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fOL. XXX
MOUNT AIRY, WORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1900
NO. 12.
7m I-
SHOULD A NORTH CAROLINIAN GO WEST?
By W. EDQAR WOODRUFF.
To go West or not to go West J up litigation over his land and
that is the question. Whether
it is better to suffer the narrow
confines of' a sure, but meager,
existence on the parental farm
in North Carolina or to go West
where gold grows on bushes and
alfalfa grows as big as a pine; to
stay at home, have no Sunday
fihoes and never get to go any
where, or to go West, learn some-
ui....
tame broncos and face the Red
Man on his own reserve these
are some of the questions young
men of N. C. have wrestled with
since the days of Daniel Boone
and Davy Crockett. (Shakespeare
will please pardon the para
phrase). Of recent years N. C.
a great exodus of her strongest
sons in answer to the call of the
West Many more are no doubt
coi
f
ing the years and waiting
pe time when they will be
white and twenty-one";
an fViatr urill lriV r their I
knock the dust of defiance
-u ,r , . j . ,
Old Aian s face and put
e
br the Land of Promise. The
H: i rt o rrro I o or v r rr I T f A rnn ixJ I
The West has, and, since most of i
us inheril a love for the chase,
the North Carolinian longs to
gratify this hunting instinct in j
the wilds 6f tftewest. Many, per- j
haps most, yo ; ; ren who go1
west have an honest desire to
better their material condition.
heir friends have gone before
them and some have returned
and told wonderful teles about
fabulous wealth to be gained in
the wonderful country. They
tell of new kinds of crops, of
new methods of agriculture and
of new ways making a living. I
have knocked about over a great
portion of the west during the
past few years, and too, I think!
I know something of the: earn-
inss of the average boy in N. C.
and it is for this reason that I j
wish to discuss for his benefit the !
west as I see it. i
west west to-day.
The west of wild and woolyi
cowboys, of Red Men on the war j
puth, of encounters with griz-
zlies and adventures among the
wilds, is gone. True, large game
may vet be found in places
throughout the Rocky Mountain
region, but even the bear and
deer are fast disappearing. Where
once the lordly buirulo. the black
tail deer and the fleet-footed an-
telope grazed in peace now graze
the peaceful herds of the cattle
man. Wh.'ie once grazed the
herds of the rancher now flour
ish cities, supported by the irri
gated ranches of prosperous far
mers. In the early day the bat
tle was to the strong and the
race to the swift. The man who
got on the ground first could take
up a gold mine or a good ranch,
only for the taking. All he had
to do was to squat on it and
,
UG"
fend his rights against all com
ers. If he took up a ranch, he
could go up strtam and put in
own irrigation system. Now all
of that is changed. There is lit-;
tie or no desirable Government i
land to be had. What there is I
can only be brought to a state of
cultivation by a large expendi-'
ture of money. In some places
where it would be comparatively
easy to take out water for irriga
tion, the new comer runs the
risk of encountering vexatious
and costlv lawsuits over water
rights. I am told there is 1 class
of lawyers in a certain western
state that make it a business to
bleed the new comer by stirring
C vouth because to him it snells ! ffet ready to plant a Secd- Mr F
L you h because to him "spells H N th Director of the
Adventure, and answers the call IT n , 0
... , , .United States Raclamation Ser-
of his young blood for the un-' . . , .,
. . , , , . , . , vice, said recently,
tried and unknown. And tooi , , . . . ,
xt r u r.ii 1 1 The man who buy3 irrigated
N. C. has little or no big game. 1, , , ... . ...
water title. It is true that from
time to time the Government
puts in irrigation projects and
throws open to entry small blocks
I rP TnKnn t n n J tint atran on
,takes to put the land in
readiness for cultivation. The
drawing of this land is made by
lot, application being made by
mail, and out of several thous-
and applications only a few hun
dred awarfed lani Q
Only
forty acres of irrigated land is
allowed a homesteader under
these conditions. Just such a
strip of land has recently been
thrown open at Yuma, Arizona.
The Government in this case gave
out the information that no one
need apply for land unless he
were able to spend at leat thirty
five dollars per acre in clearing
it of mesquete brush and putting
it in readiness for cultivation.
That would mean an outlay of
l",
sana uouars more ior iencmg ana
. .... , , .
. 6 '. ' Mrrin , ;
, , , . f . , .,
He should know absolutely that
his title to water rights is gocd."
"The irrigated countries are no
place for the poor farmer. The
man who goes th?re must use his
brains in all his farming. He
must be willing to learn. He must
work hard and he must have some
capital."
The best plan for the man who
wants an irrigated ranch is for
him to go to a community that
seems to suit him, rent for a year
or two and prove the soil and
then, if he still likes, buy a good
ranch. He will have to pay down
Ln 11 at ,east twenty Pfr cent of
the Purchase price; but then a,
Kood ranch will help to pay for
lt3elf whlle he miRht be home-!
steading an unproductive place;
or . else trying to eke out a mere
h,vlng " an ,"fenoLr h? cheaper
piucc. uui no snuuiu always
keep nj3 weather eye on the real
estate man. For the western
real estate man is notorious as a
liar, and usually looks upon the
Easterner as a gentle lamb to be
(leeced. Conditions in the west;
are so diligent, the soil so tie-1
ceptive and so unlike Kastem '
soil that no man is capable of us-j
ing his own judgement until lie,
has actually seen for himself howl
any given ranch will produce.
The real estate man often knows
less about the soil and ranching
than a stranger. His business
is to sell land, not cultivate it. j
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.
Business opportunities are
plentiful. For the man with small ,
capital and plenty of ability this j
is the surest way for him to win ,
out. A man who has money can !
! always make more money with it
(jiunucu iic ivuuvva iiuw , una i uic :
. ,1,
, is particularly true or tne west. (
But don't conclude for a minute
1 that the west is tame as a place
for business ventures. It spells
"hustle" and the man who will
win out must have no sawdust in
his head and no lazy germs in his
bones. As the business man saves !
his money he can invest it in real
estate, for being on the ground
he will have opportunity to buy
intelligently and at a bargain. 1
THE PROFESSIONAL MAN.
In the East und South there j
are two doctors, two lawyers and, '
I had almost said two preachers j
where there ought to be but one.
The drofessions are not so crowd-
:?d in the west. In the newer!
portions of the west there is a
real need for more professional
men of brains, education and
sound morals to move into the
new towns and grow up with the
country. Public school teachers
too are needed. The schools pay
from $65 to $95 per month and
run from six to nine months. In j through these into hoboes and
some places the county superin- toots. My red-nosed friend clean
tendents have to advertise in the! n those saloon cuspidors there
East for teachers. But they want
real live ones. Muttonheads and
such as have not had good nor
mal training cannot stand the re
quired examination.
WAGE EARNERS.
Wages are high. The thought
of getting from $45 to $G0 per
month for work on a farm seems
wonderful to the boy in the East.
Work requiring technical skill is
much higher in proportion. But
this however must be borne in
mind. The cost of everything
you buy will be double what it
would cost you in the East. The
Young man in N. C. who now
hires out for farm work at $15
per month and spends it all for
clothing and incidentals, such as
candy, etc., for his sweetheart,
would find that his larger wage
in the west would go just as eas
ily from him.
By strict economy I think the
sober, sensible, saving young fel
low could lay up money faster in
the wes than in the East. The
only way to save money any
where is to save it! But with
new surroundings come new de
sires and new needs. I suppose
seventv-five per cent of the N.
C. boys who go west return af
ter a stay of two or three years.
The glamor of the new soon wears
off. They work" out enough mon
ey to get safely home on and
have a few dollars to make a
"splurge" on. It is hard to say
what per cent of those who re
main in the west make a success,
some settle down and do well,
others become tramps and ho
boes. Some of those who return
become good and prosperous citi
zens, their minds and business
methods having been enriched by
their stay in the west. But the
most contemptible fellow of all
is he who has spent a few years
in the west, flunked out and re
turned to his native state, only
to become a chronic growler-al-ways
boasting of the glorious
west and depreciating everything
in his home state. There should
be a law to put such a fellow on
the public roads until he is cured.
THOSE WHO SHOULD NOT GO.
Horace Greely's advice to young
men to go west and grow up
with the country should not now
be given to all indiscriminate!.
There are some who should not
go. Middle-aged men should
not except in rare cases, sell out,
break up and go into a new coun
try among strangers. An ex
ception to this rule might be made
in the case of the man of means, 1
who wants to leave his children j
when he dies in a community
where there is the maximum of
financial opportunities. But even
so he should then first make a
trip to the section where he pio
poses making his new home and
canvass the situation thoroughly ;
before selling out and moving,
If he ha3 means enough to weath
er the storms and adversities of
the first few years it may be
for him a good move. But for
the average man of middle life it! a
is folly to break up and go west.
I know several such men who
have broken themselves down by
hard work, ruined their spirit by
separating themselves from their
old associates and have grown
old in a comparatively short time.
No young man should go west
who has not reached his twenty-
fifth year. He should have com- j
pleted at least the public school. '
Boys and young men who are
wild and easily led astray, or
who have no fixed purpose in life
go west and are soon immersed
in dissipation. Drinking and gam
bling places are plentiful. The
unwary and unfit soon graduate
boasts that he graduated in the
same class with the late W. R.
Harper, founder and first presi
dent of the University of Chic
ago. "That fellow you met yes
terday with his bedding rolled
up and swung on his back, hunt
ing for a temporary job on a
ranch, was once a superinten
dent of a division on the B. & 0.
R. R." "That young fellow who
wa3 crushed under the train
while riding on the rods, was
the son of a prominent Eastern
family. He ran awav from
home." "That fellow who ask
ed you for two bits to get a meal
with came from your own state.
Drink has ruined him." That
man Black who sold his apple
crop this year for $G,000, came
here from Virginia six years ago.
He worked for wages the first
year." So the story runs. The
young man between twenty-five
and thirty-five who has a fair
education, brains, grit, will-power,
good morals and good health
and a determination to stick by
it and win out, will more than
likely do well in the west. While
the unstable, inefficient and pur
pose less will go down and out.
But such a young man would win
out anywhere. Whether he mixes
his brains and grit with the clay
of the M C, hills or with the
black loam of the Mississippi
valley is immaterial.- It is not
for me to say where he will make
the greater success. If he has
a good start in N. C, he should
stay there. If not, and he has
no one depending upon him, then
provided he is a "postage stamp','
i,ort of fellow, he might go west
with profit. Some of the richest
mines in the country have been
discovered in places where the
people have least suspected their
existence. But some day under
neath their very feet the fellow
who was keeping his eyes open
unearthed a treasure. In New
England the farms have been so
depopulated by the removal of
the young blood to the towns and
elsewhere that land has become
very cheap. The young man who
is on to hi3 job wide awake and
energetic is now finding that I
right there at home is a veritable;
gold mine. He farms the ances- j
trial acres with intelligence and j
in a way that they never knew ;
before, and t'no.;.1 a? res ;;r. sr.rl
ing back to him in dividend i that
his father never dreadi 'd of.'
May this not be t !:: of th land
in N. C. ? You:ijf man, g.-tyou.;
a ranch (pardon me, a farm) and
mix brains a9 we a3 sweat with
the 0j. Don't be afraid of theo-
ries. Run your own little ex
periment station. Take some
good farm paper. What is bet
ter, read it! Get behind every
good movement and boost. Work
for good road$ till good roads
come. Interest yourself more in
the election of good county com-
missioners than in the election of ,
good congressmen, they mean
more to you. Not long ago I saw 1
this motto on the R. R. station of ,
new western town, "Boost,;
Boost, d. . . . the kicker." You
may leave off the last and call it
the typically western, but don't 1
leave off the boosting. There are
people in Chicago, Milwaukee,!
Pittsburg, Minneapolis, and prac
tically all the central western'
towns who will move into your
state and buy your land at a good
figure and build good homes upon
it if you will first work for good
roads, good schools, good local
county government, in short, in
boosting vour own home. Moore
county, N. C. never knew that
it had some of the finest grape
, .
and strawberry - soil on the contm-
t a T K y 8hoting himself
xouna ic out ana provea it to the thryugh the head m
was
peop e of that county. Then itfound tonight at his home near
was too poor to grow peas now , clemmonSf 12 miIea west of here
it is valuable Some one of these He had ,eft his home an(J ended
days a monster real estate com- his ife in a thick piece of pines
pany will buy up all the good ap-' and cedars
?ngr;TrT!fndpal?n,!rhe ff Mr. Wharton had suffered in
hills of the Blue Ridge for nearly ... .
a song. Then that company will ! nse,y r several years from as
sell the land in small tracts of tha and rheumatism and since
twenty and thirty acres to north- returninf 'rom Hot Springs, Sev
ern people at a fabulous price eral weeks was tfflicted with
and your young North Carolinian lanchoha. With rare excep
who is now yawning around, t,on3 ,he had not left his bed in
wishing that he was beyond the!Sfevera eeks- , Ie justed
RrvirSp. w;n B;t anA va !from Davidson college with hon-
tice and probably complain that
he never had a chance!.
Now if anyone who reads this
paper cares to go west and wants
further information, I would re
fer him to the August number of
the "World's Work," Doubleday,
Page & Co., New York, price 2oc.
This edition is devoted almost ex
clusively to tne t'acmc Coast,
But I warn you to remember that
a booster, particularly a western
booster, sometimes puts things
in print that glow so red hot that
they scorch the facts.
Teuchad A Liva Wira.
Durham Sun.
Knocked violently to ihe floor
and there struggling for perhaps
three or four minutes to get free
from an electric wire which sent
fully 225 volts of electricity
through him, was the expeV.enca
of Mr. Penda E. Upchurch, who
had a narrow escape from death
yesterday afternoon about 5
o'clock at the Chandler Produce
Company, on Peabody street.
As a result he is today suffer-
: ! - aLa - Ml ,tV'
mg irom injuries mat win proo.-p Andrew Joyner. the Greens
ably keep him from work for a boro pres3 correspondent, sends
few days. Besides having his a story to hia papere to the effect
hand burnt, he received a cut on j that Mr N GIenn Williams, of
the head and several bruises onj Yadkin countVf during nis visit
different parts of the body. 1 10 Washington last week with
Yesterday afternoon a messen- j his ,awyer Mr Spencer Adam3
ger boy brought a telegram for I of Greensboro, succeeded in ef
an order of bananas, and he went ; fecting compromises with the
into the basement, wh.ch has a ; Department of Justice in the
bituhthic floor, to prepare them;suit3 pending in the federai
for shipment. Here he attempt-: court3 against Mr Williams. One
ed to pick up a regular light to of the indictment3 Wa9 in regard
convey it to another part of the t0 the poStomce at Williams of
place when he received the shock. which Mr Williams was post
At first he tried to call for help m,ster for severa, yearg and the
but was unable to do so. After ' otker one jn rc,f,anl tf) irrcj:uiari.
ne was Knocneu to tne noor ne
tried hard to release his hand
irom ti e wire but it was some
time before he could do it. He
sai.l he experienced an awful feel-
inr. ana cerrainiy tnougnt nis
earthly career was at an end. An
ordinary liht wire is charged
with 110 volts, but if a circuit i.s
formed on a wet floor, as was
djne jesttrday, the charge is
doubled. The least amount known
to kill a man is 200 volts, so if he
had rtifnained in contact with the
wire very much longer it would
probably have resulted in death.
Sickening headaches, indiges-'
tion, constipation, indicate un-i
healthy condition of the bowels.
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea
makes the bowels work naturally
and restores your system to per
fect health and strength. Begin
tonight. Ashcraft Drug Co. and
Taylor Drug Co. !
MAMMOTH BLACK PIGS
A pair of this famous breed of hogs will lay the founda
tion for a nice income as the Digs sell readily for cash at big
prices. One that I sold dressed 978 lbs.
JOHN A. YOUNG,
Greensboro Nurseries,
Greensboro, N. C.
Forsyth Carmer Suicides.
Winston-Salem, Oct. 1. Mr.
A. C. Wharton, known as the
best farmer in Forsyth county
and a man of wealth and culture,
I - u mull yi T, 1 ai bll auu
ended his ,ife ghort)y aftef
noon
. ors and'served in the civil war
under Chief Justice Walter Clark,
with whom he was quite friendly
all his life.
Mr. Wharton was 63 years old.
He is survived by a wife and five
children. The funeral services
will be held Sunday afternoon at
Clemmons.
j Report of Rev. J. ?. Roduers, Agent,
,or w"k fcnJ,n sPnr 2J 190-
, H. G. Chatham, $200.00; A.
Chatham, Sr., $100.00; A. G.
Click, $25.00; R. L. Hubbard,
$15.00; J. F. Hendren, $100.00;
. E. G. Click, $10.00; J. S.
LAtkinson, $25.00; Mrs. J. B. ILr-
ton, $5.00; R. L. Poindexter. $10
00; C. N. Bodenhamer, $10.00;
W. S. Gough, $12.00; A. M.
Smith, $300.00; Mrs. A. M.
Smith, $100.00; R. M. Chatham,
$25 00; Mason Lillard. $25.00;
W. WhjUkMvi, c. Vr
man' $l&06ni.. ,.!.' i,
$5O.0OvV. B. Minick, $10.00; E.
F. McNeer, $50.00; Mrs. E. F.
NcNeer. $25.00; Total, $1,006.00.
Christian Advocate.
Haa N.
-
C. Wiillama Compromiatd
Hta Caaas.
tio3 at hU government distillery.
! Mr. Joyner also states that Mr.
vvnimo nJ i? ,ni,OJtn.
Minn( t0 be operated upon at
the Mayo hoiipita, for a ,om?
standing and troublesome di
sease. His physicians have ad
vised and urged this operation
for many mouths, but Mr. Wil
liams has steadily refused to un
i dergo it until he had settled all
of his revenue troubles and could
leave his family, in case of fatal
result, free and clear of all legal
complications.
At the office of District Attor-
1 r.ey Holton today it was learned
that the department has not vet
made any report of the reported
compromise
case.
in Mr. William's
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