The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-10-05
COLDSBORO NO LONGER IS BUD"
PROPER NOW to- ~AIL TT "MISTFR"
Wayne Capital Has About Passed Place w. Folks REGARD Small
Boy And Observers Realize That Tht*s soay of Long
Trousers Has Come

mand exists for veneers Of gum wood
and a special feature will be made
OF gum IN this sizes. For many wears
white pine was the box wood of this
country. Then came spruce and slash
pine, and some of the other woods
gum still standing out as a wood Of
no account. For tobacco packages
beech and maple were favored Final
~ gum made its entry into the box
board trade, and when it arrived
packers discovered that a new prophet
had come. Gum is a tough wood 1t
holds nails like steel trap 1t can
be worked into thin stuff lhat can be
turned into boxes strong for their
size, and with steel wire hoops to
bdrd 1t up gum makes a great pack
aEe either as a box or as a keg or
barrel.
Making Use Of Gum Wood
Gum was long a despised wood
Now it's toughness has been realized
and it is coming into its own, and
into lots Of other than its own. It
| can be cut into veneers and used in
innumerablS ways. 1t is going into
o lot of furniture from now on as it
can be cut into thin sheets for the
veneer seats of chairs and things Of
| that sort. It is capable of a variety
| Of uses in making built up stuff from
| thin veneers. and that is a line OF
work that is only beginning to be
| understood. Not only will the gum
| of Wayne county be coming into use
| but the coming of this big battery OF
Virginia Lumber Company mills a
Goldsboro foreshadows the erection
CT other mills of similar type in al
the low ground country Of North
Carolina. for there are endless forests
| Of gum and other swamp timber ir
all Of the eastern section. LAUNDERING
is not a dead industry in the flatland:
by any means.
The Goldsboro mills will be located
in a short time, for it is the desire o1
the folks who are inaugurating thi:
Industry to get men on the railroad
right of way in the next few days
They want to clear out the way, an(
begin construction Of the road, ant
at the same time commence the pre-
liminary work on the mill buildings
and they expect to have the big jos
in operation within another twelv,
will add $4,000 week to the pa,
rolls Of Goldsboro. While the railroad
and the mills are building the none.
!, paid for the work will run up int,
big sums, and the construction Worl
Will employ a lot Of hands and pa.
out big amount Of money during TIL
, time that elapses until the mills ar
ready to start.
Open Great Truck Country.
The timber that is bought and tha
is to be yet purchased covers q terri
} tory Is miles wide by Is miles long
During the long period of years tha
the mill will be cleaning off the timbe
: i. is anticipated that many farms wi
t be located on the land that will b
t cleared Mr. Reed says the land
, will be at the command of farmers a
r prices running as low as five to te
' dollars in some locations, and expect
5 that much of the country will b
, made into farms rapidly. The seaso
} | is early down in the section to b
} opened, at least couple Of week
l ahead Of the country around Norfolk
8 and will make a great truck country
/ With the new road opening the cOun
t try to the Atlantic Coast line of roa
the crops that can be raised down /
4 | the country in discussion will be muc
= more varied than now, for all kind
: Of stuff can be hurried out to a mar
ket at a low rate and in short time
| and the lower part of Wayne and Le
e noir and the upper pert or Dupll
: can take a place with any part {
g eastern North Carolina in the earl
n truck. fruit and vegetable markets
= 1t is interesting to speculate on tn
4 | prospects ahead Of the country tn
@ new road is heading into. When
Q gets down into Duplin county it NJ
: only encounters the road that J.
$ Deal is building, but it is also in tf
+ line Of the new road to be built as q
|. | extension of the Atlantic and Wester
o that is now heading from Lillingto
! TO Mt. Olive and is to go from theI
= On down to Swansboro. All Of tf