The farmer and mechanic., 1915-03-02
sIoN III. BUTLER.


f..eford, Feb 27.--I dropped into
j, -raat market in Raeford today, and
-. we caught an innovation. In one
o,-ner was an electric motor turning
meat chopping machine. Over in
the printing office Editor Poole has
~ electric motor running his presses.
T,5e town is wired for electric power.
Fpr several years it has had electric
sights but recently power has come.
These motors started q. lot of reflec-
a,a. It is not long ago that this sec
lion was getting light from pine
knots. aud power from saw dust
burned under the steam boilers.
Within half q dozen years electricity
has become an old story in North Car
Dina, nevertheless there are some
.rv phases 20 the old story, and every
4sg something else breaks in to show
as where the road 70 progress is
aulad ta deliver us. All over the
state hig towns and little towns are
getting electric light and power. Good
.n8ugh once i'll d while a stranger
happens into this town and he asks,
where do you get your electric cur
rent Southern Power or Bucknorn
Fails IS" Then the citizen smiles and
says. We are following Brother Loop
ors IDEAS Of diversification." Mr..
l.ooper j. the farm delnonstrator, and
ne is constantly talking of diversified
ton.
Home grown" is the mark they put
ou the package Of juice you get when
500 turn on the light or the power
I'm Eaeford. And that is the new
thought that is suggested by this mo-
tor in the meat shop The big water
oF
forces for the development Of the
state but presently we are going tC
realize that the little water power:
are 20 add a wonderful help in max
ing North Carolina brilliant at nigh
hni busy during the day.
Building Plant.
an not certain how this thing be
bau but the first / noticed OF 1T wa!
probably Chandler's dam over on Lit
lc River where current was generated
al i little dam for Southern Pines
Gradually Chandler gathered up sew
erai towns and built several littl
dams and small power plants unit
be Is The light man of big block o
th5 Sandhills country, and his plan
haas attained such a size that the bi
men ia electric lighting come fror
one place and another every once l
aS table leg and ask him il he want
20 trade, and Chandler grins and look
1t the wad and says he wouldn't fee
III home il he didn't have somebod
flckiug about a wire that is down O
2 night that is out. and he better jus
htug on to the thing a little until h
'tn get used TO the thought OF bein
without it.
lust little dams on little streams an
Hiue plants, but he lights the towI
doUGd here for miles. Then Joh
b, Mcqueen and some others put
Iitie plant in on the little stream {
iAkeview, and they hung up SON
iectric lights, and presently they wei
4aFther and built a bigger dam ov'
about Lobelia and hooked on the Va
cotton mill. That is the way the:
Ittle things work. They start o'
WIN a few lights and then some 9TH
tolks want to get on the line and al
'ther little dam is built. Then tn
SiVes more power and a line is +,
l" lew more houses, and from th
me some more folks want curreT
thu another site is hunted up for
.iltle dam. So presently the plant
..ooelia had its wires in Raeford, al
nus town stayed up nights for a wee
X SO lust to see the thing slime.
Wood Replaced by Juice.
fiectric power is like crime. Y,
-rt started down hill and you increa
your speed every time you take a
ther step. When the cotton m
1ine III this section to serve as a sc
~ consolation prize for the departi
UNDER mill power sat on the ben
S tue engine and asked about fu'
ne saw mill made sawdust and slal
cJah nil q
urn A wood bill for a cotton m
- Ssine size is q painful thing if it
"ho|ed to become chronic. Gamer