Southern good roads . Climbinfi: the Blue Ridge in Western North on the LePQir ^^^- Blowing Rock Turnpike 12 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS AllQUSt. lOT I. Between Lenoir and Patterson, North Carolina, on the Lenoir and Blowing Rock Turnpike ral delivery, and I met a farmer recentlyill the City of AVasliington who was returning from aeouutj in the state of Virginia which he had visitedwith a view to settling, and I asked his impression. Hepraised the climate, the soil, and liked the people, butslated that in his in Towa, they had 1)uilt fineroads, anil thai it would require
Southern good roads . Climbinfi: the Blue Ridge in Western North on the LePQir ^^^- Blowing Rock Turnpike 12 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS AllQUSt. lOT I. Between Lenoir and Patterson, North Carolina, on the Lenoir and Blowing Rock Turnpike ral delivery, and I met a farmer recentlyill the City of AVasliington who was returning from aeouutj in the state of Virginia which he had visitedwith a view to settling, and I asked his impression. Hepraised the climate, the soil, and liked the people, butslated that in his in Towa, they had 1)uilt fineroads, anil thai it would require ver,v strong attractionsto induce him tu move to a county with bad roads, andwith no disposition on the part of the people to improvethem. By the way, this suggests the subject of am aware that there are some of our people who termevery non-resident of the state a foreigner, and wlioevince an indiiierence to new settlers. They say. lie-serve North Carolina for North Carolinians, and ourlands for ourselves and our children. In my youngerdays I ha^^c shared to some extent in these pro-scriptive ideas, but observation and study hav
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