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k. 11 ii - Fmm i JnllEi Oil l n Ur l I ; yy , j . . 2 IS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1921. Entered as Second Claw Matter at the ' Post-offlc at Elisabeth City. K. C. J Tina B. 1908 ELIZABETH CITY, N, a fYOL. XIV.- : NO709 fo.rj PnbtUhed JErery Friday W. O. Sanndere at 80S XL - Fearing St.. Elisabeth "Oitn. N.- O.' - $1.50 A YEAR PRESIDENT HARDING MAY BE GUEST AT DUCK ISLAND Independent's Staff Correspondent Gives Readers of This Newspaper an Interesting Account of a "$150,000,000 Club" By O. .V MEEKINS Ten years ago the occasional North erner visiting Dare County to hunt, would have found on Duck Island a typical group of fishermen's camps, made of rough pine boards and fur r.ished with a stove, a bench, and a huilt-in bunk. To-day Duck Island is owned by a club of forty millionaires whose quarters are conceded to be the linest and most handsomely appointed in the state, with their rich furnish in ss from garret t$ cellar and the com pleteness of their modern conveniences. How Duck Island came to be the limiting base of forty men whose com bined resources are acknowledged to be above 130.000,000.00, is herewith set forth for the readers of this newspa per, as the result of a visit by the writer; the completeness of the narra tive benig due to the courtesy of Mr. ,T. C. Wasson, Secretary of the Club, who is on the job making arrangements i..r the season's hunting. Duck Island is on the southeast end of lioanoke Island, about five miles from Wanchese proper, and nine miles from M.uiteo. It is located in immediate reach of hundreds of square miles of the best winter habitat of wild ducks and sreese in the state. Its area is 244 ai res and its boundaries are the wat- J ers of Famlieo sound. Duck Island was originally entered and owned by B. F. Moekins of Manteo and late went into the hands of E. R. Daniels of Wan ehese who made it the base of his . fish ing operations for several years. A few years ago he sold the island to R. B. Holtz of Port Washington. New York,, for $2,500, who intended building a permanent club thereon. For some reason or other the plan fell thru and it was sold under mortgage for $1, ."00. Mr. Daniels again became owner and in 1919 it was purchased for $3, tiOO by Geo. W- Whitehurst of Norfolk who spent about $1,000 in improve ments with the idea of promoting a club on the property. During the fall of 1920 J. C. Was- being anxious to una good wnuiom 'Minting, wrote the editor of Field and Stream to suggest a promising locality. The editor sent him a list of names -tretching from Currituck to Charles--..n. After considerable deliberation : n'l inspection he decided upon a trip to Duck Island and was accompanied there by. Grant McCargo of Fittsburgh. President of the Pittsburgh Hotels Co. Iioth Mr. Watson and Mr. McCargo i mnd hunting so pleasant and favorable in the vienity that they later purchased the Island outright for the sum of $7,- 1 M M . I'pon their return to Pittsburgh they lecided to organize a club composed of rheir immediate friends. The response was so great that it was necessary to limit the membership to forty men who decided to erect suitable quarters at "nee. Work on improvements began -his spring with the construction of a i;oo foot bulkhead on the water front. The club-house just completed is of the bungalow type, 40 by 100 feet, con-stnn-tcd of wood and shingles with an asbestos roofing. The interior is com peted with wall-board and natural wood linishes. The living room is 27 by 40 feet with a large brick fireplace in one end. It : luxuriously furnished with mahogany and oak reading, writing and card as well as billiard tables, phonograph, brit-a-brac, rockers, lounges and arm chairs. The walls are hung exclusively paintings of migratory and native ' with !irds of the state. Many windows in the front permit an unbroken view of tIh- lighthouse, inlet and beach for ini!(-s. The building has two 10 by 14 foot i-athrooms with vestibules and lockers 'hi the lower floor, a gun room 5 by 16 f't. six 10 by 13 foot bedrooms, a 22 by 22 foot dining room, and a 20 by 30 foot kitchen and pantry where Jeff Martin, who for 15 years was chef fit the Tranquil House at Manteo, and Lis wife, preside with pride over a .$275 kitchen range. The entrance hall which opens in the living room, dining room and bath room is fitted with racks for 20 guns. On the upper floor are a 33 by 40 foot and a 19 by 19 foot bed room. Then ! hre is a 33 by 40 foot room for the guides, and quarters for the colored help. All these rooms are provided with . umerous lockers. One of the rooms is -aid to be fitted especially for Presi l nt Harding, who is expected to visit the club this winter. It will probably ! occupied by Governor Morrison of titis state, who is to be invited this I'iill. The whole building is electrically 'ihted and provided with running wat 1 ! and sewerage. A wood house 10 y 18 feet and rack adjoins the kitch- ii. Besides, there is an oil house 8 15 feet. All the buildings are con )! ti d by elevated walks. A boathouse '' by 00 feet provides storage space tor most of the hunting equipment. This is connected with inclined plat forms to the water, from which the l.oats may be drawn over rollers with ase into the building. The club has iglit boats in all, including one house 'at that accommodates eight hunters with guides' and which will be towed to iiie best hunting in any part of the ' ounty. The equipment of the club also 'neludes four double sets of sit-up, ana four double sets lay-down batteries, (Concluded on Page 10.). ff 1ft Be' & aw se i(ifisst-x ixwc -sat?saisasr-N v 5 i 'wZTA.-, m f tx . i intmfiffiiiiMiiiiiiiiijiit- --irT -inn-Tiiii'1'ininii iirnwr ariniiiiiiinw imninni m mi n n nn n I' ""l'iaiftia'iiTCwiiMMiiiiii im urn - rr r":'i IN THIS corner of the living room of thaw their aching feet this winter, at the windowed front, millions of wild fowl sporting in the shallow waters of Pamlico. The picture shows only a small portion, luxurious tho unpretentious furnishings. as the ground floor of many homes. Its Oriental rug, costing $2,500. Photo by BOARD 0' HEALTH ENGINEER HERE Confers With Aldermen Prelim inary to Abolishing City's Gravest Menace - H. E. Miller, engineer of the Bureau of Sanitation of the State Board of Health arrived in Elizabeth City jesterday to deal with the unsanitary privy prob lem in this city and its suburbs. with the Board of Aldermen as this newspaper went, to press Thursday afternoon and indica tions are that the Board of Al dermen will co-operate with the State Board of Health in the so lution of the city's gravest san itary problem. Engineer Miller had been in the city only a few hours yesterday when he was convinced that there is only one practical solution to the problem here. It is probable that within the next three or four years Elizabeth City will have better sewerage facilities than it now has. Therefore it would be econom ically unsound and otherwise inadvis able to compel the owners of ground toilets 'to construct cement vaults or pits or put in costly aseptic tanks. On the other hand the ground pit type of privy which is comparatively inexpens ive is not to be considered at all in this section where the water supply is so near the surface. Engineer Miller recommends the box and can type of privy to take the place of the ground privies now generally in use where there is no sewerage. This would require an "inexpensive remodel ing of the toilets now in use. Good people will have to sacrifice that much cherished all-family affair consisting of a seat with three holes one for ma, one for pa and one for the baby. The box and can type of privy provides for one seat opening only. The city's scav enger carts remove the cans at stated intervals, leaving an empty can for the can taken away. The box and vent pipe for this type of privy will cost the property owner perhaps $7.50. The cans will cost about $1.25 apiece and would have to be purchased by the city. The city would have to increase its present scavenger tax of $2 per an num on open toilets to defray the cost of the cans and a slight increase in the cost of scavenger service. With the box and can type of privy designed by and used under the direc tion of the State Board of Health, Elizabeth City's health will no longer be imperilled by open toilets while waiting upon the working out of our sewerage extension probleme. Ibe type of privies recommended by the State Board of Health abates the fly nuisance, eliminates soil and water pollution and does away with a lot of unsightliness and bad odor. ELIZABETH CITY SMALL BOYS ARE' PLAYING OUT OF LUCK Elizabeth City small boys are playing out of luck these days. TheMatest vic tim of a nearly fatal accident is Earl Dean, 11-year-old son of Mrs. Catherine Greenleaf Dean of this city. Young Dean fell 30 feet from the top of a pecan tree on the courthouse grounds Tuesday afternoon. His fall was checked somewhat by his striking lower limbs of the tree before hitting the ground. He is expected to recover without broken bones, but has suffered much 'pain from internal shock. Renew your subscription to THE INDEPENDENT. Do not let it get away from you. To Invite Harding Acting upon the suggestion of THE INDEPENDENT,; the Eliza beth City Chamber of Commerce will extend an invitation to President Harding to call at Elizabeth City on the occasion of his proposed trip to Duck Island, where he is expected to shoot wild fowl this winter. the Duck Island Club millionaires may same time viewing thru the spacious but gives am idea of the room with its The room is 27 by 40 feet, as large most interesting upholstery is a 22 by 35 Meekins. HOW R. R. STRIKE WOULD AFFECT US Elizabeth City Could Live Long and Prosper Without Any Railroad at All While the employes of the Norfolk Southern R. R. were not included in the first call of the railroad brother hoods for nation-wide strike on Oct. 30, it is well enough to consider how Eliz abeth City would be affected if the trains on the one railroad serving this town should stop running by reason 'of a walkout, of all its. operatives. . -::&h . JeitnelKTO-r-bVe -tt'ollin Uot'"'be,Sox alarming as it might appear at first thought. Elizabeth City could exist in definitely without the operation of a railroad. When a nation-wide railroad strike threatens New York or any other large city, that city must hasten to mobilize all of its resources to avert a real dis aster. New York does not produce its own food and is utterly dependent upon a vast outside territory for its milk, butter, eggs, fish, poultry and meats. It has to send to the Pacific coast for much of its fish, to the far West for its meats and much of its poultry and even its milk must be hauled, in many instances, hundreds of miles. But Eliz abeth City can draw all of its food from its outlying farming country, including its bread. Motor trucks coulld supply this city with all of its meat, poultry, egss and country produce; motor boats already bring us all the fish we can consume from the fishing grounds a few miles to the South and East of us. It might be a good thing indeed for Elizabeth City to be shut off from the outside world for a few months, so that we might learn how easily we can get along without canned Salmon from the Pacific, canned beef from Chicago, and sow-belly from Baltimore. But, without a railroad, Elizabeth City would not be shut off from trans portation. We have two steamboat lines to Norfolk, one operating daily via the Dismal Swamp Canal, the other thrice a week via the Albemarle & Chesapeake or government inland wat erway. We have boats running from Elizabeth City to many points in Cam den, Currituck, Dare Tyrrell and Hyde counties and we have a weekly steam boat service, between Elizabeth City and Baltimore. We are only 50 miles from Hampton Roads and while we haven't as yet a hard surface road be tween Elizabeth City and Norfolk Va., we have motor trucks that can easily negotiate such roads as we have. With two trains daily for Norfolk, jitney drivers still find it profitabel even now to operate automobiles for passengers between Elizabeth City and Ndrfolk. And that is why Elizabeth City re fuses to lose sleep over a threatened railroad strike and why Elizabeth City people go gaily about their affairs just as if there were no ralroads . or rail road brotherhoods to worry about. THE INDEPENDENT does the bet-, ter class of job printing. TO SAVE A' TRIP Your eyes should be at tended to the' first thing, tlven while you are shopping the glasses can be made, and delivered to you before you leave for home. After long experience I find a try-on after the glasses are made a necessity. I make the ex amination and glasses the same day. DR. J. D. HATHAWAY Optometrist Bradford Bldg. Elizabeth Oity, N. C. Home of The Duck Island Club ;. vtj; I j THE new home of the Duck Island Club Just completed in Dare County is dev dared by T. S. Meekins of Manteo to be the most handsomely appointed in the state. Mr. MeeWns until; recently- was State Federal Game Warden and says he has visited all the hunting quarters bv 100 feet, faces the east and commands to the eastward, and sees only the horizon miles to the northward is Roanoke Island. FOREST ;FIRES RAGE UNCHECKED Burning Front Moyock to Vir giniaN,Line and Spreading -fnto Camden A forest fire which started near Mo yock in Currituck11 County several weeks ago is now raging from Guinea, . Mill, just below Moyock, to the Yirfeiniai line seven miles away" and ; is spreading. in,to the Northern part of v.Camden county. All efforts to combat the fire have been of no, avail and it will ; continue; un checked : tantil quenche :by a heavy.- rain." Just how the fire started is not known. It probably started 'in many places about the ."same. time. Tt is gen erally believed to have had its origin on the Wolcott farm, just back of Mo yock, where a parcel of new land had just been ditche and the underbrush cut and piled up Spreparatory to putting the land in cultivation'. next spring." The loss wilH Vun into ;nndrs -t UbonsandKNrtMUtfiira itkwJ acres of valuable timber have already been destroyed and if the fire continues in its spread thru Northern Camden it may reach the Great Dismal Swamp i Willis and sweep away the great Juniper forests owned th. John.. L. Roper Lumber Co. and the Richmond Cedar Works. The destructiveness of the fire J in dicated by the fact that the very land itself has in many instances been burned away to a depth of as much as two feet, the land being of a peaty na ture and highly combustible following such a long period of drought as w'e have had this "summer and fall. The smoke from the big fire can be een distinctly from Elizabeth Citv. n pillar of cloud by day, a pillar of fire by night. k THE DAMNEDEST THING H. S. WARD EVER SAW Your Congressman Drifts Out on The "Flood Tide of Republican Prosper ity and Exclusive Americanism" Hon. Hallet S. Ward, Congressman from the First Congressional District of North Carolina doesn't think much of these so called labor auctions by which the unemployed in many cities are put up at auction and sold to the highest bidder. Under date of Oct. 24 Mr. Ward writes to this, newspaper as follows: "I have been hearing and reading and seeing pictures of these labor auc tions that seem to have commenced in Boston, and have swept over the cities in their flood tide of Republican pros perity and exclusive Americanism. Last night I saw in The Star, notice of one of the things to be held at No. 225 Pennsylvania Avenue. I quit everything and went and saw it out with my own eyes. Immense crowd; numbers of young men, many in uniform, standing around in a hall; a preacher and an auctioneer; talking, singing patriotic songs, etc. Presently the man in charge announced that he could not get a city auctioneer on account of pressure brought to bear by the city government. The sale of labor has been regarded as similar to the sale of the man. which, is unlawful, so he had fallen upon the plan of selling the fellow's bed by number, with the responsibility to the purchaser to take the fellow that sleeps on it and to furnish the young man labor at 30 cents an hour. So fifty beds, (little iron cots) were sold off to somebody representing some charitable institutions. Tears were seen in many eyes as the leader, a splendid talker, commenced and two policemen stepped to the front and stood in a few steps of him and watched him. Taking the whole thing all up and down and through and 'round it was the damnedest thing I ever saw.' FIRST PASQUOTANK HOSPITAL CASE A COMPLETE SUCCESS Moody Haskett, the first patient to enter the Pasquotank Hospital in this city upon its opening a few weeks ago, left the hospital this week after a suc cessful operation for appendicitis. The operation was performed by Dr. John Saliba, who has a national reputation among medical men for his skill and methods in such cases. ' mmmmmmm Illil in North Carolina. This building is 40 a view of Oregon Inlet and Bodie Island of Pamlico Sound to the south. Four Photo by Meekins. ' . JOE KNAPP MAY BE FARMER YET Enterprising NeW York Publish er Is Going to Get Rid of - Some Bulls Anyway By- W. O. SAUNDERS. ' Joseph P. Knapp, wealthy New York publisher, banker and Man ufacturer, whose hornet- on MackayV Island . y in ; Currituck Sound was made the subject of an illustrated article in this newspaper a few - weeks aeo doesn't altogether relish being twitted for his modest expert ment in farming pn Mackay IsU and. Somewhere in my article about Mr Knapp's farm appeared; the statement that he had stocked his . farm with - a herd of cattle consisting of forty bulls and tlurtycows: - The pubUeatidnjr that statenient hasypul r.nSpTnul' mettle. He is willing to admit that as a gentleman farmer he hasn't made much of a showing as yet, but it's just because he hasn't tried. Once he finds time to- put his mind to it he is not going to let any prowling news writer discover him with forty bulls for thirty cows. mi. , .... xneres no telling iust what Jno Knapp will do with that Mackay IslandJ property before he gets thru with it. I woukin t be a bit surprised to see him make of it one of the greatest agricul mutt assets in Northeastern Knrth Carolina. Mackay Island, six miles from Currituck C. H., has an area of about acres, 1,200 acres of which highland. Mr. Knapp is not going to iet tuat island stand in nonproductive ness. it isn't in his nature. He is not a waster and he doesn't play with losing yiuposmons. ue is one of the most j successful business men in America. He is the rare example, of a rich man' son who took up his father's work- where the father left off and carried it on. His father was Joseph Fair child Knapp, one time president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and who made that company the greatest insurance company, in the world. Jo seph P. Knapp himself is one of the largest stockholders in the Metropolitan Life and a member of its finance com mittee. He is president of the Ameri can Lithographic Co., which business alone employs 1,800 persons under one roof. He is fourth owner of a chain of worsted mills; chairman of the exec utive committee of the Crowell Publish ing Co. and chairman of the . board of directors of P. F. Collier & Son. He is connected with many another enter prise as well. He directs the publica tion of Colliers Weekly, The American Magazine, The Woman's Home Compan ion, Farm and Fireside and The Men tor. He has made a success of every thing he ever touched. He doesn't know what failure is. And -he is not going to make a failure of farming on Mackay Island, once he finds time to give it a little attention. I am venturing the prediction that Joseph P. Knapp will make something more of Mackay Island than a winter-home and a game , pre serve. Being, among other things, the pubisher of one of the most pretentious farm papers in the United States, he isn't going to let history pick up those forty bulls and thirty cows. It will be interesting to see Mr. Knapp apply himself to the development of his island in Currituck Sound, as he has applied himself to his many enterprises in New York City and in New England. North Carolina should . count itself fortunate in securing Mr. Knapp as a citizen of this state, even if he did nothing more than retain his home here and use the waters of Currituck bound for a playground in the hunting season. The money that his estate will pay into the treasury of North Carolina in in heritance taxes when he dies will be a bic price to receive for the pleasure af forded him by shooting our wild fowl in i season. The money that he pays in taxes to Currituck county annually will heln that county a long way in the bet terment of its roads and - schools. He i will help Currituck County in a better way when he introduces new and bet ter ways of farming and live stock pro duction on- Mackay Island, which he is sure to do. - - ;Vi:xW:::::::vN-cl;::-: SAY THE DEPENDENT HAS GIVeiMMEMSiGHi Community Leaders Heartily Gommend Indepen dent s Appeal to Farmers to Convert THeir . Pork Into Hams, Bacon and Lard ; ENTERPRISING AND FULL OF .-20TH CENTURY - PEP DR. HOWARD J. COMBS : HERE is a newcomer to Elizabeth City. Dr. Combs is a Tyrrell County boy, the son of. Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Cembs, of Columbia. He graduated at the Jeffer son . Medical College, in... Philadelphia in 1918 and . was' for 15 months in the Pennsylvania Hospital ln.'that city, -ac quiring every experience of a general practitioner. All the time he had his eye on Elizabeth. City and" located in Columbia pending an effort to .organ ize a hospital here last year. He was to have " been one of - six rypang physi cians to start' a hospital ' here, but that deal fell thnr and Dr.- Ctnnbs'r:meyedv to New Bern, where he acquired an Inter est in a hospital there. Then came the; organization of the Pasquotank Municipal-Hospital and Dr.' Combs : decided to cast his lot here- anyhow. ' He Jikes Elizabeth City. And being: - enterprising, and full of pep he should make good here without much difficulty.. WATERS OF DARE The "Currituck". Digs 40,000 Cu bic Yards a Day at Roan oke Island If one would see a working gang, a visit to the U7 S. Engineer Department Dredge "Currituck" at lioanoke Island will make him think the war was never begun. The Currituck has a crew of 63 men and in 24 hours can dig 40,000 cubic yards of sand, or enough to cover a 30 acre farm a foot deep. In nine days the plant has deepened a channel from 10 to 12 feet, a length of a mile and a quarter, and 200 feet in width. When completed this will unite the waters of - Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds with a 12-foot channel leading all the way from Norfolk to Beaufort. . The Currituck came on this job dur ing the first of the month after having finished a two year's job near Beaufort on the Adams and Core Creeks canal. At this place two rivers were joined together and approximately 3,000,000 cubic yards of sand were removed. The Currituck worked 65 men in crew and kept a survey party of 15 going strong. In addition 35 men were kept busy building dikes to keepsand and silt from running back dff the land into the canal. This canal was deepened to 13 feet and was completed August 9, 1921 The" Currituck was built in Baltimore in 19.14 by the Ellicpt Machine Corpor ation, and on completion was placed on the Albemarle and Chesapeake canal between Norfolk and Albemarle Sound. This boat is 150 feet long by 37 feet beam and has a mean draft of six feet. Its. main engines develop 800 horsepow er, driving a . 12-foot ; centrifugal pump which sucks the sand from the bottom and drives it thru a 20-inch pipe line to .a safe distance from the channel. The Currituck weighs over 800 tons. One of the Currituck's jobs was on the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay where foundations were built for the fortifi cations at Fisheman's Island. The Currituck's master is Capt. D. T. Aldredge of Baltimore. His men say he is ."All Dredge." Having worked up from the ranks he knows the ropes for he began' as levernuui and hasn't gotten away from it, f oi he dons his overalls with the rest. Col. F. B. Maltby of Philadelphia and formerly of te 17th Engineers Division overseas, is Superintendent of the Job. George M. Parker of Wood land, N. C, is surveyman and he is as sisted by S. Li. Ferebee of Norfolk, Va. There was originally 12 miles to be cut, about four of which remain and it is estimated these will be finished in ix' weeks CURRITUCK MAN DIRECTOR SAVINGS BANK & TRUST CO. J. T. Guard, of Coinjock, was elect ed a director of the Savings Bank & Trust Co., of this city, at a meeting of the Board of Directors of that bank Tuesday of this week. , Mr. Guard is a - prominent merchant ; in Currituck County and was for many years pjst master at Coinjock. He is well-known thruout this city and section- newspaper . may have y started something' ; worth while r lastr we ek when it 'sounded, a warning- to the farmers of Pas- Y -qubtank" and adjoining ? counties that; they stand " to- sell their dressed " pork at ' a" loss this fall and their only salvation lies ' in - doptingV the sound practice.', of - , converting' more, of their pork y ; . into hams, bacon and lard; - - Many bankers, y business ' men and ' farmers have, expressed, themselves as ' heartily indorsing the suggestions made " by this newspaper. - There, is no likeli- : hood of local -capital being" interested. in a ' packing plant- for several 'years yet, but it is possible for every farmer .td.be his own packer. One will not find thriftier farmers anywhere in . the treat ed States than in y 'Pennsylvania and there, Secretary Job of the ; Chamber of Commerce tells us, whefn" they ..have- n't a' smokehouse they smoke their meaty in a piano box. : E. C. Job Secretary y pf-thc Elizabeth City Chamber.of: Com-y y meje ;' W. G. Gaither, viee -president and "cashier of the Pirst & . Citizens " National" Bank ;yGurney yp. Hood .vice president and, cashier . .of the' Carolina Banking & Trust Co., and G. W. Falls', " Fafin Demonstration 'Agent for Pasquo tank County, have . communicated - their views and suggestions along- the; same line, to this newspaper. " .Their letters-..; follow. Every one is . worth reading well: . .'," -. -,; .... .y- yy ; THE EUZABETH, CITY "." CHAMBER OF COMMERCE f ? y J Elizabeth City, N. C.," Oct.- 23, . 1921." Editor, The Independent, ' . . "''.' I can not" help ..commending you'- on. the- timely .article appearing in your pa- - -: per last . week, "How Farmers yMafy.f Keep Out of theGlu'tted Dressed Pork? : . Market." : . - ;. -: ' - If our - local farmers will analyze- this article they I "xpiny find the solution" of. disposing of - their, porkers to good ad- Since icoming to Elizabeth City, I mis the. home cured hams, bacon, sausage, scrapple lard, etc., which could be pro cured from almost any farmer in the vicinity of my home, (Bethlehem, Pa.) They kill and cure their meat and dis pose of the most of the products local ly. The farmer and the vconsumer are both benefitted in this way. Almost every farmer in Pennsylvania has his smoke house, which is not al ways an elaborate structure by any means; in fact, I have seen meats smoked in a piano box. I hope the local farmer will take the advice of The Independent and try the home curing method if onb on a small 1 T 1 , . . scale. x leei sure a reauy marKer, is here for his products and should a sur plus accumulate the larger cities are always looking for home cured meats. Tours for Progress, RICHARD C.JOB, " ' Secretary. FIRST & CITIZENS NATT, BANK Elizabeth City, N. C. Editor, The Independent: I have found unusual interest in read ing the article in your last issue rela tive to the pork situation, as I believe this is, a matter of the greatest impor tance, at this time, to our community. In my opinion a packing plant in Eliz abeth City would be the best solution of this problem, as it would assure, a ready and permanent market for such products. Until the world recovers from this period of depression it is not likely that capital could be found for such an undertaking. I sincerely hope, however, that this can become a reality in the next few years. In the meantime, I believe our Pas quotank farmers can benefit to a large extent by following the lead in their Perquimans and Gates brethren. There ' is a market the year round for good ham and bacon, but all of that seen on the market here is brought in by Per quimans county farmers. I understand from them that the profit for the farm er is much larger where the meat is cured and sold, rather than by putting the pork on the market during the fall when, as you say, the market is so likely to be glutted. I have in mind one Perquimans Coun ty farmer who - purchased a farm some years ago for about. $10,000.00. He has never made a payment during the fall of the year,' but on the other hand gen erally meets his noteeither in Febru- (Concluded on Page 10.) OBEY THAT IMPULSE AND FILL IN THIS HANDY BLANK THE INDEPENDENT, Elizabeth City, N. C, Send me The' Independent for one year, for which I am inclosing my check or P. O. Money Order for $1.56. Name Address i Writ name and tddrss plainly and state whether subscription Is new or a renewal. if not convenient ' to sand check "or M. O. send m dollar bill at our risk and get the paper eight months Instead of a year. . 'V- This -v'.rs y:T y ' 7
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