The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-03-30


tractors say they will build houses on
farms and attend to that part Of the
equipment if land is found.
The plan begins to take shape It is
merely matter Of finding some
ound, finding some administrative
talent, and a htue capital. That COM
hinatiOn can take the wild land, the
little capital, and the contractors, and
in few weeks. knock out a farm, and
turn it over to the man who wants to
buy, and what is better than all it
can turn over to him a farm made
exactly to his order. So the Lee
county man writes to his correspond
ent and says to him to designate what
he wants and when he wants it and
he shall have it.
Farm Committee Active.
The farm committee of the club has
heen looking over several bodies of
land that will make available farms,
and the details are gradually working
to point where it will be possible
TO commence the making Of two or
three farm communities, for the
proposition is to secure in each case
a block of land that will allow the
creation Of several farms adjoining
each other that every farm may have
it's neighborS right at the beginning.
On those farms will be built the right
kind of buildings, and they are to be
designed to give the farm a homelike
air, and to set a good example Of SIM
pie but pleasing architecture for the
neighborhood. Paint, paint, paint. No
house is to be built by the farm COM
mittee without paint. Nothing will be
sanctioned that is not as satisfying to
the eye as it can be made for the
amount Of money the prospective
buyer has to offer. The basic idea is
to make Lee county honey county
as we'll as a thrifty county, and the
made attached to an attractive home
| than to a repulsive one.
These Lee county boosters are look
| ing far into the future.
The Boosters Club starts out to
| boost Lee county. The sale OF land
is not an object Rather tie pur-
chase Of land is the dominant note
Of the singing at the singing school
The club is starting out as the agent
| join In the industrial progress OF the
county. and the sale Of land will be
encouraged by the club for the sake
| of making it easy for newcomers to
| find locatidA. With that idea in
| view every man in the county is ask ed
to make on paper q short description
! Of any land that he is willing to let
20 On this movement, TO make a price
on it, to say how much he will inn
prove it, and the price is to hold good
for specific length OF time so that il
a buyer wants the piere the price viii
| be changed while he may be cen
sidering it's purchase. These propO-
! sitiOns viii be gathered in a book anC
kept in a public place where they
can be looked over by anybody any
time that an inquiry for farms comes
UP, and by any stranger who is in.
tereSted.
| II man wants something that the
list does not contain he will ce asked
to state his needs and then tie farm
committee will undertake 10 provide
for him hy slcinE off a chunk from
one Of the big lots It will have under
its control and putting Ivy cuch build
jngs as may be waited.
| Credit II Want;-I
If q man OF energy and cnaraCtei
wants a location and cannot pay fo'
it down, he will be provided With {
farm selected from thcS" that arc IL
be had from the lists. or from enr t,
be made to order. and arranSero ant!
will be made for him to have N OF
pOrtunity to pay for his purcnas.
through a period Of several years. The
Lee county plan ls to see that mar
who wants tc settla in Lee count;
can settle here il ne IS the right so:'
OF :. man. Already this thing l.
awakening an enthusiasm. a ma,
was IN the Bank Of S2rforc after th'
project hal reached 3 somewhat dc
finite shape and he said to the Ti.'e
president. ''I will cut er G: my lane
enough to make 9Or,e man 2 tar
land / will put the necessary hul!dliis'