The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-04-06

10 the travel or the world as well IS
To It's own local uses the county will
be \ wholly different Dir Of country.
The first thing that happens viii he
the increased values ~ property.
While this in itself l. not II any hane-
lit the Increase viii come because th6
property is made more accessible. and
that Is a benefit. With the accessible
ity Will come more settlers. for ,hey
viii ind that Chatham county IS on.
OF the desirable counties OF the state.
From that Will come development.
and that will be worth while. From
this for a beginning Chatham viii
grow and increase in population and
production because il has the ability
To take care of = greatly increased
number or people and to greatly In
crease its productions II every char
acter.
Big Gain L. Chatham.
Chatham county * going TO pronI
by good roads more than it is aware Of
now To start with Chatham is one
OF the interesting counties OF the
State in its scenery and its Traditions.
II Chatham county was III Europe a
good road would enter the county
from Chapel Hill and follow down
the ridge to the Haw river at Bynum,
and from there III down to the big
dam at Buckhorn Falls, where a COM
Portable road house would take care
or tourists. X road from Bynunl,
l where another cornfortah BILE road house
would be built. would be extended I'D
. the river to Burlington. at the juno
ton of the road from Durham to
Greensboro. AT Moncure, where an
other more pretentious road house.
! would be found. another road would
5 start out up the Deep river valley
G with road houses at various points
until about the Prosperity bridge ono
e branch would go west and n would
turn south to get into the Moore
l. county winter resort country.
q These rivers OF Chatham county
are picturesque and interesting. They
" are worth opening 10 the traveller.
5, PittsborO is q quaint and interesting
l. old community that would attract the
ii passing stranger. The early history
OF the Chatham county section is fas-
III cinating from the day its story COM
s. menced, and the ruins OF the old iron
in furnaces and mines along the Deep
er river tell a romance that always holds
an audience. Some of these days
roads will be open through all Of the
interesting sections Of Chatham, and
rv they WA be Travelled by q complex
~ patronage. Then Chatham viii ex-
re pand its agricultural industries, Tor il
1c will be able to get its products tc
e. market with greater ease. Indeed
9d much Of its stuff will be marketed al
re the hotels along the lines Of traye
in that are frequented by strangers from
other states. Chatham boys will b,
staying closer to the farms instead o
al going out to the cities of the neigh
az borhood counties, for q farm is NOR
,,s attractive to a boy if he has tow
io conVenienceS on the farm, q tele
ov phone, a car, q good road, those dis
~ lance annihilatOrs that put the farI
II in close reach OF all the ~neighbOrs.
es- Spoon Wants Activity.
Is MIR. Spoon is particularly intereste
5h. il this section Of the State. as Alan
nAnN n~ ioin two nt,r- =. IA
ale home originally. lie therefore look
over the projects of the nationa
IS roads that are planned for Chathar
more as the Improvement of the ol
=. homestead than as a bit OF work t
no be undertaken on the general princi
NV pie Of public welfare, and he viii nc
!, be happy until something is dom:
On his way up in this section he ha
q conference with the people Of Ie
county and they are delighted 10 hea
of the plans hat promise two trun
at lines to the north and east and II
md Vulnerable connections to the sout
but and west. One Of the most VigroOl
missionaries for good roads III n
to- ham this spring is Lee county, whiC
realizes that the farther the goo
to road system extends in all direction
the more useful the roads that a.
)rl- now building in Lee.
There is not a county in N0r'
He Carolina that you would expect
and profit more from good roads tha
Chatham. II is a county that n
to more possible markets in easy r.aC
all, than any other, for on the east it =
tn the growing city of Raleigh, Oh Il
he north the equally enthusiastic city
ling Durham, with its large factory pop
'ur- lation, on the northwest the progre
Tilt, sive factory and commercial city
-rSt, Greensboro. n Just across the u
and on the south Sanford Is pusni
l of ahead with the promise Of being
ants consequence before long. To all the
uld towns Chatham can carry her ~
e it duce on wagon roads if the roads !
TO good ones, and these towns are
the towns that are as certain TO grow
the the human race is certain TO prOgre
,iles Chatham farmers in their autOn