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2 THE STATE’S PROGRESS TUKS I K.'i i> V Ci OF M)KTH CAROLINA ALO&G ALL LINES S 1(0 H 188 1 'I O 1805. NORTH - CAROLINA LEADS ALL l H Hhs More l ottou Mill?* Than Any Other State in the South--Raises the Highest I'riee Bright Tobacco thrown in ih» Wovlil—Batches More Fish at a Haul—ls Ahead of Most States in rruck—*lts Remarkable Educational Progress. From the Atlanta Journal. RALEIGH. N (~ October 17. Henry <j. Hester, secretary of the New Or leans Cotton Exchange, sent Governor Carr the following telegram, dated September 2d. 185)5: “I congratulate you and the people of North Carolina on her remarkable progress in cotton inanufaetuie. She is now practicaly equal to South ( ar olina, the largest cotton consumer in the south. Hy the actual census of mills North Carolina has consumed of this year’s crop 2527,000 bales, an increase of 55,000 over last year. She has new spindles which may be brought into play in 1595-96 which, with fair trade conditions, should in crease her total to at least 250,000. in 1890 North Carolina consumed 114,000 bales. So your State has prac tically doubled her cotton manufac tures within the past five years. In 1870 the census reported 51 es tablishments. with a capital of SL -030,900, operating 61.8 looms and 519,897 spindles. In IsTlOf the census states the number of establishments to be 49. an increase of 16 over that of 1870. with a capital of $2,855,000, with 92,385 spindles. The August Bulletin of the North Carolina department of agriculture issued yesterday shows to-day that there are 149 cotton mills in opera tion, spinning or weaving; eleven in process of construction; and the capital stock subscribed for eight more, thus practically making 160 cotton mills in North Carolina with an estimated capital of about nine million dollars, 19,000 looms and 756,- f)ou spindles. These figures tell more eloquently than words the growth of the cotton, manufacturing industry in North Carolina since the Atlanta Ex position in 1881. The increase of spin dles from 5)2,5185 to 756,000 is marvel ous. In 1880 North Carolina grew 309.598 bales.of cotton. It is estimated that the total crop this year w ill be 450,000 bales, of which the North Car olina mills will consume more than half. Jn five years she hafc doubled her cotton manufactures, in 1890 con suming 114,000 hales, and consuming in 1895, 227,000 hales. At this rate of increase, it will be only a very few years before North Carolina will man ufacture all its own cotton and have to buy from its sister States more in order to keep its mills busy. EDUCATIONAL BROGIiESS. 1 ,ie greatest progress, outside of cotton manufacturing, has been made in education, in lss4 the public school fund amounted to about $550,- 000. In 1894 it was $777,079.29. There were 262,00 children enrolled in the public schools in 1881. In 1894 there were 359,385. The attendance at tho State University, and at Wake Forest, Trinity, Davidson, Elon and the other colleges and high schools in the State has more than doubled. In these years $106,000 have been expended in educa ting teachers for the colored race. New normal schools for the colored teachers; an agricultural and mechan ical college for each race; and a nor mal and industrial school for women have been established in the last ten years, and constitute an important factor in the educational system of Abe State. There has been even great er growth in favorable public senti ment, and the State is now engaged in a great educational revival which is bearing fruit m every department of life. Practically ail opposition to public education has disappeared, and the State is beginning to realize that it canot afford to permit any citizen, rich or poor, white or black, to grow np in ignorance. In the larger towns first-class graded schools arc conduct ed ten months in the year, and in the country districts the term varies, few schools having a term longer than four mounths, hilt the new school tax will permit an increase in the term, and many school districts will vote an increased tax upon themselves for a longer school term. TOBACCO CULTURE AND MANU FACTURE. With the exception of portions of Halifax and Pittsylvania county, Va., shat beautiful yellow tobacco known vs “Virginia Bright,” is exclusively grown in North Carolina, being call ed “Virginia Bright,” because before the war it was mostly sold in the mar kets of Richmond and Petersburg. In 1881, it was not believed that this tobacco could lx* grown in more than half a dozen counties in the State, but actual experience lias shown that a dozen eastern counties, devoted al most exclusively to the cultivation of cotton up to the discovery, makes quite as good tobacco as the old Brass nields count, long regarded as the hejine and favored spot of “bright. 1 ” Prices for this tobacco, ranging from $1.50 to $3 per puond, have not been uncommon. In one eastern county, Wilson, which in 1880 made only 8,745 pounds of tobacco, the land, which was supjMised to lie unfit for its pro duction, 232,5)66 pounds were made in 1889, and in this year (1895) the crop will reach 400,000 |»ounds. In that county eight farmers received the com bined average of 22% cents per pound, uul produced an average of 902 pounds (*er acre, equal to $205.19, less cost (,$51.25) equal to $153.94 profit per acre. The total tobacco crop in 1879 was reported by the census to lie 26,986,212 pounds. The annual production for the past half dozen years has averag ed 76.000.000 pounds. The census of 1880 showed the average price paid for tobacco in North ’Carolina was $14,10 per hundred—higher than in any other State. In Virginia it was $6.48. In 1870 there were 110 tobacco fac tories in the State; in 1880 the number had grown to Ps, inunuJucturii 14,- 110,129 pounds of tobacco. North C’ar tliua iu 1880 stood fourth among the T States in respect to quantity manufac tured, Virginia, New Jersey and Mis souri alone surpassing. The figures are not available showing the increase since 1880, but it is fair to estimate that the increase in the number of factories has been not less than in the period between 1870 and 1880. This i would give 255 factories, with a pro portionate increase of the manufac tured product. The growth in vol ume of tobacco manufactured by the Blackwell’s, Durham Bull Tobacco Company, and the \V. Duke, Sons & Co., branch of the American Tobacco Company, both located in Durham, alone has been phenomenal. These two factories, one smoking tobacco, the other cigarettes, are the largest of the kind on earth. The largest plug tobacco manufactories in the world are at Winston. REGISTERED AND BLOODED STOCK. In nothing is the changed condition for the better more noticeable than in the stock on the farms, and in the in terest in improved stock. In 1881 there was here and there a man who had a few fine cattle and blooded horses, but generally not more than enough for his own use. Now there are 268 furors in the State devoted to the raising of registered and blooded stock —cattle, horses, sheep, and swine. Most of them are on a small scale, but a considerable number will compare favorably with the great stock farms of the Blue Grass country. The natur al result is that stock of all kinds on the farms is greatly improved and yearly improving. It is comparative ly a new thing for North Carolina to be represented on the grand circuit every year, but its representatives in the past few years have embraced I’aqilieo, John li. Gentry, Maggie Wat kins. Baronet,Litttle Tola*, and a num ber of others. These horses have held rank with the best animals on the American turf. RAILROAD MILEAGE MORE THAN DOUBLED. The plain figures best tell the tale of railroad building and prosperity: JANUARY, 1881. Mileage 1,45)9 Capital stock 20,225,200.00 Funded debt 11,886,100.00 Gross earnings 2,866,494.00 Operating exjienses.... 1.938,075.00 Net earnings 928.423.00 JANUARY, 1895. Mileage 3,500 Capital stock $38,5)46,185.00 Funded debt 41,496,938.00 Gross earnings 8,864,5)11.19 Operating expenses.... 6,7.38,688.71 Net earnings 2.126,222.47 The total amount invested in rail roads in ls«l was $32,7.30,559. In 1895. it is $80,443,165, which shows that it has almost trebled in fifteen years. 1 doubt if another State in the Union has increased so rapidly in these fif teen years, during part, of which prog ress was retarded in North Carolina first, by low prices for cottcm and to bacco, and second by the panic of 1893. INCREASE OF TAXABLE VALUES. The following statement, taken from the books of the State Auditor, gives the increase in taxable values: 1881. Real property $102,346,216 Personal propertv 67,570,691 Ct. Total $169,5)16,5)07 (Railroads and steamboats included in the above.) 1894. Real projierty 156,74.3,965 Personal property.... 81,6.17,543 Rail road, steam boa t, etc,, property 24,565,611.87 Total $262,927,119.87 The returns for 1885 have not yet been tabulated. The above figures show an increase of almost one hun dred million dollars worth of property in the State in fourteen years. FOUR MILLION DOLLARS IN LUMBER. The lumbering interests of the State are enormous. It is estimated that four million of dollars are brought into the State each year from this source. This developmentof our lum bering interests has been almost en tirely since 1881. This industry was stimulated by the exhibit made bv the State in Atlanta in 18*1, in Boston in 1883, and in New Orleans in 1885. Many miles of railroad have been con structed to reach the heavily timbered sections, and prosperous towns have grown up along the line of these new roads. FISHERIES A MARVELOUS HAUL. The fishing industry has always yielded a considerable revenue to the people of Eastern North Carolina. The development in the methods of catching herring and shad have been marvelous, in that the great seines now being used are operated by steam from the shore. For instance, the seines at the Avoca fisheries are one and a half miles long and thirty feet wide. These immense seines arc car ried on small steamers from a mile to a mile and a half from the beach stretched along its channels and then drawn in by powerful engines on suit able “whims.” Dr. Capeheart at Avoca, last spring, drew in at one haul as many as four hundred thousand her ring. This catch was so enormous as to require before tin* landing of the great seine three separate landings. DEVELOPMENT OF TRUCKING. Truck farming, which now brings into the State annually about four mil lion dollars, is almost a new industry. The best trucking land is in the cast, tributary to tin- Atlantic Coast Line, and Mr. T. M. Emerson, general traffic manager, says that the trucking inter est has quadrupled itself in the last five years. During the past season one man , Mr. J. S. Westbrook, of Faison, shipfied a solid train of IS ear loads of fine straw lierrics for which he received sixteen thousand dollars. He is now a rich man; twenty years ago, he rented the land on which he licgan to grow strawberries, aspara gus, potatoes, berms and other truck. In 1892 300.000 quarts of strawberries, from the sale of which $40,000 was re ceived, was shipped over the Wilming ton and Weldon railroad. In one sea son, from Newbern 550,000 boxes and barrels of truck were shipped. The prices for this immense quantity were extraordinary. A conservative sum for the 350,000 boxes and barrels is $750,000, which, after deducting the freight expenses, left « net profit to the farmers of half a million dollars. Os this truck there were 100,000 bar rels of Irish potatoes, some of which The New* »nil Obi r er. Nov. 30, *OS. sold at $7 per barrel, some at $6, a large quantity at $5.50-all the product averaging $5 per barrel. One firm, Hackburn & Willett, of Newbern, sold $65,000 worth of truck divided as follows: 9,000 barrels of potatoes, $36,000; 100,000 head of cab bage, $12,500; 2,000 bunches of spinach,. $2,500; 2,000 boxes beans, $2,000; 1,000 boxes peas, $1,000; 5,000 boxes aspara gus, $16,000: radish crop, $500; beets, $400; 4,000 barrels citron melons, $4,- 000; tomatoes, $1,000; sales of milk, $4,000. For a new industry the exam ple of this farm tells what may be expected when the trucking industry is fully developed. Soil and climate conspire to make it profitable. I append a statement from Mr. J. O. Loftin, of Olive, to show the profits in raising strawberries in a small way: “In May, 1893, I bought 1,000 straw berry plants, and having had no pre vious experience I took the advice of the gentleman from whom I bought them in regard to raising them. From these plants I raised enough more to make eleven-twelfths of an acre by September. I began shipping the 9th of last April and shipped in all fifty live crates of thirty-two quarts each, for which I. received gross $417.50, and the expenses were as follows: Cost, of plants, maures and working $ 50.00 Picking, packing and hauling .. 51.00 Crates 24.00 Freight and commissions 81.00 $206.40 Net profits on eleven-twelfths acre $211.10 “The first two items are estimated and are somewhat in excess of what the actual figures would be could tliev be obtained. Os course the ex pense of a single aero is much greater, proportionately, than on a larger area. “1 also raised enough plants to set out an additional acre, which will come into bearing next spring." Mr. Loftin might have added that from smaller seines before the great seine could be brought to shore. I his is only an instance. The greatest development perhaps lias been in the catching of mullets and “fat-backs,” the latter being car ried to factories where the oil is ex tracted and the dessieated fish form the ammonia used in the manufacture of much of the State's fertilizers. The total income from fish and shell fish amounts to three and a half mil lions annually, about ten thousand persons being employed. POULTRY AND DAIRY PRODUCTS. The dairying interests of the State have developed largely since 1881. It now amounts in the aggregate to $12,000,000. The poultry and egg products amount to as much more. The best markets outside the State are Charleston, S. (~ Washiigton. I). C., and Baltimore, Md. Chickens can be: shipped at 11 o'clock at night from manv points in the state, and served for breakfast the next morning in Washington City, so perfect and rapid are the transportation arrangements. I have not thought it advisable, in view of the limits of this paper, to go into fuller particulars it regard to many other matters that speak trumpet-tongued of the growth and progress of North Carolina. Its popu lation has increased 400,0)0 since the 1881 Atlanta Exposition, and its de velopment in other lines has kept pace with the increase* of population. The raising of rice, a large industry in slave days, has again become one of the best crops around Wilmington: the cultivation of peanuts iias brought large returns to the farmers, chiefly in the northeastern section of the state; the manufacture of commercial fertilizer has increased an hundred fold; we raise more grain than ever before, and it is ground in our own mills, there being now eighty-eight roller flour mills in the state, and this does not include any of the many hundred old-style mills. 'Flic produc tion of gold (before the discoveries in » alifomia North Carolina led the world) has increased at a moderate rate, and the hunt for the yellow metal has been stimulated by the finding in Stanly county, within the last few months, of several of the largest nuggets ever known, one weighing twenty-one pounds. Coal mining is carried on to a limited ex tent, this being a new industry. The production of monaz.ite, a discovery of tin* last two years, brings a very large annual revenue to the people of the western counties. At Spray is one of the largest aluminum works in tin* country. In many of tin* western counties large amounts of medical roots and herbs are gathered, and these are shipped to all parts of tin* world, China consuming almost our entire production of ginseng. At States ville is the largest root and herb estab lishment in the United States. Tin* culture of hops is just being begun. North Carolina has been called the “Sample State,” because we raise some thing of everything from tea to maple sugar. It is the only state that fills every* item in the census list. The number of visitors to health resorts, both summer and winter, has increased until Asheville, Southern Pines and other points rival any Florida winter resort, and Morehead, Nag’s Head, Oracoke , Wrightsville. Asheville, and all mountain towns and villages and seaside resorts attract thousands of summer visitors. “llovv do you live?” asked a New Englander ol a native of Florida. “On Yankees in winter and fish in summer,” was the laconic reply. in certain sections of North Carolina the rich pleasure-loving, or invalid health - searching Yankee spends enough money to make the industry one of tin* most profitable in the state. 1 close with two important state ments: ( 1. The progress above’ touched upon RRADFIiXD'S Female Regular r ACTS AS A SPECiFf 7 By Arousing to Healthy A -y. n ail her Organs. ft f i» i«*c* IVruUh to ISioom, unM ?! tty to Throughout th«* Km Ire £"ruw« IT NEVER FAILS TO REGULATE. •My wife haw been under treat merit, of lead mi,; |>liy eiciariK three yean*, without hem-fit Afui cuing three bottles of MUWHKMI’S FMUI.y Itl'ClMPlU she ean ilo her own cooking, milking and washing " N. S. Jilt V AN, Henderson, Ala. ItKVDHH O BE6U.ATOB CO., ATLANTA, U.i. rjr Sold by druggists at 11.00 per bottle. has been wrought out in a period, a part of which brought low prices for the principal products of the state, some of the years having been notable for short crops as well as low prices. When it is remembered that 70 per cent of the population is dependent upon agriculture, these drawbacks em phasize the industry, frugality and fertile soil with which the state is blessed in its people and its land. 2. All, or virtually all, the prosperity achieved in the past fourteen years has been wrought out by native North Carolinians. Only* 5 per cent of the population of the state was born out side its borders. North Carolina muscle, North Carolina brains, and North Carolina industry and enter prise have, almost unaided, made the state go forward, overcoming every obstacle in the path. The few— al too few —citizens from abroad who have made homes, here, have found every material at their hands for making money, and they have made it. They have found a warm welcome from all classes of our people and are among the state’s lies! citizens. WANTED 500,000 progressive men with money or brains or muscle, to iinitateGeorge W. Vanderbilt, George W. Watts, Julius Lewis, J. W. Tufts, Pike, Lecker, Belmont, W. E . Ashley, M. Tiernan, S. A. ITenszey, B. J. Fisher, Moses Cone, George N. Ives, D. A. Tompkins, 1L 8. Chadwick, and many others from all parts of the world to come to North Carolina to make their fortunes, regain their health, and establish homes. This advertisement is warranted by virtue of what has gone before. JOSEPHUS DANIELS. Old People. Old people who require medicine to regulate the bowels and kidneys wdl find the true remedy in Electric Bitters. This medicine does not stimulate and contains no whiskey nor other intoxi cant, but act.-, as a tonic and alterative. It acts mildly on the stomoeh and bowels, adding strength and giving tone to the organs, thereby aiding Nature in the performonce of the func’ions. Elec tric Bitters is an excellent appetizer and aids digestion. Old people find it just exactly what they need Price fifty cents and SI.OO per bottle at J. Y. Mac- Rae’s Dr gstore. Bncklen - Arnica Salve Ike best saive in the worio tor Oma BruiS'-s, Sores. Ulcers, Halt Khentn* Fever Sores. 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My own case was somewhat simi lar, aud since taking Hood’s Sarsaparill* the inflammation has left my eyes and my nerves have become quieted. My health today is better than it has been for sev- Hood’s Sa ;> Cures eral years. lam gaining in strength and I feel like a new man.” William H. N xamakek, Judsonia, Arkansas. Hood’s Pills are hand made, and perfeol In proportion and appearance. 25c per box. Connecticut Life Insurance Co This company has no speculative feature extension forfeitures, or intricate plans contrived for ttie com party's advantage, nor the incontestable clause—admitting rascals at the expense of its honest members, but if any happen to get in, it gives tnem their money hack; all stated in the contract The 3 per cent Reserve Has become an Important factor in life insurance. All will be gladly explained by 8. 1). WAIT, Genera) Agent, office at Raleigh, whose 30 years experience proves his knowledge of the life Insurance business. More'good eonservafive.agents wanted. PRODUCE BOUGHT AND SOLD ON COMMISSION. sPEciALTiBs EGGS AND BUTTER. Fowls, game, fruit, vegetables, grain and produce of all kinds sold on commission. Highest prices guaranteed. Reference given on application. Consignments solie ited: JNO.C. MOORE. 116 E Marvin St., Raleigh, N. 0. i—i ,• articles tint are to be immersed, a bit of bread should be dropped into it to asaertain if it isat the right heat. When the bread browns in half a minute the Cottolene is ready. Never let Cottolcne get hot enough to smoke. Thkii tBroKTARt Poirt*: Th« ft-rin* p»n «hou!<t he cold when the Oattolene !« put In Cottolcne hc»t» to the cooking point nooner then ler-i. It never eputter, when hot. The Cottolcne trafte-rnarks are "Cottolrne" and a itrrr', t n cotton plant u rtath. at 11 it) i a aVa j a a 111 aaa lax SHOE DEPARTMENT. o GOOD SHOE LEATHER, WELL PUT TOGETHER, PRICES RIGHT -ALWAYS. 0 Ladies' kid and cloth top button shoes, razor and medium toes, patent leather tips at $2.50 and $3.00. Ladies Trilby last, razor toe, deep patent leather tip, large buttons, at $3.50. Ladies' cork soles, medium toe, pat. leather tip. “no rubbers needed with these,” wet weather shoes, at $3, $4 and $5. Ladies' and misses' black felt slippers at 90c. and SI.OO - felt slippers bound with fur at $1.50. Gents' double sole, calf lined, heavy Tan shoes, “no rubber needed with these” forwin ter, at $5 Gents' double sole, "box calf,” leather lined “no rubbers needed with these,” special cold weather shoe, at $5. Gents' Patent Leather Shoes, correct styles, at $2.50- $3.50 and $5. Gents Patent Leather Shoes, Johnston & Murphy's, exclusive styles, at $6 and $6.50. W.H.& fie "''CKER&CO. THE “ *** y< ': r J :•« - Pallolas Absolutely Non-Forfeitable Aftee Second Year. In case of lapse the policy is continued in force ns long as its value will pay for; or, if preferred, a cash or paid-up policy value is allowed. After the second year policies are incontestable, and all restrictions as to resi dence, travel and occupation are removed. Gash loans are granted where valid assignments ot the policies can be made <V3 collateral security, John C. Drewry, State Agent, raleigh. n. c . f)©fc]®®0 P iSiaOoßgjDDp KOo ©o Fifty-Fourth Annual Session, Special attention paid to physical cul ture and hygiene. Certificate admits to Vassar. For catalogue address the Rector. REV. BENNETT SMEDES, D. D. Raieigb, N. 0. Dr, Harvey C. Ipchurch lias begun the practice of Medicine and Surgery in this city, anl offers his s* rvtoes to the' citizens of Raleigh and vicinity. Office at No. 219 South McDowell Street nov‘2o-lm. OTTOLENE COOKS Should remember to use only two-thirds as much Cottolene as they formerly used of lard or butter. With two-thirds the t quantity they will get better results at less cost than it is possible to g«t with lard or butter. 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