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SECTION ONE PAGES 1 TO 12 LwU a v t. -' I..wv..m in II 0 VOL. XCVIIL tf0.81 RALEIGH, N. C.t SUNDAY MORNING, OCT. 12, 1913, PRICE 5 CENTS. CONCLUDING SPEECH OF , SENATOR ' F. M. SIMEONS" ON TARIFF BILL BIGGEST DRAINAGE PROJECT YET UNDERTAKEN IN STATE M5 1 i i I ... , k Following ti the text of the address '"hlch Senator F. M. Bimmona, chair- TDMl nf th Ren.t FlnanM rammittM ' . Lde in the Senate ashts final argu- , Itii'tit for the passage of the Simmons- i "Mr. Biitimons. . Mr. presiaent" within Uvk hours certainly, I think tomorrow on next day this bill will become, the law of the land. - It will carry the lowest average rate of duty ; carrlfd bk any tariff bill which Con-' ' '' gress has -ever passed except the Wal- ker bill, whlgh was followed by an ' era of p-(.vsirt-rity not surpassed In; " our hisU It wljl be recognised by ; the ronvArV.f whatever may be said of; f It by i, opponeCTe aa an honest ef-. . fort'on the part of tbe party in power to correct the evil and to relieve the .people from the unequal condition and unjust burden existing through) the present tariff law, Without Inflict- t .Ing injury upon any one excpt inj no far aa injury giay be incidental to i remedying admitted wrongs and cor- 1 I "reeling Inequalities and inequities in our tariff legislation by abolishing legislative privilege and favoritism. "The large free Hat which this bill carries, and the heavy reductions it . makes on the necessaries of life, mill ' carry Its benefits more dlnvtly and more surely to the people than any other tariff, bill ever pawled by Con gress. It untaxes many of the raw materials of the manufacturer, but It simultaneously and correspondingly . reduce the tariff on the manufactur er's finished products, so a to com pel hi mto share the resulting lessened cost of production with thedomesllc purchaser of his products. "The bill recogniyee thai th main tenance and the further development and expansion of our industrial actl- largply on nnr foreign lrade. It.xscPRnists the fact thai., we cannot successfully sell abroad unless we also buy abroad; and It seeks in every possible and feasible way to en- .courage "outLfarelsu commerce. T "that ehdT by its reductions. It open! the door for larger importations; and "hy-redufflnff the, cost of XlvmK.,by, xe. duclng the taxes on the necessities of tffe, by reducing the 'cost of produc tion, and by untaxing the raw ma terials of the manufacturer It provides tor an enlarged exportation of our products. . ."The bill remits, Mr. President to the masses one- thtnd of the tax they ntij pay to the tlnvcMment', through .I'M.tnms 'duties by transferrins; that mucn of'thi-ir present burdens to the .- Im-omes of the rich. This Is ftffr and v ivA, because, tho masses pay many. time choir share of the remaining . two-thirds of these customs taxes oi- di-r our tariff system, which Is. tax upon consumption, amt., as the 'poof man and the man . of moderate means must live . by. eating, must ' wear 1 rushes inuf havfe a home in which to reside, as well as the rich man, the amount of taxes which the poor and the well-to-do pay under , our present c . ..iiv Is tllnpFlhrr out nf Tiirmnnv mth, ih amount which the rich have li pa v, I , - . . i, . . . "WitH it view of equalling this con- OitU)' v in the Inauguration of this in . com taf we have sought to remedy ' -j.uid we believe we have in a large tw asure, 'though not altogether,, rem fdiod that inequality . by exunpting frm the; Income tax all Incomes ub . dor hre thousand dollars. So that while the millions of this country pay practically all the customs taxes, the ; consumption taxes, , they wiU . be re ' lieved from the infoma tax, and those txes bave to be paid only by those hone tpcomes exceed three thousand . iollRnh i , "It Is estimated that of the ninety edd millions of people of this country, " this income tax will nave to be paid ' by only about 60.0 individuals. So wo have a system, brought about through this bill, eqtmlixing the bur . dens of taxation between the rich and the poor, by relieving the man whose I 1 Income Is less than $8,090 from all V Income tax and requiring those who have more than a competency and who.do not pay their share of cus toms taxes to pay tnis income tax. "But. Mr, President, of far greater Importance to the people than re lieving them of the one-third of the Income tax. of one-third of the cus toms tax that Is now transferred to the swollen fortunes of the richfor that could not amount to more than a lesrenlng of their burdens to the ex tent probably of a little over tlOo. I 000,000 a yfar of more, yes of trans cend Ingly more Importance to the people that this. Is the fact that the reductions made In this bill remit to the masses millions piled upon mil through the provisions of existing lions annually collected from them law. not for the Government, not to fill the coffers of the Treasury, but to well the bloated fortunes of special and privileged beneficiaries of Repub lican tariff taxation, This bfU, h been highly praised, and It has been severely criticised, and o have all ; its predecessors. Mr. President; neither the commendations of the advocates nor the condemna tions of the opponents of an. untried tariff fed signify much, In thi case, as in every case, the merits of the bill will have to be determined by its practical workings. And we, repre eentlng the party responsible1 for hls legislation, acting on behalf of the constituencies which have sent us here to legislate with resnect to It. w 1'tf lofTkhow" and' elWiffoTrWioSlMtlf- certainty what some of the effects feet. . . : "But we believe, far. President, that It will Justify itself, and we believe It will not condemn itself. The Demo. cratio party, responsible for this leg- iHisoon, inereiore, swans wim aoso- lute confidence the result of this su preme tests of Its efficiency in carry ing out the policies and principles upon which it was framed, and the ernclacy of these principles thus ap plied to remedy admitted evils and reform admitted abuses in the Interest t.tli..wel&rft,jaM.lh.ft.iitosBRrtv.jin. " -t?. liWinvA OT-t peiis. .vjr'i"' "As Democrats we have an abiding , faith In that it -will bring prosperity ft'fejund not disaster. As Democrat we nave an emuing inun inai v. win ex pand and not contract our industrial activities. "We believe that 4t will open mnre factories and will not close thoe that . already in rperaMca. V;. betieve I I i -y 1 y - ',. BEJtATOn mWIFOU) Jt EM- that it will Increase and not curtail the opportunities o employment to labor, and that it will make more in stead of lestenlng'the aumtr of shops open to the American workmen. "Whatever may be sal a oi ints dui. on -can gjUnstty .the fatt..that Jt is a clean bilL Ko one can gainsay the fact that no sinister taint or suspicion attaches to its making. No one can saj? that It waa inspeijar written by tho hands of seiflahnesS or or greeq. All will admit that the representa- ivew of the lotrtcama. here, to the Capitol, as has been their wont whenever tariff legislation is about to be enacted, to influence and dictate legislation t serfs their special sel fish Interests. But they went away, Mr. President, empty-handed. They went away dated by the fact which they had discovered.! that again in this country the people rule, and God Almighty reigna. They went away im pressed by the fact that at last it has rome to pass In this Republic, thank So,;, that the people -who pay the taxes levy the taxes tbey pay, and not the special interests, for whoM so lone hey have been levied by the Re publican- party and paid by the peo pie.'' .. ' ' . . -. "No one Win deny that this Dill rep resents honest effort by the party In power to carry out the pledges and promises upon which it waa elected and upon which we? members of this Congress, were elected and commis sioned to act and to act at once. "This bill is a part of a legislative program ef reform which will help the people and hit the trusts. It ts part of a legislative program that will -m, " V,.; , t 5w. fcV - . tne Bta' ln Proportion. 1 nave W"',h"Cn.Ld0JhLA-nged with the Norfolk and Wert- living' and with th other hand dut down the.unjunt nTiinfair profits' ot l(it'lirUI tiu nJT-,iAi. iJ i w aierfs.vf Mr. r resident, when the full Democratic program ; of reform has been written.' as Jt will be written in the statutes .ttlthln a, ihort time by tfi Tfrnwrstlf party,- ret us -hope,- as I Relieve wilr be the case, that there will be an end la .'this country to that great . menace to our institutions ln working Tout, the great schemes of freedom 'and equality for which they were ordained and established, namely, law-created wealth and law- created privilege. Mr. Jonea Mr. President, I wish to esk the Senator a question. Mr. Bimmona. I am SDoul through. Mr. Simmons. I have Ji'rt a min ute further. Mr. President, there has been talk, here and elsewhere about the methods pursued in the framing of this bill, especially about the cau cus. Ours is a Government of par ties. The party in power is respon sible for legislation.-- The tariff Is, and always has been, and think al ways wilt d. a party question. Toese bills must be made by the party in power If that party is to carry out It party pledges and " party 'promises with reference to this question. This has been recognised by ail parties In the framing of all our tariff bills. "The caucus is somewhat an exten sion of the method pursued hereto fore, but the purposes are the same, Heretofore the members of the Fi nance committee of the party respon sible for the legislation have framed the. bill both In the committee and In the conference. In the passage of the last bill no tilnority Senator on the Finance committee was permitted In tYe ocunclls of that committee when it waa framing the bill, and they were given only a few minutes to vote npon it . after it was framed and thrown upon the table. On the con ference committee upo,n he disagree ing -votes of the two Mouses upon that bill no-member of the minority was permitted to sit, and It claimed at the time that the report was actually made and signed without the minority members ever having been called Into the meeting of the wrthltteei',wafrl,waw The caucus. I. say, simply carries 4IW .PcUce,a.mu. further , Instead consent through the , committee. It wrought to secure it more generally ami thoroughly through the caucus. The result, Mr. President, as respects the bill now pending before the Sen ate is that this tariff measure, upon which I hope we will vote in a few hours. Is the. first tariff bill ever passed passed in this country that was frarned by the whole body of the party responsible for the legislation. "Mr. President; It has been a long drawn 'out tn-. We hnve been the ' tr un sir ur general revisions of t' ' Tif. ,Tb re has been criticism of tii-i ime umed in the commit tee nnJ '' investigations and dls r,u?ins sr.-l in the debates in the Honate. i..t, Mr. PreaiUent,' I think it h'ts been time well spent. I d not think It h'n bfen time WHKted. If we l-.' S tifcen 1m time the t-ill tnlfiht not The News and .Observer building, almost destroyed "by fire last April, has been rebuilt " and enlarged. Within a few days the finishing. touches will be completed and, the home of ,fThe'01d Reliable1 will be open for work. Upon that occasion we wish to hate a real' Tar Ileel . House warming, with, a few brief addresses touch- . ing the past serrlce, ,the mission and the outlook - " for larger usefulness pf, the paper. - . .f an .deeply grateful to you for the gen erous evidence pf your friendship. and interest in the paper, and 'am writing to express the earnest hope that you can be'with us at the House Warming ,on-Monday evening, 0ctober 13th, in the new building. If the paper has been-able to render any service to the State it is because you and many others haTe helped1 me and allttmnected with !, me in trying to make the paper a worthy exponent of North Carolina thought and North Carolina ' development. A cordial welcome is extended to you to be present on Monday night. . Sincerely yours, " Josophus Daniels, , , - President. . ' SpeciaL3jain: EotThezBig. - AntiSaloon- LeagueMeef Delegates 'to National Convention at Columbus , Ohio, to Three-Fifth Cents Delegates ( (Py IL I Dairy,' Superintendent jSopti Carolina Antl-SiUoon Lea gue.) j. ?.. , - f . '. , Arrangements have been made with , railroad companies whereby the ulcgatea to the Anti-Saloon League convention will secure a rate of 1 1-6 cents to Columbus and return. This means that the fare from Kalelgh to Columbus and return will be til.li. from Durham, 120.80, from, Winston, $19. 35, &nd from other points over em to give us special cars out from Norfolk, leaving .Norfolk s, Monday morning, November loth, at 8:30.' All of the North Carolina delegates on the Norfolk and Southern ln the Albemarle section of the State, will make the Morfolk and Western con nection at Norfolk-.-All of the-deie gatlon on the Seaboard Air' Line and Atlanuo Coaxt Line, especially in tne eastern section of the State, will con nect with the Norfolk and Western at Petersburg and must be there to catch the special, at 11 a. m. All passengers froin Fayettevtlle, Wilson, Rocky Mount, W eldon, and interme diate points can leave their homes On the Atlantic Coast Line fast train. 4. S. t. or T o'clock In the morning and reach Petersburg at 9:30 a. m., where they will have only one hour and a half wait for the special. Dele gates from Hamlet, Kalelgh, Hender son, and other Seaboard points will have to take the night train to meters- burg Monday morning to catch the special at 11 a. m. ... Passengerg from Charlotte, Concord, (Salisbury, iiign Point. Reldsvllle, and Intermediate points will take No. 44 Monday morn ing, leaving Charlotte at a. m.. which will put them in Lynchburg at have been as good a bill as It is. I am sure the country will agree that the interests Involved were too great, too all-embracing, affecting in some way directly or remotely everything we buy or sell, for hasty and Imma ture consideration and action. "Mr. President, I wish to congratu late the Congress and the country that the long protracted struggle is at length about to end. In conclusion, I want to express for myself as chair man, of the committee ln charge of this legislation, my appreciation of the kindness and and courtesy that waa shown me not only by my collea gues on this side of the chamber but by my colleagues on the other side of the chamber. -I want to express my gratification, too, that during this long debate, where strong men strug gled with, each other over their con victions, there has been so little of bitterness and so lft tie of the heat of debate in the things that 'have been said and in tho things that have been 4oni m''is?'3mamm!3ii!maf iff d satisfaction, the pleasant relations that I have sustained throughout this whole contest with every single mem ber of the Senate, both upon this side of the chamber and upon the other side of the chamber." LQNLY VUU'.J!-A Get Raiiof One and a Miie-Plan to Get v;; 4?-p. m., where , they wilt wait one hour for the special. Passengers via Winston will leave Wtiuston at :60 m. and board the special at Roa noke at 1:65 p. m. So from Itoanoke to Columbus, a distance of four hun dred and twenty-four miles, all the North Carolina delegatus will be on the same . train. The . special .will reach Blueffrfd about I p. m., and will put us ln ColumbUs at T a. m. Tuesday. From Bluefleld on as many Pullman cars as are necessary to ac commodate the . delegation - will be carried, . -. - , . , With thl rnte" of I J-5 rents. a ticket 'from almost any point in North Carolina to Columbus and return will not be over 126, and by this agree ment all the North Carolina delega tion will be gathered np at the various junction point -and thus we will have a united force when be reach Colum bus. Before reaching there we can properly organise and be in a shape to let that great convention know that North Carolina believes hi National TROUBLE IN OVERCHARGES Shipments Back and Forth With Exorbitant and Prohibitive Railroad Freight Rates Which Hurt the People of North Carolina. A letter of October second to the Interstate Commerce Com mission from Oxford Buggy Co., of Oxford,. N. C, Shows how North Carolina is discriminated against by the railroads, and the outrages of some of the methods used. In part it reads; vith reference to overcharges on buggies to Fountain Inn, S. C, via the Southern Railway: . "We have just had a freight bill sent In by our traveler cov ering i buggy, and t pair shafts shipped 6-21, weight 450 lbs, and charges 6.08 and this in face of a published rate of 84 cts.. in tHeir!own Carolina Vehicle Tariff No. 1I.CC No. A-4824. "From some unaccountable reason to us these shipments have not gone the direct route via Greenville changing here to "CSt'W. C but have been sent" way down to-Augusta to be ' shipped back by circuitous route to form an excuse for exhor. bitant and prohibitive charges we suppose. , ! "This Is nor; the only time this has occurred but has been continuous for" some time and th party, Mess,' Armstrong & Taylor has filed claims for the overcharges which he has been unble to collect, and has not been able to get the return of the freight bills from the railroad," and is now appealing to you rather than going to expense of a suit to get what they have "Our traveler showed the' "we win oe giaa to near through your good offices to overcharges refunded." .. 9 DAYS TILL THE ii U ii t A ii prohlbtlon as well as State-wide pro- nuiiUfia : -Now, the wgy.to secure these four hundred delegates who certainly ought to go from North Carolina, Is for ttra -various churches and yastm-al charges over the State to take up this matter and see that their delegates la elected and that Ma or her 12 S railroad expenses - are furnished. Twenty-five dollars is right good turn to an Individual, but It Is only dimes and Quarters to a consretratian. ana it aoes seem mat enyoooy in a congregation In. North Carolina would be glad to chip ln such amount, or dollar, that their Individual, churca miKht be represented In this epoch making convention. .'. The ,Atiti-a- loon League has provided a plan for raising these fund, which,-It Is be lieved, can be easily ' worked in any community or church In the State. I have Issued a stock certificate which Is printed inopatrlotlo colors (red, white, and blue). This plan Is easy to operate -. Let the pastor have his church, and the Sunday School superintendent his school to elect a committee of one, two,-or three, or himself appoint such a committee, to sell twen'v-five shares of stock In i his campaign lor National prohlbl tton at ft per share. -Everybody who takes as much as one share will have this beautiful certificate Issued to them, properly filled In, giving name and number of shares, and stating that this money is to assist in buying a ticket for one delegate from their town to Columbus, This certificate will be a beautiful souvenir to frame as a keepsake for future years. When these Xwenty.-Ate snares are sold, the 116 is turned over to the delegate. At the same time that the committee ts appointed, if the church thinks It wise, they can elect the delegate, and everybody who takes a share, or wh areni 'JoWlKerieTftOnb from, your asTrrwnaryoia''cait'jo remedy this evil, and have these -: . ,-' !Li 11 - as :(ief Engineer pftWia Acres of Rich Land one of a group to take share. will know Jum whose expenses be or she is helping to pay to Columbus. Hurely if a church will adopt this method, they will have- no trouble In raising f !t to send a delegate. The Anti-Saluon League begs the pastor, Sunday . School superintendents, and leader to call this matter to the attention of the congregations. Do not wait. If North Carolina is to keep place "at the head of the table" touching this great National conven tion We must -be up and doing. Let ters coming to us Indicate that there are hundreds over the Btat who want to go and the only thing that hinders is the matter of finances. If a pastor or a member of the congre gation will give his or her, time for week to take this trip, surely the balance of the congregation ought to turnish the money. In this 'matter the Antl-Baloon League lays emphasis on numbers. Nothing counts with statesmen and politicians like numbers. A conven tion of twenty tuous&ne will mean five times as much as a convention of ten thousand, 'and four hundred dele gates going from North Carolina will mean tea times as much as one nun dred delegates. This trip will be through tbe most beautiful mountains of western Vir ginia. West Virginia, and Kentucky, and also through the great coal fields of West Virginia. For further information write the North Carolina Anti-Baloon League, Raleigh. N. C ASHE IIXE Iil HGLARA. Roo Homes of Trio f ClUusvs Scene. tug Valuable 1oot. , ilMal N tti Hm sri UMie.1 Ashevllle. Oct 11. riobben enter Ml lha home of John Weaver. A. U. Bishop sjidr ArB. Knncttles.- in TiVeet Ashevllle, at an early morning hour y est at any, stealing. mney ana, .vaiua- bis property. In each instance, an entrance was forced through a rear window. It ts believed that the work is that of professionals Vho rame to Ashevllle to "work" the Western North Carolina fair. Within the past few days, several persons have com plained of pickpockets, the latest vie tim being president W. A. Newell, o Weaver College, who was toucnea rnr hla jpocketbook containing about 1 1 r TO SIJ1M4TMT. I'lSUAII.; Secretary and Mrs. Kryan Wocored as t.uesi of Aslicviuo l-nciiu. rsrwui tim Mm ib otMmt.) . Ashevllle. Oct. II. Fulfilling an engagement he made upon the open ing of the Urove park inn, secretary of State and Airs, uryan moiorea while here this week to tbe summit of pisgah mountain as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. George & Powell. Other truest were Ur. and Mrs. urea Beely, Congressman and Mrs. James M. Undcer. Jr.. V. I. Bradle, B. C Chambers. Frank M. Weaver and Don aid tilllis. The . motorists ten Asne- ville at an early morning hour ana returned to tbe city last nignu Rev. F. Swindell Love Will Take Chair of English at Gran . berry College. (Hrdtl Is TU Hm fd Obwrtm ) Klnaton, Oct 11. The pastorate of Rev. F. EwIndeU Love at Queen Street Methodist church here will end tomor row morning, at which time Mr. Love will preach his hurt sermon to a Kin- ston congregation. The popular young minister with his family will leave Monday morning for New Tork, from which port they will sail tor Brazil; to remain at least five years, unless circumstances compel tiieui to return to this country sooner. Mr. Love's charge here is one of the moat Important of the churches of the Southern Methodists In East Car ollna. and his influence here and the' conference has been so marked that his departure for the foreign field will create a vacancy that will difficult to flili' Mr.. Love waa born at Monroe. be N. C. He ts aa A. O. graduate (10S) of Trinity Cohere, where he did special work la English, philosophy and eco nomlcs, - and -an - A.- M.- graduate Columbia University In the depart. nient of political science. This work was done preparatory to teaching political science in 800 Chow Culver slty, China. - A failure of health -made theXrrallzatlon of this plan Impossible, and Mr. Love remained lh America and his native Slate. He joined the North Carolina Con ference at New Pern In 1107, and his first regular ministerial work was done ln Kinston In 160, from the .Uime-cJ' th.e Jute Dr. 'Frederick.-fw!n MMtlntf when h "H," nrin mrkirt "w PASTOR BESIGHS. GOING TO BRAZIL HW MwHw 'Hy. ehii ffilslil lapnlhs later he was new In appointed to tHe! ,KinMon''statffitr,iheirr served till the present time. His present pastorate here saw the com pletlon of the handsome new church of the Queen Street .congregation. To Granlwrrv College . In June of this year the board of missions of the Methodist Church Pouth, found that the resignation of Mr. Daniel Lmbuth, sen of Bihop Lambutr, rrom the faculty iof Uran berry College, in BraxiU left the de partmerits of Rngllsh and psychology made to Mr. L.ove, who at once ac cepted tbe place, and to begin this work....closea . hta .mlElstry , of. .noarjy three years pa Kinsu.i tomorrow. Cranberry, located atjuis de Fora, SO miles from Rio de Jsnelro. 1st per haps the most InQueuLUU sviioU In BraiU. To Be Reclaimed. . (BY I. W. CHAMBUS8.) 4 " Wilson. OcCli;The middle of the coming week wUl mark the beginning of what ts probably the biggest single development ever 'undertaken In North Carolina. Lawrence Brett of this city has been employed as chief engineer to the board of drainage commissioners of the Mattamuskeet Lake drainage district and tells me. that It Is expected that work on this proposition will start about October 1. . ,,'.-"- -r Mr. Brett has traveled over Hyde, county, in which this drainage work is to be done, and in fact made many of the surveys for the commissioners. He says that the fact of the matter is that Hyde county will be able to make sufficient corn to supply the State when the one hundred thousand acres affected by the drainage district is ready for the plow. - Mattamuskeet Lake district is the largest drainage district ln the SUte and the lake it self covers about (0,(00 acres and. 60,000 more are lying about, its bor ders. The lake la shallow, the depth ranging from three to seven feet and the loll of the bed, when drained wlU be as rich, it not richer than any In the State. . Hyde county, according to the. last census had a population of something Uke MOO people. The county Is al most ..entirely., .surrounded Tby .water . and the only land connection Is on the north side of the county. Parn- Uco" Bound is the county line on the east' and' south and H Is the purpose of the commissioners to pump the water from the lake Into an outlet canal which will In turn empty into the sound. The county seat Is Swan Quarter- town located in the south ern part of the county. . Almost In the center of the county ts the. lake and It was formerly the property ofc the Btate and was set 1 apart to the Stale Board' of Bdu--' tton. ' For many years. It has had no tangible' value and It Is doubtful if any: cltfsett' of '. Hyde . county ' ever dreamed of anyj value being attached to Lake Mattamuskeet Surrounding -the lake and distant from it possibly a quarter ef a mle is a sandy rhlxo which Varies from three o ten feet iu height This ridge stops the drain- age from the surrounding section of the country and the only water that enters the lake is that which falls within-the etrcle of the ridge. - 'Acre of Rica Land, Beyond this sandy ridge lie acres of rich farming land and yet the lack of drainage has prohibited the suc cessful cultivation of this land and It 1 practically worthless. Several years ago members of the State Board of Education together with several citizens of Hyde county organised, under the drainage laws of the State, a drainage district Cora rmssioners were lec.ted But legnl ob jections were made and Injunction granted. The last of these was deter mined by the Bute Supreme Court last December. In the meantime the Btate Board of Education sold their Interest In the lake and drainage dis trict to a private corporation ' for $100,000 and this corporation now owns the lake-bed. ' During the- past summer draln age bonds were issued and sold to northern capitalists. The money re ceived from the sale of these bonds Is to be expended by the drainage com missioners, of which board Mr. J. 8. Mann, of Mlddletown, is chairman and John P. Kerr is secretary, and contracts have, already been let for . the excavation work and tor the erec tion of the pumping plant The hoard has employed Mr. Law rence Brett as chief engineer and he will open an office near the scene ef operations. Competent engineers wilt be with htm and the work pushed ac cording to the plana Mr. Brett has already handled a number of drain age propositions but this la the big- ; gest proposition to come to him. A Mammoth Knterprbo. f This la a mammoth enterprise and la - being; watched with interest throughout the country, especially by those directly connected with drain age work, and the importance of land , reclamation. - The most approved plane are feeing followed and the sur- , . veys and estimates were submitted to engineers of the United States gov ernment and in fact some of the pre liminary plans and surveys were made by those experts, although the working plans were executed by Mr. Brett as a result of his .previous sur veys. . ,:.' ..,....: . . It Is proposed to erect a pumping station On the south side of the lake and possibly sis or seven miles from Pamlico sound and Install a two ktuse . ugwetMaltiw'"nti4IUg.-... station, Bnmrthfng Mf ?f mUe ot Uike into the reservoir 'at tue"p'ump-J be pumped Into the outlet canal which will carry It into the J'aml :co Sound. This plan has the endorse ment of the leading drainage experts of the Untted States. It Is estimated that about S.B00.000 cubic yards of earth will have to ke moved by the contractors and that about J0 freight cars will be neces sary to transport the mater'al srxl machinery for -the pumping station V Sir. "HreH estTrriateirtRafl'h -w-will Vcoulre about two years, tnl every effort Will be made to it'-h it '0 ci-mi.li-Uon. WhVn' It Is c.vri) ' mnre t)nj 100,000 acreii i f th.- , fertile forming - ltimi v. :U !: t to grow crc'i-s corn end t - - - - -
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