The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-10-20
NORlH CAROLINA WILL BECOME
ALEADING INDUSTRIAL STATE
The Ease eh WIN Wh INC Power For Any Sort of Plant Can
supremacy as . IJa - Mnich Settles Our Coming
BION ii. BUTLER.

ia fN1f 1N u vi IN "
Waterman, what of the night? And
as Of old, the answer is, that the
morning cometh.
So the watchmen here have been
telling me that the morning cometh
and how beautiful upon the noun
tains are the feet of him that
bringeth good tidings."
For several years have baen
watching the fine work of the South
rru Power Company, confident that il
had launched n great movement. and
that il would find itself rapidly Dusb-
ing forward on a new and untried
trail, but n that would constantly
open. and continually invite it for
ward.
I ave been going over the ground
and inquiring of the watchmen.
What of the night?
And the answer has been hat the
morning cometh.
Let me make a prediction. 1t will
not be many years until North Caro-
lima is one of the foremost industrial
Ccnters of the world. Nobody knows
what course the trend of industry
viii take, nor what the magnitude
will be. for the field that is Opening
is largely new and unexplored. But
y idNt IOilSullCu Will the SRerS. and
they are men who can ~foretell the flu
ture Ivy what has been doing in the
past.
Two Plants COntrasted.
have i'll memory two manufac-
turing plants. One is in the Can
caSuS mountains in southern Russia.
II is a lumber mill. Two men CON
stitute the crew. and the power plant.
one stood above the log, and pulled
the saw up. The other, when + saw
the mill work, stood below in a pit
ana pulled the saw down. The chief
cost of that manufacturing plant was
for power. The other plant is that
of the Roper Lumber Company at
New Bern There machine after
machine automatically eats up logs
SO fast 1T is confusing to watch the
progress. The power is furnished by
enormous steam plants. and the cost
OF the power is less than the power
furnished at the primitive mill in
Russia. Yet the power plant is a
costly factor of the mill. Always a
pig snare or the investment in a fac
Tory has been the power plant.
If a group Of men in the past want
ed to build a cottonmill they figured
80 much for location, so much for a
puIiolng, SO much for machinery. and
80 fhuch Tor power equipment, boiler
mouse, engine room, steam boilers.
steam engines, and all the requisites
10 generate power.
foday If a mill wants to arise. il
can leave out the power plant. and
use It's entire capital in mill equip
nnGht' A hundred thousand dollars
VIII build a much bigger mill without
a power plant than it will with .
power plant.
Power In Plenty
VI TO put In another way, if you
want 10 embark in manufacturing in
\"r}h carolina, all you need to build
- your mill. You can go To the
l'i' OF your capital in your mill.
ana another concern will provide the
1'pItdi ana the necessary outlay and
I'eiSlEh' Tor the power. With all the
n "9tn9req power advantages of coal,
u9tural gas, or oil, here is a decided
vantage. The factory in North
aroma does not need to consider q
PDNFI plant. The trolly line in North
D".oilha Ices not need to hunt ND a
"attr owe 1t can use it's entire
o"pilal III the building of it's line. A
immunity that wants electric lights.
;3to,V - not need a plant. 1t can put up
~ ines n go to work without any
"'''hlhery or equipment.
my institution in North Carolina
aLt.tr. ouiiu d pONoT-uSlng
eSlapilshment. can 60 ahead with The
~, nit part Of the institution already
u'pl,allzed. That one feature alone
"oulu settle for all time the coming
H"pIeinacy of North Carolina as a
"'3nufacturing State.
,Hut mat is only one of the signs
o re 'eii US what Of the night. An
III ID the remarkable fexibility of
- lower that comes from electricity
.Iotn Iespect no place else on the
~ - mas such a possibility. While
tioo "aEe been observing the construc-
tSip Sa dams and electric plants in
tho stale only the men who are doing
hii, Work have known what the nexi- |
yaiy ana reserve power Of this mar
UanJS 'nlng is. From Goldsboro and
Tonunuerson in the east to Memphis. |
rieHh' on the west. and ColumhnS
Row. oh the south, is a gridiron Of
vast wires. The Importance of this
~ Of wires is not apparent
\. nst sight. But let us look into
ar. nincance Of it. In the group !
p w big concerns, likely some dav |
- VIII De ono Co.,