The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1911-01-05
The States Progress.
Raleigh Evening Times

/ Raleigh Evening Times
! No State il attracting more atten-
! ton than North Carolina. The pro-
gr-ss it is making along all linee is
/ pushing it to lie front In recent
| articl- tn. Baltimore Sun calls atten-
| ton to what the State is doing. 1t
saws:
"No State in the South is increas-
ing more rapidly in population and
material wnalt b than North Carolina.
When the t,-nsua figures were an
nouncpd last week many were sur
pri4ed to find that its population
had grown in ten years from 1898
80 to 2,206, 2S7, ranking next to
Kentucky and not far behind GeOr-
gia. But the growth in population
by no means equals the rapid develop
m-nt of its industries. Cardinal Glib
bOns who lived in that State and
served his first bishopric there, was
surprised to find on passing through
that territory Il few weeks ago an
almost continuous line OF iactorles
from South Carolina TO the Virginia
liur.
Congressman Charles K. Thomas,
Of New Bern. n. C., in his address be
fore the North Carolina Society OF
Baltimore Friday night gave some
facts that delighted the natives OF
that State who now reside in this city.
The educational movement, started
less than twenty years ago, has re-
sulte.i in the erection OF large normal
industrial and agricultural colleges
for both men and women, expansion
of the State University and the dozen
UNCONVENTIONAL colleges. and one
modern public school house is now
being built for every day in the year.
From 1890 to 1905, as the census
figures show, the wealth OF the South
increased $1,000. 100000, and Of
this increase $137, 100000 was in
North Carolina, being exceeded only
by Texas. The State now raises
nearly 700, 900 bales OfcOttOn a year,
and her more than 300 mills consume
thousands of bales raised in other
sections. The remarkable develop
ment Of the manufacture of cotton,
tobacco and furniture has been &C
complished largely with home capital,
and nearly all the factories are owned
by local investors.
"The immense water power genera
ted by the rapid fall ofmany streams
rs they run from the mountains to
the sea is now being developed. This
is estimated at 100000 horse
power. Congressman Thomas pre-
diets that this water power will in
time transform it into one OF the
greatest manufacturing sections of
the Union.
"The census statistics prove that
in nearly every Eastern State which
shows a notable growth in popula-
ton the increase has been largely
due to the immigration OF foreign
ers. This is not so in North Carolina,
which has fewer foreigners than any
other State, practically is entire
pOpula ton being of native Dir tn.
She has furnished many thousands
of good citizens to other States, es-
pecially to the cities of the North and
the new commonwealth of the Union,
and yet in ten years has added 323,-
PIT to her own population, which is
evidence enough that the North
Carolinians are prolific as we'll as en-
terprising 1t is a country of homes
and of big families, State with no
big city but plenty of lively towns, a
commonwealth peopled by sturdy,
patriotic Americans, who hold to
the faith Of the fathers and who
90 showing what the Southern
people can do with their own re-
sources on their own soil"
Such an article as this in the Sun
is appreciated 1t does the State
good by attracting other people to
the State. 1t shows them what the
State is doing and presents it's re-
sources to large field. 1t is graft
flying to the people of the State to
know that others are taking notice
OF what is being done.