The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-04-22
NORTH CAROLINA.

TIE messenger laleIy reIerTeQ WIFI
appreciation to the very excellent A
page illustrated issue OF the Raleigh
News and Observer. It is pleasant tc
say kind words Of a state contemporary
when 1t displays unusual interest and
activity in behalf OF this great and
glorious state, 1.-The rome OF the free
We desire to gather here and there
from its suggestive and fruitful pages
some figures and facts illustrative OF
the in North Carolina during
the last ten years and the present con-
sitions.
There are 1851 niles OF railroad.
Other line and branches are projected.
Strawberries greatly flourish and
along one hundred miles Of the Allan
tic Coast Linz the crop amounts in a
year to at least one million dollars. and
without interfering with other crops.
Ten years a cotton factory was a
thing to be visited as an object OF in
terest because OF it's rlrity. Today we
are manufacturing n hundred thous-
and more bales OF cotton than we grew
last year.
Ten years ago all our furniture or
nearly all, was manufactured abroad.
Today We are selling furniture in every
state in the union.
In 1890 there were six little furniture
factories in North Carolina with a CAPT
tai Of s125,350. The census o: 1900 shows
there are forty-four factories with a
capital of s1,547, 3O5- an increase Of
nearly a thousand fold in ten years.
There are s1z species OF birds. II
protected they will q no little to the
wealth OF the state.
The water power Of the French Broad,
HOminy, Salamanca and Ivy is unsur-
passed. Large capitalists have already
begun the development of this power,
which make Asheville a manufacturing
as well as a commercial centre and
health resort.
In 1850 North Carolina had 1858 me-.
ehanical and manufacturing establish
ments. In 1900 it a 7,226-lncrease 81
per cent. Capital invested in 1890, was
s32. 745. 995. In 1900 1T was SIC, 500, S94-
increase 1885 per cent. In 1890. value
Of products was s40,S75,4 50. In 1900, it
was ss4. 919663-increase 135 per cent. In
1880. it had 100, 2O9 spindles and Ito
loOms. In 1900 it had 1.133.4 32 spindles
and 25,469 looms. In 1850, capital $685.
800 In 1890, s33,O11, $40 capital. In 1880
products, s2.62S,996; in 1900. *2S,372, 1893.
Peanut crop averages 5000, 900 bushels
yearly and leads all the states.
Lumber mills. 101; value of products.
81. ss2,e58.
In 1890 there were AZ. with products
valued at .s15. O70.
Cotton seed oil factories. 81: value of
products. s2,676.S71.
In 1880 there were IL. with products
at s529, TAG.
North Carolina has produced more
gold than any other eastern state.
More precious stones are found in
North Carolina than any other southern
state.
North Carolina has more medical
herbs than any other state in the union.
North Carolina leads all states in the
OF mica, kaolin n corun-
dunn, and 1T is the only ntate where
Tnonazite is found.
No one state has so large a variety as
North Carolina of building stone, run
ming all the way from the coquina, or
shell rock of the coast to the marbles
of the west
North Cardinals herring fisheries are
the largest in the union. and the black
bass yield of Currituck is the largest
in. the country.
North Carolina is especially adopted
Of apples, peaches, grapes etc, is grown.
Apples bring high and fancy peaches
grown in sand hills bring SIS a crate Of
three pecks. 1t is ? growing industry.
1t is estimated that in the territory OF
the Atlantic Coast Line in North Caro-
lima alone is planted an acreage Of 5 1000
acres per annum in vegetables and fruit
potatoes, beans, peas, aspar-
agus, cucumbers, spinach, tomatoes,
and grapes, Strawberries, pears,
peaches and other fruits. The acreage
will average 100 packages OF vegetables
per acre per mum, making 100000
packages, that sell at an average Of
50 per package, making the trucking
and berry growing industries Of this
section worth lat close market value,
50. 80, 600 per annum.
North Carolina is a great agricultural
state, and it's best farmers have made
much to the acre or to the
can be shown in any state, either
or northern. The facts to
Loose joints, bow legs, big
and soft bones-mean
1t is atypical disease
for the best workings of SCOTS