The farmer and mechanic., 1915-05-25
IN The Furnace.
BION H. BUTLER

and began to quicken its step. But |
Dunn seemed to guess the answer to |
the new road better than anything
else along the line, and here you have
it, community that insists that pro-
gresS is not amenable to the speed
limit
Moved Its Location.
Dunn is some like the old woman
up in the mountains. When an old
friend from down in Craven county
went out to visit her the neighbors
said, Miss PinlIlewait done moved
away FIN where she lives now. Dunn
undertook to settle a few miles down
the road toward Fayetteville when
the railroad came, but some point
about land for a town like Dunn
meant to be arose and the prospective
capital of Jarvis county took its pros
poets and went up to a point not far
from where the Tilghman Lumber
Company in proper season founded
saw mill industry. Then the people
began to tell the world what they ex-
pected to do, and incidentally they
| commenced to do it.
| Dunn is in Harnett county-at least
it is yet, although the folks here re-
gard the matter is merely temporary.
| They feel right confident that after
the next session of the Legislature
they will be in Jarvis county. 1 could
recognize the symptoms. 1t is about
the same here that it was in Raeford
when Raeford was in Cumberland
county or in Sanford when Sanford
was in Moore. l have heard a good
many theories as to how to deal with
and keep them in the hive that they
may work the whole crowd and fill
the honey boxes, but about the time
lyou get the incest theory to work
the bees start out some forenoon
about IL o'clock, and they boil up in
a swarm as big as a crate of black
, berries, and away they go for tree.
HOke county sWarmed, and Lee COun-
!, ty swarmed, and if I can guess any
/ from the signs Jarvis county is crowd
, ing the hive.
An Unknown Wilderness.
When the railroad came down
: through Harnett county from Wilson
on it's way to Fayetteville it opened
t an-unknown wilderness. The Cape
= Fear and Yadkin Valley hit the west
2 end OF Harnett. The rest of the
S county east to Wayne county was
2 miles from a railroad. Southwark
t from the Raleigh and Augusta road
: in Chatham county, the nearest rail
! road was at Wilmington. 1t was right
S sizeable scope Of rest and quiet that
t country of which Harnett county was
e the north end.
D The building of the Coast Line
through Harnett commenced a new
era. 1t brought more people into the
1 territory, and some new experiences
> 1t is said that one day a settler ar
: rived and proposed to farm. He wa:
I met by one of the old-timers and ad
viSed to put up a tar kiln, for thu
e old man warned him that he would
not be able to stay long in this sec
ton unless he burned tar. However
e the newcomer is staying, and has no
e yet set up a tar kiln. Other thing
a have come on the horizon and tn
y country about Dunn is forgetting tn
IS days when hewn timber to float t
n Wilmington on the Cape Fear and ia
L. and turpentine constituted the pro
l. ducts. When the railroad came
n found a lot Of things that had no
d been suspected. One Of the finds wa
IF a fertile soil, level and accessible tha
d promptly surprised the folks who be
is gan to till it. I am not sure whethe
m the Jarvis county folks are little eX
ia cited over some of the figures Of pro
duction that were handed me or no
,e but it looked to me like a large yiel
ar when a man remarked that in a
a eight-inch flower pot they had raise
" but after looking at that figur
~ again 1 guess I will let it pass for
II minute.
Id Set Up To Be Cotton Market.
OF Well, they begun to plant cotto
around Dunn, and they found it wa
ar mo trouble to get a bale or more t
ct the acre, and Dunn forthwith set u
st to be a cotton market, and at tn
On present time it is in the class that tn
rs 'book store men call the best seller