The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-28

and some who were work
ing with the factory when Tyson and
Jones were a firm.
A man acquainted in Carthage
twenty years ago might walk into the
shops today and feel at home among
the familiar faces. which somewhat
older, would still give the air of yes
terday, and of the old factory.
Inc shop hands have grown up with
the shop. They have from their earn
inSs puIt for themselves homes. and
become a part Of the town as well as
of the shop. They have added per
m~anently to Carthage, and character.
and the sound anchor of satisfied and
prosperous industry.
Mr.. Jones, who was of the concern
from the beginning up to his death.
left no son to follow in his footsteps.
but he left an organized system which
deals with the third generation of his
associates at the factory, and also in
the market. j.. O.. B%reeden. of Ben
nettsville. S. c., is the third genera
ton selling the Tyson and Jones pro-
] ducts.
The relation of Breeder with Jones
is novel. The Tyson and Jones Bug
gy Company grew up in Carthage
long before this country had a rail-
road. The vehicles had to be mar
keter. That made the problem of dis
tributiOn one of considerable magni-
SuuO, di1O SflOHS tIdI StdD1c qualify OK
the men who were at the head of the
firm.
The first Monday of the month is a
business day throughout muc of the
South. Then county courts assemble,
and then people come from all quar-
tiers of the county to the courthouse
town to transact a great variety Of
business.
About four days prior to the county
court meeting Mr.. Jones would set
out from Carthage with a long string
of buggies, hitched one behind the
other, each string drawn by two or
more teams Of mules. His coming
was usually anticipated. and people
who were in the market struck up a
trade as the merchant passed along
with road in their neghborhood.
Saturday would find the cavalcade
= about La%urinburg, Or some point with
, in easy distance of a county seat for
, Monday, and on Saturday all the
business possible would be done, pre-
! paratOry for hauling the remaining
: vehicles to their final destination.
Bettnsville was a favored spot, anG
there Capt P. l.. Breeder received
many a mule cargo OF new buggie:
and sold them during the month
t which elapsed until another lot cam
e in. If any buggieS were around Ben
nettsville for repairs they were yoket
a up with the returning mule train ane
n taken to Carthage to be put in shap'
for continued use and returned in du'
season.
: In all these years the Tyson an,
Jones buggies have been sold in larg,
q numbers in the territory that was for
merly reached in this peculiar fash
X ion. Now the trains serve the pur
'e pose.
d Railroad Comes Near.
1t was about 1880 that the Raleigl
NJ l 80 yr ro vynr ~ low
n from Raleigh through Cameron, an
" as Cameron brought the road within
l. ten miles OF the buggy works the tas
n Of getting the vehicles out to marke
w was simplifed. From that time unit
as the branch was built into Carthag
the buggies were sent to Cameron Q
wagons. and there put aboard the car
Or for distribution, n from Camera
re the material and supplies needed cam
o. back to the shop by wagon
Id Away from the railroads., ava
is from the markets, away from almos
e. anything tina would now be regarde
err as essential in establishing a bushes
OF any dimensions. the Tyson an
e, Jones Company built up a trade thu
lie puts it in the ranks of the big ca
ey rage maker of the United States.
re Singular as it may seem, this inst
es tuition has been one of the influence
Sc that made Carthage seem IN unpr'
IN \ XII cSSkN IT AoStoiS Po0A0N
vn along, day after day, doing its wor'
C. e%xpending gradually all the time,
&c. employees very sedate and steady
ad their habits, and they made Carthas
ry a prosperous. although a very doci
place. The carriage factory hant
thrived. and around them was perm:
a nent and Uninterrupted prOSperit
nd Carthage was an old town with a M
IA ton like a clock. Instead OF being
sleepy town il was in reality a TOW
ct paving strict attention to it's buslne
at and doing a lot of it. and doins It IN
ST highly satisfactory way.
his Each year the Tyson and Jon
Ige Buggy Company has been growing
On. little bigger, and the increased at
ira tude of progress visible in Cartha
ed and all around is to greater or ie
, a extent the direct fruits of the bug
factory. Indirectly. through h Pc
ple connected with the factory. t
,rn town has been encouraged TO great