The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-08
BOOSTERS SAW
NORTH CAROLINA
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we were not allowed Sy our sohedaie
to tarry long In.
Next came Union county, in which
1t Ia claimed that Andrew jackson was
really born. do not know how true
this may be, but i do not think 1t mat
tiers very much whether he WAS born
there or elsewhere Andy has been
dead quite a long time. and, even IL
he did frst see tho 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 In
stance. tho town OF Monroe and it's many
big stores and factories and its sew
eral hundred beautiful women.
Two MeekIenburEs.
From Union county and Its beauties
IL did not take, the Boosters a great
while to get into Mecklenburg coun-
ty, the place where the first rebels
were really prominent. away back
yonder in 1776. Since that time Meek
lenburg has produced some much bet
ter things than rebels and truly they
were mighty good things in their time
and their way. The better things
now to the credit of Mecklenburg
caunty are good roads. and no coun-
ty In the whole South. no county In
the Union dare assert, has more miles
OF them any they are making the
county bloom and blossom as a rose.
In Mecklenburg, even outside OF the
city OF Charlotte. there are moro in
dustries of one kind and another than
are to be found In any one county Of
Its size In all the Southland. and L
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
Mecklenburg county in Virginia. 1t
Is nearly or quite as large in area as
Mecklenburg county in North Caro-
lima, and 1t has the Same kind of good
roads spirit. True 1t has not
Charlotte for a county seat. but Ii
has Chase City for a good town,
South Hill for another good town.
Clarksville for pace setter in the
matter OF good roads and Mecklen-
burg Springs and a Buffalo Springs
as money makers, that bring in the
cash rom all parts OF the world.
Mecklenburg is a name to charm
Hurrah for Mecklenburg in North
Carolina, and hurrah for the Virginia
Mecklenburg, too!
some Other Counties.
When the Boosters left Charlotte
the county seat of :fecklenburg coun-
~ they made nigh. run through
the good county Of Cabarrus, in which
Is the progressive town Of Concord,
and in the early morning landed in
old Rowan county. right at Salisbury,
the county seat. 1 guess Rowan coun-
ty has more wealth of an agricultural
kind and more developed and undo
veloped 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 the two stops made In that coun-
ty at Lexington. the county seat and
Thomasville, a furniture making town,
have been told about by the staff cor
respondents hut doubt IL they caught
An idea of the varied products of
Davidson county. a citizen of one
OF the towns at which we stopped told
me he would defy me to name any
thing in the whole list of good pro-
ducts from able statements down 10
peanuts and toothpicks that had not
been and could not be produced in
davidson county. named pecans.
and Immediately he showed me
pecan tree standing heavy with the
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son county can produce anything re-
CURED for the sustenance and bene-
fit of man.
GuiIford and Others.
Guilford was our next county. and
in side of 1t is High Point. tn.
greatest furniture making town IN
all of the South. Guilford Is a big
county. in which is located not only
High Point. but the magnificent city
OF Greensboro. But Greensboro and
High Point make chapters and long
chapters OF themselves. and later on
am going to write those chapters.
but not now.
Our next stopping point was at
Winston Salem. in Forsyth county.
Forsyth lis strictly a tobacco coun-
~. but does not contine its efforts TO
one product. am told that the corn
and the oats and the wheat and the
potatoes and the hundred and one
other things that grow in Forsyth
show up just as well as does tobacco,
but all the same the famous leaf to-
bacco that grows in the soil of the
county. and in that of two or three
adjoining counties has made Winston.
where all Of the Piedmont tobacco is
marketed. famous as a tobacco manu-
featuring town.
The Boosters were not far out Of
Whist ton Salem and Forsyth county
when they We're hack on Virginia
soil, having first struck the county Of
Henry. but of the Virginia end of the