The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-01-13
North Carolina Literally Sloppy
With Opportunity
Continued from Page One.)

North Carolina and the Movers.
Cheap lands had a lot to do with
theSbig migration TO the west, put ies
no man hin that migration Is enoeu.
IL has only properly formed as a haplt
This country Is mercurial- Inc iaS'
census showed that mii.loh
people lived In States in which they
were not born. That means seven
teen million people are Influenced by
the moving habit. With that many
people moving back and forth the
only reason North Carolina does not
nave a share Of the movers Is
not enough Information concerning
This State il spread abroad.
NV first glimpse Of North Carolina
was In Cleveland county. That was
over thirty years ago. l concluded
then l had found paradise. think
20 yet. Yet only u a thlrd OF
Cleveland county Is cultivated. LeaV-
ing all sentiment out OF the discussion
Y and measuring up the coolest OF facts
/ cannot see that there is a country
west OF the Mississippi river that has
80 much to commend il to the stranger
as Cleveland county, North Carolina.
Yet how many Of the possible ten or
fifteen millions OF migrating inhabl
tants OF the United States know there
is such a place as Cleveland county.
North Carolina?
From Cleveland county I went up
into Castor county, a continuation OF
the natural paradise Castor Is q
good county. Ii is ideal in its indus
trial possibilities. Both CASTOR and
Cleveland this year have a better cot
ION crop than hast year, and at better
prices. Both have good local mar
kets for anything that can he made.
pxtL h.p GOOD raipcaA ocilifioC
Both are on the zone of that big
movement OF the Southern Power
Company. CASTOR is one Of the fore
most textile manufacturing counties
of the country. Its position in this
respect is u~nassallable, for it has the
cotton in its own farms n the water
power to drive the factories. It has
the farms to feed The operatives. I,
has tho climate where work may be
carried on in comfort.
IL Alberta. Canada. had Castor
and Cleveland counties, with their re,
sources OF climate. location and ma
lerial Alberta would make Of thOs'
two counties in FIVE years a settles
neighborhood Of half a million PEG
pie.
Don't Realize Opportunity.
Why don't we do that in NortI
Carolina?
Because we have so much Of thi
came opportunity hat we do not con,
prchend its Value We do not under
stand how much the rest Of tn
world Is lacking, and what the pee
pie Of other places would do if the
only knew what Is here awaiting tn
settler who will join in bringing OF
the that abound here O
every and / am not partial to Gas
ton II Cleveland. l merely mentio
them because there is where the fir.
impression of the State flashed on m
Since that day / have. seen thai Mort
Carolina is literally sloppy with OF
~portunity. No matter where a stral
ger enters tho State, whether in Roc,
lnCham, Northampton, Robeson, fro
the coast or from the mountains, fro
Virginia or from South Carolina.
IS confronted with opportunity, al
the opportunity is apparent to the IN;
who has his eyes open.
One day l was.naking a pilgrima
out through Montgomery county. Al
as | passed mile after mile Of exec
lent looking unused land back to I
came the pictures Of long trains loa
cd with emigrants as 1 had seen the
pulling across the plains and mou
tains Of the big West, carrying hu
dreds OF people at a line to the DOS
bilities of h lands of the setti
sun.
| would not give MONTGOMERY
stanley counties for ten times
much territory any where the otl
side of the Rocky mountains.
II is true there are limited ira
ii good land i'll California and OIL
sections Of the Pacific slope. but
cakes a fortune to get out there. a
chen those tracts are limited in n,
Der, hish ia price. and expensive
operate, for q LAND that does not h;
free rainfall is almost as bad as co,
try that would have to buy air 2
sunlight. Irrigation IL handy. bt1t
costs. and il is limited to a very> II,
proportion Of the whole ountr
North Carolina has none Of the d,
advantages the West is continu;
encounterins. This State simply
Dors under the DISADVANTAGE Of
ing u~nacouainted, While the West
constantly becoming acquainted.
| go on the presumption that
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