The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-08-31
SSATCHY SKETCHES ABOUT THE
RESOURCES OF NORTH
CAROLINA


Tar Heel folks are an old and can
sersative people: even conservative
~ new IN what they do.
They have been looking behind for
= long time. and although not viI-I
fully tagging there. yet they have
mace no unseemingIy effort 10 push
themselves forward They we're
quiet but great observers. and all
ways looked before they Ieaped.
Descended from an ancestry of
sturdy English, Scotch and Irish. i'm
bued with q spirit OF loyalty. and a |
tuition OF independence which has
for generations been handed down
from father 10 son. they could not be
otherwise than a conservative people.
IL Is a home State. filled full
enough with home people. thorough
ly understanding each other, cherish
ing home ideas and home ideals, hos
pitable beyond measure. wishing ev-
erybody else well; yet determined
that everybody else shall keep their
advice for use in their own bailiwick.
Nobody has yet sufficiently diselos-
ed the wondrous riches Of the State.
Writers up for space have not exer-
cised their headgear In calling atten-
sources OF the State.
North Carolina no longer permits
it 10 be said that she boasts of any
one thing as a staple product, be-
cause she has learned the contents of
her locker. AS intimated, there has
been no haste to let the outer world
know of tho treasure of her soil, eli
mate, and people; for these have not
been exploited by rainbow chasers.
1t has been said that the climate
resembles that Of France, but it does
not. 1t is not like that of Italy, nor
Spain. 1t is a combination of the
best of these three countries. 1t
might be said to be as varied as the
surface of the country, and its prod
ucts.
The death rate Is less than the
average for the United States.
There are about forty-eight thous-
and square miles of everything, and
the average height of this everything
is $50 feet.
We have some big mountains and
some big sounds-millions of acres
, of hills and three millions invested
in swamps for future utility.
While the famous yellow pine has
, gone the way of the Indian, our for
, ests still furnish an abundance OF
, timber.
We have ash, oak, hickory, walnut
lime, and chestnut in the highlands;
and cypress, juniper, red cedar, cher
, ry, gum, poplar, pine and persimmor
-: in the lowlands.
We have numerous rivers an(
creeks, vast water powers, and three
sounds aggregating 200 miles il
length and from 2 to 20 miles IL
width, affording a great fish indus
= try
We have coal mines and GOLD
9 mines, iron and copper, mica, gran
=. ite, slate, lime and sandstones, mill
whet and grindstone grits.
We are not afflicted with cyclones
" tornadoes, northwesters, boil weevils
Iocusts, nor caterpillars.
We can grow everything that i
e worth growing. Cotton, corn, wheat
5 oats, rye, barley, rice, tobacco an
peanuts are the big money crops.
) We have rich valleys, on mountai
tops, producing so bushels of cor
= per acre, and 20 feet of black allu
} vial soil in the eastern bottom lands
a where all kinds of truck is profta
IS bly, grown.
o With intelligent cultivation, an
l. intensive farming such men as SimI
kins and Bats have made the middl
? section known as remarkably Pre-
% life. The former with three bales c
q cotton to the acre, and the latter wit
242 bushels of corn to the acre.
Wild fruits grow in profusion. Tn
~ blackberry never fails; there al
dewberries, whortleberries, muse;
dimes, plums, hawberries, persin
&c mons, and maypops; and almo:
" every one of the tame fruits. Thel
are chestnuts, walnuts, hickory nu
80 and beech nuts.
Game is abundant. Bear, dee