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VOL. III., NO. 11.
PINEHURST, N. C, JAN. 12, 1900.
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FROM A FORMER RESIDENT.
Henry A, Wheat Writes a Yery Interesting
Letter on Pinehurst and the South.
The following letter on Pinehurst is
clipped from theGeneva, N. Y.y Advertiser
of the 2nd inst. The writer, Mr. Henry
A. Wheat, spent several weeks in our
village last fall.
Pinehurst, N. C, Dec. 20th, 1899.
Fkikxi) Pakkek :
In my last letter I proposed to tell you
something of this now well known South
ern winter resort. Pinehurst lies some
what south of the center of the state of
North Carolina in a rolling upland region,
being some 650 feet above sea level. It
is entirely surrounded by immense forests
of the long-leaf pine. The soil is nearly
pure sand, from ten to ninety feet deep,
and owing to this fact a pouring rain
leaves no standing water, such a thing as
mud being unknown. Malaria too is
unheard of, and the abundant supply
of absolutely pure spring water makes
typhoid fever and kindred diseases almost
an impossibility. The average summer
and winter temperature is said to closely
resemble that of Southern France, the
mercury occasionally getting down
below the freezing mark, but the ex
treme dryness of the atmosphere entirely
does away with that unpleasant chill
often so noticeable at a much higher
temperature in the far South where the
humidity is greater. The air is bracing
and invigorating, being charged with an
abundant supply of ozone supposedly
produced from the turpentine exhaled by
the countless thousands of long-leaf pine
trees.
Pinehurst is not yet Ave years old, hav
ing been first staked out in 1895 on a tract
of 6,000 acres of land purchased by James
W. Tufts of Boston, who is still the sole
owner of the place, no lots being for sale
at any price. The location is remarkably
well chosen, being iibout equally distant
from the disagreeable fogs of the Atlantic
Ocean on the east and the cold wintry
winds that sweep down over the Alle
ghanies several hundred miles to the
west. The village proper covers an area
f one hundred and twenty-five acres
most beautifully laid out by a well known
Boston firm of landscape architects. The
gracefully curving streets are bordered
with trees, shrubs, and flowering plants,
and rows of violets which bloom in the
open air t hroughout the entire winter are
miles in extent. One of the numerous
attractions is a deer park, and the eigh-teen-hole
golf course covering one hun
dred and fifty acres is undoubtedly the
finest in the South. The town has an
excellent water works system, and all
sewage is carried more than a mile beyond
the village limits. The larger buildings
are heated by steam, while the cottages
depend upon wood stoves and large open
hie places, the average price of oak and
pine being two dollars a cord. Every
building, large and small, is lighted bril
liantly at night by electricity ; the power
house, which also runs the trolley line to
Southern Pines seven miles distant on
the Seaboard Air Line R. R., being lo
cated just on the outside of the high
woven wire fence which surrounds the
village as a protection I suppose from
razorback hogs and other animals equally
dangerous (when eaten.)
There are four hotels of different sizes,
fifty cottages of various styles to rent, a
casino, a town hall, the village school
house and a department store, in which
is included a most attractive little post
office. A restaurant in the Casino fur
nishes excellent board at a moderate price
to those cottagers who prefer taking
their meals to attempting housekeeping
on their own account. Servants, such
all these obstacles she has rapidly forged
ahead along the line of commercial and
manufacturing interests. In the old
times cotton was king. Then it was be
lieved, and no doubt the idea was some
what selfishly encouraged by the North,
that the South could not with its colored
labor successfully conduct manufacturing
enterprises. It was not then a grain grow
ing section, and so not only depended
upon the eastern states for clothing
and most manufactured articles, but upon
the western states for bread. Its vast
coal fields, the mountains filled with iron
ore, the phosphate in the ground, and
the ability of her people to adapt them
selves to manufacturing industry, all lay
dormant and useless. But at last the
"New South" awakened to her possibili
ties and recognized what her destiny was.
There was no good reason why she
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entire output of pig-iron was less than
400,000 tons. During 1899 it has been
2,510,000, while the sum paid for factory
wages is now five times greater. Surely
this marvelous gain is a wonderful show
ing for less than twenty years. Now the
iron industry has become an established
fact, and Alabama even ship- iron to
China; and Virginia manufactures and
exports locomotives, and Is now building
the largest steamers ever constructed in
this country. Alabama is shipping steel
rails to Russia to be used on the great
Siberian railroad. In phosphate mining
Tennessee, Florida and South Carolina
lead the whole country, while Texas
exports annually nearly four hundred
thousand tons of cotton seed products.
Indeed all the states are marked by some
special branch of industry by which their
progress can be judged, and the South of
to-day is not by any means the
South as I first knew it twenty
years ago, but has become an im
portant part and factor in making
the United States the richest and
most powerful nation in the world.
Yours very truly,
Henry A. Wheat.
A TURPENTINE DISTILLERY.
as they are, can be had at an average of
$1.50 a week. This is for cooking and
general housework ; but good cooks are
few and far between. Women who work
out by the day are paid forty cents, and
your washing they will take home, fur
nish everything and do for twenty-hve
cents for each person regardless ot trie
number of pieces or the size of the wash.
An attractive and bright little paper.
The Pinehurst Outlook, is published
weekly throughout the winter. The
Carolina, said to be the largest notei in
the state, is nearly completed and will be
open and prepared to accommodate some
thing like five hundred guests on eb.
1st. The building is four stories high.
Pinehurst is of course, but one of
manv attractive winter resorts in the
Southern states, but the marvelous growth
and advance of the entire South during
the past few years is indeed wonderful,
when you consider the numerous stum
bling blocks she has had to encounter in
the way of lack of capital and the race
question, together with sectional criti
cism and condemnation. But in spite of
should not spin her own cotton, why her
iron should be sent north to be made into
manufactured articles and agricultural
implements, why she should not can her
own fruits and vegetables that grow so
abundantly, largely raise her own grain,
and the result is that to-day as compared
with twenty years ago she spins six times
as much cotton, for in 1880 the consump
tion was 233,889 bales, while the latest
statistics show that in 1899 the Southern
mills alone have consumed 1,399,000
bales. The quantity of grain raised has
nearly doubled, for in 1880 the produc
tion was 431,000,000 bushels and in the
present year the records show 736,600,
000. Manufactured products have in
creased more than three fold, their value
in 1880 being $457,400,000, and in 1899 it
has reached $1,590,000,000. The quantity
of phosphate exported has more than
doubled. In 1880 the gross mileage of
railroads in the South was 20,600 against
50,350 miles in 1899. Six times as much
coal is mined, the amount being 40,000,-
008 tons as ag iinstonly a little more than
6,000,000 in 1880. Twenty years ago the
A Stay-at-IIome Body.
Princeton (Ga.) boasts a woman
whose love . of home life bears off
the palm. 'Surety no more do
mestic woman "ever lived in this
world than th'is lady. She is the
wife of a sturdy mechanic and has
by good management and close
attention to home affairs blessed
his home for many years. Fifty
eight years ago she was born in
Clarke "County, near the place
where she how lives. She has
lived in Princeton district all her
life and within 200 yards of the
Oconee River. Although she can
see the Oconee River from her
home, she has never crossed that
stream during her life, and although
she lives within three miles of Athens
she has never been to this city. She has
never been two miles from her home
during her life, yet she is a woman of
intelligence and is by no means an
invalid. Her home seems to satisfy her
completely, and she has no desire to
know anything of the world. Athens
Banner.
An Efficacious Prayer.
Dean Hole of Rochester, England,
tells of a very innocent and gentle curate
who went to a Yorkshire parish where
the parishioners bred horses and some
times raced them. He was asked to
invite the prayers of the congregation
for Lucy Grey. He did so. They
prayed three Sundays for Lucy Grey.
On the fourth the clerk told the curate
he need not do it any more. "Why," said
the curate, "is she dead?" "No," said
the clerk, "she's won the steeple-chase."
The curate became quite a power in the
parish. The Argonaut.