The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-10

houses, boarding houses and hotels, and
2O,352 persons occupying cottages for the
summer only. The following table shows
how profitable the business has BEEN
Person employed by summer
people and for their enter
ment NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1854
Wages paid to persons thus
employed ..................$ 539, 901 10
Cash received from summer
people u, 5fi ,So0.Uc
Estimate of cash received for
railroad fares ..... 600, 900 90
Cash received for stage fares. 63,275.50
Cash received for lake steam
err fares .............. 6O,S69.21
Invested in cottages and
hotels and other buildings
for summer use ............ 937, 7S5.00
Total volume of summer
business and investment
for 1899 ..................$6,6 COS, 1854. IL
These figures demonstrated that "tne
summer people industry brings more
money to the people than any other sin
gle industry. 1t pays New Hampshire
better than the cotton crop pays North
Carolina.
North Carolina is ideally located to
make the industry of entertaining pleas
ure and health seekers its best paying
mits only a few months for the
$7,000O00 yearly receipts. North Carolina
has climate that makes it an almost
all the-year-round resort. 1t has mil
lions invested, entertains thousands
every year, and it is already an industry
of large proportions, but with the invest
vertising, this business could be made to
yield millions of dollars every year where
now it yields thousands. Mr.. Tuft, the
successful Boston man of business, has
invested a million dollars in his magnifi-
cent winter resort, Pinehurst. 1t Is
crowded every season by Northerners
who do not stop to ask the price. What
he has done there could be duplicated
in dozen places in the health giving
pine lands between Raleigh and the
Sauth Carolina line. Much has been done
at Southern Pines. A new Boston syndi-
cate will build another resort after the
style of Pinehurst. There is no climate
in the world so good for persons having
tendency to pulmonary troubles. 1t is
within twenty-four and forty eight hours
OF the Middle and New England States,
where the rigorous climate numbers many
victims Of lung trouble They have been
going to Southern California and Colo
RADIO, enduring the fatigue of long trip,
and now they find a far finer climate
within little more than a days journey.
In the Eastern part of the State, North
Carolina has the finest fishing sailing and
surf bathing on the Atlantic coast, and
is an ideal summer resort. With modern
hotels and the comforts OF the Northern
places that attract the people, thousands
would be glad to spend their summer at
Morehead, Wrightsvilre, Mays Head,
Oracoke and other seaside resorts. In
the winter the waters of Eastern North
Carolina afford the finest duck hunting
in the world. Already a number of rich
men from the North have their club houses
and come annually to enjoy the sport of
duck-hunting. A thousand would come
where now one iS entertained IL the
world knew of the fine sport and hotels
Piedmont country many come for the
fine shooting. Many more could be in
duced to come.
In Western North Carolina-"the
Switzerland of Arnerica"-already thou
sands Of visitors come every year. There
is no place like the North Carolina
mountains in all the world, and those
who come once are sure to return. The
magnitude of the summer people in
ciated by North Carolinians, but it is
small compared [ % what it should be. II
New Hampshire I eceives 100000 600 yearly
from its summer visitors, Western North
Carolina ought t receive ten times that
sum from its SUI amer and winter tourists.
TIL ESTABLISHING OF of the Appalachian
Do. III Il 1f he
travel through that charming country an
hundred fold a id make this industry the
greatest in the whole country. But, with
out depending upon that, this State
should leave ns stone unturned to develop
that profitable business.
1t is, perhaps, too late this year to OBJ
tain full statiatic ), but by another year the