Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-11-20
POINTERS.
Facts That Should Weigh With
Effect Upon Those Who Control
Effort and Make Progress.

The star of empire is moving South
at a rapid rate, and it is only a ques-
ton of a few years until the South
will be the richest manufacturing
section, as it is the richest in produc-
ing raw material, Of any part of the
country. Horace Greeley's advice
is twenty years out of date. The
greatest Industrial achievements are
yet to be achieved-and achieved in
the South. The flood is just begin
ming to set in. 1t has taken the cot
ton mill men of New England thirty
years to learn that nowhere can cot
ton goods be manufactured as cheap
ly IS in the South, where the raw
material can be made into the fin
ished product with such little ex-
pense; where the cotton boil a be
thrown, so to speak, with the hand
from the cotton patch to the cotton
mill, as is a veritable fact with the
two prosperous cotton mills of Colds
boro, and also with the Royal Elastic
Felt Mattress factory. But the les
son has been learned at last, and our
thrifty brother of the North is be-
ginning his march Southwark
Every man gets his living in one
of three Ways-he earns it, begs
it, or steals it. If somebody does
not give it to him, and he does not
get it by improper methods, he must
work for it. Tho fact is, a man who
works not only develops a higher
degree of independence, but also has
more ~self-respect than the idler. This
is a busy age, and he who would
live must work. The idler is not
only useless, but he is an encum-
brance to progress. If a nan is sober,
honest, intelligent and energetic, he
is bound to succeed.
Diversified agricultural interests
are making a stronger appeal every
! year to the farmers of this section.
Most of those who have undertaken
the culture of grapes and other fruits,
trucking products and poultry and
stock, have succeeded far beyond
{ what they had expected, and by
degrees the farmers are opening their
eyes to the broad field before them
| outside of cotton and tobacco.
No section of the South offers
! greater opportunities for successful
truck farming of every variety than
does the fertile fields and salubrious
climate with which Goldsboro is
surrounded and favored. Hence this
section offers just the opportunities
most desired by thrifty and intelli-
gent immigration-such as build up
and improve homes and lands and
develop progress and create Wealt!.
for their communities and them
selves. G~oIdsboro, with her superb
climate, fertile lands, unexcelled
railroad facilities, prosperous fac
affords a most inviting field for just
the kind of immigrants we most
desire.
GoIdsboro and Wayne county
thanks to the sagacity, public spirit
and energy of our excellent Chair
man of the County Board of Commits
sioners, Mr.. c.. f. Herring-are
now fully alive to the advantage of
good county roads and are steadily
and daily at work improving our
public roads. This means much for
Goldsboro, and also for the conven-
fence, comfort and betterment of the
farmers who make Goldsboro their
market town. By the time the mar
| keting of the next tobacco and cotton
crops arrives it is to be hoped every
public road leading out from Colds
| boro to the county limits will be such
! as the County Chairman hopes to
make them.
An argument for good roads has
been made by an engineer lwho has
estimated the cost of transporting
goods over the highways. He figures
that the cost of moving one ton by
horse power over one mile of dry
sandy road 81 cents; ove wet sand,
80 cents; over ruts and mud, SO
cents; over broken stones and ruts,
| 26 cents; over an earth road that is
dry and hard, Is cents; over a COM
pact gravel road, 8.8 cents; over a
broken stone road in good condition,
8 cents; over stone paving, 5.33
cents; over asphalt, 81 cents. It is
argued that many millions of dol