The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-05
PRATT, TUFTS, WARNER, PATRICK
MAYBE YOU'VE HEARD OF THEM
Let These Men Build the Roads of Nation and Il Mat
ters Not Who Writes Their Songs-Advance Agents
of New Day.

year, iillinG the numerous trains that
every day go out on the three main
lines of railroads. passing every day
through North Carolina, seeing the
State from the ear window, and pass
ing on. Those people who day after
cay are going to Florida in hundreds
are making rnarkekt in Florida for
the things Florida makes
1ney are making in Florida q mar
ket Tor the things made by those other
people from the North who have gone
down through North Carolina and
stayed Ill Florida. They are making
market in Florida fer vast quantities
OF things more than are made in Flor
ida and the market draws on other
States to supply the need.
North Carolina Examples,
North Carolina has some examples
it has been estimated that the money
spent in the resorts OF the Sandhills
annually Will reach close to two mil
lion dollars. AT Pinehurst along in
the neishborhood of q thousand per
sons are employed by the tourist traf-
1ic iii winter. Besides the persons di-
rectly employed are those indirectly
employed, such as the farmers OF
randolph and Montgomery and Moore
who are raising chickens, sweet po-
tatoes and meat and other things that
find a market at Pincnurst. The
thousand hands employed at Pine
in the winter. The visitors require a
lot Of food products Butter comes
to Southern Pines from Catawba coun-
ty. Milk comes from Cumberland
county. Cream comes from Samar-
cand. Vegetables come from the can
ming clubs Beef comes from Anson.
The traveller makes market at the
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| towns and makes better market
there. Every town on q good road
| leading from Pinehurst sees people
! from Pinehurst coming into the mar
| ket FOR something.
Good Roads Bring Visitors.
And there is the point Every town
on good road leading from Pine
| hurst sees strangers who are winter
| ing at Pinehurst. The visitor follows
the good road. 1t is not the good
| road from PinehurSt alone that he
follows. l have seen his car in vari-
| Gus sections of the State since the
good roads began to extend I have
| met him III ASheborO, in GaStOnia, iE
Lexington, in Raleigh, in every sec
ton Of the State, the tag on his cal
| telling that he has come from almost
| any Of the States east Of the Missis-
sippi.
| Pratt and Patrick and Warner and
| Tufts have been missionaries in max
| ing it possible for me to see a mar
! from Pennsylvania. drive past my
house on his way from Pittsburg te
| anywhere in the South. From my
| house is about thousand feet to 6
| road that may be called the road te
Raleigh, or the road to Asheville, ol
| the road to Atlanta, or to anywhere
| People set out from our neighbOr.
| To 70 20 mt a ms 6
west end Of the State or to Norfolk
| or to the beaches of both the Caro-
linas, or to Florida or Washington
for the good roads now lead to al
points and are increasing as fast a.
they can be built. The tobacco mar
comes down from Granvllie county
TO Holle in his car The preacher
| goes up to Greensboro to conference
and to Montreal to the summer gath
| ering by the same vehicle The Raj
| eigh man may go by Burlington tt
the west part of the State and come
home by Charlotte and Fayetteville
In q short time it will be possible K
run over North Carolina in any direc
ton with a car, and then we shoulf
ioin to make this the tourist State o
the world
Two Routes Through State.
Already two recognized routes ieae
from the North down into anf
through North Carolina. These are
the national route through Charlotte
and the Piedmont, and the Capita
route through Raieigh. Southeri
Pines, and CheraW. From The sound
TO the mountains now all OF Nort'
Carolina is becoming accessible to IN
man with the automobile, and tina
man is becoming more numerou
every day. 1t is well TO recognize
mat the automobile has become
factor in transportation. The ma
Il chine is so substantially ouHt ana
- . ,os1 that it is certain to fig
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