The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-04-22

can never be the fate Of the textile
industries Of North Carolina.
The boy who likes to farm can be
assured Of a permanent and increasing
demand for his farm products III
has one eye, that the needs Of the
world will stimulate h governments,
more than ever yet, to help the farm
er get the best possible results from
his cotton, tobacco and food crops, in
order that the needs Of the country
may be met, and that the local a
tories may be supplied with raw ma
terial.
If the boy wants to take up indus
trial work he will find in North Caro-
lima a steadily broadening manufac-
turing horizon, and a shop opportu-
nifty to go with it. This is fore
Swallowed by the shop built UP in
Charlotte by D. A. ~Thompkins, which
already builds and equips a cotton
mill. asking the mill moth
ing but h ground OF which to locate
it, and the price when the work is
done. When the TOmpkins shop is
awarded a contract to build a new
mill an engineer is sent to survey the
location, plan the factory, and note
the surroundings. The drawings are
made at the shop, the machines built
there, the buildings erected by men
sent out for that purpose, and the
factory is delivered, ready to unload
cotton on the warehouse platform and
to start the SpindleS and looms by
pushing an electric button.
A North Carolina boy may be a
farmer, and engage in modern diver
sified farming with as much promise
as a boy may begin farming any place,
n with a more agreeable climate and
amid more agreeable surroundings.
/ HI NAV enter tho mills or Co N tho
technical schools OF his State and be-
come a textile worker, with the as
surance that while people wear clothes
his occupation will be a
one. He may take to the machine
shop, certain that while cotton mills
run, machine shops will be busy max
ing and repairing cotton mill machin-
cry, electrical machinery machinery,
and all the paraphernalia thar goes
to make up shop operation.
If he wants to be an electrical
worker he will discover thai by the
North Carolina creeks and rivers is
certain to be the nursery of a greater
electrical development than the hu-
man mind has yet conceived. Elec-
trlcal science and the application Of
electrical power is yet in it's infancy,
and it is for North Carolina practice
to enuarge the field OF discovery and
application of electrical KNOWLEDGE
and the use Of electrical energy,
1t does not take much of a prophet
to foresee that a boy who is inclined
toward electricity has in North Caro-
lima a chance far bigger than any one
boy will measure up to In one genera
ton. There is no limit in this direc-
ton.
If the boy wants to engage in 9
mercantile life he will find the grow
ing towns Of North Carolina oferine
him all the opportunity hat is at
- nrda6 q Y - n in 4hn M
building Of mills and towns will re.
quire the work OF civil engineers. O,
? mechanics. or artisans of all trades
? and at wages which are indicated b,
4 the rapid advance in wages in the pas
I twenty years.
2 North Carolina in the past ten year
: has developed n applied a vas
amount Of waite power. Wires ar.
stretching over the State toward tn,
t growing towns, but it is all taken I
: is turned to the driving of existin,
r machines and provided for the opera
ton OF that are coming a
the power comes 1t is creating nev
lighting systems, new trolley lines
new industrial enterprises every
+. where, every M OF which reou1ra
men 70 operate h machines.
What North Carolina needs NOR
\ now IMAM anything else is thai IL
young men shall understand fully ~,
advantages that are here for fhem
: and that they shall not make the mis-
/ tax OF leaving the State to on 80,
i 10 other sections Of the co,,n3rv 30
;, oner less. Possibly the time 10 no
II whe the young man was iustifed q
going away. Perhaps he sho,,Ia u ~
: stayed n taken a hand in putin,
- hnoS; Sne 20 n front Perhaps no
h for him was Sufficient excuse ,or hI =;