The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-12
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a profit to the power producing works
in many instances as low and even
Tower than SIS per annum per horse
power used.
Other sources of great wealth in
the Easern and Central portions of
the State are, in the East, the old and
we'll established business of fisheries,
which give employment to a largely
increasing number OF people and nave
acquired a widening market tor
their products; and in the central
and Piedmont sections the great to-
ba,cco manufacturing plants which
have grown to almost their last at
tainment through years in which they
have made their sections rich ana IA
nous. The fisheries are largely de-
pendent on the supply, although
there are needed wise and conservd-
tive laws to protect their product, and
the tobacco industry is established.
This article is intended to deal more
with those industries in which there
has been a great awakening ana III
which the people see what might De
termed an almost virgin future, 10
those lines of effort which hold out
the promise to the pioneers of thrift
and business Sagacity. 1t is these
men and their capital who must come
into the State and make it meet It's
business destiny. The time has pass
ed for the slow working outward
from the INSIDE. Inc time Is mere
when the State should blossom as Il
rose in a night of time. To this mar
vel of growth requiring last effort
of development the people of the
State have contributed the toll OF
years. They have pointed the way
prepared the bud. Now the State
lies open and inviting to all who may
come and with earnest hearts assist
in it's more perfect fruitage.
The eternal Hills.
1t is IN the hills and among the
shadows of the giant mountains that
lie the most romantic visions of the
future. Here are lands that are cen
lurieS old and yet untouched. The
gallant people that inhabit them, III
ured through nature 10 the haru-
ships which make character, are
ready to aid. Yet it is task the
difficulty OF which is measured alone
by the prospect of it's returns. Rali-
loaus llusL be bdilt to zap The Tor
tresses of rock to open up the valleys
that lie among them. people must
come in and settle on the slopes. Cat
tie must browse in the valleys. Ihcre
must be great orchards for the apples
that are sweeter and better tHah
those that grow elsewhere. Thef"
must be great factories for the manu-
facture of the woods that crown me
mountain sides; there must be gliat
mills and deep works in the Deily
of Nature to extract the gold ana w
gems that lie hidden among the
structure of the Old up-heayals.
These great nilis have been ikened
in their beauty and granGett u tht
Alps and the section in when tnty
raise their heads has been called the
American Switzerland. IN more than
the aspect of nature is the coinpaIi'
son ait. Here is the home Of th-
NJ hn
pastures which await on the recog-
milton as their value as country
fitting for the herdling OF cattle ana
the production of the dairy Apart
from these things is the wealth IN
minerals which are yet unexpected
except to show that they are there
and that their wealth waits on the fu-
ture.
The tourist idea, the appeal TO Ill
health that lies in the bracing, re-
fined air of the mountains has been
recognized. Asheville, a city of the
hill-tops, is already world-famed. It's
hotels every year attract-and once
they attract they hold-thousands OF
visitors. Waynesville, all the coun-
try about these peaks is filled every
season with seekers after pleasure
and after health, people who wish to
forget the din and the dust and see
mature crudely drawn and feel the
rest that is inseparable from the spec
tacles of her grandeur.
But the west is coming to rely more
and more each year upon itself. Out
side of the great natural asset OF IT,
timber, it holds opportunities for va
rious industries. Among these are
ming, cattle raising, fruit culture. The
apples of the mountains grow wild in
an abundance which is almost re-
proach to husbandry. They should be
made into an industry which would
in a few years stagger the State with
it's magnitude and its profits. Already
there are immense tannerieS, the
mines are being opened up.
In minerals, it has long been said
that the State of North Carolina pro-
duced them in greater variety than
any other. That is still true. The
great western discoveries have retard-
ed development in mining but there
has in late years been revival which
is being conducted sanely yet profit
ably. New methods of treating gold
ores have robbed the placer works of
their monopoly. And gold is today
probably mined in the State. Copper
and iron mining can also be profitably
developed throughout a large section
of the State. 1t is in mica and kaolin,
however, and in the great quarries of
granite and marble that we may per-
haps look for the most profitable and
largest development within the next
few years.
The Sand Hill section.
Almost challenging the West is the
development in the central portions OF
the State of the Sand Hill sanitorium
There are towns built up in a few
years, magnificent hotels, great reach
eS of estates which depend almost en-
tirely upon the Northern visitor for
support They give value received
and both benefit and price are great
1t took genius to discover that the
ozone was marketable product;
thousands now hail it as such The
men who made the section where the
sands and the pines combine to give
such climate as cannot elsewhere be
found on earth saw far and aeted on
the quick instinct for business tof
their race. Such places as Southern
Pines and Pinehursr-that remarkable
model town"-are of benefit to the
state in ways far beyond the incidental
increase of taxable values and the
money that is left within our borders
by the tourists. Thc- win new citizens
and inspire the old to new efforts. IN
originality Of endeavor often lies the