The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10

North Carolina have the intelligence
ana the skill to make a. good wares
as the people ~ any section have
Here ar the raw material. ami il is
not good business policy To raise the
cotton and market II in It's rudes
rorTn Cor the lowest prize whcu *
can be worked up into It's more Con-
pleN shapes and marketed 1t It's high
est price.
The ADVENT If stable AMI ABUNDANT
power liz the electrical development
makes The power onpan q mission
sry IL manufacturing. II. power
companies are powerful Influences.
1l:cy Will be continually WORKING 10 I,
pace .eW Factories all oy.r the section
hrouSh "hlch they can develop pow |
ef- the Southern Power Company
wants To Sell power. II car sell it,
power only to people who can use il.
III the power company can interest
d group OF men in building a large
new cotton mill to use 3 La sc amount
OF electrical energy il has created =
market for more of its product. In
~cldentally il has enlarged the pro
oacuon OF manufactured cotton. With
all OF the facilities in North Carolina
for expanding the cotton mill trade
THESE secondary influences for its ex-
paIslon must he regarded as Of the
utmost Importance and the utmost
ablhty. 1T IS q simple matter for the
Sou,ieIh ROVER Company in its eff
forts to sell more of its power to ap-
proach capital say in New York or
London and lay before that capital
the facts that on its power lines are
located where mills may be built.
III a territory where cotton is raised
IL sight of the mill, where labor is
abundant and skilled. where trans
portatlon is of the best character,
where power is supplied without the
cost OF DiIIl0{Ho q D0UyaI plapt nv tho
nhlll money. and where all things COM
bfne TO make mill operation satisfac-
tory and profitable. 1t is easy to see
that the Southern Power Company is
an interested salesman of mill OPP
portunltieS and an able salesman.
Railroads Working FOr New Mills.
Other interested promoters are the
railroads. The Seaboard, the Coast
Line. the Southern and the Norfolk
Southern are all working energetical-
ly to locate new mills in the territory
, they traverse. 1t is estimated that
> every new family in d community
means an annual income to the rail
t roads Of about fifty dollars. Where a
railroad can locate a big new cotton
mill it has located a big permanent
8 new source Of income.
e Besides these influences are the
: eagerneSS of the various towns to es.
"pAAoA z L. lotdl All
: bition is always at work to increast
+ the umbe Of producing mills, and i
is steadily effective.
5 These influences are not eXerted il
n most of the other cotton manufacture
o ing centers. In the North the rail
& roads are not situate as III the South
for the Southern roads get a lon,
and profitable haul from the cottol
products, while many of the Northern
# cotton Centers are in coast towns, o
e IN towns so close TO the coast tina
al water haul takes away much OF tn
a enthusiasm Of the railroads.. Their
n is no power in much of tn
l. North to &c cotton mill build
Ie ing in order that power may be solo
,e and there is no cotton crop to Goa
men to engage in working up cotto'
into q finished product.
70 Castor county is one Of the lea din
y cotton mill counties of the State. Sew
"a eral other counties have proeresse
~ far enough to have several milliO
- dollars invested in mills. and severa
m thousand persons trained in CottO
"a mill work. This has all been accom-
plished, with few exceptions. in tn
~, last ten or twenty Years.
Point OF View Changes.
The agencies that have gone so ia
20 are not out Of business by any mean
~ They are still alive and more enel
IN eetic than ever, besides being MOI
powerful because they have grow
If Castor county has infinitely create
~ ambition now in the cotton mill liz
- than at any previous time becau>
men are being raised in the mill Wor
ar now while in the past they Wel
- brought to it rom other callincS. II
- point of view has changed completed
49, Where men were talking about mule
~ and plows and corn twenty years az
y. they are now talking about Spinnin
49, InnnlaS and fOnr Oil aTter ChppIlnc
lie ,aa 81 $500 49, 80 - NV.
' rOnment creates more cotton mill il
terest, and the thing that more me
learn to do they continue to do III g.
he banding fashion.
es Yet after all the big expansion
re the cotton mills of North Carolir
as may be expected to come from ii
natural growth of the industry at ii
Sc centers where it has become estaI
liShed. From year to year the cote