Newspapers / The Pinehurst outlook. / April 21, 1921, edition 1 / Page 5
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IPBIL U, 1921 PAGE 5 MELOS TAKES THE FEATURE They have let Pinehurst grow up right there in the middle of a desert without saying anything about it, and now it ap An unusually large mid-April crowd pears that they have planted more peach turned out on Wednesday last to witness es than an PeoPie in the world, get more the running of a high-class card ar- m for theP and ry few folks ranged by the Jockey Club and was well know much about it rewarded for its attendance as all of the Few know for stance, that right races were marked by good fields and D0W there is a swarm of bu?ers down in close finishes. the Sandhi11 begging for the The feature event was the steeplechase PrivileSe bu7ing all the peaches of race over the full 10-jump course and "iat regl0n when the et riPe and T was won in. rather handy style by G. ,n for them rigllt 011 the sPot Nibbs' faithful old timber-topper, Melos. FeW know that there wiU be a thou" nlv hr horsps took the iuiiiA in this cancl earloads of P"es ripening on the ir i wo ofTo trees down there in August, and some- n Uaht Pflmfl to nripf t thp riahHi b(1-V WOuld be glad to 7 f jump where he stumbled and unseated jockey Norman. The boy was badly shaken up but escaped without serious injury. Nibbs made it a double when his Lady Betty came home ahead of Jo Jo and High Olympus in the six furlong event. Lady Betty's time of 1:14 1-5 urn a rmvn'rlrnTl v trnrwl , ' ' n . i i . . torn rather than from the top down, that The other flat race of the day went to . . , . , , .... f i at. t trees down there in August, in was second after Ray , . 6 ' . ... . , body would be glad to pay to trrief at the piffht.li & u raj one carload of them and pay the freight besides. Few know, pursuing the instance fur ther, that in the midst of the prevalent more or less ineffective cry for growers' associations and producers' organiza tions that the Sandhill peach raisers have an organization, built up from the bot- Machere after a hard stretch drive with Wasseon and Joe Milner, who finished in the order named. Love's Wager took the Class A trot in successive heats and won first money and the club trophy from Miss Peter Toddington and Mike Kelly. First and second money in the Class B pace was di vided between Tom II and Bingen Gen try as a result of each finishing first and second in the two heats run. Jones Gen- is air-tight, water-tight, fool and bomb proof, that buys everything the grower needs at the very lowest price possible and sells everything that he raises at the very highest prices. All the growers groan when they pay their income tax. More perhaps know that lands down in that country that used to go begging on the market for 25 cents an acre now command prices anywhere from $25 an r.cre up. try was third. The usual weekly meetings will be run every Wednesday throughout the month. The summary: CLASS A. TROT Love's Wager (Wickert) Miss Peter Toddington (Jones) Mike Kelly (Balland) CLASS B. PACE Tom II. (Grey) Bingen Gentry ( Jones) Jones Gentry (Hayes) 5 FURLONG FLAT Machere (Lasses) Wasseon (Snyder) Joe Milner (Wright) Time: 1:01 1-5 6 FURLONG FLAT Lady Betty (Snyder) Jo Jo (Lasses) High Olympus (Wright) Time: 1:14 1-5. It is twenty years now since J. Van Lindley went down into that country and planted some peach trees, mostly as an experiment in conjunction with his nurseries in Greensboro. He tried out all sorts of peaches, examined tree pests 111 and such things, until he had demon- 2 2 3 s Lrated to himself that the Sandhills 3 3 2 Would raise peaches. He didn't make r.ny money out of it directly, but the ex periment has made, is making, and will 2 1 make millions, and he has a share in 1 3 some of it now. He sells the rest of them 2 1 peach trees. And then there arrived a Yankee from Massachusetts, H. R. Clark, who settled won down over at Candor, beyond Pinehurst second on the railroad then owned by the Pages, third He planted some trees, raised some peaches and sold them. He organized a company called the Candor Fruit Com pany. won second From the modest 80 acres of its begin- third nings, it has expanded to more than 1,000 acres of neach trees. Round about .other people, newcomers to the sandhills and STEEPLECHASE (Full Course) citizens whose progenitors took root there Melos (Wright) won even before the days of the Piney Bot- Kate Glenn (Snyder) second torn Massacre, have seen the vision that Ray O' Light (Norman) fell he saw and there are vast reaches of . peach orchards that stretch mile on mile, A WORD ON THE SANDHILLS "tending into the country-round-about. rne sanuniwsv-a cubing uyu, PEACH LANDS and it is not surprising. From all over the United States men have come and invested their money in peach lands. Ben Dixon MacNeill, in Sunday 's Ed high News and Observer, has a lot to say on the wonders of the Sand Hills peach lands, which we quote in part: The Sandhill folks have a fashion going ahead and doing things, and if Lots of good things come to those who there is any talking to be done, they let wait and do not get involved in pessimism somebody else attend to that business, while they are waiting. Be an optomist. 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