The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-25
CHERRYVlLE IS ONE OF THE,
STATESLNE COMM MITES
Typical North Carolina Town That is Certain to Expand
Into a Little Industrial City-In Midst of Farm;ng
Section Growing and Thriving on All Sides.

q farm mas a lively market the far
mer strikes a l~iyelier gait. From
looking over the town and riding ont
the country roads 1 would venture
the guess hat around Cherryvilie is
with the mills Of the yilleee will taka
with the mills oft he village will TAX
from the farmers the cotton cron
or not less than ten or fifteen square
miles OF a solid cotton field if the
would make so much cot
ton. But they do not.
Hal1 a dozen separate cotton mills
within a short drive Of the farms
ready to take all the cotton that is
likely to be made for years. Cotton
mills enough in the county to spin
nearly the entire cotton crop Of North
Carolina.
That Is one thing the Cherryville
farmer may console himself with.
has cotton goes out to market, not as
a raw material, but as a finished prod
uct. And while his cotton is being
made into yarn or woven goods he
is providing on his farms the food
supplies for those who are doing the
spinning and weaving. The commune
! lty is one that is supplying itself with
the main essentials for food and
clothing, W. of the staple necessi-
ties OF modern life.
The Development Stage.
Cherryviile is i'll the development
stage. The town has a couple of
thousand people. 1t is crossing from
the crude to the aesthetic. Tasty
homes. artistic buildings for COM
mercial uses; attractive lawns, mod
ern conVeniences, and all that go to
make the progressive atmosphere,
are crowding against the cruder in
stitutions Of the earlier day. The
gait of the town is manifest in the
prOWth of one of tho hanks tho E'ircf
National, which started ten years age
with a capital of five thousand dol
lars. In ten years the capital has
increased a thousand per cent, near
ly a hundred per cent in dividends
has been paid, and a surplus has
been accumulated of five times the
original capital stock. The stock is
held by about a hundred individuals
of the community, many of then
farmers, and the responsibility Of thu
stockholders financially reaches into
several millions.
The stranger in Cherryville cal
see that there is a town passing
through the transition from cOuntr.
village to modern town community
The marks of both are still visible
The c~rudeneSs of the ancient order
the newnesS of the new, and in botl
are the certain signs Of what i
rapidly coming. The mar who ha
travelled over the North and We
recognizes the type. Shaping up
a model agricultural and
turing town, the commingling Of PEG
pie of various callingS, an ideal fore
cast of diversified prosperity and of
self-dependent and thrifty cOmmun
, ity.
A Maintaining County.
There is this essential differences
, CASTOR county has all the element
t of self-maintenance within her con
troll. The limit of the power Of tn
: streams of the county has not bee
s estimated. The mill limit Of tn
j county is an unmeasured posslbll1t
in this respect. Cherryville has n
e idea of how many wheels can tur
before the time has come when tn
power is fully occupied. The trans
former station is on the edge OF
Y cotton field. Power and materl:
O there touching Zach other. This
e not the case in the north or west.
Looking out over the hills OF tn
IS township around CherryVi1le come
n back a vision from Ohio, or low
or Michigan. The little communlt
arising to meet the needs of the ia
e mer. A few men accumuiatlng a IL
tie money. A factory started on
# modest scale to build wagons {
j. plows or hay rakes or moving M
chimes. Fuel is hauled from som
where else for power. iron
brought from Pittsburg or the lake
n for castings. Everything IS Assem-
j. bied from distant sources OF suppl
t. There Cherryville and it's KIND
% towns have news a decided adVal
II towns have a decided advantage.
e But the little wagon works grow
s. and presently the world knows :
a the Studebaker wagon, n with u
d wagon factory S~outhbend grows to
n hig towns John Deere'S little pho
d shops spreads out. and it makes NJ
At line. Ill, a city. The Champion NOV
Il ing machine grows bigger and blgg
,e and by the time the big East sire
shops are built they are the ol9se
thing Of the kind IN the ""rlu. a. =,
S~nrinrfe.d Ohio is a city. F.om II
q De,aware river to Western Iowa "
re find that thing at work. Inc 1ar
d. community begins to build things
4 a little ship, the little shop gro.