We are located about 50 miles inland between two sounds, Pamlico on the south and Albemarle on the north. Around these sheets of water there is a rimming of higher ground that is general in the center. This has caused a one-time great basin to fill with humus and drift from a higher country, and until recent years has remained dormant for the simple reason that the methods of drainage in vouge - (hand shovels) could not handle the immense area. Hense it was not until some ten years ago that the first steam shovel began work; Now there are sections containing from five to fifteen thousand acres that grew wonderful crops of corn last year. This now is the new part of our country. The old lands will grow all the things mentioned in your letter, and many not enumerated. I grow corn, cotton, beans, peanuts, hay, hogs, cattle and sheep on my farm as staples. Then grapes, vegetables, etc. are at their best. Our early potato crop has been planted two weeks, and will be up within another ten days. These will be harvested June first, when another crop will at once occupy the same land, and mature before frost. You ask about drinking water. This is secured largely from artesian wells about 200 feet deep, which flow an excellent water continually. We believe that this is just about the best country of all, and are always glad to have prospective residents come here and see just what we have to offer them. There is more of it than there are people to handle. It would be rather hard to rent well improved lands here as elsewhere, but there is always such places to be found by the individual who is really after it.

Editors Note: The above is an excerpt from a letter dated March 30, 1920.