Where the Wind Does the Work 



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Making Fishing Nets, Manteo, N. C. 



There is no better type of the average 

 man than the native North Carolina 

 banker. 



The possibilities of these islands are as 

 yet undreamed of by their inhabitants 

 and utterly unknown to the outsider, who 

 visits only the most barren of them in 

 the duck-shooting season. 



The regaining of the shore strip by 

 reforesting the sands, and the retention 

 of the dunes that are devastating the 

 meadow lands, would make of Hatteras 

 Island, at least, a subtropical garden, 

 where southern fruits and early vege- 



tables once plentiful here might come into 

 the market. The game still lingering 

 among the wooded dunes would be 

 greatly multiplied, and the herds of wild 

 ponies now dwindling away would again 

 increase in numbers. Then conservative 

 lumbering could be added to the indus- 

 tries of the island. 



It is also within the range of possibili- 

 ties that the black beach sands which are 

 concentrated by wave action at a few 

 points might be made to yield from their 

 iron ores a return for the labor of gather- 

 ing them. 



