The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-12-12

iHS IOunO the place. The dam ,naars
" me TO be bout a mile long and is
MY 1901 thick and way up to ward
the top they have a place thew call a
mole IN the wall for the fish to 60
through about fifty foot above the
water. The fellow who made that
Gam must think we have flying fish in
tnls mere country but it is a powerful
Gam ana III be damned if we believe
mat even the Atlantic ocean, Whin it
is on the race could move it a mil
lionth part Of an inch. It is made
outn stone and cement and the pira-
mldS er Egypt amt no circumstance
as ter bein' solid. The folks are work
IN day and night and they air work
IN SO fas' that litening bugs will no
longer do them inny good. The lee
tricity is a goin' all the night and part
e1 the day for to see how to work by.
They have all ready put four milyun
lila in this here plant and it is
gWlne to be the biggest thin fer the
development er North Kaliny that hez
bin done since Edwin Holt harnessed
q little piece of the Haw River and
commenced to make Alamance plaids
way yonder fore the war. Mr.. Holt
and Walter L. Steele and Robert
Steele n all them fellows had to
bring Their factory and sit it down by
the river and build a dam before they
could git inny power. These fellows
air here now er making a dam and
fixing up machinery by which they
can compress all the power tina comes
from the Falls into 'lectric Juice and
tech a button and light the town of
Oxford one hundred and sixty-six
miles away. They have already made
a contract with us to run the press
in the Rhamkatte Rooster office from
the i1lica made rioht hare Tpcf thin1y
Of that. We never believed it could
be n until we SEED 1t. So many
strange things air happening these
here days that we feel like old man
Boddie down in Nash county, III was
sc surprised at so many quar- things
and new inventions hat when some
body went into his house one morn
ing and told him some wonderful tale
and said. don't that surprise, Mr..
Fodder" the old jintleman said, mo,
sub, nothing surprises me. I would
be surprised to see Tar River turn
round and run up stream We
shant be surprised to see this power
not only running the streets cars in
RhaInkatte and everywhere, else but
we air looking for the time to come
Whin we can squirt this '~lectric Juice
into a old man an make him young
agin and thin old Ponce De Icons
SpI1IS Will Oc d DdCh uulI1DCI Liz IN
fellows will care to go to Carlsbad
or Hot Springs fer to git young agin,
just buy a little Blew It's Falls juice
and it is better than DR.. Browns
Squad liquid.
After we had seed the Falls n had
a good time and ct two big dinners on
them thar Pullmans and we were a
ridin' back home, we said to ourselves,
said we, why shouldn't the editor
of the Rhamkatte Rooster git On to
some big scheme with these finunch-
cheers and git rich and be able to ride
round in palace cyars and smoke long
sigyars and drink shampane stead of
'simmon beer and go to Europe for
our nerves stead Of to the wood pile
to saw wood The more we got to
thinking bout that the more we detar-
mined to get in tech with this financhel
crowd, and we edjed up to n Of the
big fellows, who had jest invested
seven or eight million dollars in some
big Southern cOnSarn and suggested
to him that if he would establish a
big steel plant in Rhamkatte and
make us the resident manager with a
big salary that we felt shore we could
git the town government to Donate a
cite and to exempt the property from
taxation fer about ten er twenty years
alO d1IGI We In
scheme fer to git Rhamkatte a steel
plant, these here capitalists said,
.'Well. Mr.. Editor, they amt 'nough
money in steel fer us to fool with,
but We air now making up a new sort
of corporation hat will make more
money than all the steel plants and
the Standard lie plant and the tobacco
plants in the wide world. We had
thought er establishing this new COM
-aa~ L. nd hllf If Won
can give a cite at Rhamkatte and you
can get the people to furnish 'nough
cats and rats to begin business on,
why we might locate at Rhamkatte
and let you be the manager and you
will git richer in a little while h
Mulberry Sellars eve got on the eye
salye." That mohstrous
good to us. and we remarked TO the
iintleman from Bosting to put the