The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-01-27

moot the needs Of the country, tnas
after fifty years OF struggle, Is again
finding itself. Jacksonville, down the
Wilmington road, is a "a"
mill town, on q omantl sue nea
| the whitewater of the head OF the Ne"
River. -
Good roads are going out from the
Rayenyood country. A good roao
goes down to Trenton. Another goes
| over to New Bern. Another goes mere,
another there. and you kno" via.
good roads mean. My proving arounu
| about RavenwoOd carried me 10 1reh-
ton. the o~cunty-seat OF Jones, anu
there as we stopped near the quaint
old wooden courthouse, l saw tour
or five automobiles on the street, ana
it does not need to be said that the
automobile is the advance agent OF
development When n country gets
good roads and automobiles 1t is Ger
tain to get something else.
Another thing they told me they
are after is a stock law. Mile after
mile of wire fence lines the roads.
People stop and open gates. Jones
county pays Pittsburg wire-makers
thousands of dollars a year just 10
make it easy for a few razor-back
hogs and razor-back COW to run the
ranges and the roads, and / dindt|
!, see in fifty miles of wandering on the
Jones county roads over half a dozen
hogs even when all the money has
been paid for fence.
!, Hoke As An Example to Jones.
I reckon here it is time to tell an
other story. When the land develop
: ment in Hoke commenced people used
to come, into that county to look for
! land. They would look at the land,
at the roads that were bulldln on
paper, at the automobiles that could
: go up and down the country, and nod
a IN approval. About that time a razor
back would scurry through the wire
grass, and the land buyer would get
the idea.
Hogs run loose here" he would
n ask, and when told they did, he said
good night. Then Hoke county grew
wise and adopted the stock law, and
d the farmer now looks the lane over
le and buys ar axe and grub hoe and
/ goes to work.
e They tell me they are going to
n, have a stock law in Jones county, and
le I believe them, for they seem like a
lot Of folks with hard sense under
at their hats down here, the only thing
lacking being more people.
ty Two things 1 saw at Ravenwood
I They are the tragedy Of the Civil
IN War. and the recovery from it.
ID don't know any other place where
IC AdNOC VI Wdi hdo WlOuSA ~ sc
re verely except perhaps in Virginia
&c which was the scene Of struggle
Sc throughout the entire conflict. Here
in h sound country the influences
ed Of the Scourge, of war are not we
of wholly wiped out.
Tvs Blu let no man think these peopl
on nave stood still. Gathering up tn
raveled ends of the fragments that re
49, manned they lave been pulling thi
and that together. and out Of the rui,
%. has come a new life and a new deve]
opment, not what it would be had al
Us fairs continued without interruption
81 Nevertheless conditions are such tina
~ from now on progress is easy, fo
-. plans are shaped, capital is accu
~ mulating, population is increasin.
- n those who are at the wheel al
ooe men III are in touch with the worlt
and who are possessed Of good Amer
lean sense and American energy.
% BOund1cSS Opportunities In Waitin,
Boundless opportunities are here.
land with all the advantages, an
~ only one days run by rail from tt
big industrial world that reaches fro
Boston to PittSburg and Washingto
can not continually hide it, light Vi
ndI der a buShel.
Big things are on now in the count
about RavenwOOd, some of the real
big things Of industrial expansion
the United States. One of these b
way things is the construction of a $
sas- million dollar harbor at Cape Loo
ter out, and the construction Of the Du
5 II ham and Southern Railroad to {
lose port. In line with the building Of t
war Durham and Southern to Cape Loo
Iey out | may as we'll tell that in the ia
the when the Norfolk Southern was abe
own to get into Charlotte a prominent
I II nancier told me that Charlotte, is n
mo- TO be the end of that road. And
mao outlined a project which is far me
rof ambitious than many men suspe
The Norfolk Southern iS ooino 60
and west. and Cane X viii 49, :,
Way. powerful railroad systems brinei
lere, tribute to the sound country from t
interior. The Norfolk Southern IA
road is one Of the most aggressive f.
ople tors Of the South today, and it is co
It do ing so conspicuously into public I
still tice just now that its general oh;
and, acter is right thoroughly understo