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Page Four. THE PILOl Friday, June 24, 1927. THE PILOT Published every Friday by the PILOT PRINTING COMPANY Vass, North Carolina STACY BREWER, Owner Subscription Rates: One ^ear $2.00 oix Months $1.00 . Address all commuiiicationi to The Pilot Printing Co., Vass, N. C. Advertising Rates on Application Entered at the Postoffice at Vass, N. C., as second-class mail matter. EUROPEAN GRAPES IN THE SANDHILLS. In accord with its persistent effort to forward development in the Sandhills country the Seaboard Air Line Railroad is undertaking to call attention to the success attending a vineyard in the upper part of South Car olina, which is producing the European type of grapes. The cultivation of these varieties in the United States is confined al most wholly to California, as the grape is subject to many diseases, and native vines stand the grief better than the import ed kinds. The United States produces a big ^ape crop, the American vines in most of the country, and European types in California, and the grape is a big factor in the food supply of the nation, and in the farm product. If the European grape can be grown in the Carolinas it will be a great accession to farm pro duction, for it is a better keeper and shipper than the native ^apes, and by many people it is regarded as a superior quality of fruit. That difficulties will be encountered is wholly to be ex pected, just as difficulties faced the growers of Niagara and Del aware grapes which were fa mous in Moore county Sandhills before peaches and dewberries became prominent. The old Ni agara Fruit Company was one of the outstanding industries in this section 30 years ago, and many vineyards were planted from which a large shipment of grapes went out each year. But disease made the culture of, grapes almost an impossibility and practically everything ex cept the scuppernong type has been abandoned. Yet an excel lent quality of Delawares and Niagaras were grown, and the market paid a good price. Moreover, the European grapes were also tried out in this vicinity. Eugene Leavit about 30 years ago had charge of the Moore County Nurseries at Manley where Dr. Von Herf had been carrying on development work, and Mr. Leavit was suc cessful in harvesting European grapes. The Pilot does not re call the magnitude of the suc cess, nor the reaston why the work was discontinued, but enough was done to show that European grapes can be grown here. The chief trouble with the European vine is the Phylloxera, which for a time threatened to destroy the whole grape indus try in Europe. But by grafting the vines on stocks that had been secured in the United States the pest found a vine that was immune, and while the disease is a persistent annoy ance to vineyard men Europe has learned to deal with it much as in the county we have found out how to handle the i^an Jose scale, the insect pests and dis eases that constantly affect crops, and other things that bother the farm. It is not necessary for many people to take up grape grow ing, but it would be a wise move for the European types of grapes to be further tried out in the Sandhills of Moore County, for the grape is of such fine quality, and it is in such de mand in market, and diseases are so much more fully controll ed now that the chances are good enough to see what can be done with it. FIGURING ON THE FORESTS. Colin Spencer has sold to a Connecticut forester a tract of land near Carthage which will be made the foundation of a forestry development in the county which Mr. Spencer thinks will be the beginning of a much greater utilization, .of the wood lands of Moore. The buyer is a man of broad exper ience in this line, and is ested in the possibilities of for estry development on an eco nomic basis which is worth the attention of everybody interest ed in community affairs. We have passed the day of lumber sawed from the log in the old wasteful way, as Mr. Page has shown in his stones, but that does not say that lum ber is not to be a great industry in the United States in the fu ture. New ways of using for est products are coming in, and the one that gives as great promise as anything is pulp in the variious forms in which it is now used. Paper pulp is still going into buildings in great quantities, but it is now made from much that has been wast ed, and in the form of wall boards, building paper, shingles, finishing and other things. Also great quantities of lumber go into box boards, packing cases, and even the textile trades are finding in rayon an active com petitor, for artificial silk is made now in large amounts from lumber. We may not only ex pect to see the lumber industry grow into greater importance but other big industries are de stined to be built on it, for wood pulp is cheap, it can be made from trees that grow quickly and in profusion, and that need not be big as saw mill stuff in order to be marketable. The new forestry is a resource of tremendous proportions, and no one is held bold enough to pre dict what it may mean for the North Carolina Sandhills. MR. PAGE’S SANDHILL HISTORY. The reminiscent articles R. N. Page is running in The Pilot are of more than ordinary value, for aside from their historical phase they afford for the stu dent of Sandhill development a marvelous exposition of the pos sibilities of this section of the country. Mr. Page presents the primitive picture that he en countered when he came to Moore county with his father, and it was primitive from the beginning. But from that crude start has arisen the present at tractive life in the Sandhills, and with a prophetic vision that n) man can cipher out for the immediate future. Frank Page, John Blue, John Buchan, John Patrick, A. M. Clarke, Dr. Swett, Dr. Saddle- son, P. R. Stebbins, J. Van Lind- ley, and others, saw in the Sand hills around Southern Pines and Aberdeen sufficient field for ac tion, and they tackled a job that mighty few of us today would have the nerve and hopefulness, to take hold of. But they che ated an atmosphere and a state of progress that today gives us a big leverage for what can be so much better that the sugges tion offered in the Page storiis should be as stimulating as new wine. Since the clays of the old-tim ers a new generation of hustlers has come to the different com munities. James Tufts was prominent in the advance guard :f the new comers, and he was followed by a large group of in fluential men in Pinehurst and Southern Pines, and today the situation is wholly different. Money is coming in ample amounts for the development that is in progress, and the world has learned of the Sand hills. The job the ,old fellows started has been lifted to a plane where it runs on ball bear ings, has its existence establish ed, and its momentum largely sufficient to continue its speed and accelerate its gait. We have today a going concern which is expanding swiftly, and if we measure by the requirements, that Bob Page saw in the coun ty the day he arrived nothing is too big or too visionary to be tackled with absohite confidence now. Bob Page shows us what the pioneers started this movement with. We all know what we have now to carry it on with. If we can’t take what our predces- sors provided for us, ^d on their foundation build infinite ly broader than has been done so far then we are not worthy the forerunners who opened the battle. But it can be done, for much of the progress is now au tomatic, doing itself. And if the population of the Sandhills will push on the lines a little like the old boys did there is nothing that cannot be hoped and expected in this section in the next ten or fifteen years. What the old fellows did with mule teams and nothing to start with we can duplicate with automobiles, trains, money, de veloped towns and business, and all that is about us now where with to work. Mr. Page has presented a pic ture of what has been done with nothing to do it with. He has suggested what we can do if we will with everything at our hands to help. He lets us see that our big days are ahead, and that they are big ones. He has done a good job. OUR CHIEF INDUSTRY. While Moore County has a number of important industries the chief one is that of caring for the winter visitors who have found in this section a pleasant place to put in the cold weather. That industry has been confined principally to the three town ships of Sandhills, McNeills and Mineral Springs, and it has made of them the most aggres sive and prosperous part of the county. These three townships carry on a bigger line of busi ness, own the most property, pay the most taxes, and have a generally broader type of com munity development. But the whole county profits by the winter business of the Sandhills townships, for in these townships is a market for the products of much of the county, and also of more or less of the State, as is witnessed for instance in the fact that the Pinehurst Warehouses alone will probably distribute in the Sandhills close to $200,000 worth of furniture from North Carolina factories in the course of the year. Here is a buying area of North Carolina. Other people come to North Carolina to sell us things, but the people who come to the hotels of the Sand hills come to buy things. We have the chief market of the community at the door, and it buys North Carolina products, intelu(iing .golf, climate, roads, pottery, food, fuel, the services of hundreds of workers, build ing material, supplies of all sorts, railroad fares, house rents, houses, lands, and a long list of many things. The things our winter resorts have to sell do not have to be freighted out to the world to find a sale. Buyers come here to get what they want, and we save all the freight charges and costs of distribution and com mission on sales. The Sandhills market also includes an active sale of lands and houses, and a busy building operation all the year round, for as more folks realize what is to be had here more come this way to buy. The big advantage about that is that they become residents, and then starts a desire to help make the neighborhooa an attractive one in which to live, and the new comers join in paying the taxes, in expanding public improve ment, in being desirable neigh bors, and in lending an active hand in every proposition that helps to give the joys of life as well as the material features. Moore county will expand its other industries steadily, but the main occupation in the Sand hill section is to broaden as fast as possible the work of caring for winter visitors, for it is the chief dependence of the county, and an industry that can be de veloped to much greater mag nitude than it has yet attained. It is a great industry and a val uable resource. CARTHAGE Rev. C. E. Clark is spending a few days in Wyestville, Va. Mrs. C. G. Spencer shopped in Sanford Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Rowe, after spending the winter in Carthage, have moved to Pinehurst. Misses Elizabeth and Clara Thomp son have returned to their home in Elizabeth City, after visiting their aunt, Mrs. 0. D. Wallace. They were accompanied by Miss Dorothy Bart lett. J. I. Sanderford, superintendent of Blue Ridge School for Boys, passed through Carthage Monday. Mrs. Tom Wicker and Mrs. Carlos McLeod were in Carthage Friday. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Wallace spent Sunday aftemon in Vass. Mrs. Sam Miller and sons, Harvey Lee and Doyle, spent the week end in Sumter, S. C. They were accom panied by Gilbert Blue Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Pleasants, of Aberdeen, were in Carthage Monday. Mrs. R. M. Caldwell spent a few days in Carthage last week with Mrs. N. A. McKeithen. Mrs. Alex Creech, of Portsmouth, is visiting relatives in Carthage. M^. and Mrs. F. S. Blue spent Mon day in Raleigh. Mrs. Claude Woltz, of Gastonia, is visiting her mother. Messrs. James Pleasants, Walter and Alton Milver and Mr, and Mrs. Herman Grimm left Friday night for New Jersey. C. G. Cradle and son, Billy, of Ox ford, spent Friday night in Carth age. 0. B. Welch spent the week in town. Friends of Charlie McLean are glad to know that he is improving after an illness of several days. Mrs. U. L. Spence was in Sanford Tuesday. Mrs Fannie Shaw and Mattie Kate went to Sanford Monday. Misses Annie, Augusta, Frances and Norman McKeithen spent Wed nesday in Raleigh. Mrs. Victor McKenzie and Miss Annie Bruton visited Mrs. P, H. Mc Donald Saturday. George Cable Penn visited last week with his aunt. Miss Nellie Graves, in Chapel Hill. Mrs. C. T. Grier and Mrs. John Beasley attended a bridge party in Sanford Thursday given by Mrs. Charles Scott and Mrs. Coley Snipes. Gorrie Jackson, of Wilmington, spent last week end with home folk Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Phillips and their four children, Jessie, Josey Joice and Jewel, vistied relatives b Raleigh Sunday. Worthy Cox went to Apex last Sunday. M. L. MATTHEWS, M. D. Practice limited to the eye, ear, no«« and the throat. Office in Masonic Building, Sanford, N. C. Phone 117; Residence, 274. Hours from 9 a. m., to 12 m., ana 1:30 to 3:30 p. m. and by appointment NONUNENTS & TOMBSTONES $2.00 Per Month If you are interested in Monu* ments or Tombstones, write Rocldngham Narble Works ROCKINGHAN, N. C. or Write JOHN B. KENNEDY High Fall, N. C. Have your Eyes Examined by in Expert. Cost is No More White Hill. The recent rains have made the people in this vicinity so busy that they do not have time for anything but work. I Mrs. Rice, who is visiting rela tives in and around Charlotte, writes that they are having heavy rains in that section of the State, too, and that the grass has such a hold on the farms that some are almost past redemption. Milton Cox made a trip to Raleigh Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McDonald vis ited Martin and Miss Etta McDonald last Sunday afternoon Rev. Mr. Edgerton met with the White Hill C. E. last Sunday night. Jack Kelly was leader and made a very interesting talk on the topic. DR. J. C. i>tANN, Byebight Special ist and Optician will be at Cheara Jewelry Sture, Sanford, N. C., every W^nesday in each week. Headachi* relieved when caused by Ey^stral^i.. Office equipped with the latest-exam ining instruments. When he fits you with glas8ea you hcve ^he satisfac tion of know'jig that they are correct. Weak eyes of children should receive expert attention; take your child to him. Remember that he is in Sanfonl Every Wednesday from 10 A. M. t« 1 P. M. Raeford, N. C. Carthage, N. SMITH & SMITH Attorneys - at - Law CARTHAGE. N. C. '>fficei 5 A 6 Page Trust Co. Bldgs. Practiots in all courts in th« State FiOST—Bird Dog, black and white setter. Collar bears name of W. P. Bowers, Clinton, Mass. Return to A. L Adams, Southern Pines, and receive $25 reward. tf. DR. HUMPHREY X-RAY CHIROPRACTOR. Acute and Chronic Diseases Nervous Disorders. Sanford, N. C. Carthage, N. C. IF ITS TOMBSTONES OR MONUMENTS See or Write D. CARL FRY Carthage, N. C- T obacco Flues Place vour orders for Tobacco Flues at once with- Price 8c per lb. KEmrS GARAGE Vass, N. C.
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