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,one of the first polo games at Pinehurst, about 1915 St Visiting the native cabins in the region was a popular recreation among the Pine hurst guests of the last century A tennis tournament of the same period A gallery watching a North and South tournament of many years ago This curious vehicle was a common sight in the village .thirty years ago r At the Gun Club in an earlier day Notes on A period of business depression is not a bad time to glance at the a resources, unaffected by market conditions, which are the subsod of bust ness and which will weather any storm. . The Sandhills are, economically speaking, classed in the Yitdmont region of the two Carolinas, although geologically they are sharp y m ’ Sandhills being a part of the coastal plain, while the Piedmont 1 ing foothills of the Appalachians. Yet the good rdads which connect e Sandhill resort region with the thriving industrial cities of t e ie mon^ are symbolic of a connection between work and play, industry a tion. During the past twenty years one of the world s most spectacul ^ amples of increase in property values has been the section ° City in Che neighborhood of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, embracmg the territory around the Grand Central Station. During t e same P ’ wealth in this territory has increased 631%. The tota wea t mont Carolinas during the same period has increased 660% a very s ing comparison. Its industries and markets have grown as t an increasing realization of the factors behind them, raw matenals, labor, transportation, power, and availability. In regard to raw materials, the annual value of farm products in the two Carolinas is more than one-half billion dollars, of which the great cotton and tobacco crops furnish only about half. The Piedmont section ' ... draws upon 26,000,000 acres of forest land for an annual cut of over 1> 950 000 000 board feet of lumber and the production of other forest raw products, estimated to be worth in excess of $256,000,000. The great for est reserves of the Piedmont includes the largest stand of hardwood east of the Rocky Mountains. This is the basis of the great furniture industry . „ : of North Carolina, which now stands fifth in the Union in this regard. > Pulp and paper mills and factories which make barrels, boxes, baskets, . and other wooden containers, have been attracted by the available re- . . sources. 7 Mines ind quarries play a part of growing and little-realized import ance in the life of the Piedmont. Moore County is among the leaders. The Carolinas’ annual product of minerals is valued at $14,670,000, and includes clays and shales used in the brick, tile and ceramic industries and granite, limestone, marble, soapstone, asbestos and mica. Practically all , the residual kaolin used in the United States, the nation’s largest deposits of feldspar, and the only known commercial deposits of pyrophyllite in the country, are in the Piedmont region.
The Pinehurst Outlook (Pinehurst, N.C.)
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