The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-02-10
Why Is the City Of New Bern
Not As Large as Los
Angeles
Continued from Page One.J

all ~ NJ "a - 800
crowded centers Of the more thickly
AT any unprecedented gait if people
out in the big world can be shown
what is here, and ready.
Az far az / can see everything Is
at hand for a big effort of progress.
including a transportation proposition
hat has no equal any where on this
continent unless perhaps on the
Chesapeake Bay, Puget Sound, in
Washington, is too far from popula-
ton to rank az we'll.
II is the Did story. This country
u bigger than its population. ON
day, when the inhabitants OF the
crowded senters Of the more thickly
settled regions find out what is here
able climate. and in q land teeming
with all sorts OF opportunity. the
railroads will bring immigrants just
as they carried emmigrants to the
far west.
Advertising Supreme Need.
IL hat time shall be left to chance
II may be long or it may not until
the change will commence. If the
work Is taken UP by those who would
see the sound country settled the
ask should not be a big one, for
there is so much to offer as induce
ments that the whole job will con-
sist simply in making known what Is
20 offer.
The start has been made. The
Norfolk Southern has brought in a
considerable number Of strangers
and they tell those left behind what
they find here. That is the way ii
starts. Soon after the war a family
or two went from Jefferson county
Pennsylvania, to Kansas. Inc
wrote home that Kansas was a land
fair to look upon. A second dele
CATION went out. They led other!
TO go. and n few years g when
was in Rice county, Kansas. l coul'
find q Jefferson county, Pennsylvania
family at nearly every cross roads.
A. M. Clarke dropped down int
Southern Pines some twenty-five
years ago. I venture that In tn
time he has been In that town n
has been instrumental. directly or In
directly, in bringing a thousand PEG
pie into Moore county. Many Q
them have stayed and become effec
tive helpers in developing h State
That is the way it must be In tn
sound country just as this sectio
gets more acquaintance.
New Bern started out different
than the other port towns Of til
South, hence It will be a differen
town than any of the others. 1t
a pleasure to Wander around
Charleston, but 1t is not likely tn;
Charleston will appeal to a strange
who is looking for a new lOcatio
as New Bern does. Charleston
interesting. but New Bern is interes
hg..and possible.
New Bern is peopled with a lot
men who are looking al the bros
possibilities Of their town and j
surroundings, and they are plannir
TO get in touch with the moxeme1
that has already set IT, from the mort
' toward the sound country. New Bel
truck gardens are supplying va
quantities of high-class produce
The markets OF the Northern State
Various influences are at work wi
comprehensive experiments in agl
, culture, M every experiment brin
out assurances of new and profitab
possibilities.
New eBrn is iii SO many ways a
5ociated with the development
North Carolina that 1t is a continu
succession Of interesting discover
AS you walk about the streets. Nc
conspicuous of the finger marks
history is the Federal cemetery, til
camping ground In which almt
three thousand Union soldiers d
buried Is a result of the conflict
and about New Bern.
The cemetery here is but one of
large number dedicated and acc
pied by soldiers Of the Union arm
and is not a large one as compar
with many OF the others, but 1t is
impressive illustration Of the awf
ness of tina. four years when IN
turned against ma
While the Federal cemetery is
most prominent marker Of the h
tory of the neighborhood. the N
who has read the story of the coun
is certain to recall at every turn
The streets something that is famil
from his touch with books. WI
it was out in the sounds that the /
tory OF the United States really CO
menced with the Raleigh expedite
the actual progress made its succ
farther up i'm the tributaries of
broadwatcr. Until New Bern ,
settled the colony of North Carol
had not advanced very far.
There was about the first defr
effort on II large scale. the com
OF tie Swiss and the PalatineS ma
ing the substantial undertaking t
gives to North Carolina n deci
start forward. Many OF the Sy
and Germans have scattered out to