The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-10-08
Wilson's
IMPORTANT STATISTICAL WORK.

In addition to capably performing these new and valuable duties
the Department is still progressing along the lines for which it was
originally established. Its reports are the chief medium through
which the world at largeskeeps track of the wonderful industrial and
manufacturing enterprise that is SO great matter Of pride since the
reestablishment of good government in the State. It's statistics
painstaking, thorough and iscriminating-prese each year a record
that Is expressed In terms Of cold figures, but is nevertheless the
most loqnentHommentar that can be read by patriotic North Care
Iinians. The tables condensing the condition Of manufacturing enter
prise, that show the widespread activity In every character of indus
try, that set forth from every section of the State the opportunities for
investment of capital and the future awaiting the ehome-seeker and
wage-earnerl are beyond computation of value, both as advertising the
possibilities of the State abroad and as means of seEknowledge at
home Wonderful progress achieved by home energy creates of itself
the need of foreign capital; universal employment at good wages
creates of itself the need for labor. The activity of the State along
all lines of effort and production, while it has created capital and
given employment, has rendered both more capital and more labor
imperative. The value of a comprehensive report, therefore, of the
numbers, the size and output of every mill and factory, which calls
attention to the improved condition of labor and points the need
for workers, which gives in detail the yet latent possibilities Of a rich
land Cargely undeveoped, although In the very throes of impatient
indeed, is shown by the eagerness with which the edition of 5000
copies Is almost instantly absorbed by every State In the Union and
Is called upon to answer from prospective capitalists, homeseeker
and laborers, and by the not infrequent instances where actual invest
ment and actual settlement by desirable citizens from other States and
countries can be traced to the direct influence of the Departments pub
locations.
APPRECIATED BY THE INDUSTRIES.
done away from the public eye. The Natchful auditing of thousands
of dollars of accounts, the economical purchase Of thousands of dollars
of supplies, the skllful exposition and appraisement of industrial
facts is not spectacular labor, but a work of the highest value and the
largest returns. The Bureau is the agency of a wise Government to
practically and intelligent1y supervise an important phase of its
administration and to record and give impetus. to the industrial, edr
cational and moral advancement that has succeeded the awakening
from political folly. That it has been able to SO adequately measure
up to these requirements with the limited means at It's disposal is a
tribute alike to the efficiency and faithfulness of it's officers and the
cheerful and practical aid that has been lent it by the leaders in all
lines of business, industry, manufacturing and agriculture in the
State, who have shown their belief in the value of its work by cor
operating to make it thorough and effective. sH