The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-11-03

tAstotrss woods, make Sake an ideal
location for the manufacture OF bet
Z Ger dishes, fruit baskets. etc, The low
4 grounds nlong tho stanton and Little
Koanuku Rivers aud the smaller
streams herenbouts produce corn.
world without end. and shucks and 9th
or material for tho manufacture or
mattresses could ba Ind In untold
quantities. A mattress factory ut Sake
would pay tremendous dividends.
Furniture Outlook.
Other industries, both great and
Email, might BIO mentioned. Among them
furniture factory or two would do
well here for tho simple reason that
the raw material is near at hand and
cheap enough, to be most attractive
10 the manufacturers.
AS before stated the people OF Sake
and tho surrounding stct.on would
encourage IN every way possible tho
establishment OF such Industries here,
The Village as II Now IN.
The village of Sake is advantageous
ly lccat d where good water power
can be easily developed. and as far
ms 1t has been built UP in a business
way 1t Is alive and active. There
Is here a Touring mill Of forty barrels
per day capacity. owned and operated
By the Jersey Improvement Company.
and sawrlil by the same company.
These enterprises are operated by wa
ter power. There is also here and |
In active operation first-cluss wheel
right shop. four general stores, which
do a business of 100000 to s125.o0o
per year. The merchants are the Jer-
eny Company, OF which w. II. Crews
is the prt sident and general manager: |
IT, C. Moon, T.. a. Darlington and |
Moody s; Darlington.
Coed schools are in the neiEhbor-
hood and churches abound new
Methodist Church Is now being built
ana will oe dedicated between nov
and Christmas.
But after all SAKE depends largely
upon the farming interest. the foun-
dation of all prosperity in Virginia.
Right on the hill overlooking the vii.
lage is the State test farm This prop
erty was bought by the county several
years ago and donated to the State.
IT Is now being successfully operated
under the auspices OF the Agricultural
Department as u test and experimental
farm.
Good Work Done.
The good work of this test farm and
the many valuable lessons it has II
'dusHe anu Is now teaching nave been
heretofore told of In this column.
While its tests and experiments arc
valuable TO the farmers all over the III
state II Is but natural that the ngri-
culturists in the immediate section Get
the greater benefits from 1t because
they can see with the naked eye the
results of the valuable tests that are
from time TO time and form season to
season made. while others must study
the tests on paper In order to derive
benefit from them. The simple fact /,
that the test farm Is located right
here necessarily adds to the value OF
the lands that i am now writing
about. Evidence of this is furnished
IN the fact that within the past few
years valuable stock farms have been
established near here. among them
the Cottage Valley farm and Mr.,
slrudwick's stock farm of 1000 acres
both OF which are object lessons with
In themselves.
Churches md Schools.
Surrounding SAKE are some of TIL.
best farms in the State, and nowhere
on the face of the broad earth can
there be found a better. more moral. |
God-teartng and home-loving people /
IMAM these sturdy men and women of |
Charlotte county.
Churches and schools abound AMI
All OF the modern educational facilities
are In evidence at every hand. The
rural free delivery system of the Post
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