Whiteville, Sept. 12—When Governor Morrison retires from public office, he will tackle the job of organizing a private company for the operation of cold storage plants for products of the farm.
That petition was made known today after an address to Columbus county people in which he listed the need for storage facilities with the necessity for developing water transportation aids and aid to profitable marketing by the agricultural interests.
“We need cold storage plants and companies established by private enterprise into which the farmers can carry perishable products and market them orderly,” he told the Columbus county people in his speech, and afterward in conversation he stated he proposed to tackle such a job when he becomes a private citizen.
The governor got the idea, he said, from observations on the Erie Canal in New York state, where apples and other products grown in that state are stored by the farmer or sold to the storage companied and marketed orderly and profitably.
Senator Joe Brown, a merchant and farmer, confirmed the need for such facilities in the state when he pointed out that 5,000 barrels of potatoes went to waste in Columbus county because they could not be marketed in time.
From the front page of The Concord Times, Monday, September 15, 1924
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