The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-02
VOL. ~. NO. 53.

ties the Buncombe county man Will
want 10 meet the Perquimans county
man without waiting until they hafh
get 10 New York. More and more
the growing commerce between tho
different sections of the State Will
call for greater facilities OF com
muniCation. and routes OF travel Will
open that Will make il easter for the
man from Murphy to get down Ia
Swan Quarter. But just Yet these
men do not know each other half So
Well as they know men they both
deal with on Broadway Fact II that
| Is the reason the roads do not run
east and west instead OF north and
south. This direction OF traffic Is
one or the curious things OF human
progress. 1t is not confined TO this
State. If you want 10 so To Mime
apohs do you hunt for road that
goes from North Carolina TO the
| Northwest Not if YOU know your
travel routes. You pick out the
easiest way TO go far enough north
TO get to the roads that come from
the West to New York. and when
you have hit the Pennsylvania road
from Chicago TO New Y ork. YOU take
; the back track on that line TO Chi
cago. That Is not the direct way. but
, it is the way the through trains run.
When you get your airship YOU will
sail over the upper end of kentucky
: and across the heart OF Indiana and
pay no attention to the rest of the
: crowd, provided you go alone. But
if you go in public craft you will
e stick to the lines Of travel. because
! they will run to the towns that the
s crowd goes to and those towns viii
Y be somewhere in the line to New
: York.
+ Want To Leave New York Out.
e There is a movement to create a
! traffic route from the west to the
d coast that shall leave New York out.
: 1t is not new. 1t has been heralded
in the past, when routes Of travel
/ were to be opened to Norfolk, To
<, Charleston, to New Orleans. to Gal
e, weston, to Port Arthur, to any old
% place, but New York still stands a,
e the open door and all roads lead il
le that direction. Half of all the mer-
chandise imported to the United
States comes to New York Baltimore
h, has tried to be prominent shipping
2. port. But where Baltimore imports a
It dollars worth Of foreign wares New
,r York imports thirty. In spite Of the
r. roads that go to Portsmouth, Norfolk
ID and Newport News those ports have
n not been able to do one per cent .,
! the import business done at New
,e York.
S, Even where an export trade is es
l ia ablished the import trade does no.
20 follow. Savannah sends out twenty
10 five dollars in goods for every dollar
,s that comes in. Galveston exports
l. more than any port but New York
yet it has never been able to builo
h up an import business worth consid
,e ering, not one dollar where New
"a York imports two hundred.
Or That is the situation An effort j
10 on foot to make of the Carolina port
,e such commercial vantage points tha
j. traffic will move east and west in tn
m State. A big change can be mad
from that now existing. Better por
IN facilities such steamship lines an'
,e harbor cOnveniences would hell
IN some Eut it is evidently the cas-
is that the bulk of traffic in all State
IN will be along lines that move towar'
st New York.
ce The route from Raleigh. from Char
I'd lotte from Wilmington, from Ashe
b. Vile to London, Paris, Antwerp
h. Naples, or anywhere is by way OF tn
is superior ships sailing from New fori
in If the same grade of ships sailed fror
is Wilmington. and the same superio
nj lines of railroad ran to Wilmington
rk and the same big importing firms an
as bankers ana wholesalers, et'-' WEI
,ss in Wilmington. the route would b
by Wilmington. But il Makes 70
DIS many billion dollars to build an
n equip another port and buiid an
he equip railroad lines to it and estat
he lish all the adjunctS. So the MAJ
by lines Of railroad in this State vi
of go north and the lines east and We:
n will be what local traffic will utiiiz