The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-05

Win the Efforts made by the organiZa-
tion- Such investment could be made
to work TO advantage Of investor. as
Wen as to the community under a
plan proposed as follows:
Want More Small Farmers.
Mr.. Derby in his ak at the meet
ing called special attention to the
need Of more small white rme III
the territory. To get small m
lt Is necessary for such men to be
able to find small farms at low prices
ana on terms of payment running
hrough a series Of years This par
tlcular part of the State. and il is the
condition all over the South, does not
have many small farms. and if such
are TO be offered small farmers the
farms must be made.
To make them takes land and
money. 1t will be proposed to men of
means that land can be bought for a
low figure now, say in the neighbor-
HOOD Of ten to fifteen dollars an acre.
1t can be cleared and plowed for
around five dollars an acre. A small,
but convenient house can be put on
the farm for five hundred dollars. A
fifty acre farm can be made for ff-
teen hundred dollars. A large tract
Of land. probably bought and econo-
mlcally made into fifty acre farms can
give the investor a little margin at
fifteen hundred dollars for the fifty
acre farm, and by selling it on time
at interest he has q safe investment
which will bring him interest for a
series Of years. paying off the p%rinci-
pal year by year, and serving the
country as we'll as proving profitable
and safe to the investor.
Lam Settlement Wanted.
One of the projects the board of
trade has in mind is that of encourag-
ing land owners throughout the ter
ritOry to put their land into the lands
of the board for settlement in such
way as can be thought feasible. The
possible course is to advertise the
land in such ways as Will be deemed
best, to try to interest capital as rep
resented by the visitors who come to
the winter hotels, as we'll as that
which can be reached by the acquain-
lance n banking relations of board
members with the people who have
money, and to get settlers for the
farms that are to be developed by the
association of land and capital.
AS to the success of the plans the
board are considering it may be said
that the ground has been gone over
pretty thoroughly, and the first work
has been the investigation OF Wha,
the section has to offer and what the
debate was the cause of so man,
failures by board of trade booms, ant
the way to avoid those failures. An,
J other was the imperative necessit.
I Of the board doing something instead
I Of organizing al effort to ask some
I body else to do something.
e Personality Of The Leaders.
The personality Of the man at tn
. head of the movement is interestin
as we'll as indicative. Taking tfiel
at random, here is Leonard Tufts,
man who owns n operates what
probably the biggest development {
it's kind in the world. Mr.. Tufts
the season finds employment for ovt
a thousand people in a section tn;
It before his coming was as sterile an
l. unPrOductive as any desert betWee
the Atlantic and Pacific. Henry !
# Tage. another nan who has been
n developer. until the enterprises TT
IL Page interests set on foot in tn
sandy country have expanded uni
d the productiveness is SO wide reacl
- ing that it could hardly be even al
II proximately estimated. 7. B. Tyso
Of the buggy company that has p
North Carolina in the front rank
Of vehicle construction, Roger Derby,
ID young New Yorker who is prOvir
1e the possibilities Of cattle feeding {
~ a big scale in the North Carolil
Sc sandhills. r. E. Willie, who has be-
- an active factor in a developme
re project that has given Southern Pin
A in the past two years a far great
,y impetus than it had gained in al
- (S11 yCdIS III l 11CI I'd
Buchan, a young chap but three
is Jour years out of A. and M. and AL
$ bama polytechnic, who came home
It. take the management of the fam
estate on the death of his father, a
who after proving that he could su
e cessfully handle the operation on TO
is this year cleaning another two hu
~ dred and fifty acres of land to e
al pand the business. These and othe
who are doing things in a big W
"a, and in a successful way.
IL These men seem determined to
lS for this section in a general way WI
or they have been doing for themsel1
LS in an individual way, and | am be
lty enough to say that after looking cal
fully into their prospectus and pla
tn, there is nothing to stand in the w
or their success.
The United States is increasing
population at the rate of almost t
he million a ear now. In The last Fl
, a wears it has averaged an increase