The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-01-20

man has &eVer seen.
Wonderful Water Front,
! Sit back IN wonder and admire
the water front or Carteret county
You can't figure the area of land III
Carteret county by square miles
There are no square miles in the
county except IN the corner where il
Joins Craven. All tho rest Of the
miles are rounded eft by the wash OF
the water would guess that Car
teret has "A thousand miles OF water
front and il has about fourteen thou.
sand people. That would allow each
inhabitant about hundred and
twenty-five yards TO stand on along
the sound TO fish. l reckon II liv-
| ed in Carteret with my boys Wa would
| not fool away much time plowins for
| cotton, not il the fish would bite
However. this has nothing to do
| with building a railroad and getting
| coal down from the mountains to the
| Panama Canal. Yet. somehow.
cannot get away from the notion that
J IL 1 had to build that railroad through
| that magnificent forest, fanked as ii
! is by tempting streams sounds and
ocean. Panama would go without
coal. For where there !. place a.
| romantic to live in as that bit of ter
ritory eastward from Dunn To the
banks at MoTehead and Beaufort. il
must take q right practical man who
! will hang to his level or his wheel
scraper long enough to build rail
road instead Of breaking away 10
| hunt and fish.
Evidently the big Improvement At
| the Cape means a need for 4 SUBJ
stantial harbor. And reasoning along
the same line the harbor means q
shipping port at the end OF some rail
! roads. and that means the rail-
road that comes down from New Bern
is not going to be lonesome for very
1 n 10 <l,re tc ~
make the acqua intance of the world.
Cape Lookout as Winter Resort.
I have an idea that If the amuSe-
ment loving people OF the United
States could be made aware of the
! | alluring prospects that are on all sides
In the Cape Lookout country, here
} would become one Of the greatest
winter resorts Of the continent. 1t has
; the climate. It has the water. 1t
} has the forests. It has the novelty
4 Of the real South. while 1t is in easy
: reach Of the North.
Some day this new harbor will at
tract attention. and that will bring
, visitors. Those who come will tel
: | others. Then others Will come, for il
is only eight OF ten hours from NOr+
: folk by rail to Cape Lookout, and
! Norfolk is nights ride on a boa,
s from Baltimore Or Washington, or a
/ day from New York.
5 If the Northern folks who go far
! ther down into the interior OF the
r South could get a glimpse Of the coaSt
t country around in Carteret county
0 many Of them would make the jour
ney going or coming include this sec
i ton, and they would be glad Of it
c And, some day. when this country
o Is cut up into little farms, and all the
!, farmers have made their places at
s tractlye and productive homes, with
6 cotton and corn fields, and cattle and
2 sheep, and truck gardens, and fish
?. ing holes all along the ever persist
|. ing water front, and slate colored
5. school houses all along the improved
o country roads, and ali the things that
n go with the progressive age. what 2
e neighborhood it will be.
: | am anxious to see the rai!roa
a start to build from Dunn and the big
government improvements get in
e shape that ships may be lying At tn.
o dock in fleets ready to take on Goa
p for Panama and farm stuff and pro
q duce for the big cities Of the North
y for by that time new interest vii
: be added to what is now so larc ~,
z q possibility IN some directions.
It When the new road gets through
II Will open lot Of farm land tina
= has no superior on earth. 1T viii
open LOT Of timber land. It wi!
i. open lot Of land that presents nlos
n every form of pleasure and profit tha
= oenii ~ liItdSttied 1t VIII dfoG7t
II lot Of primitive little old towns an.
i make them start out on a new Orde
[ OF procedure.
rs don't know whether il Is the com
ST ing Of the Durham Southern roa d tha
20 has put the new life into Dunn, .
= the tobacco crop, or the genera
awakening Of the people from mul
Id utude Of influences but no doubt IN
1t Durham and Southern has sometime
IL to do with ii. a railroad vii wax
a up anything. Y on know that 4 20
"a have tried TO sleep q nyWhere Withil
es sound Of il. and il coal road get
[ under way from Dunn TO cape :~GOk
l. out, that will wake up things a.
lc the way from the mountains - tn
j coast
< II does not take much of a prophe
to forecast the future Oh this State
ID Wherever you turn you SCI ina
OF things are SnnuinC for 2 ..gant!