The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-16
DEVELOPMENT IN
NORTH CAROLINA
Apple-Growing in the West
Trucking in the East-Rail-
way Building.
rhe Winston Sentinel says:


Orlando Harrison. the Maryland nur-
eryman, who. II is claimed. grows more
fruit than any man in the United
states. has bought 1000 acres Of Surry
County real estate and has carload
OF young trees ready to set out.
The land OF Mr.. Harrison runs into
wilkes County and is in the best apple
belt in the country. He will cultivate
this product. which has habit of win
ming all the big prizes wherever it is
exhibited. The apple industry in that
county has become very consdora BILE
one. and at the recent State Fair Sur
rvs fruit stood high
And the Asheville Citizen has this
item:
Orlando Harrison. member OF the
firm OF j. q. Harrison & Sons, which
conducts large nurseries at Berlin.
Md, will arrive in Asheville within
the next few days for the purpose of
investigating the conditions OF West
ern North Carolina. The firm is con-
sldering the establishment of a large
orchard in this section OF the State, and
the visitor, during the time that he
viii be here. Will be taken over Bun
combe and Haywood Counties BY Pro-
fessor w. y. HUT the State horticul-
turist.
According to the Sanford Express,
ting 70 be a great industry in Lee and
Moore Counties. That paper says
There is an increase in acreage in
Lee County over last year There is
no way OF knowing at this time what
the prices will he Last year was one
of the best years in the history of the
Industry Dewberry culture is fast be-
coming one of the most important in
dustries in the two counties One
would be surprised to know how much
money has been brought TO Lee and
Moore during the past three or four
years through the sale of dewberries
shipped to the Northern markets. The
growers not only realize good profit
from the berries. but laborers get good
wages for gathering them.
The Wilmington Dispatch boasts
thus:
There is nothing in the world that
the soil down this way won't raise.
and although crops have been diversi-
fed for years. theer is getting to be
greater variety every season. Lettuce
raising has long been profitable in this
section. and now II is pretty sight
to behold the green as it is sprouting
and heading. And, by the way. sc
rich is the soil and so fine the weather
that lettuce grows any old way down
here. Not only is lettuce raised under
cover. but there is an abundance of
outdoor lettuce. which is OF large and
otherwise fine type. Along with other
truck, the lettuce of Eastern Carolina
stands at the head of the class.
The High Point Enterprise says:
The w. n. Coler Company has let
the contract for the road connecting
with High Rock on the southbound by
way Of Denton. Thomasville, on to High
Point, to an Atlanta company. The
company expects to be IN High Point
with the new road by August Is next
and will Immediately have cars in ope-
ration. The road Will be operated by
steam. The coming of this road to
High Point puts us in touch with a
rich, undeveloped timber section, be-
sides a thickly populated section of
territory by which this city will be
greatly benefited. 1t is understood
the plan is TO make High Point the
terminus. and the road will not be ex-
tended to Greensboro,
The Weldon News says:
The statement is made by a we'll
known dealer that Halifax County far
mers will use more fertilizers this sea-
son than ever before. The shipments Of
fertilizers, it is said. are the heaviest
known at this season of the year for
| perity or not remains to be seen.
The Lexington Dispatch says
/ The contract for the erection of the
Erlanger Cotton Mill was let Monday
of last week in New York to the CAL
vim Construction Company, OF Green
Vile, 8. c, n The contract price, It Is
/ LEARNED, was about 81 $4,000. 1t is gex-
g. q y e Il ls 81 y;