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PAGE 2 DIVERSITY EDITIONTHE ADVANCE SECTION 3 The Percentage of Increase; Agriculturally, Industri ally and Educationally in North Carolina has Surpassed Any State in the Union. The Great Development in Elizabeth City and the Adjacent Territory is Simply Phenomenal. The "Picture City" In the Heart of the Immigration Influx that is Bound to Gather Much Meritorius Human Material -18,000 Souls in A.D'. 1920. Ill a statement issued nearly tell yearn ago. the then rvrni OZ, K. B. (ilenu, said : "The great development now going on in our state is not con, fined to any one locality lint ex tends everywhere and is sini ply phenomenal. "In 1HWI, Xotfth Carolina was the poorest state in the Union, while today its percentage ' increase, agriculturally indnw trially and educationally, has surpassed every other State. ' 'The value of our lauds has advanced fifty, and in some places me hundred per cent. Jfo other state has as many cot ton mills, arid we are third in number of spindles and loons. Next to the largest furniture town in the world is in North Carolina; we make about six hundred thousand bales of cot ton, anyl manufacture more than we make, and this year have surpassed all othT states in the manufacture of plug tobacco. Our increased val nation of property from HMM when it was ,W,0MI,000, to 1905, when it amounted to f it:?. 000,000, was 41 r cent, while the increase in Texas, the next largest, was ,nl about twentv per cent." Now look back, and without invoking statistics, for they arc not at all necessary, and think of the remarkable progress in all lines since Mr. (ilenn made those remarks. I The increase must have been more than fifty per cent during the past decade, when the greatest wave of prosperity in the history of the commonwealth swept over it from the beach to the Tennessee line. Nowhere in this State has this progress been more marked than in Pasquotank and the counties adjacent thereto and in no section have the (X'o pie adopted a more wide awake policy than here, and as a re gult in an incredibly short timei, rural districts have been (flpnverted into villages, and vil lages into thriving manufactur ing towns where the hum of machinery and the clatter 'if aw, indles. hammer and other implements make music to the Industrial ear. Hem, too. gardens and truck farms have been reclaimed from the marshes and barren fields until in truth we gather roses where thistles once abounded, and fruit instead of briars. Nature has given this section every variety of soil, from the muck of the swamp, the sti fl" clay land of the higher eleva tions, the sandy loam and al luval soils, t, the fertile rich lands of the rivers aiul creeks producing every kind of crop fror-i . ;o K.tton, ofti'i' 'he -tame farm yielding corn, wheat, peanuts, i i:ieo. cotton, ie ions, grapes. I'ruitic ami gr.o ..-. Along the "valleys" of the flt?paiis. t is not unusual to find lands that will yield from oic thousand pounds to a ton of Cotton and seed t. the acre, and from forty to fifty bushels of com or more. During the past twenty years j ..along the railroads and streams ' ' traversing this fertile country. sjiwial attention has been giv en to trucking, and the vast amount of cabbage, lettuce, po tatoes, strawberries and all other early fruits and vegeta bles show that the productive quality of the soil is equat if nob superior to the far famed trucking farms of Florida and Georgia. So immense has been the yield of these farms that sometime during past years it was almost impossible for the railroads to furnish cars sufficient to supply the demand needed for shipping to Northern markets. Not only has Northeastern Carolina a soil suitable for all cereals, fruits and vegatables, but it is also rich in timber, such as pines, cypress, gum and oak, and while already vast quantities have been cut. still enough remains to fur nish employment to thousands of laborers in carrying on the work done in the lumber, sash and blind and box factories, etc. ''At one time owing to bad water and malarial diseases prevalent in certain localities of the East", said Mr. Glenn. "Iie:iiese'kers ather dreade. 1 casting their lot here, ew-n tho the inducements were great, hut preferred to go else where, even though in a poorei section. All this, however, is now remedial by the estab lishment of waterworks in tin towns and,' a system of driven wells in the country, and by using nets and screens against the malarial mosquito, until today Eastern Carolina is as healthy as any other portion of tin1 State, in I'axt. the mor tali ty Ix'ing even less than in the West." Climate? What's the mat ter with a climate which has no extremes, where it never gets zero cold and seldom too hot for comfort, when the death rati- is lower than it is in a mountainous section fre quented by health seekers? One or two wealthy men are proposing the establishment of more health resorts in Eastern Carolina and one of the leading; authorities on health in the world says that one Eastern Carolina county is the healthiest in the entire South. Typhoid is soon to be entirely eradicated because many counties are now tak ingi steps to immunize and ad minister free preventive treat menu and within the next twelve or fifteen months every other county in the state will, impelled by the spirit of pro gress now dominating every phase of life in the Tar Heel commonwealth as a matter of course follow suit. There is not nearly so much malaria in the State now as five years ago. The mortality rate in the State as a whole is not gratifying to the medical profession, so. with the most diligent and patriotic medical organization of its scope in the Nation de ploring our backwardness in this respect, we will lower it if you please. The doctors in Convention last year deter mined to reduce the death rate fifty per cent within a decade. Will they do it? What did the educational authorities of the State do when they sud denly took note of the ' fact that only one other State in the Union surpassed it in il literacy? They got a taoye ou, passing a state or two a year in their anxiety to put INorth Carolina near the top of the list. It is rapidly ap proaching the top now. North (Carolina builds a little matter of a school house a day, 365 a year including 52 for the Sun days and not forgetting Christ mas and the Fourth of July. Fifteen years ago North Car olina was some eighteen or twenty thousand square miles alsmit as effectually isolated from the treat Republic of which it is a part as a section could he. Its people to the South of the Picture City jo cosely remarked when they started on a trip into the North. West or South that they were going to "the States". There wasn't honest, now a Pullman in the entire State East of the main line of the At lantic Coast Line. Someoy the lines carrying . pa8serir?y ; were narrow gauge ,afflv There wasn't a respectable senger coach in the region. NowT there are as many trains for tlfr t size of the towns, as uprto-datfip, service, schedules as fast, and rates as fair as can be had any; '.' where in the country except in the very thickest populated' parts of . the the North., .Tho Norfolk Southern Railroad touches at nearly every point in the east of more than 300ft ' population. Fifteen years ago Elizabeth City was ' its South- ; era terminus it was one of the most insignificant little carriers in the country. Today it is a really true great system so far as truckage and th amount of business done aro- 1 concerned . The Norfolk. Southern in little more than ft decade has extended its line? , to Washington, to Newbern, to Reaufort, to Goldsboro aiE from Washington west through! (JreenvillQ, Wilson, RaleigV and on to Charlotte. Ohaj lott is almost as distamt from Elizabeth City as is Neitf York. 1 1 The industrial development of the counties along the Ho I B. FLORA & COMPANY WHOLESALE GROCERS and TOBACCONISTS And Dealers In Hay, Lime and Cement O-M FANCY PATENT FLOUR "There is None Better" 99 FANCY PATENT FLOUR and UNCLE REMUS SELF RISING FLOUR ATLAS PORTLAND CEMENT The Standard by Which all Other Makes are Measured WRENN'S BUGGIE The Best Buggy at Moderate Cost 3 LOADED SHELLS A SPECIALTY Phone 38 Elizabeth City, N. C. & W. H. WEATHKREY, Pres. & Mot. A. S. 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