The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-03-11
DEVELOPMENT OF RESOURCES
R. WINSTON TALKED ALONG PRACTlC-
AL LINES LAST NIGHT
He Delivered the First Speech of
Several by Leading Thinkers tn
be Invited Here by Our CONNER
cfal Bodfes-Resources Right ut
Our Door to be Developed.

Recently the produce exchange and
the chamber of commerce decided to in
wife prominent speakers and leading
thinkers to Wilmington to deliver adj
dresses on the development OF the re-
sources OF Eastern North Carolina and
of this immediate section in particular.
A joint committee was appointed and
the first speaker invited was DR.. George
T. Winston, the distinguished president
OF the North Carolina college of agri-
culture and mechanic arts.
DR.. Winston arrived here yesterday
and is a guest at the hospitable home
OF Captain w. r Kenan. 10 Nun
street. Last night he addressed our
people at the Y. NJ. c. a. auditorium
and was heard with great interest by
a large assemblage. including many
aides.
DR.. Winston was introduced by Mr..
d. l. Gore who said he has all his life
been an educator Of the youth of North
Carolina INC was TOO well known TO
need an introduction. He said DR..
Winston had shown clearly that he was
always a leader and never follows, so
the produce exchange and chamber of
invited him here TO speak on
the development of our In
closing his introduction, ne said that
like the queen of Sheba speaking of
solomon so il was in speaking of DR..
Winston-the half has never been told.
DR.. Winston spoke for an hour and
a a and made q practical and very
strong address that will put orr people
to thinking. He felicitated Wilmington
upon the purpose to discuss the devel-
opment of our resources, and spoke of
such a large number present to near
such matters discussed. as these queS-
tons are out of the ordinary matters
heard with interest by people generally.
Usually such subjects as history, edu-
cation, politics, religion and social
questions are heard, and he saw a
good sign in the departure made by
Wilmington in his particular.
DIR. Winston said this was an indus
trial age and that all the great poIiti-
cal problems are industrial questions.
He said the tariff and the Chinese
questions are industrial promblems
and so was the operations of Russia in
Manchuria. The war in the Philip
pines is an industrial problem, and re-
cent events showed that the war with
Spain over Cuba was an industrial
problem. All these questions will be
settled along industrial lines.
The chief question with Wilmington
for % or 80 years has been of an in
dustrial nature. This question he i'm
pressed upon his hearers involved edu-
cation n culture and refinement. The
progress of the last rs and 30 years is
based on agriculture and manufacture
ing. In this connection he spoke of the
value of our cotton crop and mentioned
tho i'm nrnN-nnont Of tho rpnfhn1c in
farming, in gathering the crop, in gin
ing and in marketing the product as
compared with the system up to a few
years ago. He said these improved pro-
cesses saved $780, 600, 900 a year over the
old process. He called attention to the
fact that since the value of cotton seed
in manufacturing had been developed
it added $1,000, 900 a year to our re-
sources. Similar improvements in the
next fifty years will show still greater
value. Speaking along this line he
spoke of the value of cotton seed meal
and bulls as cattle food, and suggested
that one of our to be develop
ed is cattle raising. Instead of ship
ping away u cotton seed cake and
hulls they could be utilized at home,
and the waste lands could also be uti-
liZed for grazing cattle. This you'd
furnish us beef and butter and cheese.
and would also leave behind a value in
IeTIlllZeTS- instead OIL SGnQlnS our COl-
ton seed meal and hulls to the west and
getting back beef. butter and cheese.
We could utilize these o products at
home and make our own beef. butter
and cheese. Wilmington he said should
be a great distributing point for cattle,
and what he said of the cattle indus
try, as only briefly mentioned here,
made a strong impression.
He also spoke of the value of our cot
ton oil product and suggested that in
stead of sending it away to be refined,
it should be refined at home. He
asserted if all these resources
were handled at home our beef,
butter. y cheese and oil would be
worth as much as the entire cotton
crop. He impressed pom his audience
the importance of turning our products
into the finished shape. In the same
manner he spoke of utilizing our wood
recources, and mentioned our waste
full and prodical handling of our timber
resources. They should be turned into
a finished product at home instead OF
being sent abroad to be finished and re-
turned to us. We should make paper,
pulp buckets. tubs, tables, furniture etc.
and our finished product would be
worth forty or fifty times more to us
han our raw material is sold for.
DR.. Winston also spoke of the great
| u of trucking IN Eastern North
CdTO1lld, 1OI "LlSI lAC . VI SAiS
region are most favorable. We have
absolutely four weeks of the sea-
son that are our own for marketing our
truck, and nobody can take it away
from us. Eastern North Carolina. should
be practically covered with truck farms.
| and speaking prophetically he said we
would yet see the day when refrigera-
tor Steamers would leave Wilmington
| with lettuce and vegetables for Lon
don and Liverpool, and the cities OF
France. Germany, and other European
counties where they are in demand. He
impressed in his connection the lmpor-
lance of canning our surplus products,
and especially in utilizing the overpro-
duet of Strawberries and fruits in man
ufacturing fine preserves. He salo me
goods are in demand and such products
always command good prices. This was
a valuable suggestion and will be 1000
for thought for our people.
Another feature Of the subject dls-
cussed by DR.. Winston was the necessf-
ty of educating and training our youths