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is invested in the development of hydro-electric power approxi-mately
$100,000,000 involving 600,000 primary horsepower. With
auxiliary steam plants this water-power delivers to industry yearly
more than a billion and a half kilowatt hours of electric energy.
To finance and support these industries and the legitimate
activities of quickened business, agricultural and commercial activ-ities
in the State, reports of the condition of State and National
Banks on September 28, 1925, showed that they possessed re-sources
of $307,000,000 and $204,000,000 respectively, or a total
of more than half a billion dollars.
Historic Survivals
Emphasis has been laid on the homogeneous character and
long-fixed characteristics of North Carolina's population. Until
recent years, however, the great size of the State, the remote char-acter
of the sound and mountain regions, and the difficulties of
inter-communication between sections had hindered unity of life
and harmony of ambition among the people. From Manteo, on
Roanoke Island, to Murphy at the Southwest tip of the State the
distance by highway is 618 miles. For years a tier of counties in
the northeast section had been practically isolated by great sounds
and rivers from communication with the remainder of the State.
In Western North Carolina there were counties so hemmed in by
their mountains that they became
known picturesquely as the "lost
provinces." So untouched by the
march of events and the impact of
new customs were the people of
some of these regions that a few
years ago, alike on the "Banks"
—
the sand-bars that separate the
sounds from the sea—and in the
mountain fastnesses, it was corn-man
experience to find in daily use
words and phrases which had gone
out of fashion in the days of Queen
Elizabeth.
The paved hard-surfaced road takes the
tourist from sea to mountains in a
single day.
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