The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-02-06
Views and Interviews.

| farmers are thrifty and had great sue
cess with Tobacco the past season, getting
| big money for their crops. We are raising
1 the very finest of tobacco in Martin, and
this year there will be a much larger crop
planted. No better tobacco is grown in
| North Carolina than that which our lands
produce.
NO" said Mr.. b. b. Nicholson, of
Washington. the able representative of
Beaufort county in the last General AS
sembly, whose county has grown so that
there will be two representatives in the
next Legislature. washington is not on
| a boom" and never has been. 1t is one of
| those steady growing towns which, when
| it once takes an advanced step never re-
trace it,
I'VE have a new cotton seed oil mill
( finely equipped and in full operation
which gives employment to many. Our
new shirt factory. with it's 1875 machines
running on full time. began operation
| in 'Nicholsonvine an adjunct to Wash
ington, about so days ago. The number
of machines will be doubled within the
next sixty days. was told few days
ago by we'll in formed travelling man
| LHdl IL WAS the largest anu pest equip
| ped factory south of Baltimore. The
shirt factory and knitting mills employ
some three hundred young women
! One oyster factory will open at an
early date, which will give employment
to some five hundred operatives or more.
| and the fish industry for this season is
opening with bright prospects for a good
catch
Our eight lumber mills in Washington,
are running on full time We have also
three planning mills and one barrel and
basket factory. Our lumber industries
| are the greatest industries we have.
They employ thousands of operatives
and expend annually thousands of dol
lars in Washington and Beaufort county
The theory often advanced that these
lumber mills will soon cut and manufac-
ture all of the timber is a very great
mistake. But it is important that we
should have some forest laws protective
of the young growth. In Beaufort county
there is much timber land, that with a
prudent cutting over, protecting the
small growth. will reproduce good cut
ting within five years
The Washington and Plymouth Rail-
road will reach Washington within
thirty days. This gives us another
competing transportation line, as we
have now the Atlantic Coast Line Rail-
road and the Old Dominion Steamship
company
Yes, and here is another thing We
have Struck OIL. This is on the south
side of the river and some Ohio people.
experts in this kind of work are now
boring. The oil that has been reached
looks like the pure article, is volatile
and burns Well. If there is a good flow
1t means a fortune for those in posses.
sion.
We are developing our Tobacco inter-
ests, too, and our Chamber of Commerce
has now under consideration the question
of providing a sufficient fund TO per
manently establish a tobacco market in
Washington.
Little Washington is moving on. It's
diversity of interests and its advantage
Gus location for cheap freight rates.
means that we will double our population
in the next FIVE years without any boom
or hurrah."
1 see that it is claimed by Mr.. Chas.
Prices admirers that he has won the
case OF Coler & Son VS. the County of
stanly, in which the validity of the Stan
ly county bonds is involved" said a
lawyer yesterday. ''Ir does not appear to
me that the case Is any nearer adiudi-
Gated than before. Judge Morris. of the
Circuit court, holds that the bonds are
valid Judge James p. Boyd as was ex-
rtcted. held with him. while Judge Cor
dissented saying, I dissent from the
opinion of the court as we'll as from the
Judgment entered in this case. The case
viii now so to the Supreme Court OF the
United States where it will be settled"
why did | give Gen. Julian S. Carr
button from my uniform" said Mr. w.
ID. Smith, a brave Confederate soldier of
Raleigh, said yesterday. We'll, | will
tell you. ] had heard Gen. Cars Won
derfully good speech al the Soldiers
Home, in which he recited in better
way than ! had ever before heard the
deeds Of the Confederate soldiers, and
wanted TO show him how much | appre-
ciated his speech and my appreciation of
the man. The button / gave him was
one of the first North Carolina buttons
made during the Confederacy
There once lived in North Carolina a
promi0ent man who was often introduced
as the brother of tho Governor" He
became very tired Of it after awhile flor
he was big enough man to be known for
his own capacity and one day he said
mo. ] Am not the brother Of the Gov
ernor' he has the honor of being known
as my brother.
Mr.. y. X. Edwards, leading farmer
OF Greene county, was in Raleigh yes
terday. He is a brother OF Sheriff Ben
Edwards. That is a case in which the
sheriff has cause to be proud of his
farmer brother and the farmer has cause
10 be proud Of his official brother Mr.
Edwards is one of the best farmers in
Eastern North Carolra- Asked about his
crop last year, he said
II try TO raise everything l need at
home and have something for money
crop. | put eight acres in tobacco last
year and sold my tobacco at $170 per
are. have been making tobacco for
several years. and have never sold the
crop for less than 500 per acre