The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-07-15

arose. now have over 10000 people
Around the oint town are a lot more
people, but outside the corporation
When the Sharon Steel Company
was formed it went from Pittsburc
out into the country and bought Il site
near the little town of Sharon 1t
enabled Sharon TO grow from 1000
to $4,000 people from one census TO
another and to build the town of
South Sharon, which found over TO-
coo the first time its census was
taken, which was at the last enumera-
ton.
The American Tin Plate Company
went to New Castle, a city OF 10 900
people. near Pittsburg, and put up
some big mills. At the next census
New Castle showed up over 5000
people.
Steel makers went up the Monon-
Sahela from Pittsburg and bought The
farms where they built steel mills.
and the towns Of Monessen and Do
nora. built on these farms. show Up
1000 in the census reports. The
4J,, "egie Steel Company bought a
'Iql>, II built big mill and Home
s. o7b above 10000 people on
/ that IS
I couiu tie score Of instances
where a big mill has built a town of
| 10000 or 10000 people in from five
to a dozen years, but these ought to
be enough And the mills are Of the
| same class as this establishment that
is projected on the Yodkin. Now, a
town OF IS, 900 people sprung on the
community in five or ten years is a
startling thing until you get familiar
with it, Take the case of New Castle,
Pa 1t is II years or so that l went
up there one day to look over the
work the American Tin Plate Com
pany was starting. In the heart of
a fine big apple orchard a huge build
ing, about a thousand feet long, had
been commenced. Others were al
various stages here and there. and
the splendid farms we've cut up b,
streets, cellar walls, lumber piles ant
building operations until 1T wa
ast ishing what WAS doing on. Tina
town today has close TO 4O.e00 people
1t has encroached on the farms To-
two or three miles. Railroads come
in from different directions. Freigh
yards make room for thousands O.
cars, trolley lines run in all direc
tons, stores, hotels, and all sorts O.
business enterprises are carried on
Farmers have turned from the ~orl
i.
and corn to making vegetables. fruit
| milk, butter, eggs, and all that kline
of stuff, and they never have enough
to supply the market IN town, which
is one Ct the hungriest places you eye
saw.
The multiplication Of these fac
, tories around Pittsburg has entirel
, revolutionized the business of agri
+ culture in Pennsylvania, and in tn
!, whole world. Pennsylvania used t
be one of the great sheep states. Tn
sheep farms have been taken by fac
tories for mill sites and town sites
The farms that are farther back ar
required to feed the factory hands
and the sheep have gone West, wher
I they have crowded the cattle from
the ranges. 1t is the Pittsburg fac
! ! tory that has made meat high an
! that has made all kinds of foo
! high.
The North Carolina factory. start
E ing Oft on the same scale as the bi
4 Pittsburg factories, Will change tn
$ color Of agriculture in Stanly, Mont
e go1nerv, Davidson. Rowan, and tn
whole neighborhood. To begin will
e the folks on the farms Will gradual
e ! drifs to the town that will spring VI
: Those who stay back will raise pro
: duce for those in town. The man l
: town Will nave money 10 pay 10
: fresh stuff and he will pay it. Som
y town folks will have bardens; a lc
e mere will not bother.
: NJ Gilea. is famous poultr
G center. Chickens have been goin
It out from this point by rail for sex
e eral years. Pretty soon there viii /
n a demand for chickens~an deggs tha
o VII set the Montgomery farmers :
y wonder what has happened. MI
n and butter will Increase III yield be
S cause it will sell at the factory towT
2 in the yadkin valley. And as I'll
n farmer thrives the town viii increas
e sill more ID care for his wants, f
z town and country are always inte
d dependent.
Ie Look al the map q minute. Sever
places are already set down now th;
a wer.- hardly found 20. or even
e .years ago. Mt. Gilead has nearly
n thousand people now. Twenty yea
J. aso .he census did not find it.
,a the 20 years Alb benaTlc has cor