The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-10
FAYETTEVILLE SECTION ONE
OF BOUNDLESS OPPORTUNITIES
Ranks With Pittsburg as One of The Most Favored Local.
tiles In The woodworking Things For Huge
Growth at The Door.

Certainly il there IS n supstan'lai
in natural the ad-
vantage is in favor OF Fayetteviiie
With the warm climate OF North
Carolina Pittsburg would be in the
heart OF q magnificent farming section.
With cotton at the door for factory
uses Pittsburg would probably be the
center Of the cotton manufacturing
industry of the world.
Equal Start
Pittsburg a two things 70 start
with, convenient transportation and
coal. Coal provided power. The river
the product.
But Fayetteville is convenient TO a
cheaper power han PittSburg can OBJ
tain, for Fayetteville is in easy reach
OF all the water-power it can develop
for years to come.
Being farther from cotton than
from iron PittSburg turned its cheap
coal steam power to the manufacture
of iron products. In the neighbour
hood of Pittsburg were iron ore de-
posits, and pig iron was made there
and freighted TO Pittsburg on the
river. At Pittsburg commenced the
erection Of iron mills, which have
grown to be the foremost OF all the
iron mills of the world.
At the present time nc other place
o the face of the earth originates
such vast freight tonnage as Pitts
burgh. The freight shipments from
New York, London, Liverpool, or any
other port or city, are far behind the
shipments Of P~ittsburg, and it is
doubtful if any other two ports ship
rs much stuff as this town.
1t will not do to say hat Pittsburg
has the inside track and that Fay
etteville is lacking i'll anything the
rthr~- en- Nnxoffnxi(J l.
has around it's territory two things
that no place has anything to beat.
These are cotton and tobacco. The
textile trade ranks among the great
industries Of the world. Next after
food it is the most essential.
Fayetteville is here III the heart OF
the cotton region. 1t does lot IA tC
go out of the county to obtain the
raw material for it's mills. Cotton is
raised in ~profusion all round Fayette-
vile and a much greater amount "a
ties to Wilmington for export. Tha
cotton could be stopped at F'ayette
vile to be manufactured if the peopls
would SO elect.
Power to manufacture the cotton
can be generated in Fayetteville or il
territory convenient enough hat i
can be brought to Fayetteville at
less cost than power can be supplied
in Pittsburg. Cheap water freight will
put Fayetteville cotton products II
New York, in London, in any marke
for less than Pittsburg products cal
be distributed.
Tobacco as Raw Material.
And Fayetteville has tobacco as
native raw material. Tobacco fac
tories could be built in Fayettevill
and be made to thrive. Some da
alcohol will be the fuel that drive
internal combustion engines. GaSOlin
is not increasing in supply while gaso
line motors are multiplying in a start
ling ratio. Alcohol can be made j
the Fayetteville country from swee
potatoes, waste products Of the farm
and from innumerable things. N
place can beat the Cape Fear regio
in the production OF sweet potatoe
which will furnish a good supply {
alcohol when the day comes to eStat
lish alcohol factories to supply fue
The list of possibilities could b
multiplied indefinitely. The countr
around Fayetteville has all the chance
: it a use and many more than will /
utilized eve when the town is a cit
Of half a million people. h trut
5 about Fayetteville is that it has s
? many advantages it will never tax
I half Of them.
Now a big wave of development
[ working all ver the upper end
e Hoke county. over in Moore oun
= and in much of Cumberland Diffe.
9 ent agencies are engaged in differel
sections. One is the men Of NEAR
+ o the North who are opening b
plantations in the n~eighborhOod
s Southern Pines and PnehurSt. VIII;
they are going to do these men
t not yet exactly know. They are tr
ing out some experiments, making
e success Of some of them, and cor
s PEELED to make a success of ali b
fore they are through. for they ha
h have too much invested to perm
IS failure.
n Another factor is the native colt.
S farmer. who is expanding into u
dreamed of big dimensions. Il is on
% about ten years g that j. c. Thorn
II commenced to farm in hat sect,
rs of Cumberland county which h
h since beer made into Hoke. Now
n thinks he has fooled away his til
= if he does not have ten thousand az
lars worth Of cotton in his crop.