. Sketches of Monroe and Union County : together with general and individual characteristics of their people and a description of the natural resources and business enterprises. thing for a person to buy timber land, clear it, andsecure enough profit from the sale of wood and timber to pay forthe full purchase. Nineteen of the twenty-two species of oakfound in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains growin Xorth Carolina and of these Union county has her share;also of pine, hickory, persimmon, walnut, elm, poplar, cedar,maple, dogw^ood, sycamore, cherry, ash. The county has unqiies-tione
. Sketches of Monroe and Union County : together with general and individual characteristics of their people and a description of the natural resources and business enterprises. thing for a person to buy timber land, clear it, andsecure enough profit from the sale of wood and timber to pay forthe full purchase. Nineteen of the twenty-two species of oakfound in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains growin Xorth Carolina and of these Union county has her share;also of pine, hickory, persimmon, walnut, elm, poplar, cedar,maple, dogw^ood, sycamore, cherry, ash. The county has unqiies-tioned wealth in her gold mines. Her mines have been workedsince the beginning. There are a number of old mines whoserichness have been demonstrated, waiting to be taken hold of bv 10 capital aiul (\])erion(e. Rt-foiv tin- war Cummotloro Stocktonand ()tli(T> worked iiiincs in tlu cmiitv un a lar^^f scale, (. Ilalt<. an e\|Krt and wealthy miner, lias <»iHrated niinoihere for twi-nty-live years. Then- are many shafts, no douhtleading to rich (ields, that have been al)jind()ned l»v their ownersonly becanse of lack of caj)ital. Kieli snrfaee ^old is often UNION CorNTV JAIL. many times farmers pick up pure nuggets in the branches oron the hillsides. EDUCATIOX AND THE SPREAD OF IXTELLIGENCE. The rapid advancement of the cause of education in the countyfor the past twelve or fifteen years hfls been marvelous. Theeducational revival in this county is far ahead of the general onein the State. Perhaps more boys and girls go to college from this county 11 in proportion to population than from any other in the is clue to the presence of a hirge number of high academies at Marshville, Wingate, Waxhaw, Unionville,Weddington and Morgan are tine feeders, besides shedding aninfluence for progress upon the communities in which they arelocated. Six of the nine townships of the county have each oneor more academies, and in another there has been an excel
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