The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-05

come ~ the 5OOU Ttd1S hoA1
North to North Caro- ina J. IS an
easv trip. It is an Inexpensive trip.
Ii is a short trip to Il mild chh1ale'
and a short trip to a delightful sec
tion Of country with a. the variations
of scenery possible to imagine.
North Carolina has had ali tne
charms for vacation LraYei Snat siie
has now except h good roads. me
roads are making the State aeessaole
in every spot from every quarter.
More roads will increase the accesSl-
bility and the interest, and more
roads are as certain to come as SpiiA6
is There isn't any fun IN a long ana
costly rail journey when you nave d
few days to spend in h A
trim to the Pacific coast takes more
than half Of your two weeks ou1in6
for the Journey alone. The trip 10
| North Carolina requires a rail- Journey
| of a day or a night, or an autoInoplle
Journey of a day or two, n a day or
| two of interest every minute.
| Auto Traffic Will Support Ooou 1<oauo
The automobile traffic is coming be-
cause the roads W peen built to
invite it. 1t is coming and when 1t
gets rightly under way the autO1no-
bile travel is going to pay all the ex-
penses of building good roads ana or
keeping them up, for the
traveller is out for pleasure and he ex-
| Dtt.LS ~ VI 1 CAAI
buying besides his board n gaso-
line nan little products Of the ter
ritory he passes through. Consider
the in~signifcance Of the cost of the
roads of Moore county alongside OF
the hundreds Of thousands or dollars
spent in the county each year by traV-
elers who put in more or less time at
some of the resorts Of the county. 1t
is probable that the money spent IN
a season in Moore county Would build
) ten to twenty times as much good
: road as is in the county. And the good
DAD have to be built but once, Whlel
they help to attract the visitors right
along year after year, Indefinitely.
It is q, safe guess hat before very
long the tourist ravel in North Caro-
lima from other States will go q long
way to paying for the good roads that
are building, and leave g decided
I margin for repairs of ali the roads Of
the State.
: Possibly Tufts may have had some
: faint conception that good roads
would tend to increase tourist travel
in the State. Nevertheless / venture
the guess that Tufts and Warner and
Pratt and Patrick are all surprised al
the influence good roads are begin
= ming to have on the increase Of travel
in the State, and that they will all
!. look forward now to a result Of good
: roads in increasing travel that they
had never suspected.
Giant Part Of Automobile.
! Nobody could forsee the flexibility
y and de%pendability of the automobile
, II any prophet ten years ago had pre-.
dicted that by his time one concern
alone would have turned out six hun
dred thousand cars Of one patter1
- that prophet would have been Sc
down not as a prophet but as an idiot
Now If lC ranf fhot fhn q ~ n
bile is to play a giants part in tn
= development Of North Carolina a
: Well as Of every other quarter Of tn
- world, and that it is to approach it
- work from various points Of action
Travel is to be made easy and fasci
= mating by the automobile on the goo,
roads. North Carolina having tn
!. natural attractions for the travele
the good roads will make it easy fo
:, him to find the attractions in his cal
and when he finds them he will b
creating a market for the North Care
- lima farmer at every village cross
q roads where a lunch can be serve
- to the wayfarer.
ne Influence Social Conditions.
wv 1t is probable that the influx {
no newcomers over the multiplying goo
at roads will have a marked effect on tn
social conditions of the State. IF
as likely that North Carolina from be
ing n of the least known of til
states will be one of the best know
an and that the manners and onc+o,s
~ OF the more cosmopolitan States an
ne cities will be grated on our own $,
clai fabric. 1t is to be expected tn;
with the good roads the rural SO,
or uons away from the railroads will :
~ l~nHuenced by the good roads just
III :ne community has bee
lie influenced by the coming Of the 90
IS ton null and the furniture factory ar
ny me shops Of various kinds. for Il
nus MUS nave been educators, and II
u null towns lave brought the 81,
70 roundlng backward townships We
err times. "ooV'
ere. Ioson
at mar Iaon IIdtt' henry s.. Va
ave rick are the unconscious nromnl 10