The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-25

ohu VIII De a staple rs long as men
are born without clothes. Textile
PRODUCT do not have To he
ed cherryvIlie yarns do not have TO
De introduced C~herryyillc yarns do
not nave to depend on a patented
side valve or an induction coll or
some new thing 10 give them a stand
ing.
number of mills that can be built 1T /
therryville. The cotton mill makes |
a staple product southern cotton
people could study the history OF
minneapolis with satisfaction. Forty
years ago | knew an old man in
Western Pennsylvania who told me
that IN his OUNCE day he had
housht OF going ont to Minnesota to
the falls OF St. Anthony to locate. be-
cause he believed hat some day that
section would build up a good town
Not only one town. but two have
built there at the falls. and they are
SO close together that they join each
other Together they have over half
a million people. or one ffth as many
as all the state of North Carolina. And
what made it,
The falls of St. Anthony furnish
power to turn the wheels that grind
the wheat produced all around that
The raw material and the
power are there, and the mills make
a staple product. Wheat is like cot
ton. it IS staple. 1t must be pro
Elded one year after another, and
IT never gets old fashioned, never goes
out Of favor because some new thing
comes in. never is s~upplanted by any
thing. it is the subject of an old ex-
PRESTON, good as wheat" and all
else is compared with it.
Cotton a Prime Staple.
Cotton is a staple. More and more
zach VOC r II 1nNOr,ac n;-.o 4
Once flax and wool and silk clad a
large proportion of the people. But
sheep are declining. fax does not
keep pace with the growth of popu-
lation, and silk is too difficult to pro-
duce. Cotton is swiftly forging away
from all the rest, AMI like wheat, is
as good as money in the bank.
h town that has a cotton mill
is like the town that is in the wheat
belt. Yet there is a difference. Cot
ton seems to thrive better On the
same land year after year. Wheat
has not SO far held its own. 1t is
continually pressing Onward to new
land and deserving the old. Cotton
holds the Old and and brings in the
new.
: This shifting of wheat has had a
funny story. Years ago the milling
: c%enters were Rochester, N. Y. and
: Richmond. Va. The powerful falls
: of the Genessee river made Rochester
: a 1iOur milling center. The James
: helped to make Richmond a flour
, maker. But wheat move westward
n water power nearer the helt
= took up the business. The town
that had started with wheat turnet
n to something from necessity. TIL
towns with the -four mills in the Yves
grew to be bigger towns than thos
that wheat deserted.
The cotton field does not NOV
!. away from the North Carolina waite
powers. That is the differences. Nortl
$ Carolina manufacturing development
8 is of a permanent character. Tn
raw material is of a character tina
. stays. The mill will not ave t
move away to any other water powe
to be close to it's supply of cotton
SO far as men can foretell the fu
ture cotton mills will be running i
Cherryville a thousand years froT
now, and that is far enough ahead 70
any Of us at present concerned.
s. Little Towns Pioneering Industry.
Is 1t is these little towns of Mort
l. Carolina that are blocking out tn
Ie path of industry in the South. TIL
n field ahead of them can be discerne
e by examining into a few simple col
y ditiOnS. The mills of the Unite
% States spin o a third or perhaI
n a little more of the cotton raiset
le The world takes eight million bale
s. of American cotton in the raw stat,
a North Carolina has a clear a chanC
al at that eight millions pun outside {
is the country as at the five million
spun inside the United States.
Re also has as fair a chance at the man
es million additional bales that are to
"a raised in the days to come, for tn
ty cotton crop is certain to increase wit
r the increase of population the worl
t. over.
a That is why Cherryville. standin
Or as a type of North Carolina towns,
a. it's size and kind. is certain to e.
e. pand into a little industrial city, wit
is it's farming community growing an
eS thriving on all sides and keeping u
n with the swift progress that is the ia
v. of live communities for the next fiji
of years.
n CherryVille is going to earn a ],
of money in the next ten years. Niue