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HOME PUBLICITY EDITION OF 7 ' H THE DUNN IDISPATCH V0L* 11 ito,». c.,s*pt.8th, im ™..“777. ————^ • . » JU« 18 - - 7m *■■■» - agg * * M ^ ■ | BROAD STREET DUNN. LOURING EAST FROM A. C. L DEPOT. DUNN AS SEEN BY A FAMED PENNSYLVANIA JOURNALIST Being a Tale Told by a Visitor Whose * * Impressions are Well Worth # Reading About a/ several rcspectethu Is one of tl»« P • ***** Interesting spots l ever met op hdlh. You talk about bubbling over f * Witt* epthusi*»m but Dunn carnee .the proaaure, with a nigger sitting e . on the safety valve and a bunch of them stuffing lightwood into the fur i - kt-m While to a modem ' *»f ■ hare betg. In.tbo habit ft aa Mjr observing as a historian, lie • brought up from bis farm one year with another many iaturssting bit* of curious history, but 1 tro of the opinion that th— Jarvis roonty folk* haw inn iomt marvel* that wooki intercut Tom Holder. I will say tight from the start that if into thi* story should erwp anything that sound** out of the ordi nary nohody should bo surprised, for 1 have these thing* from men of in teUigetice and of trte ^rrictcst integ rHy. But 2 nr.ll confrva that Jarvis . county kUike* me ns Mug a wonder. It is told that a Wilmington man Was In Dunn one day, and he walked up and down the street* and sised up the budding plarc. Finally he stop ped in front of the opera house and looked both diiectiom and sort of Mid to himself. “So thi* is the bush leaguer that pushed Wilmington back onto a branch railroad, tine. Would it nut oink* you wish you had died when you was liule to hsve a a«w mill burp like this pet you in thi solar plrsu.T" Product of Railway. » Rut that i« the way it came about To ted, the story of a man or a com munity you must go back and get a bit of his ancestral rating to Indi dlrou. his cliuractcr. Dunn is a de scendant of the old “Puffing Billy locomotive that undertook to pot tho horse out of business by Introducing a .tranga system of hauling wagon* by .learn on iron tramways. After that thing Was trial in fiig land some folks at Batthnor* and ■one at Charleston hntlt a railroad at each plane, and presently North Carolina got tho Infection. In HUH H. ' V - .. usmt . the Raleigh and Wilmington nulruai* »*• inoor para lad, the first railroad *" l* chart*rad In the Suu it was built from tha Rcaaok* River to Wil mington. This was tha pioneer north anlf south railroad of the country, and ita opening to Wilmington was a groat event, taking place In 1*40. la tlma the Raleigh and Caeton road, ahrtitjna Mf tfcu _ lake river, and the rohda that became the Pied mont Air Line in the weetern part of the State were gradually built on^ gathered up to, in lima, bscorn* the Sou thorn. Oa the Short Uae. Wilmington was on the first of tho roads that ran somhward in the United States. To be let off on a branch road by Dunn after nearly half a centsry of soch distinction was enough to make the Wilmington man aay coarse things about this town. And this is the way it hap pened. Railroads built, as railroads will, surd in course of time tha Wil mington and Weldon rood cam* Into the hands of tha Atlantic Coast Line company, and about 18M the consoli dating interests concluded to build a short line from the North to Char leston, Columbia and. Florida. Tha Florida trains were beginr.iag to figure in freight and passenger business, and it was too moeh of a detour to haul everything to Wil mington, then west to Florence., Oven turn it eouth. So tho short line was built from Wilson to tbs Pee Dee river, end, Wilmington wss handed ft's cup of wormwood. FayetteviHe waa on the Cape Four and Yadkin Valley road it woe set out on the main line of the Coast I.ins, and it put some new shingles on the houses end eprurod up its lawns and began to quicken its rtvp^ But Dunn seemed to guess the sne wer to tho new road better than any thing else along the line, and hare you have in it a community that m sieta that progTeos is not amenable to the speed limit Maved Ita Imeartiea. Dunn is some Ilk* the eld woman up in Uie mountain*. Wh»p an old fntnd fioin down in Craven county went out to viail hor the neighbor! vaat, Him Hinkle wait dma moved ■way f m where aha Livva now,' Donn undartoek to aattla a few mi lea down tha road toward Kayettevilka when the railroad came, but tome P°*nl about land for a town 110^ Lhinn meant to be aroae and tha pmepactiva capital of Jarvia county took |U pro.pact, and went up to a point not far from wbare tha Tilgh. man Lumbar Company is proper eaaaoi. founded a aaw mill lwduatry, Then the people began to tell the world what they expected to do, and incidentally they commraced to do It' via county. I could recognize the symptoms It is about the hero that it ora* ih Raeforti wbea Raeford eras tn Cumberland county or tn Sanford when Sanford waa in Moore. I hare hoard a food many theories at to how to deal with base to prevent them from swarming and keep them in the hive that thay may werk the whole crowd and 411 the honey boxes but about the Umo you get the nicest theory to work the licet start out some forenoon about 11 o'clock, and they boil up tot. a swarm at big as a crata of black berries, and sway they go for a tree. Heke county swarmed, and Lae county swarmed, and if 1 can guess any from the signs Jarvis county ia crowding the hive. An Unknown Wilderness. When U* railroad came down through Harnett county from JHWsoa on its way to Fayottevilla It opened an unknown wilderness. The Cape Fear und Yadkin Valley eras in the west end of Harnett. The reel of the county east to Wt yne county waa miles from a railroad, Southward from the Raleigh and Augusta road in Chatham county, the nearest rail road was at Wilmington. It was a right saleable scope of rest and quiet thnt country of which Harnett county was the north end. The building of the Coast Line through Harnett commenced a new ore. It hrought moro people into the territory, and some new experi ences. It is said that one day a set tler arrived and proposed to farm. He was mot lay one of the old timers and advised to put up a tor kiln, for the old man warned him that ha would not be able to stay long la this section anises he burned tor G U WILSON'S BEAUTIFUL BOMB IN TBB SOUTH*** PART OF Til CITY OF DUNN, N. CAB. HoWarar, dx mmptmm' to aUyinf, | and haa not yot sot up a tad kiln. Otkar thinya hava comm on tha horl aon and tha catary '.about Dunn to forfeuinf tha day* pta hown um txr araa to tat to tamtoften on tba Capa tar-and tar and turpen Alna conatltutad tha prodouls. Whan tha railroad ahuM it found a lot af thine* that hud not .baaa auapactad. On* of tha A ad* vu a fartilt aoC, ao lava) and aeqaasibto that it prompt, ly aurprtoad tha {oils who baran to till IL ! sat W mir* whothor tha Janrto county tdlka art a Httia axciU •d over aoau of tlx Aftiroe at pro duction that war*, hooded mo ar not, but it Mikad U‘a( Hko a top yield whan a' man remarked that in an •ifht-inch Sowar pot they had rais ed-but after looking at that flfura: a«ain I foaaa I ariQ |pt H paaa for a Minute Srt Up T. B. CMtf* Market. I W»U, tbay bagun ^ plant cotton •round_Xhinj». and tba/ found it war DO troabla to gpt a baia or moro to tba a era, and Jfenn faathwitk art up U ha a cotton mrrlaU, aad at tba proa ant tbM R'ta ia tba elaaa that tba book ataPa man cafftba boat tall an. Making aara and eaU U ao aaay that Haroatt boaatr a good daal of tta aartaga jrWda. Tabacoo baa baa* rf&tag baadway u tba country, and tba tnh^ca famar of Dunn cbackM loot fA*baa paopta »crt tolklbg about bald tbnaa for ba bad aoaay otaffad’dawu la hia boot tapa, and kb did pat eat a two canto how long h took Ftaoaa and England to tobab Gataany to taka har hat Of wbag bar Undo So* haa bmm homo falka traaaftg tba watar to Kuropo, Algg oath tbaaa utbor thlngi tba *•—im „f Barman ba Cop*. Doan l* * • »miuw*' _ . 4)gr to ^ “d . m4 nt 4|t tba at «Matfy (teif Dunn U Cl in ton t ‘ ^ • footer. In Norti ; * turn b*r roul into Sampoon ond » th* oTidMUMraitiito «< « ponsa twnt railroad NMb*« JO-tha hate arjswrftgfsa: jxrasaSSt-fi and It U lBc«4yf&' IttjcW Intamata whon tha traOo -H*a "la*, tetrad will ondartefaM.iwW, tfa tembar with {um tai' MtlKn J Nobody know* m W^Mch.od *d thU --tho <* tha Norfolk W. throozh /»#**"* 4f»» oaOot north and do^fth N<» of country. and Bnmthtra1 •Ida at tha. -a -I ol. and; Wmmmm T»lopm*nt »t u igt'af Om I Um *t Duka, _ *• SteadUf. J. W. Wtban. court? stuns? ;K. T. Patterson ___OJ r. W d«t -J-J -JtjT. A «. «,UU. - lS.;TSSi,Z* abort*. Miltiag. Cteabstsssn Hks«, Bissrll. Brntrr, Bwooll, Goateor. tbrongb Dunn ii the most important highway u it cmucti the impor taat town* of the county with Uu big neighbor town, of Raleigh end PeyeUenli*. Bat the whole county te roe king rood.'that are am good a* the Washington aad Atlanta rend, and eome of them mach better than ■Mat of the Capital Highway. The big (Aion factory at I hike at f*WMt U driven by steam. but out a«Jha river a few mile, away U the l^ribla power of BmOcy'e falls, one W the promielng rapid* of the Cape PMt river. HereIs aot only a fin* power, but one Dow toTaiUngton crowing tha river *» the fall*, a new ami substantial lr* bodge spanning tha itun higfc-nbwa tha water, end the view la one of interest. The rocky rapids •re ia sight up and down the rivet far a long distance. Several thous aad harm power le availabls at the Smiley falls, and it would soea that that Duka proposition is ideal ell the 'way through. Here is raw oottou without any limit, power ta run thousand* of loom*, an Ideal climate for operative*, roeda that ate reach ing oot to Ml sections, ample rail rood facilities, farm communities that will supply ell manner of food stuffs, health conditions era of tho bast, the water supply U up U> the highest standard as the water of all the coast region to whero it ha* the •and as a gigantic Alter. Harnett Favored in Power. Harnett ia highly favored whan it eoa>aa to power. Besides Smiley * Falla, near Duka, farther up the riv er coo.es the Battle Kails and Buck horn. both of considerable magni tude, besides a succession of smaller rapids between. The whole descent of the river from Be dehorn to the foot of Smiley’s Falla it about 00 feet in twenty-four miles, or nearly four feet to the mile. This fell is Conspicuous at ’point* llfce McAlis ter’* Fox Island end Dougin* Falls. In the eld Hay. when the Cep* Fear H**er was fitted with dams end locks In the hope of making it e navigable stream dame were in existence at three three points w well a* three places on Smiley’s Eglls and Battle FaTla and Buckhom. Tha racon ■truction of dim at all than* plaeaa wouM provide Cram 10.000 to 20,000 hors* power in Hmnetl toenty .lone, HutLboin is th* o:.|y one i<f the pow er aitoe mat :■*..* ...on utilised tan it is dalng its ou.s of the work of the community, .tr power and. light ser vlre going nut (o all tha territory round i.bont, pivriding tha town, in the neigditxu hoo.i with electric rar rant for at) tHi-pose* and givwg them s*nelly '.»occi*n sirs and eon ven.eme. Tk.erv is always a possibility that thr iron industry- of the Cape Fear 'alley may come back. YWrs ago before the enormous dupoaita of ha mantite luniisaec • steady and rtrparfWila power. Frbns there up u rf^irtll end Carbon ton activity prevailed. Fo.-!j yeiic ago the grcatai de posits >jf ore elwwhcie and the fin ancial difficulties that overtook the •oon.ry put a atop U the iron Indus try of the Cepe Fear Valley, and it has not yet revived. Whether it has any prospect* or net it hard to say. Bat if iron be* no chance here other things Have, ami the old iron roman ce* are left as a Crura in the intar* evting history and traditions of what te ilentlaod before many years to be a great mean fusti: ring valley. Final lieu It el War. Not far Imm Dunn was fought one of the foil buttle* of the civil war. As Sherman's troops moved eastward toward Raleigh they were met at Eluo’s mountain. In Moors county, by Hardee'* command. Fro* there they press*! forward on the Fayetteville and Goldsboro road un til at the lillle settlement of A was bor* Joe H. Johnson confronted thorn with his at my. and the skirmish that had been running along the base of march for several miles culminated in battle in winch a considerable number fell on both sides. The Fed eral dead w*r* removed to Raleigh The Onfnlerare* lie in the liuis cemetei-y eti the battlefield, mark*1 by wbat is asid to be the first moan Bicnt ererlcd to the memory of ths soldievA of the Confederacy. Mosl nf the Head *r« unknown, and. lb« whole field of action is without dls tiuguiehing msik*. Tli* botiJcfeld of Averasbaeo ii not one of U>* great fields of the wai but it to a part of history, and tha pecotikr part it bad ia tha Ira straggle entitles It to vb* part of the got am meat. mm ara still tiring who counter and cos local* tha action the gorammant should ha pm- * ' silsd an to mart the scenes of tho various actions that tha stadaat and tho (ntdsr of the days to cooso may have a knowledge or their ^rsh Arerasboro eastward so •too made m«U m Gettysburg, |t Chatta nooga, oa tha big fields, oa the Uttla ••*«*». are part of the written page of history. Avaraabara -‘tnrrai to b« marked by somatbing that aadd make plain to tbs Uvalarm who earns' the Capita] Highway from Washing ton to Florida that hara waa prac tically concluded tha groat struggle bat a ten the two sections ad saw country, and that in tha little ceme tery at the battlefield are bivouacked the last command. A. and W. Brings Joy. Just new Harnett la Joyous ever Iht fact that the Atlantic and Weet m» read which rnns from Sanford to Ulllngton is shoot to be extended onward to tha coast. Engineers have bean pat on the has from Ban son to Mt. Olive; and at toon ai-Mn veys are far enough along to begin construction a farce will atari K is expected that within the next » or * weeks this will be under way. An soon aa the line is hulk from Beuaoa IO Mount Olive the loop connecting Ulllngton and Benson will be taka^ up; and Harnett will be opened up by another east and west line; with connection* with th# Sethorrd and tha Southern at Sanford. The At lantic and Western It c road that de pends for its traffic on tbo develop ment of tha country U traverses; and as it win bring out a good truck , ing and farming country k wBl pro (Continued oa pegs three.) ' ths MAomncnT bomb or mb. l l. how am, on vquth latto* mm. dumb, m. cAb. * • «
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