The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-10-05
VOL. c. NO. 9S.

country that VIII bc on encd has more
OF less OF timber - on kind or an
other, pine on the high ground ard
gum and poplar on the streams and
sWanps. farm lands that Will come
III as transportation comes. and soil
and climate capable Of making gard
ems along the entire route of the VA
| red roads that are contemplated
II looks as though bl- opening
/ Is announced, as the merchants would
tell US in their advertisements. and
| Whlle the openings may not result in
I any Cherokee ruSheS. like the West
was familiar with the Oklahoma days
and on kindred occasions. il is safe
TO expect that the men who are max
ing lot OF resolrceful and produc-
| tive country available are doing \ big
job for the advancement and pros
perlty Of this part Of the State
Passes Time Of Short Pants.
| SO | figure out that Goldshoro has
about passed the place where the
folks regard it as small boy. and
that the day of the long trousers has
come. The new brick high school is
a fine institution, but it only means
that another school has To come
Tretty soon. The employees of the
Virginia Lumber Company's r,in II
they reach 500 in number, viii indi-
, | cate la!nIleS enough TO require fair
| sized school house for them alone
With that many new people will come
additions to the business horizon OF
the city, and that means more school
population. With the trade that wiwll
come to the town with the opening
Of q lot of new farms and industries
DOWN the new road will come a lot
t more business. and more men in the
4 stores, in the banks, in the railroad
0 CfhceS and in the shops, and that
t means a lot more to add to the school
e population. | don't want to scare the
I GOOD folks of Goldsboro, but it looks
y to me as if they are due before long
n to build another school house, and
4 what is more they will be obliged 10
e build some more business blocks and
n homes. and offices, and warehouses,
2. and nobody knows what all. and that
II means a lot of people to do the biuld-
It ing and they will have children to
n send to school, and far as / can
Ii figure this thing threatens to grow
h worse every time you take a new look
IS at it. More than that, after figuring
n out the fertility Of the soil, the mild
g climate, the increasing need of In
Is creasing population at the North for
the field and garden products of North
q CarOlina's early crops. it looks as IL
II the big acreage of fertile lands in a
Is radius of fifty miles from GOldsboro
q are to be brought more and more into
s. cultivation everyday, and that Will
q mean an activity that Will go on max
d ing the situation in this town more
, acute.
D. Candidly I don't see where one
school house is going TO help much.
~ | | am Of the opinion that another
10 school house will be badly needed
= before it Is obtained, and when Il Is
~ built, l venture that it will be found
> to be crowded the first year II Is used,
=, and that it will be found necessary
=. ~ right then to begin to figure on an
- other one, and that that course will
le have to be followed right persstently
right along.
Neither is the excellent street rail.
road going to serve the purpose very
y = long. Before the bold spirits who
have built it realize the situation
~ they will have to get out and run II
ar farther into the country. for the peo-
~ pie who make homes will be build
80 ing them out the line to the end, and
7s then they Will lap over out into tht
81 country, and they viii Clamor for q
=, way to get into town and out. That
ts is the history of towns that get the
no infection Of progress or that wake
m up to find themselves located II
no proximity to available resources thai
10 | compel development.
L Typical n. c. Town.
" Goldsboro is right typical NORTH
n Carolina town. There was q day
,d when that typical town was a sleepy
in unambitious, hopeless location, prom
IN Using little and not fulfilling much o
ds its promise. That day and that towT
r has gone. The typical North Caro-
le lima town now is one IN which hf'
e. and eager desire to do things ar
in apparent. and Goldsboro IS not alon'
of in being one Of the kind. | dropped
'ly into the tobacco market, and Their
was activity. Thrifty men are spe
he cializing in tobacco or Wayne count,
lis farms, and IN this Wayne count.
il town Thrifty men are specializing
ot in cotton and here is a busy cotton
T. market. Around the town are fac
he tories of one sort or another Brici
an yards load out many cars a week 70