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PPS THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK OPPORTUNITY IN THE STATE THE BALSAMS DIXVILLE iNOTCH, N. H. Open June to October North Carolina Moving to the Front, With Room for All Comers. The new GOLF COURSE fulfilled every expectation in 1915. Each season the playing conditions will be improved. The Club House, really magnificent and harmoniz ing perfectly with its surroundings, occupies a site that could not have been better chosen nor more excellently arranged. The Hotel Plant, complete in every detail, is situa ated among forest clad mountains, upon an extensive tract including farms, dairy, fish-hatchery, hydro-electric plant, garage and machine shop. Pure spring water is supplied in abundance. Indoors there are rest and homelike comforts; out of doors every opportunity to enjoy tennis, boating, bathing and wilderness life. The Balsams Winter Inn, having steam heat, electric lights and private baths is open from October to June. For booklet and information address CHARLES H. GOULD, Manager, Dixville Notch, N. H. "Choisa" Ceylon Tea i lb. Canisters 60c 1-2 lb. Canisters 35c Packed in Parchment-Lined One Pound and Half -Pound Canisters We invite compari son with other Teas of the same or higher price. . . . . S. S. PIERCE CO., BOSTON. Tremont and Beacon SU Copley Square. 185 Milk St. (Wholesale) Coolidge Corner, BROOKLINE Unsurpassed Mineral Water ''mramS Bank of Pinehurst SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES TO LET CHECKING AND SAVING ACCOUNTS 4 PER CENT INTEREST J. R. HcQUEEN, President F. W. VON CANON, Cashier An Entertaining and Instructive Presentation of the Business Chances About Pinehurst. By Bion Butler IF A MAN is content to take put luck as the old folks used to say, and wants to pull up a chair with the rest of us, he will find in North Carolina more opportu nity than he knows what to do with. I can not undertake to point out opportunities to anybody. If I had shown Edison the opportunities that awaited Eli Whitney who built the cotton gin, Edison probably would have looked at it twice and passed it up as an interesting novelty, but of no concern to a man who felt an inter est in things electrical. An opportunity for one man is an abso lute waste to another. Since Neil Mc Neil came into the Cross Creek settle ment from Scotland a hundred and sixty years ago, the farm at Monticello has not been an opportunity. Two years ago J. W. Johnson bought the place, and he is taking several hundred bales of cotton from it, and it is making more money for him each year than anybody would have paid for it five years ago. Opportunity takes count of the man before it really becomes opportunity, for opportunity is of no use without the man. And when anybody recites to you that old statement that Opportunity knocks once at every man 's door I want to amend the announcement. Opportunity is fooling with the door bell all the time. Opportunity is the boy in the front wagon in North Carolina, because the geo graphy has put the State in about the right place on the map. The railroads have run out from the big cities toward North Carolina. The ocean was con structed right up to North Carolina's shores. The weather man fixed the right sort of climate for the State. The chief of the bureau of soils at Washington has shown that the farmer has a cinch here if he will get familiar with a little soil chem istry and some intelligent farming. The agent that planned the rivers arranged it so they have lots of fall to turn wheels. CENTER OF RESOURCE I have been studying the globe a little. I find that if you stick a pin in the heart of North Carolina and look over the globe you see it is just about as far from North Carolina to one side as to the other, which indicates that from here to all important points is about the most direct line. Do you know that if you take the port of New Bern, for instance, as a center, and draw as much of a circle as you can without reaching over into a foreign ter ritory or into the lakes or the ocean, you can cover more of the productive United States than from any other port. More territory of the United States is within five hundred miles of New Bern than of any other port on the Atlantic. That ter ritory has probably more of natural re sources than any other similar area on any part of the globe. Shorten the radius down to three hun dred miles and the resource still remains comparatively great. They remain so great that it is useless to try to estimate their limit. They remain so great that not in our day, nor in the day of the next generation or the next will they be found to have any limit. CAN EQUAL COTTON OF THE WORLD For instance, there is hardly a limit to the amount of cotton that can be raised in North Carolina. As much as is pro duced in all the United States at the present time could be made on the lane1 of North Carolina, and all of it could be made into cloth, and the cloth made into clothing, and the surplus clothing ex ported by sea from North Carolina poTts or distributed in American by North Carolina railroads. The entire cotton crop , of the world is just about big enough to give to each inhabitant one light weight suit of clothes a year, not counting underwear, handkerchiefs, table wear, stockings, automobile tires, bed covers and the thousand things that re quire cotton material. OR CLOTHE CHINA If China ever wakes up, and the old Empire is waking mighty fast, and de velops her mineral deposits, and makes machinery to help her increase her pro ductive power, and her people get into a shape that they can buy clothes enough to go around, the man who has a cotton farm in North Carolina will be fixed as well as the mall who has a key to the side door of the United States mint. People ask me in letters if I think it is wise to move to North Carolina. I answer that it would be wiser to ftech your wife and let her see a new country before she is nailed up fast in it. Some women do not like the idea of moving away from home folks and familiar sur roundings. Some men, if you want the facts, get homesick, too. Because a man is tired of working in a rolling mill, and wants to get back to Nature, does not signify that he can navigate a mule on a cotton row. Other things than commutator rollers and spark plugs get out of whack. It is about as tedious to bend your old back in a cot ton row in picking time as it is to bend over a column of figures. And cotton will not pick itself. Yet cotton is one of the greatest crops
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