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. jSltdk&L ^f balP'ol' these days he
regtens la the
I'lMcU. This is rather premstare
, liffiMp hM I warily beHere It Is
. sm>frt iBkportaat
Msaa^MS et iMpltnral Industry
^ . h that «t tr^ralelnc. Wilkes
^^asoaty is sitosted ia what Ms
ICBOwa n the laothermal belt and
Is the best fruiUcrowing section
^la the world. The Blue Ridge on
the north-west rising to the
' height of about 4,500 feet aboTe
.. saa lerel forms a wall to protect
as from the cold north-west
triads. On the south side are the
‘ Brnshy Mountains about 2000
feet above the soa level. Many
yeaiB ace It. waa discovered that
•rehards planted In the elevataii
coves and on the mountain sides
along the Blue Ridge and Brush-
Sas were very seldom damaged by
Irost in the spring, and that the
tmit was cot subject to the at
tacks of harmful insects abound
ing in the valleys and that the
fruit attained a perfection in
shape, color and flavor not known
to other localities. For the last
lew years- the quality of fruit
raised in this section has attract
ed the attention of the whole
country, and parties from New
Tork and other great fruit mark-
•ta have come to buy our fruit
and investigate the orchards, and
they have pronounced this the
finest fruit-growing section in the
world.
It is not my purpose to estab
lish a "scientific theory’’ in re
gard to this state of things but it
Is a fact, proven by scientific in
vestigation and established by
abundant testimony that, by rea
son of the nocturnal radiation of
heat absorbed during the day, the
stratum of air in the bottom of
a valley after nightfall is colder
than the air some distance above
the surface. Here this condition
is intensified by the greater a-
jnount of heated air and being
Burrounded by mountain walls
leaving no avenue by which the
heated air may escape, thus it
gradually rises and escapes
through .the gaps of mountains.
I quote the following paragraph
from the Handbook of North Car
olina, issued by the Department
of Agriculture:
“The fact remains that . within
the limits of these frost belts
fruit never fails, and at the height
of 1500 to 2000 feet (hoar) frosts
never falls. Such localities are
found . . . along the face of the
Brushy Mountains in Caldwell,
Alexander, and Wilkes. In the
future this phenominal section
must become of Inestimable val
ue, for nowhere is there such cer
tain assurance of the security and
maturity of peaches and other
tender fruit crops, or of the
grape; to the successful cultiva
tion of the grape the soil and the
general conditions of the climate
offer numerous inducements.’’
There is a large portion of soil
In the county that is especially
adapted to tobacco. A t the *
World’s Centennial Exposition at
Philadelphia several years ago to
bacco raised near Boomer, this
county, was awarded the first
prize. Tobacco raising could be
made an Important industry, and
is an excellent crop to put in ro-
' tation with wheat, corn and clov
er.
Another Industry that might
be mentioned at this time is the
cultivation of Genseng or Sang.
The roots of this plant sell for
fabulous prices, as the plant has
been almost extinguished. Wilkes
ia the natural home of this plant
and it will grow luxuriantly if it
can be protected from thieves.
The United States Department of
Agriculture has sent out a bulle
tin on Sang culture, and anyone
contemplating trying to raise this
plant should write to the Secre
tary of Agriculture, Washington,
p. 0-, and ask for a co^y. It’s
free. i I
Sheep raising could be made a
profitable branch of agriculture
industry. Before the stock law
ptore Miusager
TiMvt wars
iha rotmAvlifill
maaF.,^lil>rarttoa,
dwellinga,
iJ. On one
0*
Ihg along Aie oKibsitc^
side ef th« en^jfvaral hundred
yards awfy 4|^.^erfd wa«on
when deetd^'
to try tti^ upon the
Wagon and struck the
Woman and her.
Burl Hayes, popular manager
of Hayes Hardware oompaaiy,
which is located oa 'Tenth street'
In this city. ’Hie store carries
a large irtodc ct hardware,
seeds and Pnrina diows for
poultry and farm animals.
Hayes Hardware
Is Popular Stwe
Burl Hayes Manager; Store
Has Dealership Famous
Purina Feeds
Hayes Hardware company Is a
comparatively new firm in North
Wllkesboro, having been organiz
ed r »ly about five years ago, but
it .8 become a very popular
store with a widely growing pat
ronage in this section of North
Carolina.
Burl Hayes is manager and
part owner of the store and the
other owners are Kyle Hayes and
Joe F. Hayes, all of whom are
well and favorably known.
Burl is the type of gentleman
who likes to make friends and
to see them often. He always ap
preciates a visit to the place of
business which he operates.
In addition to handling a large
stock of hardware, farm and
household merchandise, the store
has the agency for the widely
famous Purina Feeds, famous as
the highest type of feed for poul
try and farm animals.
The store also carries a big
stock of field and garden seeds
and can supply almost any seed
order, whether it be lor a nickel
packet of garden seeds or enough
to seed an entire farm.
The firm invites a visit from
the people of northwestern North
Carolina and will be glad indeed
of the opportunity to quote prices
on hardware, seed or feed needs.
of the herd besides This is sim
ple logic and the people won’t be
long in catching the Idea.
When all the agricultural ad
vantages of Wilkes county are
considered it is hard to find a
county that will compare with it.
We can raise almost anything
that is grown in a temperate cli
mate. live "under our own vine
and fig tree,” and live sumptu
ously from the products of the
plantation, and bes.des sell a sur
plus each year. We have the pur
est free-stone water and the pur
est air in the world and the heal-
Ihfulness of our climate is not
surpassed. After considering the
blessings the Creator has so lav
ishly spread over our county why
will our young men leave the old
"State of Wilkes” and seek bet
ter chances el.sewhere? There can
be but one answer to that ques
tion: they lack information ajbout
the resources of their own coun
ty.
The last rhl4 of Wade and hto
gang of tubers was' a .raid into
flowing
I^WMBd jaiul: tH^bWtoto^
UW f^ Were coming thicker
o||l% mSVQpwpK trad
’,'ktffintfwmfadto atong tiiw
1^ lu)^ knbpM W{> the
ilm^wroand them. CHnMhey
"^thg to 'hold hig^WMikiM
ifiade on the mule, but BMrwn
was getting , weaker every aecond
frofa the loac'of tdood, and he a-
gai^l^ld Qwaltney to take care
0 htipaeU' as be was. already
itmdd. Brown then' fell> from bis
nhlevspoB the sand and died,
ind; ^altsgy hurried on to get
Alexander connty. John Greene, heyond U»e danger line.
father of Dr. W. C. Greene, was
one of the moat 4>rosperona plant
ers In Alexander connty. He had
learned th&t the robbers ' were
marching in the direction of bis
home, and supposing that they
would attempt to'roh hbn be set
about making inreparatlon to re
sist them. He supplied all his ne
groes and laborers with arms and
stationed them in the bouse. The
negroes were stationed in the
dining house and the old man
Greene and his son W. C. Greene,
whom Wade’s men bad threaten
ed to kill, took position In the
front part of the house. About
bed-time Wade’s men surrounded
the house and Wade and two
others went to the front door and
tried to deceive Mr. Greene by
pretending to be Confederate sol
diers returning from the war.
Their story waa not believed and
while 'Wade and Green were
talking some of the robbers tried
to force an entrance at a back
window. Young Green rushed to
the window and began firing on
the robbers who at once retreated.
The robbers went up on the
Brushies and stayed until about
daylight and then made their way
back to Fort Hamby. W. ,C
Greene at once set about to raise
a company to pursue the robbers
and capture them before they
could reach Fort Hamby; but
they soon found that they could
not overtake them.
’The people were enraged at the
conduct of these robbers and de
termined to drive them out of the
country or capture them and de
stroy them. A company was soon
made up—mostly of men from
Alexander county—^which was
prepared to make an attempt on
Fort Hamby. The company came
across the Brushy mountain by
Solomon Davis’ who had been
robbed by WtJe’s gang. Davis
told the men that he was too aid
to engage in the attack, but ne
wanted to enconrage them all lie
could. He had some four-year^old
peach brandy to which he told
the men to help themselves. They
drank what they wanted and some
of them filled their bottles and
carried them with them. Jones
Brown who had just returne
from the Confederate army wa
in the company, and was rid’nr
a mule beside Parks Gwaltney
When they W'ere riding along thf
bank of the Yadkin river Brown
was in a very solemn mood. Sud
denly he drew bis bottle of bran
dy from his pocket and tossed it
over the river bank and said:
’Parks, I never intend to touch
that again.” Gwaltney, in relat
ing the incident several years
later said that “coming events
seem to cast a shadow before
them.” But they marched on.
and when they were near the fort
consnltation was held and a
plan of attack was agreed upon.
The company, which was com
posed of about 26 men, was di
vided into two squads—one un
der the command of Captain
Evan Ellis, of Wilkes, and the
other under the command of Col
onel Sharp of Alexander. One
squad was to dash by and be
ready to commence the attack on
all sides simultaneously. When
this was done the fort was sur
rounded an(j firing began. The
robbers within the fort returned
the fire and the battle was hotly
contested James Linney was shot
and killed during the engage
ment. ’The robbers had all the
advantages of the fight, as they
were protected from the fire of
FORT HAMBY
In the spring of 1865 about citizens by the thick log wails
of the fort, while the citizens
were in open view of the robbers.
After seeing that the attack could
only rjsult in disaster to the
citizens they retreated under a
the time of the surrender of Gen
era! Lee and immediately follow
ing, there was a band of despera
does under i'ue leadership of a
, man named Wade, a deserter of
was enacted nearly every farmer; ^jjg Yankee army, who made
had a herd of scrub sheep run-j po^t Hamby,
ning "outside’’ on mountains and Hamby was an old fashioned
hills. ’These herbs of scrub sheep I pggj^gnce built of logs; there
paid better than anything else the | two b'tildings, the larger
farmer raised considering the cost jone was two stories high and was i
and labor. The wool furnished jjjje one used as the fort. The oth-
the whole family in winter cloth-.g^ building was about thirty feet He followed them and again
ing and lots of wool to sell to the | (,.qiu main building, only one Lgppgned to get with Jones
ons thft sheep jstory high and was used as the {Brown. They were riding side by
heavy fire from the robbers.
Parks Gwaltney said that he was
marching back and forth firing
into one of the windows of the
fort where the robbers were con-
Btantly passing when he discover
ed that his comrades were retreat-
■ market, j kitchen. These buildings were on side when they came to the ford
When the stock law was enacted, the north side of the Yadkin rlv- Lf Lewis Fork creek. While they
the people thought that since jgr near the mouth of Lewis Fork,
their sheep could not run at large | about eight miles we.st of Wil-
their sheep raising Industry was
deetroyed, so they sold their
sheep and quit the business. That
was a very foolish step Indeed.
Nearly every farm in the county
has some land that is too rough
to pkrw that would make excel
lent pasturage for a herd of
j-ebee*.'finppose you fence In such
- n M^pa land, say 25 scree, and
i’lpat la It l»roty-flve the best Im-
> atoek of sheep, fiach year
tX& votto of
kesboro. They were situated on
top of a hill overlooking the bot
toms of the Yadkin river ind
Lewis Fork creek, and from the
fort windows was an excellent
view on either side. It was an
ideal location for a fort and no
doubt Wade and bis gang of rob-
b^ers felt secure inside the heavy
log walls. .
The gang consisted 6t^
and Lodewood, two r.
Tankae daaertws, and
;fi|;bty^firo men treai
were in the ford the mule which
Brown was riding became stub
born and would not go along. The
balls from the fort were flying
thick and fast all around them
Gwaltney was aiding Brown ir
trying to get the stubborn mule
along. 'While they were yet in the
ford a ball struck Brown on the
thigh and the blood spouted anc
the clear mountain stream flow
ed OB-Jt^mrd the sea crimsoned
irtto Jh«yhl^, iff ., a , 8onth«rr
Iji^a dtitoam. .t(Qni’hnin jnaf bdtore di^ to fUnrftMM.
iSa.fort. ll^SaB 'dto clwna
the -planerWhere' they
to camp they eevor
il Ughtr ahA they. apjMwed.
WiUtowkDilP' had.af
OB ■iwlMi' fhidSharps
them
ed dosrii!:^ 1^ indn hutJto
snrprise of
finding a
company Bfr.iahon'’ «W^-^ve
men from- CaldweO
attack Wade's ganfc ||tt'i^beyilC
' The caid^n ' iei^.^aBd th«
Alexander .^TyeddQ'^i^ ’ Wilkes
men joluad'-foMed add-awldto be
fore day thw aiuroanded the fort
and began f)i« li^&ek. AQ that day
and all that next night the firing
waa kept up but no man on eith
er side was killed- Awhile before
daylight the tocond night Wall
Sharp slipped up to the kitebdn
under the'cover of darkness of
night and set it on fire. When
Wade and his men discovered that
the kitchen 'was burning they
thought the fort would be certain
to catch off fire and that they
would either bftte to surrender
or be cremated in the fort, so
Wade asked what quarters would '|
be given if they would come out
and surrender. One of the men '
replied; "We’ll give you a pass
port to h—I!” But Wade thought
it better to surrend-jr than to re
main and be burned np in the
fort; 80 be announced that they
would come out and surrender.
A cqnlpany of men from Cald
well codnty had ’ preyloUsly/ at
tacked Fort Hamby, and 'iTas auc-
beeded ini getting to the fort .bUjL
were unable to capture R. to the
engagem.iknt the Caldtvdl crowd
lost two' men—Clark and Hense-
ly.—Who were shot and killed 'by
the robbers. '
Althoogb defeated in the first
engagement, yS e- pijpq>J(|:. ';werf
more determined than ever to
burst up the gang of robbers con
gregated at Fort Hamby, and im
mediate preimration was made for
a second attack. The first com
pany was reinforced by men from
Wilkes, Alexander and Iredell
counties, and about 3 days later
they went more determlnsd than
ever to capture The rtAbers. The
Intention was to camp on the
south side of the Yadkin and wait
Leon Lemcr, a native of Po
land who came to North
Wllkesboro only one year be>
fore Hitler gotMed his na^
tlve land, b the popular man
ager of Lemei's department
store on Main Street.
But by some meaim presumably
by jumping from a window, Wade
got out of the fort w.tbout being
detected and Instead of surren
dering made a break for the river.
(Continued on page flvei
■; Laoo ^tornetr came to Anertea
fiom Poland, hia native Iand,.^|
knt.^.aeaiilte the fact that h baa ^
baen.in this oonntry only a short
time he priisa his American eltl- j
zenshlp very highly. . ,
i] He wu educated in the schools
of -Poland but when he came to
America he did not know any
thing about the Elngllsb langu-
to. less than two yewn he has
^miailent U#4§tot MB'-ltodeto-
to» and whewMr ehtm North,
Wilfcwboro good place to *
enter' Into busfiess be sent Leon
bmo as manager and he has been
doing very well with the baMness
and has become poiralBk trilh )■ a
fast growing muBhar ^ acquaint
ances in this sSfetioi ot ibc 'state.
r'Leyner’s bas'A Une'^'of
dIoChijir tor all memboi!s Of the
family and at popular prtoes. You.,,
.arc iscrited to visit the store when
yon are in North Wllkesboro and
if he has time Leon will tell you
something about Poland if yon
insist.
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