The farmer and mechanic., 1915-03-09

boys and girls have no selling value
for cash, SO We have. not yet learned
to rate them as cash assets, al
though that is where they are en-
titled to be ranked.
The trouble is that men ana women
are not private property. They are
state property. They are part of the
general resources, and therefore the
individual is not so keen to put
money into them unless il is one he is
interested in directly. SO We shove
thes things off on the State, and then
we fight against anything that in-
wolves taxes, and there We ere.
Ever been at MontrOee? It IS
worth while for two three reasons.
From the summit here at the sa ma
| torium you can look cut over the
| country Tor distance OF [ should
guess ten TO thirty miles, Call II
| twenty foc the 50 Ike Of easy Ii3uring.
| 1t is not ha~d TO believe that with
in the vision from the high points
herecan he seen 700 acres of
land, and il is probably safe to say
| that within that range is half a mil
lion acres OF land that is not IL cul-
| tivation, and which could easily yield
a product OF s25 to the acre. Here in
sigth, if we had the people we
could make g product worth ten to
fifteen hundred dollars on q single
| acre. A single square mile Of that
| kind Of land intensely cultivated
would give over half o million dol
lars. and in sight Of US is a lot Of
ground that will make fifty dollars
to the acre, and that does make il
year after year. Within the range Ot
vision can be found enough water
power to drive a lot Of wheels, aud
supply 8 power big enough for q
great factory. Within sight Of NJ ont
rose sanatorium are resources enough
if they were developed to provide
from ordinary taxation on their de
veloped product plenty of revenue tC
care for this institution without eff
fort, and the same thing could be
done at a hundred different points il
the State.
, Example of What Can Be Done.
Coming over from Greensboro tC
) Raleigh last week this same thins
was impressing itself on me all the
{ way. On the route are five magnifi
; cent counties-Guilford, Alamance
| Orange, Durham, and Wake. Gu
, north Of Greensboro is the Revolu
) ton, Proximity and White Oal
, group OF cotton mills controlled by
; the Cone interest. They are amons
1 the big industries Of the world. 4
run out that way showed just one
thing that is needed to tell us wha
5 North Carolina can do with her pub
l
: that now when everybody is com
planning Of dull trade a, big mill o
this group Of big mills is pour
I ing thousands of dollars into enlarge
ment. The new walls and the nev
roof on an enormous building Signi
fies that in that particular part 0
S the State North Carolina is adding t.
a it's industrial power. 1t is needles
I to dwell on the resources of Guilfort
a county except to say that they ma,
:. be developed to an extent that W
a can not now comprehend. Elevel
y acres Of floor space they said is il
y use at the White Oak Mill why tha
f development? Because men lik
t Moses and Caesar Cone realized tn
Il value of the opportunity in Guilfor
n county, and they have create d ther
f the greatest denim factory in tn
;. world White Oak, Proximity an
v Revolution afford study Of one 0
:, the great social problems. It was
tremendous misfortune when Nose
Gene died a few years ago. But thinl
what misfortune if he had died be
. fore he opened the road for thcs
great improvements, which exist af
, ter him and leave their influence a
. long as men are engaged in industrla
lines.
Il The Opportunities In Alamance.
e Out through Alamance the opportu
mites are staring the traveller in tn
q face all the way. Water power eX
e lists from the north to the south boun
u dary and the farm possibilities ar
IS just as bis as the county. Alamanct
e Cra2ge CGl Durham, and little NOR
T. tnCge from Greensboro t
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