VOLUME XXXIII.
INTERESTING LETTER
No Work For Laborers In
Summer, Then They C
Needs Eight Or Te
Started Right--W
ject to
Garfield, Wash., Sept. 2.
Mr. Editor :
I have reoeived several letter#
from bQth young and middle aged
men asking my advice as to their
©tuning West. I have mislaid one
of these letters from a young mau
near Hereford. I trust he will
pjmion me for replying to him
through'the Reporter. It is bard
to advise one intelligently in'this
matter; the only thing I ever
do is to give-the oonditions here,
'"is® and leave each one to act on his
n judgment.
come and are highly pleas
ed while other* oome and fail to
like at all. Conditions and cus
toms are so different here from
what they are ih North Carolina;
one frequently has to change
many of his old habits and begin
anew. For example, harvest hands
here furnish their own bod
(usually a quilt and blanket) and
sleep ill a buuk house or more
frequently in the barn. Now, sub
pose I advise this young man from [
Heareford to come and get him a
job and at night he is direoted to!
thfl'barn to sleep. What would he
probably think of my advice and
of me ? When a farmer has a
regular hand he furnishes good
room and bed in his house. But
whea one is here awhile and sees
the thousands of harvesters that!
are required here pour in from!
every condition of mankind and |
Big Winston = Salem Fair
OCTOBER 2, 3, 4, 1906.
__ __ _
Biggest and Best Fair Ever Held in Winston, N. C.;'j
TYfo bauds or ni( nonniiFlii" - m snow
The Fair will be opened by Gov. K. B. Glenn. Senator Ren Tillman of South Caro*
| llna and other distinguished men of the nation have been invited to be present.
" Our free attractions this year will be the best ever seen in the county. We have at considerable trouble and expense secured the famous
DAVID CASTELLO CIItCUS
which will give a free daily performance in a ring arranged in full view of the people. This show,alone is worth the price of admission into the grounds. We have also contracted for a
"*> BALLOON ASCENSION
each day at four o'clook. These are the leading features but there will be others. The midway will be great. We have already booked a Merry-Oro-Round, Forris Wheel, Razzle Dazzle, a big Minstrel Show,
Electric Theatre, Shooting Gallery, Snake Show, a Kansas Farm in all its glory, Moving Picture Shows Trained Animal Show, and numerous games and many othor things that will amuse and interest young
and old.
Music, Mirth and Sight Seeing Evergwhere. You Cannot Afford to Miss It
DON'T LOSE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN.
To all, we say come, prepare yourself to improve in the labor you propose for the coming year by spending a few clays mingling with your fellowmen at the Fair. Parents are cordially invited to bring their
children and inspect the various exhibits. Invite your friends to meet you at our Fair. We will furnish you with plenty of comfortable seats where you can rest and be free from the cares and worries of a busy life.
SPECIAL EXCURSION RATES] I tj
Special Reduced Rates on Railroads and all Lines of Travel, consequently visitors from abroad are enabled to attend our Fair at a comparatively small outlay. All that tends to the interest and benefit of our
patrons has been carefully looked after. Remeinbor the dates. For further information write . * If*
i G. E. Webb, = Salem, N. C
THE BANBURY REPORT
FROM PROF. HARRIS.
the West Except During
3et Good Pay--A Settler
in Thousand To Get
esterners Don't Ob
> Work.
every country of the world, he can
then readily see that it would be
unwise to bed all these men.
Among my harvest hands this
year two were from lowa, one
from New York, one from Brazil
and one from London,
There is nothing objectionable '
about sleeping out doors here. No {
rats, mosquitoes or snakes to ter
rify one's dreams and our ranch
ers plaos their beds in tents on a
pair of springs right on the open
ground and sleep there all sum
mer, thus preferring the open air
to the house.
It is almost a fad here to go j
harvesting. Nearly everybody does !
jit.
There is here a young lady from
Spokane cooking for a threshing i
crew and sleeping in a tont with
her assistant. Her father is worth j
a cool hundred thousand and fur
nishes her anything she wants.
The pastor of the Presbyterian
j church, the swell church of "Gar-
I field, got a vacation this "summer
' and worked in the harvest and
!
I slept in the barn on a farm ad
joining me. Like myself, he is |
now hauling wheat, loading and j
unloading over twenty thousand
pounds a day. I oould give dozens
of such instances. After one is
here a while he gets used to these
! things and don't feel insulted
| when he is asked to sleep in the
| baru, milk tlje QOWS, help bring the '
DANBURY, N. C., SEPT. 20, 1906.
water, wash dishes, or even help
wash tlye clothes.
Wages are good here in summer
but Ihere is little demand for la
borers in winter.
No plantbeds to burn, the crop
!is harvested and hauled to the
railroad in summer, and the barn
is packed with hay; the wood is
stored in stove lengths in the
wood house, and by the time win
ter comes the wagon is put iuto
the tool house for the winter, and
1 the rancher does littlo besides
looking after his horses and cattle
| and therefore few of them need
help in winter,
This year harvest hands (and
| that means those who shock, run
j binders, drive teams or go with
threshing outfits) are getting two
jto two fifty and board per day.
i One can easily put in 50 or 00
! days. A majority of these thous-1
ands of harvest hands are worth-!
| less unless you aro right with
I them. When a man is known to
J be a good hand and trusty he gets
| better pay and an easier job. The
boys here from North Caroline
j are all good men and have no j
trouble to get good places. AI
neighbor farmer who grows 30 to
j4O thousand bushels of grain said j
to me, ''when a man wants a Job
of me and says he is from Ten
| nesseo or North Carolina, I don't
ask him any more questions, ]
knowhe ia Q K."
(generally speaking, there is lit
j tie work to be had hero except
farm work. School teachers are
! generally in demand at 50 to >o
j dollars per month for five to nine
! months a year.
Land prices are so high here
i now that a man needs eight or tea
I thousand dollars to buy a quarter
)! section to begin farming on a cash
basis. Of course, if he don't foar
•! debt he can start up with far loss.
• One can buy land on any kind of
terms here, but prices aro all
i high. It will require 1,000 to 2,000
i dollars to buy necessary farm itn
i plements and horses to start with,
i If a man has that much cash he
can often rent a farm and get a
start that way.
i The laborer is not looked down
on here and there aro no idlers,
i Nearly all the women do their
| own cooking and washing. If yon
want help along this line you will
i get the daughter of some of your
neighboring ranchers who is
worth ten to twenty thousand. It
would hardly be healthy to speak
Ito one of your county thousand
! dollar neighbors in Stokes for one
iof his daughters to do oooking or '
I washing.
If one comes here and stays two
I years, he may leave but always
; comes back. One of my neigh
bors, Mr. T. M. Barnes, who once j
| liv.ed in Stoneville. and later near 1
Reid&ville, has been here twenty
| years and says he would like to go
jon a visit to his old home, but he
| could not think of living there
j again, By the way I am expect
; ing him over to my place next
Sunday to spend the day and oat
watermelons, which are just ooui
ing in here,
I am glad for a Tarheel to como
in our midst, but I must say it
looks discouraging when land is
50 to 75 dollars per acre. 1 am in
clined to think however, that this
land will readily bring one hun-!
dred dollars per acre in ten years
from now.
If a youug man has a hundred
or two dollars and don't fear a lit
1 A GREAT SNIPE hi
r
' { ; W. J. Jackson and Shack
1 The Various Luc
>|
- tie hardship for a year or twe
• i there are fine opportunities o
! homosteading fine lands as good
'as this in Southwestern Canada.
It requires only three years to
i: prove up on a homestead there.
The climate there is a little milder
' j than the climate of North Dakota.
\ That is a fine wheat country, and
j land ia easily obtained—either to
1 homestead, rent or buy. Quite a
1 few of our people are going there
to start out in life.
For the sober, industrious
i young man with push and vim,
there is opportunity everywhere,
1 but I believe that many young
■ men of the East would do well to
come West and grow up with the
country. It ia worth a year or two
of a young man's life to see the
I improved methods of farming as
practiced in the West. One man
here does the work of three and
often four there.
In my next letter I shall have
somewhat to aay about improved
machinery on the farm,
W, B. HARRIS.
Mr. J. S. D. Pulliam, of King,
was in town Thursday. Mr. Pul
liam told the Repoter that his sec
tion was "visited by a terrible rain
storm on Wednesday, Sept. 12.
The streams were the highest everj
| known,
Mr. Wade Hix was in town Fri-j
day.
John Covington was here!
Thursday.
i
!
raiu,
farmers u
It has been temuio uu t
and also on our big sawmill. The
mill could not run but very little
over half time. While the farmers
and sawmill men oould not work,
the weather on last Thursday
night was fine for snipe hunting.
W. J. Jackson and Shack Belton >
got them up several and went ou*'
to catch all the snipes around
Prestonville. Judge and Shaok
were to do the driving while \he
other four held the sacks. No. 1
was placed at the ford of the
branch near the watering plaoe.
No. 2 was some forty yards below.
No. 3 at the old Preston still-plaoe
while No. 4 was some 50 yards •
of the old still-plaoe; No. 4 being
satisfied that the snipes would ~iot
move, he soon joined the d&'t>T* *
and all left for home. No. 1 phi*
rock in his sack and through mis
take made his sack too heavy,
therefore let all the snipe pass.
No. 2 got hold of a sack with no
| bottom to it, so he made a water -
| hall. No. 3 being a better snipe
| hunter than the rest, bad every
j thing right so he bagged the whole
drove and it took him until three
' o'clock in the morning to get in
j home. Being sharper in oatohing
i all the snipe, he was sharper still,
| for he give all the balanoe of the
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