Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-29
PROSPERITY RE|CNs IN
/ MECKLENBURC COUNTY
Farm Lands Easily Sold at Figures
Higher Than Ever Before Known
in That Region.
HOME FOLKS MADE IT GREAT
Farmer Boys Stay ut Home and
Build Up the Country-Flourisll-
ing "Homc Made" Towns That
Buy the Farm Products.

II one has, a farm located any
where in MecklenburE County that he
wants 10 sell! all he has to do is TO
some other way let it be known that
that farm is on the market"
Thus spoke citizen OF MecklenhurS.
who was visitor 10 Richmond a few
days ago. The citizen Went on TO say
that land in Mecklenburg never sold
as a., high as a; The present time: and ID
and no; 10 any particular locality.
No county in the State has prospered
more in the last decade than Neck
il is one OF the hes; watered counties
in Virginia; the transportation facili-
ties, taken as whole. are unsur-
and ali Kinds Of crops can be grown;
the county has sin good towns that
are markets al home for home prod
easy shipHine distance OF most of the
larger markets Of the state.
More Boys Stay ut Home.
The farm products are tobacco. pea
nuts cotton. hay, wheat corn. oats,
ssses Msekeab9Fr n ranks s 'n tsr vfsf in
the State as tobacco grower. both
as 70 quantity and quality il does
well in some parts with peanuts and
equally a. We'll IN some sections with
COTTON, and II is a splendid hay raiser.
Al the grasses. clover and alfalfa do
Ing we'll in every par; OF the county.
kinds flourish down in Mecklenburg
and in recent Years orchard!ns has be-
come quite an industry here and there
throughout the county.
Nowadays one never hears OF Meek
lenburg boys quitting the farm and
OF the ancestral estates until they
reach manhood and ,hen they become
buyers OF farms OF various sizes OF
their own. That is what has made
Meek Artlirr County lands n
sell The county has no; had TO de-
pend on newcomers. but her own peo-
pie have turned the trick, and made
he: prosperous.
Numerous Good Home Markets.
In this same connection il is worthy
Of note tina; the home people have
built up The home markets that con-
sume so much OF the produce Of the
business tobacco selling and banking
town; Clarksville. the old-timc tobacco
market and banking town; South HIN;
working town. Lacrosse. the new bust
ness. banking and manufacturing town
mat mas grown up AZ the junction Of
seat and good business town. and
Baskerville. the small but active viii
lase on the Southern Railway. are all
engaged not only in mercantile efforts
but without exception. are manufacture
ing centers that employ "A great many
men ana women VINO are good paying
consumers o: the products. These
home made" towns have done great
things in building up the prosperity
which the whole county enjoys.
Railway. TO Outside Marl<cts
But MecklenburG does not have 20
depend entirely on her own home mar
.kets. She is in quick touch with Rich
inond and Petersburg on one side
Norfolk and Portsmouth on another.
several North Carolina markets on the
south side. and through The first named
she is about as convenient to the
markets. OF the North as il is neces-
Sary 10 be.
Two branches OF the Southern Rail
way run through the county, and the
Richmond division OF the Sea board Air
Lime cuts through the eastern part
These lines are so located as to prac-
tica lly Give the entire county ample
railway and shipping facilities on the
Roanoke. Stanton and Dan Rivers
oateaus OF large size and capacity can
be run when necessary. and these help
IN some sections 10 solve the trans
portation problem
echlenburg is we'll UP in good road
building. Every district in the county
mas issued and sold bonds and built
good sand-clay highways and the good
work is still going OF. and home folks
are doing this too