. Economic Papers. esources of the State will find these wellillustrated in the State Museum. The Yarborough House and theBland Hotel will do their best to please any tourist or traveler who iswilling to pay a fair price. The next section of the highway from Raleigh to Durham, DurhamCounty, a distance of 26 miles, is located on a ridge and contains verylittle grade. The road has been partly relocated to eliminate gradecrossings and several short and steep grades. In Wake County theroad will be of sand-clay and in Durham County it is mainly mac-adam. This latter county is well covered with a sy
. Economic Papers. esources of the State will find these wellillustrated in the State Museum. The Yarborough House and theBland Hotel will do their best to please any tourist or traveler who iswilling to pay a fair price. The next section of the highway from Raleigh to Durham, DurhamCounty, a distance of 26 miles, is located on a ridge and contains verylittle grade. The road has been partly relocated to eliminate gradecrossings and several short and steep grades. In Wake County theroad will be of sand-clay and in Durham County it is mainly mac-adam. This latter county is well covered with a system of fine macadamroads, which, however, in some places are in great need of repair. Dur-ham is the home of the American Tobacco Company, and their largestorage warehouses are a conspicuous sight. It has been stated thatas high as $20,000,000 worth of tobacco has been in storage in Durhamat one time. The factories which manufacture the well-known BullDurham smoking tobacco and Dukes cigarettes will be interesting. Fig. 3.—Macadam Road in Durham County. On Central Highway between Durham and Raleigh. HIGHWAY WORK IN NORTH CAROLINA. 21 places to visit for those who are not familiar with the methods employedin preparing tobacco for market. Hotel accommodations are not verycommodious in Durham, but the traveler will find a quiet and satis-factory hostelry at the Hotel Corcoran. From Durham to Graham, Alamance County, two routes are available—one, via Hillsboro (see Fig. 2), the county seat of Orange County,and the other, via Chapel Hill (see Fig. 3), Orange County. At thepresent time the best route is via Chapel Hill. From Durham to theOrange County line the road is macadam and from the line to ChapelHill it is sand-clay. There are a great many beautiful vistas alongthis road, and, when within one mile of Chapel Hill and immediatelyafter crossing an iron bridge, the road begins to climb a long hill (onan easy grade, however), which is the first hill climbing of any extentthat
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