The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-24
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The captain might speak and I might
write volumes, and we could not ex-
plain the case better than that.
These valuable lands were formerly
held in large tracts, and the big land
owners tried for long time. in spite
Of the changed conditions of forty-odd
years ago. to hold them In large acre
age. They resorted to renting parcels
to negroes, but as negro labor became
more and more triaing the lands were
neglected and became less and less
valuable.
Smaller Farms Pay Better.
It has only been within the last de-
cade that the owners and the descend
ants OF the former owners grew wise
enough to put the surplus lands on the
market. Now they are being cut up
into small farms, ranging from fifty
to 900 acres, and are being sold to peo-
pie from the West. the North and the
South. Messrs. Jeffreys. Hester & Co.,
who for many years handled only tim
Der lands, have for the last decade been
doing a great deal in the way of SELL
ing off and settling up these lands
with up-to-date farmers from various
points OF the compass. Cotton raisers
and bought lands which they have
found bring cotton as we'll as the fields
they left at their former homes, and
they are making a big success raising
the feecy substance for the markets.
Farmers have come in from the frozen
Northwest and shown the ancient
Mecklenburgers how to make money
raising hay and hogs and sheep and
cattle.
Northcrners have come in and dem
onstrated that the Mecklenburg hills
and valleys can make all manner Of
vegetables to supply the canneries with
raw material. and that wheat fields can
be made to pay here as well al in
Minnesota.
A Great Service.
In the meantime the wide-awake
native has held on to tobacco as his
good money crop, while he has been
learning all Of the new tricks in farm
ing that the newcomers brought along
with them. The general result is that
clay subsoil, around Chase City has
become a wealth roducer of greatest
variety.
Jeffreys. Hester & Co. have done
wonderful service to their country in
cutting up these big farms and selling
them off to as fine citizenship as
could be found. and nobody begrudges
them the good money they are making
in doing this good work. Within the
past few years they have sold farms
to over a hundred men. which farms
are located within six miles of Chase
City. thus adding something like 500
ty. It IS gratifying fact that every
one of these newcomers are satisfied
and are prospecting. 80
Whenever new prospector comes in
I Jeftreys, Hester & Co. take him to
/ these people and let them tell the story
of the wealth of the lands of old Vir-
ginia, the kindness of the people. the
healthfulness OF the country, and the
moral tone OF yirginians, and nothing
more needs to be done to effect sale.
Labor-Savers Everywhere.
There Is said to be not as much as
100 acres of land in the territory
have been describing that cannot be
worked with improved farm machinery,
and there is not farm upon which
all manner OF machines from the disk
pillow and corn planter up to the mower
and reaper and binder are not In ac-
tive use. The labor problem does not
disturb the people here. 1t may be
added that there is no land anywhere
better watered, than this. 1t would be
hard to find a fundred-acre tract any
where hereabouts through which a
stream does not pass, and on which a
spring may not be found,
have gone somewhat in detail
about these things In order that the
reader may understand that Chase City
has a sure foundation on which it has
built, and Is still building a magnifi-
cent and fourishing back country that
has not yet reached 1.-THE of It's pos.
sihilities.
Enterprise and Push.
The town is among the younger of
Virginia municipalities, having been
chartered only thirty-fve years ago,
The population is about 400 to 5000,
although all OF these do not live ex-
achy within the corporate limits, for
be 1t remembered that the town when
Ut was Incorporated was eerrymandered
10 some extent SO as to manage that
fhen eyer-present negro problem. The
Onincorporated part will in due time
be annexed, now that the negro is
no longer In the lumber pile.
II Is an enterprising population, and
the people have made this a manufac-
turing centre OF no mean Importance
ana Of this largest wagon factorirS N