Burlington, July 2—J.D. Payne, a former Burlington man, and well known to many of our people, recently purchased a place on the Cape Fear river, near Elizabethton, says the Burlington News. A few days ago his nephew found a perfectly formed peanut in the shell that had been petrified. A peculiarity of the water in the river at that place is that nearly everything left in the water for a definite length of time petrifies—logs that have been in the water become petrified and are used as grindstones and whetrocks, making the finest kind of whetrocks. Mr. Payne says he is thinking of starting a whetstone factory at his boat landing.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, July 3, 1923
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