The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-05-24
Makes Good Showing.
North Cardinals Progress as Shown
by the Nineteenth Annual Report
of the Commissioner of Labor
and Printing.
Richmond Times-Dispatch

and Printing.
Richmond Times Dispatch.
We have received from Hon. II. B.
Warner, commissioner, the nineteenth
annualreport of the Bureau of Labor
and Printing of the State of North
Carolina.
The first chapter is devoted the
progress of agriculture, and the COM
mission says that it is refreshing to
note the marked improvement along
agricultural lines in North Carolina
during recent years.
Farming" says he, "has, indeed,
come to be great and growing in
duStry; a science and not mere pro-
cess. Improved methods are being
rapidly introduced, and the drudgery
OF ancient times is now only a mem
ory in the mind of the Tar Heel agri-
culturist. The increased demand for
the product of the farm has render
ed the introduction of modern meth
DDS an absolute necessity, and given
new impetus to the farming indus
try in the State. The campaign of
education begun few years ago is
growing i'll interest and magnitude.
The realization that a more extend
ed knowledge OF agriculture itself was
needed led to spirit of investiga-
ton, which is lifting this important
industry out of the old ruts and
placing it upon a modern basis.
Farmers are becoming educated, and
manifest an increasing interest in
the preparation of their sons for the
fields of broad acres that now lie out
before them"
Agriculture lies at the basis of all
industry and prosperity, and as agri-
culture in North Carolina is prosper
ing, it follows as a cOrollary that
other branches of industry are pros
pering also. The report shows that
i'll the year 1905 there were PIP cot
ton mills, with a capital of $57, ,413,-
41S, employing 36,356 hands, be-
sides 9O3 officials, clerks, etc, with
an output valued at $47, ,254,O54.
This exhibit is all the more impress
sive when compared with that of
1900. In that year there were 1T
mills, with capital, in round num-
bers, of $33, 100000 and an output
valued at 2S,372,79S. This shows
an increase il, capital and in the value
OF output OF nearly 100 per cent. in
five years.
North Cardinals next greatest in
dustry is tobacco The capital in
vested in tobacco factories in 1900
was $50, ,O76,977 as against 81, ,O44,-
SSS in 1900, an increase of 500 per
cent; the value of product was, in
round numbers, $2S, 10000 as
against $4,000, 900 in 1900. Other
industries noted are flour and grist
mills, furniture and lumber, the whole
number of all industries aggregating
1922, with a capital of $141 ,OOO,OOO
employing over 10000 persons, and
with a total output of $142, $40, TIC.
The percentage i'll increase over 1900
in capital is JOG and in output, 81.
The report also shows that North
Carolina is making great progress in
education. and Mr.. Warner, who is an
editor, devotes one chapter to North
Carolina newspapers The report
shows there are ten morning dailies,
twenty evening dailies and one hun
| dred and seventy-fOur weeklies.
North Carolina has some of the best
daily newspapers in the South, and
there is no State, we think, which can
show larger number of able and
progressive weekly papers. The
Joint meeting last year of the North
Carolina and Virginia editors was so
agreeable that another such meet
ing will be held this year, and the
two associations will have a summer
outing together A most cordial
relationship has thus been established
between the press in the two States,
which we believe is as agreeable to the
North Carolina brethren.
But we digress. Mr.. Warner devotes
one chapter to "The Resort Indus
try of North Carolina" in which he
enumerates the various summer and
winter resorts of the State, and also
shows what they are worth in dol
lars and cents to his State. He has
done wisely to advertise this feature,
and we renew our suggestion that
Virginia possesses unsurpassed at
fractions as a summer and winter
resort, and if they were properly ad
verised, the number of pleasure-seek
ers in all seasons could be materially
increased to their pleasure and to oul
profit.
We congratulate North Caroline
upon the splendid exhibit which the
commissioner has made, and we con
gragulate our Brother Warner on his
splendid work.