The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-02-24
HENDERSONS OUTLOOK
~v~ae BRIGHT WITH PROMISE
A Place of Progress and Prosperity Where Industry
and Energy and Ability Are Giving it a Front
Rank Among the Towns of North Carolina.

-.,ht by the CTOdldH Sluo, II plO-
i've social organization of Hen
I'm was marked by unique and
"..sual features, among these the
SSrs, long distance telephone talk
lth Governor Craig in Raleigh ad-
Jr.ssed over two hundred people
resent in the club rooms, his ad-
lbro.s heard plainly and clearly
inch large annunciators. Another
f-at1re was h address of Mr.. ]. c.
L..traIl of the Henderson bar. In it
told of the wonderful progress
mnd prosperity of Henderson. He
Ike eloquently and 1T was an as
tr1nding report he made. The facts
ne gave, n MS aooreSS III pai' "'
here given:
Hcnderson's Outlook.
There are two requisites for the
rapid development of our city:
;.First-The citizens must realize
the city's greatness. and through this
realization AVE abiding faith IN It's
growth and prosperity.
"Second-The citizens, individually |
and collectively, must tell the outside
world of this good place we call
home. Henderson.
I'm discussing the first 1 shall lay
ouite a broad major premiss by tell
Ing a little of the growth OF North
carolina and the South.
Germany, France, Great Britain
combined have in coal fields $1,000
square miles. The South has 6l,OOO
sduare miles, or four times as much.
The prosperous mines OF the South
snrpass all others of the world. In
IRON. marble, granite and gas the
South surpasses the countries or all
Of Europe.
with more than SO per cent of the
timber of the United States, with rs
pcr cent of the tobacco and 100 per
cent of the cotton, with near uniform
climate and water power distributed
over her broad domains the South is
the most natural equipped manufac-
turer Of the universe, and the world
Is fast learning it.
The United States has just har-
vested a ten billion dollar crop. Yet
Notwithstanding the fact that the
South has lost 5000, 900 of her best
producers to the West and the North
she has harvested her part of this
great crop. With 100000 900 pounds
Of tobacco, $4,000, 600 bales Of cotton
and ! IA billion bushe of grain "a
crop that would require the worlds
entire output of gold for five year;
to %purchase) the South is just on thu
threshold of her agricultural deVel
opment.
The Sun Kissed South" is the gar
den. the vineyard, the orange orchard
of the North, and the railroads tina
traverse her must spend by 1920 on
ana 4 nan ONIONS OIL uOlldI " Ch
able them to handl her traffic.
Though through these fifty year
the South has paid a billion dollar
war tax and today just equals tn
union at the outbreak of the war !
population she is richer by ten billio
of dollars.
In North Carolina.
I'm this great awakening the 'Ol
North State God bless her., ha
awakened. The hum of industry
echoed from Murphy to Manteo. l
comforts, in wealth., in agriculture,
educational progress, in the NOR;
uplift Of the whole people as ever "
Through her happy boundaries v
find clubs and leagues and organic;
tons whose common cause is to vi
build the old North State
And of the ten billion dollar Gro
Just harvested North Carolina su
passed all of the States by more thu
$4,000, 900 n the little baby Coul
ty Of Vance produced enough tobac'
alone to more than surpass her pa
of this North Carolina bumper crop
81 have perhaps gone out of n
way, but it is to bring fOrcibly to 20
minds one burning fact: Vance cou
ty must go forward on the very ere
Of this gigantic wave that sweeps t
Southland, and Henderson must
her part.
Nancc County and Henderson.
81 link these under n head, |
cause they are and should be OF
Side by side n hand in hand tn
travel the commercial road that lea
to one prosperity. You cannot or
pie one without wounding the 9th
YOU cannot nourish one witht
growth in the other. We are c
people with onAsheritage, with a co
mon faith and a common cause.
HIn SS1 " ~, onVnfy y-nC form
out Of the scraps of some good
counties, with less than 100000
the tax hooks. 1t took just tive
years to increase this by $4,000
In the next eight years we added
other 81, 000, 900. In the next +
years We added another $4,000
And are assured that 1915 will find
our books S11 900, 900.
The increase has been<4OO per c
IN thirty years, 100 per cent in