The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-12

manufactures of five and half mill |
lions of dollars
In 1905 the estimated value of the |
manufactured products is around |
$1e0. 100000; and that of the farm
products. $95,000,00O.
So that it may be readily observed !
that although there has been a Won
derful increase in the manufacture of
staples raised on the land of the State.
the increase of the land has also be- |
come vastly more valuable.
The cotton crop OF the last year
was about 100000 bales. and the cot
ton mills practically consumed this
amount using more than Il half L
million bales.
When it is considered that in 1880
the entire number of bales of cotton |
consumed in the entire Southern |
States was 225.0 bales. or just about
half of the amount consumed at the !
present time by the mills OF North !
carolina alone, the growth of the !
idea that the place to manufacture |
cotton is that which is near to the |
fields may be wildly perceived.
The Fields and The Mills.
In 1880 North Carolina with her |
49 small cotton mills consumed Is |
coo bales, or about per cent. of the |
cotton grown iii her borders; today |
she uses about $50, goo bales or prac- |
tically the exact amount which she |
raises The State was the third in |
point of time to engage in cotton
manufacture, its first mill having been |
located at the falls of the Tar River |
in Edgecombe, in 1918. In 1890 she |
stood tenth in point of output among |
the cotton manufacturing States, ana |
second only among the Southern |
States. She was at that time far be-
a CO. oh aft h ln e.ft
second to that State in point of cot
ton manufacture, the temporary char
acter of that secondary position is
well shown in the fact that in the |
decade between 1890 and 1900. while |
the cotton manufacturing interests OF
North Carolina increased 1861. those
of Massachusetts showed and increase
of only IL per cent. The day is not
far distant when the manufacture OF
cotton will be greater in North Gro
lima than in any State of the Union.
North or South.
immigration CT Right SOFT.
It is characteristic of the pvosperi-
" of q State, however that the very
growth OF its Industries should raise
q problem which presses deeper as
time goes on and the demands of
these great enterprises increase. This
most difficult OF these problems and
yet one the solution of which is as
. ert lin as the setting Of water to its
level OF the imlnutable laws of sup
ply ami demand, is the proble.n o.
The factories and the
fields are corollarics u one another
There must be no excessive demand
rom the one at the expense Of the
other. AS the FARMER needs a oui..
md y: ofitabie market. 50 the manu-
i4cturer OF raw material needs sure
and increasing source of supply at
us DOORS. The solution is one that is
not without its puZzling attributes
md that yet awaits only the share
II the sober ana industrious.
immigration to which this State !.
s entitled. The farms must have Ia
'or; so must the NJ lis. Friends in fact.
ach dependent on the other for the
arger measure of success there should
lot be even a Fictitious conflict in
heir respective interests. With the
of numbers of negroes. the :
arm supply of labor in some sections
las been appreciably affected; while
he number of white girls and boys =
hiding employment in the great man :
facturing plants is also a drain upon y
he farm lands of the States. To the !.
turdy immigrants of foreign lands q
offering from over-population and +
forn-out estates. the rich lands of
'orth Carolina, the opportunities she 4
olds forth for employment in her o
Mills constitute inducements which +,
eed only the sensible cooperation OF II
egitimate advertising to secure an 8
lement which will both win for itself d
prosperity not dreamed of before s
nd fit the State to the working out F
t the larger ends for which it has Ii
efinitely engaged itself To supply il
he mills with the needed labor and at | a
ne same time not rob the farms is the l;
n h. 10 -
hat it will be solved satisfactorily no c
ne who has watched an impoverished e
tate rise from poverty and desolation o
o wealth and industry can for a mo-
nent doubt But the immigrants e
Tanted are those who have integrity Il
nd place in their own lands; men who 7
re ambitious. who want larger |;
uccess rather than those fleeing from il
allure. r
1t is in fact hard to contemplate any C
f he needs of North Carolina as a
established by her general agr'cultu- II
al and industrial development with n
ut being impressed with this great G
eed of reliable immigration. The 1
OIL alone calls for it's thousands upon u
thousands of skilled agriculturalists q
'hese people fill the old countries to q
Verflowing. They work wonders on n
cant acreage and poor lands. What d
ouid they do, if they were introduced
o the possibilities of the rich river p
ottoms, with their deep black soil, n
o the sandy stretches of the trucking q
ardens of Eastern North Carolina, to II
he great natural orchards of the {
Vest, to the valleys with their per- l
ennial pastures, to the red lands ;
where the tobacco hangs it's heavy d
caves of bright leaf in the fall. to the II
caches of the cotton fields lying fall
CIV TO cultivation! Here are fortunes {
wing as Il We're open to the plucking u
Iere contentment formed for man by
atrre. here the climate which is !,
nade for man. mild and yet not en- y
voting. Ac tho great and diversified =
aterests of the farms grow in numbe.. :
nd importance, so can the me-
hanical, the industrial. the manu- ;
acturing interests be depended upon :
o keep pace with their productions !;
tep by step and measure by measure
4abor is always kin. 1t touches ever :,
he ground in its final analysis. The :
round is hampered without the fac :
DRY: the factory is built on shifty :
sands that does not come in close .
to the fields. :
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