The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-10-31
Upbuiiding the State and Vice Versa.
Raleigh Evening Times.

Raleigh Evening Times.
The Salisbury Evening Post, III the
course OF an editorial printed last
week, said in effect that matters hah
come to that pass where some news
napers we're actually afraid to com
mend the good that railroads do III
building up the country in which
they operate, lest some tongue
loosed liar should attack them as
ssubsidized' railroad organs and the
like.
. But it is some consolation to know
that not all the newspapers OF North
Carolina are such rank towards as at
least few of them are shown to be
in that declaration.
AS an illustration OF what one rail-
road, the Southern, is doing in build
ing I'D North Carolina and the other
Southern States which it permeates
and develops industrially, the follow
ing, taken from the publication,
Opportunities of Today, and re-
produced in the Charlotte Observer
yesterday, is printed.
1t will be seen that through the
direct aid and instrumentallty OF
the industrial department OF the
Southern Railway, twelve hundred
factories were actually located along
the line OF that railroad during the
last year, i'll one year.
And how much better of are the
people of North Carolina as whole,
individually, in their everyday life
and collectively as citizens OF great
State that ought to become much
greater, by reason OF the millions
which have not come into our State
and have passed us by because OF
the proscriptive, populistic, class
against-class gospel OF hate that has
for some years been promulgated In
North Carolina?
But to the story OF Industrial ac-
tivity, which is told in "Opportunl-
ties of Today"
Twelve hundred factories located
along our lines last year. said Indus
trial Manager Richards, OF the Southern
Railroad, when he was in Chicago re-
Gently. ''This is the result OF u dozen
years of preliminary work on our part.
When we started to convert people to
the idea that the South was a good
place for factories, we found skepticlsm
and Indifference We sent our agents
and our literature not only to all parts
OF the United States, but to England,
France, Germany and every section oil
the old world where there was possibility
of interesting capital or people III our
Southern country, | believe we are the
first railroad that ever undertook this
industrial work upon so broad scale.
l. I, -,riyl vyYr hot 4 hD
advertising man would call the follow
I'D system When we secured an inquiry
as to q factory site or any other contem-
plated enterprise in our territory, we
Immediately began securing the informa-
ton that the inquirer would desire. We
were not content with gcneralities. We
sent exact figures. We gathered these
for them without revealing to even Our
own people the name OF our lnquirers
Probably not over two people outside OF
myself in the employ OF Our road would
know that so and 80 was inquiring re
garding a factory site or corn area, OF
water-power or anything else. 1t fire.
Ouently takes two years for us to get
Just the information that will enable the
inquirer to find what he wants. We then
introduce him to the right people who
can complete the negotiations.
To-day the world knows that the
South is a land of success. 1t knows
there are conditions of climate and re
sources with which capital and labor
can work out SUCCESS.
Il am glad your magazine is dedicated
to bringing the facts regarding such op
portunities as we have to the attention
of opportunity seekers. You can count
upon our doing everything in our power
to aid your efforts