The farmer and mechanic., 1915-08-31

IN the calling they expect to follow,
and is educating and training at once |
The result will be in few wears that |
Wilson county will have on the farms |
lot Of trained and educated men |
and women, and Wilson county will !
farm with knowledge and judgment
as we'll as with plOws and harrows
and will get much better results than
any county gets now. Rock Ridge
farm life school will be the origin of
a much greater efficiency than is POS
slble by the unsatisfactory present
method of compelling boys and girls
to pick up fer themselves where they
can have a knoWl ed sc OF the work
they are to follow all their lives
The other day an article from the
United States Geological Survey at
Washington told that since the ia
nous Tonopah gold field had heen dis
covered in 1900 the field has pro-
duced over 100000, ,0o0 in gold. Last
| year wilson tobacco market sold over
| 23.0o0 600 rounds of tobacco. Cal! the
! price about 10 cents. That means
| nearly two and a half million dol
lars. The Tonopah gold field in Is
years has produced 100000, 600 in
| gold which means about four mil
| lions a year. The Wilson toba eco
| market is only about 33 per cent be-
| hind the Tonopah field in its exhibit
Of wealth produced, and tobacco is
| only Cne of the things that Wilson
boasts. Two or three counties around
in this section of North Carolina
make the gold fields of Nevada look
like poverty. Yet the Nevada mines
are known all over the world while
few except tobacco people have any
idea of the vast amount Of business
that is done in this vicinity and the
, vast amount Of money that is dus
I ftS<x f1On fnho R1,a
ton lodes and the corn lodges, ani
the potato deposits and the peanu
diggngs and similar sources.
! Development Gradual But Sure
2 Tonopah sprung up suddenly.
is producing its wealth in a regiol
9 where nothing had been suspected
3 before, and the quick progress is ex
S citing. Wilson has been developin:
: more slowly and not making any fuss
e But it is doing the business, never
n theless, and making the money.
o The position Of Wilson in the to
: bacco industry Is not Of many years
d Bright tobacco being a comparativel
S new product, and starting up in Dur
: ham county, it worked its way NOR
n recently down in this direction, an
n found a soil and climate agreeabl
to the plant. The people turned t
f tobacco and the crop found favol
n Fields were planted, warehouse
IS built, markets esta blished, and Wi
v son made prominent name in til
d tobacco trade. 1t was not because
II any deep-seated design, or any desil
a to emphasize tobacco, or any Othe
" particular emphatic influence. 1t we
j. just that energetic American desire
g do something on a productive an
70 | profitable scale, and the fact tht
m the opportunity existed here to do
X 1t is that thing that assures the fl
,r ture of Wilson, and of a lot OF Otht
y towns and counties in North CarOlin
20 If Wilson had to be created by eXtr:
nt ordinary effort against adverse cond
Nv tions it would be safe to guess th
r. the future might be doubtful. Son
,r men will work against adversely for
It time and accomplish wonders. b
I they will work much more success
Of fully where conditions are favorabl
as and get far more satisfying result
er SO Wilson fell in with the cure
e. in tobacco production, pushed thIn
in the direction they should go, pr
flied bv the chances that present.
nv themselves and one day aWOke to I'll
IN that the town had become great t
tx Dacco market anu lne county -
n tobacco producing section OF &
he world The people do not bother
q figure out ho.- this came about IN
II devote their time to broadening o
Id along ali the lines that are eSSenu
90 TO caring for the big business IN
7 has sprung uD. Where the marke
Ia ino Of tobacco runs UD into the m
re lions ANNUALLY other things have
no he established. Banks. stores. pup
ck utilities church. school houses. stree
rls homes, and all that kind OF lhi