Hamlet, July 16—the recent closing of a contract for 200 car loads of North Carolina peaches grown in the sandhills of Richmond, Moore and Montgomery counties, at approximately $450,000 has caused many a cotton farmer to think twice and realize that his eggs should be carried in more than one basket. Peaches are now being harvested and shipped from Hamlet, Hoffman, Marston, Aberdeen, Southern Pines, Pinehurst, West end Candor and Jackson Springs in car loads. This means that money is in circulation at a season when it is very badly needed.
From the front page of The Dunn Dispatch, July 19, 1921. Car loads refer to railroad boxcars.
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