The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-10-24
Glimpse Of Some
Counties Throu oh
Which They Passed.
THE VARIED PRODUCTS

IN A/anuo 1909
Make a Great State Rich and Keep the
Wheels of Industry Going-Notes by the
Wayside.
SUNDAYS Richmond Times-Dispatch.-
The reportorial department, the stan
correspondence department and he glow
ing editorial department have had their
say about the Richmond Boosters tour
down home that is to say, in North
Carolina, but l have yet a few remarks
to make. The reporters and the stan cor
respondents and even the police and now
truly converted editor-in-chief have talked
entirely about the towns through which
the Boosters passed, and they have told
all about the royal receptions the "Iar
Heels in those towns and villages and
mains for me to tell the world something,
just a little bit, about the counties
through which we passed, and in which
these good towns are located.
In Old Warren County.
Leaving the State Of Virginia and
crossing the Roanoke River in the night
time, the first Carolina county we struck
was Warren. 1t is to be regretted that
our schedule was so made that we could
not run into the town of Warrenton, the
capital Of the good county that gave to
the country Nathaniel Macon and num-
bers of other great men. However IN the
early dawn we struck Norlina, but a few
miles from the great and good town OF
Warrenton.
warren county is a tobacco growing
county, and also a cotton growing land.
There are within its borders cotton fac
tories and tobacco factories and a whole
army Of good merchants who think Rich
mond is the best town in all the country
in which to trade and do business.
Vance County.
The first real stop was in Vance county,
where a goodiy strip of cotton and tobacco
growing land, corn and wheat growing
land and peanut producing soil and was
cut off from Warren. Granville and
Franklin counties to make the compare
lively new county Of Vance. The county
was named for Governor-Senato Zebulon
B. Vance, and Henderson, always a good
town, was made the county seat. / guess
there are more wide=awake industries in
the cotton milling, wagon making, buggy
making, tobacco manufacturing and other
lii lines s. in si Vance ie county, tba St, than H IN any COUNTY snms
other counties IN the Old North State
might question this statement. Quite
likely Franklin county, the next one we
town Of Franklinton, with its many fac
tories, its cotton warehouses and its to-
bacco sales rooms, is 4 sample Of the up
te-dateness Of Franklin county. l guess
Franklin can easily question the state
ment.
Wake, Raleigh and Others.
The next county we struck was Wake,
I'm which the capital Of the State is To-
Gated. Wake is q great county. great be-
cause Raleigh is in it, and Josephus Dan
iels and Fred Olds are in it.
The lunatic asylum and the penitentiary
are also in it, and the State Fair is held
there and the Legislature and the Su.
preme Court meet there. and there are
some other things in and about Raleigh
that go to make Wake county great, bu1
not all Of its greatness is confined to Ra.
leigh. Besides Josephus Daniels and Fred
Olds the county has 1927 inhabitants
and q goodly number of them are NOV
ing and having Their being in towns ant
villages that are not called Raleigh. Fol
instance, there are Apex, a town of nearly
1000 people; Garner. a goodly little town
Cary, 4 railway junction with 800 peopl,
aud several industrial plants; Morrisville
Wendell, Holly Springs. Wake Forest
Rolesviile. Zebulon, Wakefield and som,
Wake is a great county, and Raleigh and
Fred Odds are not all of it, not by a grea
Named for the Greatest Man.
From Wake county the Boosters rushet
through Chatham county without stop
ping. except for wood and water bu
it IS 4 pity that the hurried schedule al
lowed no stops in Chatham. The Booster
would have found there coal mines am
lots of other good things that make tn
county of Chatham rich.
Lee county. named for the greatest NAL
that any country has yet produced. i
strong along industrial lines. and tb
Boosters regret that they could not tarr,
longer in Lee county. However they say
Sanford. and a good town they say
when they looked upon it.
Moore county was the next subdivisioi
of the Old North State in which we tai
ried, and we stopped only at Aberdeen
a goodly town that has net a few indus
tries and some eranks along general line:
But it takes cranks TO make good town
and good counties Moore county has
lot of them. and so l figure out that it
a mighty good county. 1t raises niue
cotton. some tobacco and thousands uPo
thousands of bushels of corn. peas an
other good things.
Richnsonders in Richmond County.
Richmond county has three good towI
and maybe several more. but the thr'