The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-03

mopolitan. The cotton nil may De
making goods for G~oldshoro, or for
Buffalo. or for Calcutta or for Pekia.
The oil mill may be turning out cot
ton oil for the American or N.
F~renchman 10 make olive oil. or FOR
the New Highlander to pack Sardines
The tobacco from the farms may go
to Durham or 20 baltimore or Boston
or Constantinople. The knitting mills
may be turning out q proonct FOR
Texas or TimbuStoo. The world 10
the market for the North Carolina
shop. and the world is called on to fit
| out the North Carolina man when
| anything is needle these days
GoAdsboro on Rroad Foundation.
1t is apparent that the town Lis.
Coldsboro, which is building now i,
| building on the widest possible foun-
dalton. The world Is the market
This is seer in the case OF Greensboro,
which makes a large share OF no
| cotton denim goods to supply all Of
| civilization. The cotton milling trade
is working on q raw material which
| is peculiarly the exclusive material az
| about ten OF the States
BY studying Ohio. and by renem-
bering that Ohio used any old mate
rial and mad things that were moro
local in their market, and In com
petition with the rest OF the world.
and that North Carolina towns are
working on material supplied within
sight OF the factory and with tho
world for q market, it would seem
that all that Ohio towns have done
North Carolina towns are likely IL
duplicate, and to outclasa
GOOD Roads Uneasine@.n
Wayne county has also reached the
good roads u~neasiness. A bon issue
OF 8 hundred thousand dollars il
| hopoH N no tho medium for nokipu
the county one Of the enviable ones
as far as roads are concerned Al
ready the good roads idea has been
having it's influences, but it Is the
case in Wayne, as every place else
that one good road is unhappy until
it induces more good roads, and the
thing never stops. So Wayne county
will be fixing UP ways for the farmer
and the automobile man to get about.
and that will give mother boon so
business Of every kind
Wayne county is an interesting
section to think about. 1t is essen
TALLY a farm county Yet the growth
of the factory may make G~OldsbOro
distinctly a manufacturing town. The
power Of the streams Of the western
part OF the State can now be carried
so far by wire that no county IN
North Carolina. is held down to any
limitations because OF Its location.
AT the same t1IOe natural COnOF
tons would indicate hat Goldsbo
and Wayne county are going alone IN
the class with all Of the territory tha*
Is defined by the fall line Of the State.
and that farming in the highly devei-
oped sense will be the dominant note
OF all this region from here to the
sounds, with manufacturing and dis
%trihution.
One thing Is dead sure. The whole
plains section Of the State is coming
; at a pace we cannot comprehend, and
} where it is going to we a not con
lecture. Increase OF production
means increase of capital. Increase
$ of capital means increase OF invest
Q ment, and increase of investment, the
3 way the G~oldsboro folks arrange thei,
. investment, means industrial xpan
1 sion and increased production. And
. that is the way ! have figured out the
l story Of the Goldsboro OF tomorrow,
, a continuation OF progress and de-
= velopmeDt because the resources are
q here, and here are the people with
. the energy and ambition to do thinsI
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