The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-07-22

| railrOad extension. railroad building
uouoie-tracklns, rebuilding TO handle
aHer trains. and all that kind of
nscu"lty IT has meant that in the
uoHen years the State has had to
"oiiu half as much railroad as was
quilt IN the fifty years preceding \,
was ouiit better, with more substantial
material IN every way. affording bet
le{ scheouleS. cheaper freight and
passenger rates. and being in every
way more effective. With the raiIroa
expansion came wave of electric
roads. and need for hundreds of
miles OF good wagon roads.
Then developed another importan
IeatuFe. ms factory movement is not
cohnned to any one part Of the State
Cnllke many other States the mann
featuring OF North Carolina is not cen
tsreo IN a few big cities The seven
teaoins cities of the State have onlv
ABOUT fourth Of the manufacturing
Inc rest Of it is scattered over the
state from the coast to the dividing
me on the summit OF the mountains.
making prosperity for every section.
III TINS respect the industries are in
tefesting. Tobacco manufacturing
comes nearest to centering in restrict :
eu area than anything else The seat
VI the industry is Durham and Win
SION. Tobacco makes Of these places
TWO OF the most conspicuous factory
towns of the South Winston and
durham employ ten thousand hands
ana turn out product valued at
,orty million dollars. Besides to-
bacco Winston has other indnstries
that nave yearly product of above
a hundred thousand dollars, including
lumber. furniture, knitting mills. boots
ana shoes, grist mills, and smaller in
stltutlOnS. Durham also has other big
factories besides the tobacco facto-
rieS.
Grlst mills are scattered over the
state. Ihey are among the Oldest of
the industries. following the first set
tiers. that the grain raised on the
farms might be made into meal. Wa
ter m!fls sprung up by the streams
ana became centerS of social interest
as Inc nelghbOrs met at the griSt mill
II no where else. The old mills have
grown until they are good for a pro-
quot worth million nearly every
month in the year
The saw mill is like the srist mill
IN its wide range, springing up in the
early days Of the State, and following
the timber and the railroad With
the saw mill came various woodwork
AnS establishments, such as sash and
door factories. planning mills and kim
dred institutions, and these are widely
scattered
The cotton mill. the big industry of
the State, is an old one The first
cotton mill known to have been built
IN North Carolina was located at the
falls of the Tar river in Edgecombe
county, IN 1918, and a centennial cell
ebrauon Of the event should be held
over there at Tarboro five years from
now to commemorate that affair. This
inlll was followed in a couple of wears
by one at Lincolton in the other end
OF the State. and there was the be
ginning. From that time the mills
began to multiply in ali the territory
between twenty-five years later
there were twenty-five cotton mills
scattered over North Carolina.
They were small affairs. crude like
the old haw mills and grist mills. and
employing few hands and making but
a little output. Factories in those
days were not encouraged. Slave
labor made this a farming country
and let the North do the manufac-
turing. However, the day Of slave
labor is past. and the intelligence of
the white man is crOwding into the
untitled fields Of industry that have al
ways been open in the South and the
results arc seen in this astonishing
progress this State has made in build
The cotton mill has only com
fnenced In North Carolina. What il
Is going TO do is of such gigantic pur-
port that no man can foretell it.
But these big things are not the !
only ones that are significant The |
man who noses around the State finds (
little industries that are /!
o. consequence. For instance a Cam /
erOn IS a factory that builds grist mills I
the old sort with buhr stones The ,
stone is quarried UP in Moore county. /
brought out. dressed. and made into
mills for shipment all over the world |
At Raeford is n little shop build |
ing q patented plow that the builder
he's made hit with At Sanford a
stone quarry Is cutting dimension
stone to fill the requirements Of ar
chitects plans for some Of the fin
buildings Of the State and Of the ati
lacent States Jugs and crocker.
como down from Randolph county. In
-.uilford county terra Gotta sewer u.fY
ire made. Distilled wcod precinct