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f PAGE W3fcteg"THE PINEHURST OUTLOOKHggg 1 tice of electrical utility. It will be the post graduate in everyhing in which electricity and electrical energy pertains. It will be so modern and complete that we cannot foretell what it will be, for it will introduce a lot of things that are not invented yet. That new town will be an experimental laboratory for electrical researce and test. It will be a mecca for electrical men from all over the world. The Yadkin River is picturesque throughout its entire distance from the mountains to the sea. It is significant of big things, of things of .the first mag nitude, and I am of the opinion that over in the Yadkin Valley is destined in a short time to be a remarkably lively in dustrial community, reaching from up about Salisbury on the Southern Rail road down to Rockingham on the Sea board Air Line. In that distance there are many opportunities for water power development of big power, from twenty five thousand horse power up to more than that, and power of such vastness indicates a future. THE BIGGEST DAM IN THE WORLD The work going on over on the Yadkin is prophetic of what is ahead for North Carolina. This State is making surpris ing progress in manufacturing. Last Summer the North Carolina Department of Labor reported an increase in manu factured products of from about eighty million dollars fourteen years ago to two hundred and forty-five million dollars last year. The cotton manufacturing a year ago exceeded in value all the prod ucts of all the factories in the State four teen years ago. The rate of increase is one of the most pronounced factors in the industrial advancement of the United States From 1900 to 1913 the cotton mills of the State multiplied at this same phe nomenal rate. The power used in the cotton mills increased in that period from fifty-three thousand horse power to al most a hundred and forty thousand horse power, and the power used in other man ufacturing industries increased in the same proportion. Another thing that is astonishing is the diversification of fac tory product. A wide variety of things is made now in the State by shops and factories that are daily increasing in size and volume of product. The electric wires of the power plants gridiron North Carolina more completely than is the case any other place on the glbbe, and they represent more electrical power more widely and completely' distributed to all the towns and communities than can be found any place else. This big affair on the Yadkin is of such a nature, and is located on a stream of such character that the development of power in quan tity can be duplicated in several places. The real limit of the power of the Yad kin cannot be told until the whole stream has been carefully measured from mouth to the mountains and a careful and ac curate estimate made of the fall, rain fall and the area of the watershed in all sections of the valley. It is known that the Yadkin would supply sufficient energy to turn all the wheels in any one of a large number of States. That is how that one valley rates among the in dustrial possibilities of the world, and what the development over at the Nar rows is forecasting at the present. Naturally the vast amount of power that is coming into reach in the Yadkin Valley encourages the people to look foward to nearly every conceivable thing that power stands for. A number of towns are already prospering with their adjacent cotton mills and the thrifty farms that surround the factory towns and find at the towns a convenient mar ket for their cotton and other products. PASSING PINEHURST In the older towns is all the newness that comes from the genesis of progress. New life has outclassed the old indif ference in all of them, and in each par ticular community the bustle and activity are in strange contrast with the old vil lage quiet. From Pinehurst westward to the Yadkin is a continuation of devel opment. The first community of conse quence out of Pinehurst is West End. There has sprung up a village among the farms that are making, and apparently a considerable center of farm making has commenced. Northward from West End goes the extension which takes in Eagle Springs, Samarcand, Candor, and the new life along the main line of the Nor folk Southern road, which has within a year or so opened the country all the way across the Yadkin to Charlotte. Or, proceeding westward from West End, which is not west of very much, the Jackson Springs country is encountered, and after it the new development out through Montgomery County directly toward the river. The railroad will carry passengers over to the river from Pine hurst. Or, the man who likes to travel in his own vehicle, may take his car out over most of the territory between Pine hurst and the Yadkin by making inquiry as to the condition of the roads. Many miles of good roads have been built out that way in the last two or three years, so that almost any place is accessible, except at certain rainy periods, and even by this time the uncertain spots may be in good repair, as the work of road build ing is progressing all the time. Mont gomery County is different from Moore. The Piedmont commences with Mont gomery. The hills begin to rise higher, and rocks to take the place of sand. Montgomery is not so typically of the South as Moore. Montgomery County has long had a reputation for yellow legged spring pullets. There is a legend current in the hungry belt of the State that somewhere down around Mt. Gilead the people have located a poultry mine, and along in the Spring when the gall berries begin to blossom down in the low country the railroads begin to haul out of Montgomery County crates of friers until you would figure that Montgomery County must be on the Delectable Moun tain, and living with the heads of the people in the clouds. At certain seasons the baggage car of the trains coming out of Montgomery County would incline you to think that a conference is in ses sion down the road a short distance, or that the general assembly is convening tomorrow not far away. However, it is not the preachers that the chickens are going out to greet. But everybody. Without such names as Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, Wyandotte, etc., Mt. Gilead would hardly be able to talk the English language; for those words con (Concluded on page ten) A Bright Outlook For Your 1916 Game COLONEL "27" "29" "31" Colonel "27" Full size, floater Colonel "20" Medium size.sinker V Colonel "31" Small size, sinker J Everywhere $9.00 St. Mungo Manufacturing Go. of America J2M23 Sylvan Ave., Newark, N. I. New York, 36 Warren St. Chicago, 36 So. State St. boston, 143 Federal St. San Francisco, 417 Market St. I ' fc.s.6lONEC .;; ', 8 r , ( -,..,-r.. . .... ;f-j urn "&ry imsm-mmem mtmm. as .-igtm&ii&,t"-ia. HOTEL WE NT WORTH NEW CASTLE PORTSMOUTH N. H. The Leading New England Coast Summer Resort. Every facility for sport and recreation : Golf, tennis, riding, driving, yachting, fishing, bathing and well equipped garage under competent supervision. Fine livery. Music by symphony players. Accommo dates 500. Local and long distance telephone in every room. Send today for illustrated booklet. WENTWORTH HOTEL CO., H. W. 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