The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-02-17

- GOOD roads Is certain to influence
both the development OF the arms
and the business Of the towns =
kins.on has three lines out 20 -
good. II is the center OF a 'as' ~
me territory. which produces a Dig
crop. II is the site Of severai Dig
NH mills. which have a lot OF pine
timber vet ahead OF them. here are
cotton mills, buggy shops, ana niinoi
industries. Then come the TOBACCO
for kin6ton Is Il ols
market with several warehouses ana
stemmeries. These DTihS
business to the town and scatter q
lot of money in town and county. Inc
cotton market brings money TO town
and with II business. with the IL
dnstrial influences and the TOBACCO
and cotton warehouses is anothef
commercial line, that of wholesailnS
which is conspicuous in klnston.
Then the retail trade is big. 1t is a
| town Of varied resources, ana OF re-
sources that are each day
| out.
On this account it is absolutely GER
tain that the population will continue
| to increase, and that unless the III
| crease comes from selected material
| 1t will come from that kind W1lch
follows the drift. and when Is hoi
picked.
AS L lOOh odl oNSA IAN
see Just what I see in the town. East
ern North Carolina has finally reach-
cd q clear track. Industries nave ot-
veloped, farms hav reached a pro-
ductive stage, railroads have come,
wagon roads have come. the people
are energetic and progressive.
Looking Ahead.
] can look ahead a little and l can
see al Kinston the same moving
ahead that I find at Charlotte ana
Greensboro. The same resources are
here, and the same awakening mas
been taking place, the same lnteiil-
gent determination is here. Another
thing that is here, and which is gath
eringin all Of these North Carolina
towns. is capital. Every year Kin
ston has more accumulated surplus TO
put tinto new ventures. with tnat
accumulated surplus comes the ambi-
ticn to expand. Expansion follows
that ambition.
1t took q long time for the little
North Carolina own to get out OF
the one thousand and the two thou
sand class. Now they are getting into
the five thousand and six and seven
and eight thousand class, and by the
next census we will see all over the
State a lot of substantial cities Of ten,
twelve and fifteen thousand people
tAlkt VA 1919 -
ply prodigiously. Before the train
whistled for Kinston station l conl
predict the future of this town. Why
5 Because it has all the marks of life
1t has passed through the dead stages
. through the ruinous effects Of war
I and emerged on the active side full
S of hustle n prosperity. The new
roofs, the scattering of the cottage:
t around the outskirts, the factory signs
here and there, the general atmOs
phere, tell far better than any stats
: tics, what is ahead Of q community
1t is the same thing that [ motto
r at High Point, or at Raeford Or q
e Raleigh, or at any other of the man.
centers of progress throughout tn
r State.
AS l said at the beginning Kinstol
is typical Of all Of North Carolina
This movement forward is as wide a
from the sea to the Tennessee from
e tier. and nearly every town ha
e caught the Infection. You can safel
n have twenty thousand people, whe
is Wilson will nave as many and Colds
1t boro. and New Bern, and the factorie
h Of these towns will be bigger an
; more numerous, and the farms wi
l. have expanded, and that time is nc
far ahead. 1t is not far ahead DC
l. the work has got well unde
- AZ ~ q N1kd Cd
; not stop. h spirit of advancement
/ that is alive in every human creatur
urges Lenoir men to go further tn.
If year than last year, and they are &c
ing. But more people are needle,
D and the question has come up no
lie whether TO take the kind that is bs
es ginning to Drift this way to meet tt
rs pressing needs, or go undertake
work OF selection that will geo tt
most desirable kind.
Is KiBSaOn at Sign.
g In g. way kinston is one Of tt
is most significant signs in the Sout]
It shows how the old town, comm
ne along slowly for a hundred and IF
years, drowsy and merely existing
er the nrst century of it's existence. wa
We worn Tor years, finds itself in the lig,
81 or modern Development and awake,
+. as IT gets IN touch with .ne movir
TO world.
ap now hinston Is typical OF any Ii,
Z tnrrty American town, and lust
Il lnoical1Ve OF life and energy and cor
ss Iort as n other town Of eight
81 ten thousand people. whether -four
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