Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-15
SOUTHERN PROSPERITY.
Curtis Tells of Advancement Made by
North Carolina and Tennessee.

North Carolina and Tennessee.
Chicago April William p. Cur
| tis. in a Knoxville, Tenn, special to
the Record Herald, says: The railway
trains in the south are running In sec
tions and all are crowded both ways.
The freight traffic is equally great. The
railroads haven't rolling stock enough
to handle either. passengers or freight
altho they have been buying new cars
and locomotives for several years. No
where in all the country has the pros-
pes;ty y wave ipaterialized in a more sat
/ is .ctory manner or to- greater ex-
tent, Nowhere has there beensgreater
activity in industrial and commercial
matters than in North Carolina and
Tennessee ] believe that the census
shows that North Carolina made more
rapid advancement in manufacturing
in the United States during the last ten
years than any other state and has in
creased the value of its output $50 per
cent. since 1900. The evidences of this
great development may be seen from
the car windows. New houses, new
factories, new business blocks new
churches and schools, new fences and
sidewalks are visible at every station
and at many places you can see acres
upon acres covered with brand new
cottages surrounding brand new fact
cries. that have been erected with both
southern and northern capital.
There is O decided movement of
emigrants from the mountain country,
westward, from western North Carolina
and eastern Tennessee to Texas, Okla
hon1a, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and
California. Th conductor of our
train told me that carloads of home
seekers leave the principal points on
the southern road for western country
every few weeks, being tempted by the.
representation of emigration and ems
ployment agents who are travelling
around among the mountain farms and
villages in the interest of western rail-
way and land companies. They carry
with them descriptive literature. hand
somely illustrated, and supplement 1T
with personal testimonials as to the op-
portunities for securing fertile lands
and comfortable homes at nominal
prices and employment at high wages
in the new settlements of Oklahoma.
in the oil regions of Texas, and on the
Pacific slope. The pioneers of this
movement who went out west two or
three years ago, have written home
confirming the representations of the
emigrant agents, and 1t is undoubtedly
true that most of those who have gone
west from this section have prospered,
for the demand for intelligent labor
thruout the western country has never
been so great.
The people of North Carolina and
Tennessee have always made first class
pioneers They have the character,
the energy, the strength and endurance
and a take-care- -of-yourself-u all
spirit that is surpassed
by the natives OF no other section. You
will find North Carolina and Tennessee
thruout the northwest. Ar
kansas and Texas We're chiefly settled
by them, and there has been a. steady
stream of young, sturdy. intelligent ma
tives of this region flowing in that di-
rection since the middle of last cen-
They are still kept in the family, but
the younger children move out where
they can find more room and better
This is the country of big families.
The Scotch Irish stock with which 1t
IS settled are great DfeeueIS VI iIisH'
and on the farms in the valleys and on
the mountains, it is common to find
families OF ten, twelve, fifteen and often
eighteen children, and there is no room
on the farm for the most of them when I
they grow up. There are very few peo- /
Pile of foreign birth. Most of the pop |
ulation are native Americans. 1t is
that in the mountains of
western North Carolina and eastern
Tennessee may. be found the purest
Anglo Saxon Celt blood of any section
of the United States. Most Of the pop-
ulation are Scotch-Irish.