The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-09-09

one else. "a completed roads Of
Lee county viii not apologize 10 the
roads of any section OF the state /
Good Streets Coming.
In line with the road work CT the
county. Sanford is making good
streets. A. ". Lashley, who has been
busy three or four years akin roads
in this section of the State, has been
turned loose on the streets OF SANFORD
and $4,000 has been put along S,de
of him to be used in maxim SANFORD
look like a town with modem road
abundant I'm the neighborhood OF
Sanford. Twenty thousand dollars.
with the available road building ma
terial. will make this town right
proud Of itself. Already Sanford has
four or five miles of
Lively 4-Year-Old.
Lee county Is a ne wcounty, five or
six years old. 1t is just old enough to
be sarting in with the new life .Of the
country it embraces, after the efforts
Of a century Of the old life have
reached an established footing where
they put the town on Easy street.
| About two ousa dollars a week
is paid out ia wages by the various IN
situations. This is scatterlgn money
into the town in a steady and abund-
ant stream, allowing q certain accum-
| ulation from day to day that is taking
| shape in investment OF one kind or
mother but especially in new building
and improvement. The new business
buildings now ia proces Of erection
will run up into probably two hun-
dred dollars.
New Structures Rearing Up.
Sanford has a lot Of substantial
mercantile institutions that carry
from twenty-five to fifty thousand
dollars worth Of stock and several Of
them are already housed in fitting big
buildings put up within the last two
or three years. New buildings are
going up for the Wilkins-Rich Com
pany, for the Monger-Eatch Whole
sale Grocery, for Lawrence and Hol-
lingsWorth, hardware, for Mrs. Flora
Jones, the Griffin Brotners, and Will
liams & Belk will follow with another
large brick block in the spring, the
season having advanced too far TO
start the work this year. The Lee
Hardware Company is getting ready 60
get into a new big brick block. The
Presbyterians are putting $40, 900 into
a new church. and other denomina-
tions are to follow.
Sanford is Spreading.
SO Sanford is spreading away from
the railroad crossing and the Cole
Printing House, and reaching cut
[ along handsome streets toward the
: country that is coming closer along
4 the new graded and improved roads
that are extending from the town al
over the county.
Sanford has two banks with de.
posts of half a million, and S. p
Hatch. president Of the Bank Of San
! ford. says the farmers find at the 10
Y cal banks money to move b rcop!
? without asking much help from Mr.
Wilson'S currency plan. Mr.. Hatch
says that many Of the farmers Of tn
county are in such substantial shap,
that they can get what money the,
want from the banks at any time Of
their own paper as readily al the mos
f substantial business men of town can
e Lee is a small county, but it make
I about seven thousand bales of cot
s ton and tobacco is becoming a prom
S Using crop. Down at the Neverfai
farm at S~pringview, j. A. Harps, VIII
d recently came to Lee county fror
e Springfield, Ohio, is making a test O
n tobacco on a large scale. He has Is
d acres this year, which is Of the mos
promising character.
One Of big Men"
Mr.. Harps is one OF the big me
.e who are trying out the possibilitie
Of North Carolina. He has a bloc
u of about eight thousand acres of lanf
much Of it hin Ian Of the sand hil
and he is cutting things wide ope1
He has built twenty-three Tobacco
barns for his years crop. and thre
- prize houses Tor cOmpreSsiDs an
=. packing the tobacco. His examine
stimulating other farmers to ernba r
in tobacco, and it is likely that III
~ south end Of the county will be
st scene OF rapid developments in til
Immediate future.
n success at Farming That PAYS.
IL The success Of the me Of II
.w county is attracting the attention
settlers from other sections who al
AFTER the cheap land that still exir
at IN TINS county and a good many tra,
Ers are moving in from ine to tin
Cd taking up the land and making GOO
farms. h county lies between II
sand and The clay belts Of tho S,a+
sharing in the advantages of ho,
ny p OF soils. and Possesses MANY
is the advantages of both. Cotten. co,
.es ana tobacco are staple crons .
III thrive and the minor crops and frl
ty. ac - suocsiu!- ms with II