The farmer and mechanic., 1915-04-20
E1ARNETT GETS NORTH CAROLINA
IDEA OF STARTING SOMETHING,
Developing in All Four Quarters1he County the ~ Fear Has
Walked Uplt Has the Resources and the Anbtion>x Ma
chine Is In Notion

crowd is the typical attitude i, is |
showing toward the Capital Highway |
project. When Mr.. Spoon the engi-
neer, first came down into the Sou
thern part of Middle North Carolina |
to talk about looking after the roads |
on behalf of the government he had !
to put up an argument and aliay a |,
lot Of suspicion. Twice today I have
been asked Mr. Spoons address, once |
by Harnett man and once by a
Chatham man, both Of them being
anxious to get in touch with him
that they might call him to their
neighborhoods TO discuss government
backing in the new roads. Already
schemes are on foot to rectify the
failure of Chatham to win the lower
townships over to good roads. and ii
the Capital Highway does not so
| through Chatham on the way from
| Sanford to Raleigh the people Of
| Harnett say it will go by way of Lill-
| ington, which is not great deal far
| ther, and already the road is built
| now from Moore county this far, and
a good bridge has crossed the river
here at Ellington and the road force
is pushing on toward the Wake coun-
1 ty line at the northeast
| In the west end Of the county some
| enthusiastic road builders are at
works. One of the most active is J.
A. Harps, Of the Neverfail farm
who has started out as though the
job Of making roads for Harnett
county was task resting on his in
dividual shoulders He is building
out toward Ellington and to the
Plank road that connects Fayetteville
and Cameron. and also is stretching
out toward the Overhill development,
and the big Kent-Jordan and the
Lindley nursery projects.
; The ]. Van Lindley nursery scheme
is an interesting one. Some years
, ago Mr.. Palmer, a small farmer
: near Southern Pines, brought to the
, notice Of w. N. Hutt, the fruit artist
of the State Agricultural Department
: some apples he had raised on his
) place in the sand country. Mr.. HUT
: sent the apples to some Of the fairs
: out in the apple countries of the west
2 at Spokane, at Omaha, and other
! places where they have the concei1
9 to boast Of their apples, and the ap'
g pies brought home to North Caroline
:. some first prizes fit to boast about
J. Van Lindley saw the apples and
e concluded that middle North Caro-
o lima had a chance to try for apples
|. The Lindley folks bought big acre
g age of land down in west Harnet
d county, and there they cleared off :
!. big area and planted thousands 9
d little apple trees. The trees thrivet
8 and the success Of the nursery ven
t, ture proved itself from the first few
Il months Of it's existence. Now tn
e Harnett apple nursery is one Of tn
y big factors in the Lindley operation
d and they have planted lot of tree
y at their orchard near Southern Pines
tt from which they have already take1
% some fine fruit. Besides apple tree
a. many other trees are raiased IN tn
l. Harnett nursery. roses seeming t
Ell thrive remarkably.
ST Big Proposition Working Out.
"A From Fayetteville road has bee
~ built up by Manchester. and it Wi
- be connected presently with the roa
81 system to Lindleys, Harps, KentJ OF
~ dan and the townships which ar
~ building in the lower part of tn
=, county, and what is to follow tn
- bravest prophet can not conjecture
,yo of the big things that Harnett
figuring out, and it is working alon
a+ toward one OF the big winter resort
- | Of the South. Several thousand acre
II of land are owned by the concerl
5,y the location is attractive. water is on
.ts Of the. features, natural scenery
,v,, another. On this big location it
ne proposed to build such another ou
va ing place as Pinehurst, although
nc will be Individual in its kind, ratht
nd than q follower.
its The influence Of these operations
re already felt Individual operators al
be coming into this part CT tiic Sta
ais from ,arious places, and IL the {
he santic wilde rucsS of western u:
southern iIarn-tt settlers are eOtti:
tho forest v-::.o Their fsrr7z. III.
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