Year: 1869




dent OF the Wilmington Star writing from Ca
tawba Station on the Western North Carolina
Railroad says:


The energetic zeal which is displayed by the
people OF this portion of the State is truly mag
nificent, and erratnaAy will be crowned with
success. The lethargy and indifference which
characterized us as community has given way
to a more laudable ambition to regain our for
mer prosperity; and the drone and laggard have
gone to work in good earnest The credit sys-
TEN is dead, and every one is compelled to work
or do worse.


In this county (Catawba) VIC have two cotton
factories, turning off large quantities of yarn and
sheeting, supplying the county besides consid-
erablc portion Of the State with these very nee
essary articles of home consumption. We have
three carding machines for carding wool, one
running steam.


There is now going up foundry at Newton,
which will be run by steam, also three or four
forges, where large quantities of iron are manu-
tactured from ore in the county.
Carriages, buggies and wagons are made in
various portions of the county, and are carried
South and sold, bringing money into the
county.


Gold is now attracting attention, and several
persons are engaged in this business with sue
cess. There is scarcely a branch or creek in
Catawba where gold cannot be found, and if the
people engaged in this enterprise understood





machinery, it would prove lucrative busi-
ness.


Isinglass has been found in several places in
the county in considerable quantities, and will
add several dollars to the better financial con-
ditIon of the people. 1t sells from 50 to IS per
pound.


Black lead Of fair quality has engaged the at
tention of some of our citizens, and has been
been shipped North, but with what success We
have not learned.
Lime the cheap agricultural fertilizer is found
in abundance here, and large supplies are con-
stantly shipped from this place. 1t can be pur-
chased at 25 cents per bushel A railroad was
chartered lately by the Legislature to run to the
beds, distance OF four miles.


The sulpbate of iron, or copperas, was made
here during the war. All the slate pencils used
in the United States could be manufactured
here.


Tombstones and monuments to the sacred
dead are made in this county, because we have
plenty of the material here -.-
Pottery manufactures are numerous, where
jugs, jars and all kinds OF wares are made, and
sell as low as and 10 cents per gallon. Pipes
sell BY the bushel at so cents to 81.


With grand display OF mechanical industry
and mineralogical wealth, aside from our great
agricultural resources, well may your correspon-
dent exclaim: This is the grand Switzerland of
America-a country without peer-the Pride and
boast OF Carolina. q. z. MCN."





for whitewashing, and it is matter Of some
importance to understand the best m ethod of ma
king the necessary preparation for the execution
ofthis work in the most durable, as well as most
ornamental manner. Freshly white washed fem
cling, or trees, or houses, present much taste and
neatness. The following recipe will be found
useful:


Take clean water tight barrel, or other suita-
able cask, and put into it half bush-l of lime,
slack it by pouring water over it, boiling hot,
and in sufficient quantity to cover it five inches
deep, and stir it till thoroughly Stacked When
the stacking has been thoroughly effected dis
solve it in water and add two pounds OF sulphate
of zinc and one of common SALT These will
cause the wash to harden. and prevent it crack
ing, which gives an unseenly appearance to the
work If desirable, beautiful cream color may
be communicable the above wash, by adding
three pounds of yellow ochre; or good pearl
color, by the ad dition of lamp, vine or ivory
black.