The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-02-17
Kinston a City indicative OF
Life, Energy and Comfort
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IL bOtn are S~dlLSld1tOiSs oAN
cash crops :,
with these two big staples are all
the minor things that can be reneo
on 70 help out. Such opportunities
are going TO attract immigration.
They are going TO bring men here In
search of lands. The factories are
going to bring TO bring hands mere
Forces that lead men TO shift from
one place to another are going 10
induce immigration TO Lenoir county,
as we'll as to every county or the
State. These forces work independent
of design. They work along with de-
sign. a live own and a live county
attract people. They attract people
Of all kinds from everywhere.
Problem Not Local.
II was only a question of time un-
til the problem tina has confronted
Kinston should be brought before
some section of the State. 1t is not a
| local problem. nor is it a temporary
one. It is a troublesome condition
for the whole State to face, and 1t Will
become more acute right along now.
More people are a necessity in Lenolr
county. Lenoir county affords OPP
portunity for q portion OF the over
flow of population from other quar-
ters of the globe.
In raising the question Of the de-
STABILITY of the Polish and Italian mi
grafton to Lenoir county KinSton folks
| are wiser than many would imagine.
The question Of immigration IS a big
one. 1t is %agitating other places than
Kinston. 1t is under discussion at
Washington. 1t is a right pertinent
thing in California: 1t affords more
or less perpleXity in every center of
population to which foreigners come
in large numbers.
While we are ali foreigners or Of
foreign descent, that does not dis
pose Of the question Of assimilation
of foreign blood and foreign customs.
It is true that Rome was a nation
when the ancestors OF many OF our
Teutonic and Saxon took lived in
caves and dressed i'll skins. But what
does not say that the Malta is a de-
sirable institution. Many estilnable
Italians are in America, II the
world owes to Italy an enormous debt
for the enlightenment and culture
that came from the peninsula. But
that o. not say that ndiscriminat
dumping Of Objectionable immigrants
into Lenoir is wise because art and
sculpture and literature and ciVlliZa-
ton and law came from Rome.
Lenoir has the question on it:
hands. and the people think now is a:
good q time as any to determine tn
character Of the new citizens tha
shall be encouraged to come to thi
State.
Kirston is q we'll located town. I
is in the center of a broad level, fer
tile area, and coming into the tow
! are railroads from five different di
! rections. Two Of these are small loca
\ roads. but they make it possible TO
traffic to center at kinston. hen tn
. Neuse river is here, and It will some
: time be more OF a freight carrie
, than it is now, for it capable Of be
: ing made a valuable stream.
F~xming Acreage.
The county has a total Of q quartz
whole area is In FARMS and Of tn
land in farms not more than sevent
Z acres in a hundred is cultivated. Q
less than a third Of Lenoir county
: planned to crops each Tha
: amount Of land makes a crop wort
: two million dollars. The entire acre
. age could make a crop worth six mi
lion dollars. Of if farmed intensivel
!, could make ten million or fifteen mi
" lion or nobody knows how many mi
Zion dollars worth OF stuff. For L.
noir land is fertile and the Lenoir cl
mate Is genial
1t is apparent then that Leno
needs a lot Of farmers. But farmer
e come as they choose, not as the pet
= PIC A4A5AAS NCOAO lANL11p ~ IL
county should make it's resourc,
known in those places where farme,
may be found
lc Modern HAnseattc League.
IL In looking over these thriyir
towns OF New Bern kinston, Gold
boro, and the rest Of the group in til
r. portion Of the State. 1 am reminde
p OF the old Haneauc league, and II
h thought suggests SET that if the Y:
rious towns here would get togeth
le as the Hansa towns did four or Fl
lie centuries ago, they might profit iu
as much as the old guild towns did
A line drawn from Fayetteville
Elizabeth City would cut off q str
OF and along the coas which is nea
a. Il a hundred miles wide, and e1
braces several million acres Tho
ls millions cf acres contain u~niiuit
which could be broug
1y into use by the hand OF man. II 4
he towns in this territory could unite
Ut IN practical plan. and prosecute
IN systematic and Intelligent scheme
Al bring into the country several tho
sane good farmers there is NC p,a
=, on earth that would thrive faster 4,
m more extensively than his coast ?
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