The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-10-28

North Carolina and his crowd has
bought big acreage of timber and
they are getting ready 10 build A biz
lnlll and operate. Yes somewhere in
there where McCains went some time
ago
Dubois and Nate Hoover are run
nlng big operation not very far
from where you live, not over ffty
miles from your house. Hoover told
me not long ago. Funny you never
@e them. Took a lot of hands down
So. from here with them"
IS Jennings interests are devel-
ot some water power things
around Brevard or Henderson or
somewhere up there, and they are
down in your State"
Hays has some fellows associated
with him, and they go down into the
coast country in your State every once
IN while They are doing things.
and seem to think they have found the
only place in the world.
Tie Drift Southwark.
Such things as these come to me
every time l drift back into Pennsyl-
vania and from time to time | note in
the papers from up that way that
men of means and experience are
dropping down this way to continue
the work they have finished where
they are. or to look for chances to
begin something else and usually on
a bigger scale.
| Men like these have money. Some
| Of them have vast fortunes Of their
| own, and all OF them are connected
with big fortunes. The fact is that
| if they find the chance they can
capitalize it at whatever they like.
The Jennings interests can command
as many millions as they can show
i C-in Tnh Tlc.s- Il
bring ten millions of his own if he
found the place to put it. The Gran
dins, who are revolutioniZing the Wa
| tauga country, are men from the
Pennsylvania oil region, bankers oil
operators, lumbermen, and they car
find the money to do whatever they
/ find the opportunity to use.
/ ] don't know the extent to which
they contemplate going up in Wa
tauga and Wilkes and Caldwell, but
years ago [ know the older Grandins
up in the Pennsylvania oil country
and from the knowledge OF the men
do the little bit of Sherlock Holmes
deduction which says they are likely
to do anything that promises profit
able return on their money.
Red-BlOOded Men.
Live blood runs in the veins Of these
folks, and they are men of action. TC
buy land and set up mill and Cu1
some lumber is not their limit i
the lumber country needs a railroad
to make it more available they buil6
a railroad as they are doing now. J.
the railroad needs a lot Of country
cleared and settled and farmed tc
make traffic for the railroad they vii
settle the country. If the settled
country needs factories and banks ant
buildings and mines and anything
else that money and energy can in
duce, the GrandinS are the kind o
people who provide those things
They are looking for field in which
to do things. and they do not care
much what it is if it affords them oc
cuDation and place to protitably in
vest capital
The big project at Southern Pine
where Philadelphia capitalists ar
planning to build another big hotel il
connection with training grounds 70
three big league ball clubs, and
: sanitarium for the treatment of run
down wealthy Northerners viii hav
, | a still further influence in introduc
ing Northern people Of means t
t North Carolina, and in disclosing t
them the chances for achieving thing
that exist in the State
Pointer From Georgia.
! Georgia affords an example Of Wha
this influx OF Northern capital signi
fcs Georgia realized the value O
getting acquainted with the Mort
: sooner than any OF the other Souther
, States and rs Il result-CfeCrgla be
! came the best known of all the State
Of the South. and pro1itcd proportion
atelv NOrlh Carolina is doing tn
same thing. [ have mentioned luni be
operations among other enterprise
undertaken by Northern "a pital, %
? they are OF the least significance 70
!,