The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-03

ately tobacco. cotton and truck crops
nave all been doing very well III inc
recent years, and there Is no" INC
WAYNE county farmer ONE 20 %
freighrins his money into Goidsporo
10 the banks. and how the oalhs
come to have MONEY TO put I'M" Nai
Gus industrial enterprises ana no"
the town comes to be rocking aiohs
at it's enyiabie gait.
The Farm PrOSpcrity's Mainstay.
For no matter what the factories
do il is the farm here in Wayne souh,
" thai gives things the big start ano
il is the farm that will continue 10 pe
| the mainstay Of prosperity
A thing that strikes a stranger IL
Goldshoro Is the substantial chaTac-
| ter of the new building in progress ~
| several places big jobs are Roihs
! ahead, and these big jobs are SKY
| big mercantile establish,
ments, the new court house, ana
things Of tina character, as Wen as
| the dwellings,, many OF when stahu
for a big outlay OF money.
You can figure out when you see
| factories around a town that the town
is certain to grow and prosper Inc
| same conclusion is justified when you
see fertile farms carefully ulieu. 1ee
on the mere surface factories n
! 12IYnS NouIU HOt S1ii oA
big new buildings stand Tor. "A SIX
or seven story office building says two
things: The men putting IT up nave
money, and they have some line OF
conditions tina assures them th04
such a building Is justified by the
business Of the m Ahe
character Of the building IN progress
IN any place Is a right certain ipdica-
ton Of the capital available I'm the
community and Of the faith the peo-
pie have in their community.
Evidently money is easy in Wayne
county, and evidently the people OF
the town are not afraid to build broad
and substantially for the Work tHat IS
ahead Of them.
Change in Building Construction.
That changed character OF con
struction is one OF the most fOrceful
signs that is to be seen at h present
time IL North Carolina. The archi-
tect and the construction engineer
have arrived In this State, and with
them have come the men skilled in
all lines Of building. A carpenter and
a brick mason are no longer enough
to put up a house or a store. II
takes an architect, contractor. q
carpenter, a mason, q cement worker,
an electrician, a plumber, a machin
ist, an engineer, and nobody can say
what all until the architect has been
figuring Oh the 6WdTUlHS u the FaIl-
: u contracts.
g Goldsboro has been dong this mod
! ern building stunt now for three OF
: four years, and each succeeding yeal
. sees the tendency to broaden out, IN.
I til the town has gradually passed thu
q line Of country towns and taken OK
q the characteristics Of the alert ant
energetic modern American city. /:
type Of community that is not APP
D~nnohnl ~ n-,so- nl~
on earth.
And this very thing showed me on,
. change that is taking place In Nortl
Carolina, and probably In a consid
. cradle portion of the South. old
: boro is not simply GoldSboro. It i
a geographical location within tn
= State. There are a few spots wher,
activity is not yet pronounced, but ii
most places the attitude is one o
IS crowding ahead. North Carolina i
ceasing to be one Of the old Souther1
!, States. or one Of the old slave State:
II or one Of the Confederate States, an
: under the influence of industrial an
commercial growth is becoming
Is geographical location on the man q
the United States.
In my boyhood days Ohio was GU
d West. Later on the West had gon
IS as far as Illinois. Then Kansas wa
lg the West. Then that indefinite cour
m try, West, Teached the Pacifj
L coast, and where it has gone now n
y, one knows. We have now the Midd]
IS. Atlantic States and the South Atlautj
D States, the North Central and til
South Central, the Muontain and tn
IS. Pacific States, but the West and tt
,g South are gradually slipping out {
ls actual fact
North Carolina Ink Ohio.
North Carolina begins to remind II
OF Ohio. When l first grew acuuain
ed with Ohio it had a lot Of huddir
- little towns that were the outcome
the armin settlement Of the Stat
The little towns were starting sma
- shops TO make things. East Liverpo
~ was trying n rud job Of potter
ware. Nov it is a city Of twenty-n
3 thousand. Dayton was winning snu
= reputation with steam pumps AT
- hay rakes. The town has grown
three times as big as the biggest si
III Of North Carolina YounyS+oun -