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1 ' 1 - ' , j ' ''''' " ' ' ' L t - LENOIR, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1895. NUMBER 1 6. HOST BE A HUHHER I LOW TARIFF GOODS AND LOW TARIFE PRICES. Quicken Business. Oar Entire Stock for the Spring Will be Ready by Jan. ist. ill new and handsome good throughout and prices that will make the heart glad. Eterj customer may rely upon get ting the fall benefit of all redaction! made by the new tariff laws. An early investigation of onr offer ings will.be to yonr advan tage. tort fail to gee ni before placing aj part of yonr spring order. W Promise to make it profitable for yon. Yours trnly, " Wai i - SOUrHEH FORESTS Itx LBBhir Is Ptrkipi Ui UtWt Crait xt HixBBrM sf Waalta-Ierti Cars baa Pim-Tii EiIiBt, Varitty iBdUmafSoBtiariVeo&'s Tkeir Yalat cscilig Kaawa aad ippracl Hal Pitman a Wright In the ChtUnoog. Tr.de.mui AUul, m it . i . ji me total area, f tt-.-.-j States about 26 per cent ii forest ; or the prairie 8tat nni. .u.. I wu.j auuu fa pcrceuican oe called forest. In toe Southern StaUa th.r. i. . of a l.ttle cv r 230,000,000 acres of wooaiana, which is one-half of the wood lands or timber landa of the United States. Of the Southern Atlantic States, 49 per cemt is for est ; of the Gulf 8tates, 50 per cent is forest ; of the Central Southern States, West Virginia, Kentucky, lenneasse, Arkansas and Missouri, 48 per cent is forest , of the greit State Texas, 23 per cent is forest, while of the great lumbering States Michigan, Minnesota and Wiscon sin, 43 per cent is forest. There are of varieties of lumber regularly on the Southern markets, sixteen kinda of woods, of which some have several kinds of divis ions of greater or less value, or if we divide pine into the two varie ties of long leaf and short-It sf as prooably should be done, as is done with oak, then seventeen." These are ash, cedar, cherry, cyprtss, cot- wmwooa, elm, nr, gum, hickory, red oak, white oak, lone leaf urn. short-leaf pine, poplar, spruas, syc amore, wainut. .Besides these there are more or less on the tnarkbt and slowly increasing in demand, beech, pecan, persimmon, sassafras, and still less in use magnolia and holly. AH these woods are to ba found in abundance through the forests of the South. All this wealth of tim ber grows, as a rule, on a soil that. once cleared, is susceptible of thj highest cultivation, soil that has no superior on the continent as agricul tural land, mere is no better land anywhere to be found for farming purposes, when cleared, than the canebrjke lands of the South. We are fond here in the South, as is perhaps common among the An glo-Saxon, of thinking that enr re sources are ''inexhaustible," and our capital and its forth-coming inter est, "boundless" This was the talk wnen we were younger, as to thu fort sis of the northeast, then of those of the great and "exhaultieaa" northwest. Where are those- for ests now ? Melted away under the ax and saw, gone with "Hans Brits man s burty. So here in the South our forests 8 re "boundless and in- exnauatible." It is evident to all thoughtful lumbermen that there must be a change in mary of our, at present, wasteful methods; waste is not development, nor is it a nec essary accompaniment of develop ment. The present generation oi lumbermen is perhaps not mach to blame if it continued things as it found them. - TIMBER PROTECTION- -Rnmm means must be adootod to prevent at least the unnecessary slaughtering of timber, especially of the valuable oat. ut tneao slaughters the stave men are the tha wont. The maenincen oaa forests, especially of Tennessee and the lower Mississippi valley, are rap- idlv disappearing under the careless cutting and ripping of the stave saws and knives. The stave men have probably destroyed z more magnin- centoak lumber and gotten ieaa clear relative profit therefrom than any other class of lumbermen. Just after the war, (and even until the present, came the cross-cat saws. mauls aad wedges, and the axes d the expert stave man. He took no thing bat the largest and finest of the white oak trees and only the choice cuts from tnese. was left on the ground to rot and many a splendid tree of the finest -ir left untouched after being .Wanflflitwas too difficult -Ht ' th Terv reason why it mrlA the-finest of qnar- ter sawed oak. Thet. followed the saws of th light stave makera and the knives of the siaca: w. -I-.- .;,Kr in the forest had then advanced somewhat, and they were not qaite so wasteful. Still IK!-iliiTtha beat of the oak Sf wMti 3 they cannot ntilize at .ji. u a one leading a goouij. i""-, ... TrN.k .tave man recently Und that will give us wu i'bli for our line of .tave. to the aero i. becoming hara nnarter sawed oar. m" . quarter bngl. TMbeea HrgW"o,doa. d 7Zr wed oak man acne w gu of what if known as VOBXH CAJtOLTNA rknm. ... in limited MO: Atlantic coast within the State of North Oir olina, taking in a small part of Southeastern Virginia, lies that ter ritory known as the "North Caro lina section." Within -thesa com paratively insignificant limits and dispersed in small quantities, is the (.snaing iimoer irom wmcn is man uiacmrea me JNortn uarouna pine lumber, and even here it grows in scattered groups, not in "boundless forests and exhaustless quantities," bnt in smaller areas and yielding less to the acre than either the white or the yellow pine, and, con sidering that 4,000 to the acre is fine yield, no one can dcubt but that the supply cannot last many yaars more Previous to 1894 ths output of this lumber required the cutting over of about 200,000 acres a year. It would seem that it was time for the dealers in North Caro lina pine to be making some sort of combination or arrangement to save the wasting and useless destruction of this timber. A short time Ion ger and it will ba too late to do any good. . It took long years for the furni ture manufacturers of the northern and European furniture manufao turing centre to learn of and ap prfeciate.the beauties of the Southern woods. The quartered 04k, the veined ash, the ribbon hued saisa fras, the Southern fir aud the spruce, the delicately traced cedars of the Soathorn reeky gladea. It is but recently that the loveliness of the long leaf pine with its tinted and traujd grain was recognized as needing but the touch of a coat of oil or varnish to make iv, the most inexpensive and most lovely of woods for interior doooration and hoj33 trimmings As all of these and others have been discovered and brought to the notice of the North ern aud Eiatern architect and build er, the growth and development of that branch of Southern lumber in dustry has been unprecedented. Not only has the prpjud;ce or ignor ance concerning ihe beauty and val ue of the Southern woods been fore ed to give way as these wocdj come more and more into publio ' notice but the fact of the increased cost of the Northern lumber and its scarci ty obliged the turning to the South for the necessary building material, and every use of theee Ssuthern woods has added to their popularity. INFLUENCE ON MANUFACTURING. For some time past the great ag ricultural implement manutactnr- lng firms of Illinois and Indiana have been turning to the South to seek the material for their machines As this becomes eacn year more and more the case and the market for their output becomes greater in the South from the increased immigra tion, their source oi supply lor ma terial and their markets are coming more and more to the South and gradually they will come to realize that the freight on the material North and on the machines South is a fair prnfi', and soon the shop and factory will move to where this double freight cu be saved, it is certain that within the next very few years a yast change will ba wit nessed in the location of plants us ing the Southern woods The man ufacturers of the .North are anally beginning to recogniz3 the vast re sources of this section, and there must inevitably ba imuieaso atrides in the development of Southern manufactories and industrial plants The possibilities, or rather the certainties, opened out by the prom ise for the new year are moat cheer ing to the Southern lumberman and mill owner. The hard timet and business depression must soon come to an end ; stocks inuai ba replen ished, and it cannot be but that there will come to the Southern lumber producer an era of businasa prosperity such as has for so many years been enjoyed by his Northern brother of the white pine coun try. INVESTMENTS IN TIMBER In all the heavily timbered sec tions of the South have shrewd Nor thern capitalists and investors for permanent properties made purchas es, such leading men of wealth as the Vanderbilt8, Goulds and others, who haye looked the country oyer for the best investments. All over the forest lands of the South will be found their holdings. 'While they have been doing this our pso pie have let slip almost all of these opportunities, have sold their birth right in the timber of the South, for, if not "a mesa of pottage," at least a very small equivalent. It is probably better for the development of the country that this is tru. for it has placed the timber and forests i in the hands of large companies and syndicates who are able to hold them, put up large, profitable plants -and develop these enormous lumbar re sources as no smail concerns or in dividuals could do. WOEFUL WASTE We sacrifice and waste every year thousands of acres of valuable tim ber, and we allow the mill men, the stave men, the turpentine makers to strip the vast tracts without mak- in? urUflfiiuua . - v.w i Then, too, many of oar people sell their best timber land lor a mere song, to - non resident or foreign speculators and timber companies. This foolishness should all bo stopped. The timber of the South is worth as much cash as any other interest in this section, and we should take car of and foster it. The owner of a goodlv tract of Southern pine or bard wood has gold mine for rwmsolf and children. THE BEAUTY AND VALUE OF OUR LOVELY SOUTHERN WOODS There ha sprung up recently. and which is slowly increasing, an export demand for persimmon logs This is used for shoe lasts and loom shuttles, it having a lovely, fine grain, which does not wok up rough when nee 1 agvnst the grain. Of this lumber there are two. kinds, one, the white, which is used for exporting, and the other, yellow, which is of no value as a commer cial wood. There is a fair amount of each kind growing in the Mississ ippi delta. There is bnt very little difference in appearance between the two kinds when growing in the for est, and experience and observation is rt quired to distinguish the one from the other in the rough. Another kind of timber which has come into export demand is pecan. A leading lumberman recently re ceived an order for 40,000 feet of thia lumber for export, for what purpose it is io be used he did not know. He found some difficulty in filling the order, owing to the un willingness of the millmen to cut and work it, it being a timber to which they were unaccustomed. As a rule, the products of a warm latitude and climate are coarser grained, rougher in fibre, more 'br&sby" and lees firm in ttxture than those of a more northern and cooler aectida but, for some reason; the reverse is the case with the tim ber of the foroats of the Southern Statea of the United States. The Southern lumber his a firmer, clos er grain and a texture susceptible of a finer poll 31 than those of the av erage wood of the Northern forests of the same grade, wil hold nails baiter and u more lasting As these facis have come to be realized the Southern timber has come more and more to be toaght for furniture, for interior work or any other uses where a smooth suiface and a high state of polish is desirable, as well as where toughness and textile strength are required. THE SOUTHERN WOODS are alio as a rule, being of a finer texture than the Northern one?, more durable when put in works. The equableness of the climate, be ifig without the extremes of beat or. cold of the North, renders the fibre of the wood more uniform and its growth and grain more firm; Another good quality of the number of to South is its greater width and oetter grade,' as being cut from larger logs from trees that have acquire 1 more age and strength of fiber. A comparison of the opinions and statements from a n umber of the heaviest millmen of the South shows that the logs that are brought to the Southern mill will average, u$b, 22 inches in diameter; cotton wood,. 36; cyprcia, 34; oak, 30; pop lar, 34: yllo-.7 pine, long leaf, 22; short leaf, 18. Certainly lumber cut from soch log must be of a bet ter, more matured and more dura ble quality than that cut from the small and immature logs of the Northern mill. Thus from every point of view the product of the Southern forest is rapidly advmcicg'in value, in favor both at home and abroad, its production, sale and use is steadily incre&sing and he outlook for the Soutoern millman and timber own er was never brighter than it is now with the opening of 1895. Four Big Succassis. Having the needed merit to more thnn make good all the advertising claimed for them, the following four remedies have reached a phof nomenal sale : Mr. King's .New Discovery. for OontsumptioD Coughs ani Golds, each to be guar anteed ; Electric Bitters, the great remedy for Liver, Stomach and) Kidneys : Bucklen s Arnica Salve; the best in the world, and Dr.' King's New Life Pills, which are a perfect pill ' All these remedies are guaranteed to do just what is claim ed for them, and the dealer whose name is attached herewith will ba glad to tell you more of them. Sold at W. W. Scott's Drugstore. . Try to deserve your own opinion of yourself ; and, if you think you have succeeded say njthing about it. No man ever attains dignity so great but that some one will call' him by his first name- Don't sit in a draught. If you do the doctor will in all probability be the one to cash it. Whan a man has more money than he neds, he invariably feels that he needs more than he's got. VI am a self made rsau." "Well, yon need not waste any money se curing a patent.' Macr a man is expected to be the architect of his son in law's fortune. The wrong man in the write place -The inellij.eut cleri VISmSTCl LETTEfiV Washington, Jan. 5. To the Editor of ths Lenoir Topic : Yesterday immediately after the Cabinet meeting, Secretary Carlisle went to the Capitol and was closeted forth Test of the afternoon with Speaker Crisp, General Catchinge and other Democratic leaders The conference was held to perfect a plan for relieving the financial dif ficulties of the country The Car lisle bill as it was at first presented to the Honse, is virtually dead, the substitute for it offered by Mr Springer i unsatisfactory. The members of the House of Repregen tatives will bold a caucus next Mon day to adjast these differences of opinion among Democrats as nearly as possible The President is un derstood to have formulated a plan of financial relief which he will present in the shape of a message to Congress next Friday. Toe Demo cratic majority n the House is evi dently trying to do its duty in this particular. It is possible that a wise and judicious bill will pass the House. All the members of our delegation are in favor of snch a bilL But when the bill reaches the Senate the Republicans will take advantage of the nonsensical rules which govern that body and will talk it to death. The adoption of a cloture resolution, such as was advo cated by Senator Daniel, of Va., and Senator Hill, of New York, will have made this impossible. As it now Btands the Republicans in the Senate are determined that the Dem ocrats shall not have this opportuni ty to adjust national difficulties, if it is possible to do so. They 'fill force an extra session of Congress, re organize the Senate and pass a currency bill drawn up by the best financiers in that House. If they are successful in their purpose, they expect to make a great deal of cap ital out of it in 1896 The President may be depended upon to do all in his power to avert such a catastro phe. But the Senate has the power to thwart his best inteations even though he is backed by the Demo cratic majoiity in the House. The rules of the Senate ought to have been changed before the election of November. Hill, of New York, strongly urged this in one of the best speeches of his life. Cloture served its purpose during re construction time when the South bad something to fear from the outcome of legisla tion here. The possibility of such a contingency is now passed. Sou thern men and Northern men are working together in the mines and in the factories of the South. Northern men own large tracts of the best land in the Southern States. Southern men are attorneys for gi ant monopolies in New York, Boston and Chicago. When bonds of this sort unite two sections of this great republic, every trace of the war may be said to bo obliterated. The South has no more to fear from legislation in Congress than the North The man who assumes the reverse of this is at least a decade behind the times. Marion Butler, who was here this week, has been interviewed so ex tensively that I will briefly state his position as expressed to the corres pondent of the Charlotte Observer and to the representatives of the Post and Star He is confident the Republicans in the Legislature of North Carolina will keep, 'both in the letter and the epirit, the con tract with tho Farmers' Alliance, which made the overthrow of the Democrats in North Carolina possi ble. He predicts the incoming Legislature will make no startling changes in the county government. He thinks the first thing the Legis- . ature which assembles in Raleigh on the 9wh will attend to will be the election of two Senators to repre sent North Carolina in Washington. It is a foregone conclusion that But ler will have the long term and Dr. Mott, Mr. Ewart or Mr. Pritchaid the short term. Josephus Daniels leaves tonight for Raleigh to look after the affairs of the News and Observer. If he finds that the affairs of his paper absolutely demand hvt personal su pervision it is pvEsible that he may resign his position as Chief Clerk of the Interior and again become a resident of Raleigh. It is needless for me to say in this connection that the Secretary of the Interior will find it most difficult to secure a man to take his place. He has shown himself during his short slay here to be possessed of unusual ex ecutive ability. He has been of vaal assistance to the Secretary, and 1 1 performing the duties of his effica has always treated Senators, Mem bers and the lowliest applicant for office with a cordial courtesy which hab commanded the admiration and regard of all who came in contact with him. General William B. Cox : says there is no truth in the rumor that the Republicans are going back with their,nnderstanding with the Popu lists. All the members of our deiega-, tion except Senator Jar vis, Mr. Bonn and Mr. Branch aie here. Senator Jarvia is detained in Green villa by an important law' suit. As his successor is to be elected by the incoming Legislature he may not return here at all. Mr. Branch will arriva about the middle of the month. Mr. Bonn will bt here about the middle of next week. Tie Hon. Jno. S. Henderson will repo: t the Post OffLi Appropriation Bi'l to the House of Representatives as soon as the Currency Bill is disposed of by that body. I The Solicitor General and Secre tary 01 the Treasury recommend an additional $1,000 oyer jlast session's appropriation for the survey of th 32,000 au-es of land belonging t. the Olmstead (government) tract c t Swa n; a Jackson. The matter wti arranged between Representative urawiord and the former and th item is $300 in excess I of the sum recntlv mentioned. The Coaa and Geodetic Survey calls for $18, 000 for 1896 for the Atlantic Coast, iaclnding North Carolina and South Carolina ; also $5,000 Cor deep shor soundings. - The President nominated todaf for Justice of the Peace of the Dis trict of Columbia, Robt. W. Best, once Secretary of the State of North Carolina. Mr. Best s eyesight is re stored; j Representative Grady will con- auit jsen&ter itansora; and decide on something in the Fayetteville post mastership. Meanwtije it is rep resented m some letters from there that the incumbent is jgiving great satisfaction. N . It is currently reported here that the Republicans and Democrats oJ the. Fifty fourth Congress will form a combination and organize so as to control the patronage among them selves,; leaving the Populists entire ty out pi tne deal. This program, if it should be carried out will inter fere very materially with the plana of Marien Butler and Otho Wilson. Apflartiannut a tba Sisaaol Find. WHITE. Number. 1 2 3 4 5 ' 6 . 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Amount $160. 6f 108 01 65 8P 64 27 65 Oh 42 40 39 16 57 78 73 lir 48 88 61 03 75 61 73-U 119 35 86 9t 79 60 155 80 18 19 20 117 73 78 04 69 13 63 2? 73 18 41 59 161 84 :6 08 69 13 75 61 57 79 63 4t 58 6C 45 64 35 U2 7 42 52 12 132 31 27 01 64 27 30 25 38 35 45 64 56 94 73 85 51 31 41 59 46 45 65 0 31 06 100 72 67 51 44 83 57 79 84 52 38 5 38 35 84 52 24 58 45 64 56 17 42 40 . 37 54 34 30 53 74 76 42 38 35 32 63 83 71 46 45 -3187 '48 07 125 02 76 42 31 87 52 12 42 40. 84 52 64 27 43 21 5212 56 93 51 31 20 53 21 22 23 24 25 26 .27 2 29 30 31' 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 6 57 58 ' 59 60 61 .62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 U 12 COLORED. Carlton Crnwell, foreman of the Record, Midaleton, N. J, balitves that Chamberlain's Couch Romedy should be in every bo ait. He nsea it for a cold and it affected a speedy cure. He says : "It is -indeed a grand remedy; I can recommend it to all I have also, seen it used for whooping congh with ' the best re sn;U." 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by W W. Scott, Druggist. It is not easy for a pretty girl to believe that love is blind. Bisk of Usolr. We give below a table showing the actual amount on deposit in the Bank of Lenoir at a specified time during the months named, begin ning with January, 1894, and np to January 1st, 1895, showing by com parison the steady growth of busi ness during the first year January, 5,748.62 7,971 76 9,255 00 10,731.70 11,406 77 11,880 58 15.061.63 16,676 08 17.830 94 16,841.39 21,132.45 20,680.78 February, March, April, May, June, July, August, ' September, October, November, December, The following table shows at what cost yon can buy a New York check, which is good for its face yalue in any part of the United Slates. When remitting in the future buy bank checks instead of Money Or ders. It is less trouble and answers the same purpose. . $ 2 50, not exceeding $ 5 00, 5c. 10 00, So1 5.00, 10.00, 20.00. 30.00, 40.00, 50.00, 60.00, 85.00, it 20.00, 10c 30 00, 12c. 40.00,15c 50.00, 18o. 60.00, 20o. 85.00, 25c 100.00, 30c. tt tt tt We respectfully solicit the ac- counts of merchants, mannfactur- era and individuals. This COLUMN BELONGS TO THE DRU6 STORE, And will be used for our New Advertisement ABOUT THE- First of theNev Year. We are too busy to do so, now, as -ve will be engaged this week in 1 opening up our' stock of FANCY GOODS, TOYS, Etc., Etc. WE IN VI r.E 3ES -v&xr y 13 o c3L y TO- Come and See Them. w. T. SCOTT. Suppose You get your hand mashed or get -hurt some other way who ii going to run you while yon aro laid up f GOTO ENOX W. HENRY ' And he will explain all about that Office in Miller & Henry's store. Go and see him before it is too late. 3IDo3aL"t - XTST'cxjL'tw 1 I. V 8u"il!e, N. 0., Deo. 20, 1884. ; Trr
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