The farmer and mechanic., 1915-03-16

aunt for land that has the ri,h. MI
ton. the right soil and the right =
thing essential to the creation 80
sirable small farm home. II -
communities Will be conside~ee s
the farmers who buy and serrr. a1
have neighbors and commBnite
vantages. Convenience 10 towns. AZ,
to roads and to the railroad ana -
telephone and school house ~
considered. Everything viii
weighed that goes to make an att-.e
tive proposition, and then the att-,,C,,
to procure the land will follow.
Backed By Banks.
This Sanford plan is unique r. Sd,
inception and in its backing II e-sr+o
with the action of the united harLs
Of the county. The two banks ~
Sanford. the banks at Jonesbor0 and
Broadway. acting on the suggestion
of e. 3. Buchan. vice -presdent OF ,ha
Bank OF Sanford, have started N.
movement and the people OF the coun.
ty have Joined with their banks ana
are going to try to people the co,,rty
in this way with good farmers
company is to be formed which 1.5u
be given sufficient margin in its ouer
atiOns to be sufficiently profitable +,
interest men and capital to carr II
through. It will not be inaugurs.ted
as development project, and the
profit feature will be considered sim.
ply because nobody will engage IN
the work without a sufficient return
to pay for the time spent and ths
| money invested. But all Of the de.
| tails of the work will be designed u
secure for the prospective home maker
| q place Whereon he can get results
| There is no doubt that if this thin1 il
| worked out in satisfactory manner it
will be taken up in other parts II the
| State for you can never devise i good
| scheme and keep it exclusive il j.; il
worth applying any where else.
| Good Roads Multiply.
| Another thing that indicates j lls
! advance in all industrial conditions
| in the State is the continued multi
| Dlication Of good roads. A good road
| in itself seems a trivial factor as ap-
| piled to expanding prosperity, but il
is an important thing right from the
! start. A county votes say 8 hundred
thousand dollars Of road bonds. Thai
| hundred thousand dollars has 6, tWo-
fold force. 1t goes first to make
| roads. which at once commence 70 m
crease the productive power OF the
county in which the roads are btllL
| but as that hundred thousand dollars
is turned loose it begins to do busi-
|
oily spent for labor, and divided
among the people of the community
There it is ready to go into other
fuses. The farmers along the road may
be employed with their teams To help
in the grading and in hauling clay
The money paid may go to help i'm
proving the farms which the road
passes. 1t may go to help the gen
eral business of the community. buE
| ho leo . -f.-t
it has done a lot of work in the coun-
ty. AS the road bonds are solo out.
side Of the State in most cases Their
sale brings a lot Of new capital INTO
North Carolina. and before the tine
comes that it is paid off it has had
opportunity to make itself usefdl fof
many years.
Bring New Travel.
!, Then good roads bring new traveI %
the community and the State and ore
} good road helps another one to come
Here In Sanford the community mas
not reached the end Of its ambluo1
when it gets good roads for Lee coun'
, ty. There is persistent deslr" "
extend the good roads that go our 81
Sanford until they reach into the -
. jOng counties that it may be easy fo'
: the widest possible territory to reals
Sanford and other Lee county 70" =
and make of them the commerce.
; centers Of the surrounding country
The Sanford plan now is to try IL haV'
the good roads reach over into Chat
ham county and Moore and Harn"t
and make it easy for farmers frof
: those counties to get to Sanford a3'
: Jonesboro, and to encourage the farm
{ ers in all that section to follow q
. with Lee county in the greatest poa4]
!. bic development and progress
! This thing can not stop with ~
> | county that plans it. Sanford has al.
, b1tions to reach out as far as possl
! Die. Other growing towns will DO n
: same thing. Every growing town
the State will presently be a thlrty
}. third degree advocate OF good road
and thrifty farm settlements as Il
around as a farmer can travel on
s good road to market
Another Forward Movement.
o This good roads extension is univ
sal all over the State, and it is one &
| the most nnuyovf,,l inf f3,,opceC in