The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-08-01

ing on Rapidly. and Where the Nat
ing Energies Of More People of the
Right SOrt-Educational and Indus
ia Progress.
Especial to News and ObSerVer.)
Rose Hill, n. c., July 29.-Along the
,Goldsboro and Wilmington, is a sec
ton Of country eighty-five (85) miles
dong most wonderful as a ver1table
truck garden. The possibilities Of this
section from an agricultural standpoint
are vast indeed. The great variety Of
her soils makes this the home Of all
kinds of early vegetables and fruits
and berries as Well as the staple
crops cotton and tobacco. Large
drainage districts are being projected
to develop vast corn fields in the YER
gin swamp lands, the equal of any in
Egypt Wonderful progress has been
made along all lines Of endeavOr toe
past ten years, and the story of its
future development VIII be the bright
est pag in North Cardinals history.
Great are the natural resources, and
the field is ripe for young men of
brains and cash who are real promot-
ers of large enterprises of all kinds.
These people are doing well. as the
deposits in the chain of new banks
from Goldsboro to Wilmington will
show. Our home boys now need to be-
come of all kinds Of manu-
featuring enterprises where his ac-I
cumulated capital can find profitable
employment, and then truly with these
added industries, this can be the sec
ton peculiarly blessed above all 9TH
ers in the State. |
Get your map and mark the point
just half way between Goldsboro and
Wilmington, and this is Rose Hill.
Few. if any. Of the towns on this
stretch of railroad have shown the
progress in the last ten years found
here 1t is first as a cotton market OF
Duplin county as we'll as the leader In
the shipment Of strawberries to North
ern markets. She has doubled her
population in the past ten years and
now makes shipments of her products
valued at one half million dollars per
year
For a number of years an issue Of
bonds to improve the public roads OF
Duplin county as a whole has been agi-
tated and to no avail. Rose Hill town
ship is first to a the initiative in the
coun+v and issue bonds to sand-clay
every mile (309 of her public roads.
Soon the convict force Will be at work
and every man will then live on a good
road to town. On all sides can be seen
intensive methods of farming that
have their lessons for those wsoo will
follow in the footsteps OF progress.
Here the farms are small. and almost
every nan has his little home and his
vine and fgtree and lives the indie
pendent life. Then indeed will it be
ideal when the roads are completed
and every home is served by the rural
telephone, rural free delivery n is
situated in the quiet country on the
broad "Appian Way that leads to
Rome-even to Rose Hill as the CENTER
of radiation of this system of town
ship highways.
WitS her central graded school
building. when the roads are finished.
n conditions are perfect for the ex-
pertinent Of a township school where
the mote pupils are conveyed at
the expense of the school fund. where
indeed the conditions are ideal for a
farm-life school under the recent act
of our law-making body.
All along this Atlantic Coast Line
section the people are coming to see
the need of factories: and it is singu-
lar that this important matter has
been delayed SO long where there is
evident progress along all other lines
OF e~ndeaVor. Therefore Rose Hill
stands out very conspicuously as the
first town on this ~eighty-fve miles of
railroad to establish a successful fac
tory of any kind-of course, except
3ng crate factories. which are more
or &ess local in their scope. and they |
DO not draw money from other sec
lions to build up this one.
Pioneer enterprises usually center
around some name. and the same is