The gold leaf., 1910-08-11
EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.
Great PoteutiaIIties of This Favored
Section-An Incompatible Climate
and a Region of Vast Productive
ness,
Charlotte Observer.

Charlotte Observer.
Eastern North Carolina is begin
ming to command something OF the
attention which it's proven potenti-
alities are due. "The logic of the
situation here" observes The Will
mington Star in this connection, sis
an Incompatible climate and a region
of vast productiveness while the near
ness OF the region to great consum-
ing population in the North is an as
surance that land values in Eastern
North Carolina are not only per-
manent but inevitably will increase
as the possibilities OF this part OF the
country become known and undergo
the development OF which it is capa-
ble." Within "a hours of the great
Northern markets by refrigerator
train. Eastern North Carolina truck
ers have over those OF Florida, Texas
and other more Southerly sec
tions an advantage for which their
earlier season does not by any means
compensate.
At the same time the comparative
earliness OF it's season operates as
an advantage over coast truckers
farther north, whose proximity to
market since the Eastern North Caro-
lima trucker is near enough, consti-
tutes no sufficient offset. The Star
notes with qualification the fact
that not only have better productive
methods increased the corn yield,
giving farmers a surplus for sale
where they formerly bought from
the West, but that shipping green
corn or "roasting-ears" to Northern
markets has sprung up as a new in
dustry. "Thiss season." says our
observant contemporary, immense
quantities of green corn have been
shipped to the Northern markets by
farmers who few years ago did not
dream that they could do a good
business growing corn for the table" "
On July 18th over two thousand
crates of table corn were shipped
from Clinton, Sampson county
showing, we note with pleasure, that
work did not stop throughout the
State'on this great convention day.
Eastern North Carolina, in short is
rising to the level of it's newly dis
covered opportunities.
The gulf stream from the south
comes very near Wilmington, while
the cold artic current which washes
our Atlantic coast and is largely re-
sponsible for it's greater coldness as
compared with corresponding lati-
tudes across the ocean or on our own
Pacific coast undergoes wide defiec-
tion by the iutting triangle apexed
at Cape Hatteras. Probably the
sounds and sandbanks which have
been often eXecrated for their effect
upon navigability makes some re-
turn by rendering this section es-
pecially suitable for the truckers
purposes. At any rate, climate here
is mild out of relation to it's latitude
as compared with other coast neigh
borhoods. The ocean, a tempering
influence even when chilled by cold
currents, is more than ordinarily
kind. Southeastern North Carolina,
in particular, can compare with
neighborhoods considerably farther
south. And, as The Star says, ex-
cellent trucking land is abundant. A
section which thought it's principal
source OF wealth gone when the pine
forests had been cut away has dis
covered a new source not liable to
exhaustion. Land once considered
so worthless that a mans poverty
was said to increase with the amount
he owned is making men rich. Native
people are learning the use of their
opportunity and settlers are coming
in. We felicitate Eastern North Caro-
lima. 1t has struck the full trend OF
that varied but everywhere substan-
tial progress which pervades the
State.