Goldsboro weekly argus., 1909-01-07
EASTERN NORTH
CAROLINA.
What 1t Has to Offer Pros
pectOrs as to Invest
ment and Living.
Excerpts From The Beaufort Look
out That Should Encourage
Our Section-Dwellers and
Entice. Others To Come
and Abide. With Us.
Beaufort Lookout.

Beaufort Lookout.
Eastern North Carolina has a special
feature Of it's own. Our swamps will
one day be drained; and when that
shall have been done. an immense ara
BILE territory will be opened up for set
tlement and cultivation. The pros
pective yield, in fruits and vegeta bles,
is far beyondsthat ofaalmost any other
region in the United States. The land
thus to be brought into market is i'm
mensely fertile, it will require little en-
two crops in every year. Drainage is
the crying need of this section, and, if
undertaken, it will repay many, many
times its cost, whatever that may be.
Add to what hasaiust been said, our
climate = It is 5unequalled; cool in
summer, warm in winter, and amaz-
ingly uniform. The total range OF the
therm ometer sduring the year, scarcely
exceeds sixty degrees. The variation
is less than IT'D is, even in England,
lightful sea breeze. With the growth
of the country ,sand as the charm of our
coast comes to beg generally known, it
will become the great EAmerican Riv-
iera, the most popular of all seaside re-
sorts. Thesentire shoreEwill be taken
up forscottages andihotels, as the coast
Of New Jerseykhas been.
OF all this prosperity, Beaufort is the
natural and inevitable centre, particu-
larly if thesgreat inland waterway is
completed from here to Boston, the
harbor is enlarged and deepened, the
inlet fortified, coaling station estab
lished on these waters, and Beaufort
becomes a seaport, from which steam
ers ply to.I IEuroped and, through the
Panama canal, tosthe western coast of
South America and to- Asia.
These great and beneficial changes
will not, however, come without hu-
man agency and effort. Two things
are essential; immigration, and for
eign capital. What is land til,
which is unoccupied? Nothing. Where
are the peopleacomingifrom to occupy
and deyelopait? From elsewhere. Our
own people care leaving US. Their
places must be taken by others. And
what can labor accomplish ,unaided by
capital? Whithertcan we look tor the
capital required, if notiabroad?
The conclusion. to- be drawn from
this train of thought is that the North
Carolinian, especially the Eastern
North Carolinian ,Lw no discourages i'm
migration, is an obstacle to progress
and an enemy to his section. We are
certainly otaIcal1ed to discriminate
and new w-comers. But itaiis not only
unjust, tits unwise and impolitic, to
discriminate against them.
As the crowihies, Beaufortis as near
~ as possible, just halfway between
Sandy Hook and Jacksonville, Flori-
Rock land, Maine, and Key West, and
just about half way betwe cen st. Johns,
n. B., and Havana. In point of vim
ter climate, it is much further south
than these figures indicate; for the
gulf strem rushes northward to meet
the tourist, and that reservoir of tropi-
cal heat, not yet chilled by the north
ern winter blasts and Arctic icebergs
flows within twenty miles OF this part
OF the Atlantic coast. In winter Beau
fort boasts the temperature of Naples,
Italy. Will Northern papers please
la lie notice.