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The Coastal Plain with its level, sandy loam, easy of cultivation, retentive of moisture, and abounding in decomposed vegetable matter, is admirably adapted to the production of early vegetables for the Northern markets. The following are among the truck crops of Eastern North Carolina: Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, cabbage, lettuce, onions, watermellons [sic], cantaloupes, cucumbers, English peas, tomatoes, string beans, cauliflower, lima beans, beets, celery, asparagus, egg plant, kale, and spinach.

Live stock can be raised to as good advantage here as in any other State in the Union. This section abounds in natural grasses, and cattle make their entire living for the whole year on these ranges. Along the banks of the streams the pastures stay green throughout the year, and with care and attention this industry can be developed to a wonderful degree. There is a breed of ponies known as the Banker Ponies, which run wild in the extreme eastern section along the coast, and mature into very good animals, well suited to light driving, and numerous flocks of sheep, cattle and hogs are also raised in this section without any feed or other attention.

In the GOLDSBORO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE the city has one of the best and most active organizations of the kind in the South, and one which is doing a great deal of good for the community. Its board of directors is composed of: W. H. Winstead, Chairman, Geo. D. Bizzell, W. E. Borden, Geo. S. Dewey, J. M. Edgerton, Geo. A. Norwood, A. Oettinger, Geo. C. Royall, and Robert L. Marcley, Commercial Secretary. It is not what Goldsboro offers the home-seeker to spend money for that they invite inquiry, but for the rare facilities afforded here for profitable investment in manifold avenues of industrial enterprise, the climactic conditions for health and long life, the educational advantages for the fitting of youth for life’s possibilities, the inviting opportunities for development that men with capacity love to confront and lay hold on, the real things, the earnest things, that make life worth living, the cultured, refined, and moral social surroundings, characteristic of the South, the integrity of business intercourse, that is held above price, the assurance of which gives purpose to ambition, reward to enterprise, and enjoyment to success. It is for these distinctive features that Goldsboro has come to be recognized as the best city in the State.

E. L. EDMUNDSON, - Real Estate and Insurance. – Mr. E. L. Edmundson is one of the most wide awake men in the State of North Carolina and knows the Real Estate business from the ground up, having been engaged in this line for many years, and has a record which few Real Estate operators anywhere in the South can show, in as much as he has sold upwards of nearly three million dollars’ worth of property and “not a bad title yet.” Mr. Edmundson is a natural born Real Estate man, and if there are any points in the Real Estate business with which he is not familiar, they have not yet been developed. Being financially responsible, he is in a position to look after any and all business intrusted [sic] to his care. He is one of the greatest real estate “Hustlers” in the State. Besides doing an immense local business, sales are negotiated in any part of the United States. His general offices are located in East Walnut Street, near the National Bank, and have phones 114 and 135. Look for the electric sign of the Eagle.

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