultivation. with a diversity of products
which covers the entire range of the
seedman's catalogue Most truckers pro-
duce four different crops from the same
| acreage every year, aggregatlnS IN
/ oood wear 5000 to the acre. Cabbage and
kale are shipped all winter. Lettuce and
| radishes go out IN February, asparagus
| in March, and the rest follow. The total
annual shipments are over three-fourths
! of a. million packages, of which over
IT'S 900 are Irish potatoes, which are dug
early i'll June. Such is the wonderful
| character of this industry that, great as
it already is, every year seems to add
to it's marvellous development and eX-
pansive area.
The specific figures of shipments of
vegetables for one year firm New Bern
OF vegetables other than Irish potatoes
showed SAG, 224 packages and OF irish po-
taotes there were 1S7,061 barrels. The
soil is 80 fertile in the section about
New Bern that but little labor is required
except to gather the products.
The mild weather of the Pamlico sec
ton enables the farmer to work twelve
months in the year; it reduces the cost
OF live stock raising to the minimum, and
cattle can find good grazing for large
BART of the year, it makes the fuel bllls
for farmers an inconsiderable item and
it obviates the necessity of heavy cloth
ing and many other expenses absolutely
necessary in all cold countries. Thus the
Southern farmers capital not only yields
him two dollars for every dollar returned
to the Western farmer for his capital, but
| added to this there is a difference IN
the cost of living, which is SO great that
it must command wide attention as 1t
becomes more fully understood.
OYTERS AND FISH.
From out the sea and rivers there
comes another source of wealth to New
Bern. The limitation to this wealth factor
is a quantity yet to be found, LOT the
! wealth CT the waters is hidden, in the