The Pinehurst Outlook for March 2, 1923 5
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Influences That Make Pinehurst
(By Bion H. Butler)
A THING that strikes me as of the highest importance in the
affairs of this section is the continually increasing number
of new men of means and ability that is met at every turn.
In the last few days I have encountered persons of prominence in
business from various parts of the country who have dropped into
Pinehurst and the neighbor villages to look over the prospects
of the Sandhills country. They have come to see what the boasted
climate amounts to, and to play golf, and to put in a few days of
rest. Incidentally they become interested in what they see, and they
inquire about orchards, and chances for business investments, and
the wisdom of building permanent winter homes, and some of these
men have been calling their friends to come and look with them
until it seems to me that I have never noticed as much general
interest shown by outside people.
Already some definite plans for joining in the development work
of the community have been made by some of the newcomers. I
have been shown the figures for some right ambitious projects,
and heard propositions for other things, all of which show how
surely a new element is working into the business atmosphere of
Moore county. In the thirty years that I have known the Sandhill
country I do not recall so many influences at work on significant
lines as appear to be taking a finger in the situation this spring.
What impresses me most is this persistent manifestation of in
terest in Moore county at a time when the uncertainties of the war
have passed, and the business conditions of the country are again
on a sane basis. Men are seeing with a logical vision again, and
when they begin to calculate on some new ventures they know
pretty definitely where their feet are standing. Money is easy once
more and schemes that are put on paper can be advanced to a cash
stage. The hopes that served as the conspicuous element during
the last two or three years have given way to realizations. What
men want to do they can do now. It is no longer so much a question
of what they would do if they had the money, but what they will
do now that money is available.
In the last half dozen years all of Moore county has been pushing
forward fast. In spite of war and financial stringency and all the
averse obstacles a tremendous change has taken place. This change
has been watched by visitors in the Sandhill country, and now that
money is easing up many of the new things that have been under
taken have reached the point where they add their testimony to the
successful prospects of -the various schemes, and that is a pretty
convincing argument to the spectator who feels disposed to take
a hand in the game. Nothing has gone wild here, but the general
advance has been on a sound footing, and that is what counts. It
is such conditions that attract the attention of the type of men I
speak of. They see in what has been done a forecast of what can
be done on a much bigger scale, and here and there they are throw
ing off their coats and getting ready to jump in.
By way of illustration I stood the other day on the open road
near the General office, looking over at the new theater. Now I
have seen considerable of this little old footstool, but I never clapped
my eyes on anything quite as significant as that theater building
in a little village where the theater stood among the trees and
shrubbery, and across the road from a bit of woods where no
doubt quail and rabbits sport in the summer time. Amid rural
surroundings, in the shadow of the original forest trees, away from
city or even town restrictions, the road in front an ordinary road
with a clay surface, the side walks the same city top walks, but
the building one of the most complete and modern and artistic
that architectural skill can devise and money procure. And the point
about that theater is that it is not in the least out of place, but
strictly, in harmony with the conditions which have made it. It is
such things as this that the newcomers see and realize, and it is
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