The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-08
RAW MATERIAL AND
RICH BACK COUNTRY
Business Mems Association to
Make Boykins Moye--Wagon
Factories. Cotton Mills
and All Manner OF
Industries 10
Flourish.
ny FRANK $. wooDsoS,

BOYKISS. VA. March THE strength
OF the middle West lies in the large
number Of manufacturing towns, many
OF them small In the matter OF poDula-
ton, but rich In the products OF various
manufacturing establishments that
have been converting the raw material
OF the country into the finished goods
to be sold all over the world.
The South has from time immemorial
staked its all on the products of the
farm and for generations the raw ma
terfaI made on Southern lands and that
grew from them naturally has been
shipped to Northern and Western fac
tories. TO he made into all manner of
goods. and thus manufacturing towns
beyond the boundaries of the South
have grown rich on the trimmings"
from Southern products.
a Timely Awakening.
The South has within the past decade
walked up to this anomalous situation.
and is now demanding OF the Northern
and Western manufacturer that lie
work up the raw material right where
II lis grown. Tile manufacturer readily
sees the wisdom of the proposition. for
his little children In the primary grades
of the public schools can produce the
figures TO show that lie saves big
freight money when he stops paying
the fhiiTcauS 10 Ndui ,tlsHDeT, totlOH
etc. from the Southern forests and
fields ana then pays again when he
scatters the finished goods over the
world.
This matter of freight is but one IF
the ANY advantages of locating fac
tories next to the raw material, but 1T
Is enough to furnish just here the "
PLANTATION for the establishment of COZ
ton factories and all other kinds NJ
90 t~,.tnx ft, S,,ttyt hell
slant removal from the tirnberlcss
prairies OF The West and the frigid and
barren hills OF tho North.
BOykIns Comes to the Front.
Virginia towns. which are said to he
glow to make changes In old establish
ed customs, may have been for while
little behind those of some of Nir-
gin,a's sister Southern states In taking
advantage of the new order of things.
but Virginia towns are now walked up.
and they are vieing with each other
In letting the wor.. know what al
yantages they have 10 offer to lie
manufacturer The result is the eyes
OF the Middle West, the Northwest and
the North are turning TO the fields and
the forests of tine Old Dominion. The
time Is not far distant when the manu-
featuring towns of the old state will
dot her map in every direction. for no
State in the Union Is richer in raw
material.
Boykins. long mere village. n
way station on the Seaboard Air Line,
less than fifty miles from deep water
and less than Il hundred from the can't
taleof the State. and in the very centre
of some of the richest timbered lands
and cotton growing and trucking fields
to be found In the two States of Nir-
ginia and North Carolina. proposes 20
II al
without any "ery special effort IT has
within the past five years thrown OF
its village clothes, and is now full
Pledged and regularly incorporated
town OF 600 as lively and energetic
people as are to be found in any COM
munity of the State.
The place has grown from village
to beautiful town with wide and we'll
kept streets. handsome homes. lovely
yards. ample school and church facili-
ties, considerable manufacturing inter-
est and a dozen or fifteen np-to-date
merchants and two we'll conducted and
substantial country banks.
Better Things to Conc.
The modest people OF Boykins do not
boast OF what they have accomplished
in a few years past. but they can and
do entertain the visitor with cheering
fl is and figures to show what they
can and intend to accomplish in the
near future. and they produce facts
and figures which readily convince one
that Boykins is destined at no distant
day to add immensely to the taxable
values of tho old Commonwealth. Will
factories utilizing the abundance 81
lumber that surrounds Boykins for
distance of thirty or forty miles. AM
the cotton to be grown from the ricl
lands Of two States. this town will Ut
among the leading manufacturing
centres of Virginia. and where prof
table and successful manufacturing Il
going on wealth is to be found ant
taxable NIlues are increased.
Boykins As 1t Now Is.
Boykins is located in the southern
part of Southampton county, within
three miles OF the North Carolina line
1t is large and important shipping
station on the main limo of the Sea
board Air Limo Railway and the termi
nus and junction point Of the Roanoke
and Tar River Railway, which is opur
ated by the Scaboard, This line runs
thirty-fve miles to Lewiston, in BERTH
county. N, c., ana penetratcs what i
probablyt the richest lumber and cotton
producing section of the Old Nortl
State. The town is fifty miles from
Portsmouth and Norfolk, thus havnt
ample facilities to afford transportn
tion by sea. The time Is not far dis
tant, perhaps, when electric lines vii
be built. giving Boykins, additlonn
ways and means to reach the vast tim
bered forests and the boundless cottol
fields of the two States,
Artexian Visits ana Water Power.
Tho town is we'll watered. diggers o
arteslan wells having struck here In
cxhaustihle veins of the purest an
best of water There are thirty-eigh