The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-10-24

Mayor Richardson made a Richmonu
speech; Rockingham, that sets on a CON
but is a mighty fine town all the same,
and Wadesboro, a crackerjack good busl-
ness town that we We're not allowed oy
oar schedule to tarry long In .
Next came Union county, IN when IL
is claimed that Andrew Jackson was
really born. / do not know how true this
much whether he was born there or else
where. Andy has been dead quite a long
time, and even il he did first see the light
of day there, or even il he did not, the
fact is that some better things than the
great man Of New Orleans have come to
light in Union county since his birth. For
instance, the town of Monroe and its many
hig stores and factories and its several
hundred beautiful women.
Two McckIenburgs.
From Union county and its beauties it
did not take the Boosters Il great while
to get into Meeklenburg county, the place
where the first rebels were really proml-
nent, away back yonder in LIE. Since
that time Mecklenburg has produced some
much better things than rebels and truly
they were mighty good things in their
are good roads. and no county in the
whole South, no county in the Union l
dare assert, has more miles OF them
and they are making the county bloom
and blossom as q rose.
in Mecklenburg, even outside of the city
of Charlotte, there are more industries OF
one kind and another than are to be found
In any one county Of its size in all the
Southland, and / am quite sure that good
roads have had more to do with bringing
to the county these valuable industries
than anything else. By the way, there is
a Mecklenburg county in Virginia. 1t
is nearly Or quite as large in area as
Mecklenburg county in North Carolina,
and it has the same kind of good roads
spirit. True it has not a Charlotte for a
NV o~f h.A - nn n 6nn lG%u -
a good town, q South Hill for another
good town, a Clarksville for a pace setter
in the matter of good roads and a Neck
lenburg Springs and a Buffalo Springs as
money Makers, that bring in the cash from
all parts Of the world. Mecklenburg is a
name to charm. Hurrah for MeckIenburg
in North Carolina, and hurrah for the
Virginia Mecklenburg, too!
Some Other Counties
When the Boosters left Charlotte, the
county seat Of Mecklenburg county, they
made a night run through the good county
Of Cabarrus, in which is the progressive
town of Concord, and in the early morn
ing landed in old Rowan county. right
Rowan county has more wealth of an
agricultural kind and more developed and
undeveloped water powers than any
county in the state, but of these things
/ want to talk later on
The local reporters have told the Times
Dispatch readers OF the royal reception
the Boosters had in Rowan county.
We next struck Davidson county, and
Lexington, the county seat, and Thomas
vile, a furniture-making town, have been
told about by the staff correspondents
but doubt If they caught an idea Of the
varied products of Davidson county. A
citizen Of one Of the towns at which we
stopped told ne he would defy me te
name anything in the whole list Of good
products from able statements down tc
peanuts and toothpicks that had not beer
and could not be produced N Davidson
county. l named pecans, and Immediately
be showed me a pecan tree standing heavy
with the delightful nuts. l gave it up
Davidson county can produce anything re
quired for the sustenance and benefit OF
man.
Guilford and Others.
G%uilford was our next county,, and IL
a side Of it is High Point, the greatest
furniture making town in all of the South
Guilford is a big county, in which is To-
Gated not only High Point, but the mag,
nifcent city OF Greensboro. But Greens
boro and High Point make chapters an6
long chapters Of themselves, and later OF
I am going to write those chapters, bu1
not now.
Our next stopping point was at Win
ston-Salem, in Forsyth county. Forsyth
is strictly a tobacco county. but does no
con fine its efforts to one product. l an
told that the corn and the oats and thu
wheat and the potatoes and the hundred
and one other things that grow in For
syth show up just as we'll as does to
bacco, but all the same the famous lea
tobacco that grows in the soil of tn
county, and In that of two of three ad
joining counties, has made Winston, wher
all OF the Piedmont tobacco is marketed
famous as q tobacco manufacturing town
The Boosters were not far out of Win
ston-Saiem and Forsyth county when the.
were back on Virginia soil, having frs
struck the county of Henry, but of tn
Virginia end of the tour / win have N,
say next week.