The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-30
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men.
II Is ZIP TO the state.
The day is at hand when North
Carolina must look Wen 70 her own
interests or this wealthy. TINS p~opuIous
Southern State must take second place
to her sisters, aud forever have her
people BAY commercial tribute to more
enterprising business cenlers outside
the state, n extra freights 10 our
carriers. Let Us make provision for
imports TO come through our own
port and for cur exports TO clear
therefrom by throwing a volume of
business across cur SEAPORT, we make
it a rate business, upon which to de-
termine railroad rates to points in
land. We then put u business men
on a footing to secure for the uIti-
hate consumer Of imports and the
producer of exports the greatest adj
Vantages. because articles Of commerce
may then come or 20 at q cheaper
! rate, whAch is the chief purpose IN
view.
Are North Carolina people williag
to continue to pay extra prices or
imports and to have extra burdens
imposed on their exports? Is not our
great volume of business sufficient. if
properly handled. to break through
the present unsatisfactory conditions?
If this port is properly utilized our
people can be relieved Of the extra
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ing of Virginia on the north, ami
South Carolina on the south of US.
Imagine If you please what it would
mean to the State for large free docks
to be here in their harDor within
five miles Of the ocean at the termi-
nus Of an important railroad sys-
tenn.
Consider the valuable manufacture
ers from the Piedmont section of
North and South Carolina, the cotton,
tobacco, and lumber from nearby.
See the coal fields are just over the
penetrated mountains, and then comes
the great west with its grain. Look
then to the south seas and consider
the prospect of that our
business men are bidding for.
Rate Basing Port Needed.
Are You influential workers for the
upbuilding Of our State ready to help?
Do you see the business importance
to North Carolina of her having a
: rate basing port somewhere between
t Norfolk and Charleston? Are you
ready for the movement to build here
| a North Carolina seaport
5 A century and a half ago, Governor
5 Tryon, then a resident Of Brunswick
Town, q few miles above here, ser
Wan loCalith to endeaVor to turn the
/ a delegation to the Industrious Mora
t Wan locality to endeaVOr to turn the
: overland that was theI
r going to Charleston to this port.
\ generation or two Z the ole
plank road from Fayetteville west
ward, passed into history.
The accomplishment of the erea.
/ work begun by Governor Moreheat
in running a railroad from east t
west did much for North Carolina il
e q business way. 1t was the State,
r great internal Improvement. But i
c did not lead to a deep-Water port an
could not long remain Il trunk line
SO in time it became onIy a fede
for the railroad lines running noTtl
# and south, and these lines freight on
commerce through the ports OF othe
% States at an extra cost to our PEG
- pie.
- l feel hat I am talking to patriot
~ and loyal North Carolina bushes
men. You are perhaps by eason G
habit a little Ions" on politics. an
somewhat short on business. bu
ta attention of the people of our Stat
i 10 an important ~usiness development
Ia and | kno YOU can perform a gres
Ia service in the matter.
+ Already have | noticed from IL
II pen of the editor of the Greensbo1
News, the Charlotte Observer an
Charlotte News that Il study is beiT
M made by them Of this very %situatio,
.rt The Morning Star has put forward q
Z extra effort to haye this port get reao
10 keep pace With Norfolk, Charlie
all ton and Savannah in the promise ne
ar commerce to the South Atlantic port
on No man has lone so much as h;
to Col. S. A. Jones, Of WaynesVille,
adj call the attention OF the pubic TO II
Of necessity Of North Carolina Peep
rk building here "a seaport. May he Ii
% to see his work bear fruit.
You are Goubtiess already inform
I'd of the particular advantages tn
be Southport possesses for the locate
SITS of a government cCalinS station.
all is the primary step fer US now
he take toward building a seaport. Y
ZEN are III position TO ask for that il
for portant interest.
ma You nave the past year tress
to the decision Ey the government
ISL establish the lighthouse supply stat
EFT at Charleston, to the south of
ST. where a navy yard is maintained. \
are aware tn.t Noffolk's port has