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

the work the Sandhiils board 81 trade
is laying out for itself. and II u APP
proaChes that work as II seems de-
termined TO do there is no apparent
reason why it shall not be rewarded
With a degree of success that Will lie
surprising.
1t is safe 10 say hat the surplus Of
population all over the United States
Will show the same eagerness 10 get
70 land that has always been shown
We must make farm produce enough
more each year L. feed two million
more people. We must make cotton
enough each year To provide for two
million more people in our own
try besides more people elsewhere who
want cotton in increased amount
Many of the States cannot accNnmo-
date many more farmers under tho
present conditions. for the high price
OF land puts the farm out Of reach OF
the men who must do the farming.
Cheap land has made the United
States the great nation that il Is.
| and cheap land Will make the States
that are yet to be made. II Alex i.
Field in his single tax preachments.
car keep down the price Of lands in
North Carolina he will have more in
fluence on the high cost Of living in
the future than all other agencies
now in sight. If theSandhills Board
of Trade can hold the prices of lands
down to a reasonable figure and make
known to the increasing population
of the country what is here. and can
help to finance the chance that awaits
men who are ready 10 make farms
these sandhill enthuAasts can fill this
country with developers and make it
one Of the most interesting and pro-
ftable hives of industry on the earth.
Make Known The Advantages.
If an arid. frigid, distant, mountain
state like Idaho, Montana. Colorado.
or others Of that inaccessible ountry
can add a hundred per cent TO the
population what can a State lik
North Carolina do? 1t is simply a oues-
lion Of making known the advantages.
!, Think of Washington adding 100 per
+ cent to its population in a period Of
ten years while North Carolina added
| 16 per cent, or of California adding
q sixty in the same time. or North Da-
= kota adding 80 per cent. and Arizona
. and New Mexico adding sc per cent
Not one of the whole bunch has any
thing like the advantages that North
Carolina has to offer. They sirnpl
r have made the people acquainted witt
< the limited inducements they have.
+ This is the ground the Sandhll
e folks are taking. They are persuaded
$ that if they let people know of ths
v goods hat are to be offered the good:
4 will move. They are enthusiastic be
cause they know what they have dom
v themselves and they figure that unde
4 the advice and counsel of men VIII
are working out right newcomers ca
be brought here and helped TO worI
out right.
70 The broad acquaintance pOssesse
- by these men in the North and Sout
N argues for success. Ralph Page ha
q been instrumental in turning thou
is sands of acres of sandhill land int
ri farms. and in settling in the Stat
in many people and hundreds of thou
sands of dollars. What Leonar
Tufts is doing with the i~ntroductio
nd of Northern people to North Carolin
On is SO generally known that it is rec
A tation of familiar history to speak
q it. These and a dozen other name
can be mentioned as indicative
,is work already done along the line pr
Ill posed to work.
~ \ Workable scheme.
-. So I figure that the sandhill boa
~ Of trade scheme is going to work, f
Ut all it requires is a continuation Of IL
of enthusiasm Of the fellows who a
the organization, and | have neV
no observed that any Of the bunch ,
on long to the Cutters club.
na 1 have not been given any ofhci
On authority to ask other sections TO jO
~ this movement. out / think it Wou
wise for the whole State to make
Quiry- as to joining the movement.
Nv other State in the Union today h
ar such a chance as North Carolina if Y
~ will simply get busy along the lin
the sandhill folks have marked OF
- and help them carry their plan to
H.. successful end.