RESOURCES OE NORTR
CAROLINA ARE UNLIMITED
Splendid Conditions Shown in
Report of State Geologist.
Ral'igh, June 20.-The report
of progress submitted by State
Geologist Jos. Hyde Pratt was
the principal feature of the
mid-year meeting of the State
Board of the Geological Survey,
held today in the executive
offices of Governor Craig. This
report showed especially gratify
ing progress in the co-operative
highway work, especially since
the placing of 1). Tucker Brown
in the field as engineer through
the co-operation of the geological
I
board and the North Carolina
Good Roads Association last
February. He is giving expert
assistance in many counties, and
materially quickening interest in
road building.
T1 ie co-operative work has been
carried on in connection with the
construction of about 11!) miles
of highway during the past year,
the principal stretches of these
roads lying in Henderson,
Buncombe, Columbus, Franklin,
Alamance, Randolph, New
Hanover, Orange, Stokes, Rock
ingham and other counties.
The geological board decided to
co-operate with the University
of North Carolina and the State
(!ood Roads Association in the
making permanent of the annual
good roads institutes, the initial
one of which was so successfully
held at Chapel Hill recently.
As to forestry work, the report
showed press bulletins recently
issued as to the forest values in
Warren, Orange, Durham,
Randolph, Alamar.ce, Rocking
ham, (luilford and other counties.
The forest fire losses for the
year were represented as
aggregating $700,000, the largest
ever reported in this State. There
were just 554 forest fires report
ed, there having been, however,
considerably more than that
number in the State.
There was a special report on
the quantity and value of loblolly,
or North Carolina pine, in this
State. And a report on the
mineral developments in the
State for the past year, the
Jatter showing that the value of
minerals taken for 1013 amount
ed to $3,901,000, the largest
amount in the history of mining
in this State.
Mr. I'i tt reported that he is]
just talk from Ashe county,
where he personally looked into
the commcrcihl value of iron ores
in the county, and expresses con
viction that the deposits are of
much commercial value, and that
they can be most profitably
developed now that railroad
facilities are being provided,
these having already reached
some of the no t attractive of
the iron ore deposits.
Members of the geological j
board here t day for the meet- j
ing were Mr. Hugh Macßae, (
Wilmington: W. 11. Williamson.!
of Ra!ei.;h, and Dr. Pratt.
Change In Post Cards.
Washington, D. C., June 25.
The portrait of Thomas Jeffer
son, the "father of democracy,"
to displace that of William Mc-
Kinley on postcards, was an
nounced by the the Postoffice
Department today.
The cards will be of the usual
>cream color, printed,in green.
jTo Cross The Sea
In Air Ship.
The Rodman Wanamaker sea
i plane is nearly finished and with
!in a few days its parts will be
j packed for the trip to Newfound
j land, from which place Lieuten
jant J. C. Porte, the British
! naval officer, and his assistant,
; George Hallett, will attempt the
I the flight acrcss the Atlantic.
They will likely sail during the
first week in July. Their course
j will be from Newfoundland to
| the Azores, then to the Spanish
coast north of Portugal, and on
to Southhampton.
The airship has been been built
in the yards of Mr. Curtiss a*
! Hammonsp.irt, N\ Y., where
! many aeroplanes have been con
structed. Mr. Curtiss has su
perintended the work.
Lieutenant Porte is confident
j he will make the journey safely.
; Should everything prove satis-1
I factory the middle of July may i
I see Lieutenant Porte and Mr.
i
[ Hallett in England, the first men
to sail across the Atlantic.
Dr. Champion Joins
Slate Health Forces.
The State Hoard of Health
announces an addition to the
| field force of the Hookworm
| Commission in the person of I Jr.
Merrill K. Champion,
i Dr. Champion is well equipped,
sin A. 1!. and M. I).
graduate of Harvard, and holds
a certificate of public health
; from Harvard University and
j Massachusetts Institute of
i Technology. He brings to the
force an experience gathered
I during the last eight years as
i health officer of Arlington,
: Massachusetts, a work which he
I conducted with marked success,
I and he joins those other members
jof the force who are devoting
their life to this new, attractive
and important field, preventive
medicine.
Dr. Champion left Tuesday for
I Nash county to begin a "clean
| up" campaign in the Red O.ik
community, fullowing the plan
of work already established in
Sampson, New Hanover and
Robeson counties.
The Chestnut Bark Disease
The destructive chestnut bark
disease or blight has recently
appeare 1 in several new locali
ties farther southward in Vir
ginia. It mav bj xpected to
reach the North Carolin i border
this > ear r next. From now
until frost comes a closa lookout
should bj kept; for it. If the
first inftcticns aie recognized/
aid the trees immediately utiliz
ed, the d's>asc can be checked.
Let every ( ne keep an eye open
for the first appearance of the
disease, and see that proper
steps are taken to prevent its
destructive spread to the valua
ble chestnut timber of our moun
tains. Dead branches here and
thera in a tree with brown leaves
clinging to them are the most
conspicuous sign of this disease.
Dead bark areas girdle these
limbs. Roddish-brown dots the
size of a pin head are scattered
over these bark c inkers. My
riads of the germs of th-j disease
are in each dot ready to be car
ried by dripping water or by
wind or by birds to chestnuts
or chinquapins near by or several
miles away. If any suspicious
symptoms are seen, notify at
once the Department of Plant
Disease, Agricultural Experi
ment Station, West Ra'eigh, N.
C.
ThF3 DANBURY REPORTER
BRYAN AT REIDSVILLE.
i
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Secretary of State Will De
liver C liautauqua Address
On July 4.
Reidsville, June 2(s.—When
William Jennings Bryan arrives
in Reidsville early on the mcrn
ing of Saturday, July 4, he will
find the city of Reidsville drtss
ed in her Sunday clothes. Prac
tically every business house and
residence will be flying gay
colors of red, white and blue in
h>nor of his coming, and the
town colors of orange and black
will be everywhere in evidence.
He is coming under the auspices
of the chautauqua.
The premier of the Wilson
cabinet will be received by a
committee and entertained lavish
ly while in the city. This com
mittee is composed of Messrs.
S. C. I'onn, chairman; R. P.
Richardson, John T. Oliver, W.
R. Dalton, C. 0. McMichael. R.
S. Montgomery, Ira R. Humph
reys, Scott Fillman, P. W. Glide
well, Robert Hairston, Francis
Womack, R. L. Watt, W. A.
Trotter, and Drs. J. W. Mc-
Gehee and S. G. Jett.
The chautauqua will be on for
several days, beginning Thurs
day, July 2.
Crimson Clover.
Too much cannot easily be
said in favor of crimson clover,
but a word of caution is advis
able.
I have seen much more good
crimson clover in the middle
South this season than ever be
fore. In fact, soma of the fields
have been simply magnificent in
the large growth of the plants
and then rich crimson beauty,
and if I mistake not the acreage
sown this fill will be tenfold
that ever sowed before. This is
why I wish to issue a word of ad
vice. The crop is such a good one
that nothing should be ommitted
that will encourage its growth
on an extensive scale all over the
Cotton Belt: for I am now, after
many years' observation of it all
over the South, thoroughly con
vinced it is the best of the
winter legumes for the Cotton
Belt and that it will grow any
where in the South on land that
grows corn, cotton and other
field crops, if given proper treat
ment. Unfortunately, however,
it has its weakness. This is the
difficulty in getting a stand some
seasons, It is killed after com
ing up or fails to germinate dur
ing some of our exceedingly dry
hut fall weather. If sowed too
early, it may germinate early
and be killed by the dry, hot
weather, or if it fails to germin
ate promptly on account of the
dry weather, after it does come
up it may be killed by early
frosts. On the other hand, it
i o■: sowed until late, the same
e ult may follow a hard winter.
Last fall, over a large part of the
middle South, conditions were
almost ideal for sowing crimson
clover and there were practically
no failures, although mujh of it
was not sowed until late in Octo
b?r and even until Ntvem
ber.
We wish to caution our readers
against too late sowing, for fail
ures are common enough at best,
or when sowed early- first half
of September in the northern
half of the Cotton Belt and not
later than the first half October
anywhere The Progressive
Farmer.
J. N. YOUNG
The GROCER
WALNUT COVE, N. C.
Fancy Groceries,
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Cigars a Specialty
FIRST QUALITY GOODS
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interested.
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I Wood's Dascriptive Catalog
for I'M4, Rives fu!! description:! anti
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the best
Farm and
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Catalog mailed free. Write for it.
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Wo carry a complete line of
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Protracted Meetings,
Protracted meetings will be
gin at the following times and
places :
Sandy Ridge. July 12 th.
Delta, July 2>th.
Davis' Chapel, August !>th.
Smith's Chapel, August 2'ird.
\ ade Mecum, September i>.
Union Kill. September 20th.
THUS. J. FOLGER.
CopTflfbt. 1914.
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Big Chief
" Traid of the Rain"
HF- S the poor Injun who I
wears the average suit.
Get's caught in a shower.
Gathers wrinkles and puck
ers that II never come out. i
Pl.iv safe. Every Kirsch
baum suit in guaranteed to
be shrunk by the original
London cold-water process.
Can't shrink. Can't gather
puckers ihat a hot iron won't
remove.
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"See t' re Guarantee arid
Pries Ticket on the Sleeve"
DfsiileJ the qualities above.
Guarantee insure* pure wool,
fast in color and hand-tail
ored. Worth looking at soon.
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WALNUT COVE, N.C.