Excerpt from The University of North Carolina Record; June, 1919: A Study of the Public Schools in Orange County, North Carolina That these stockholders are prosperous is attested by the fact that the total value of the farm property _in the county is placed at more than and by the further fact that they annually produce more than worth of farm products, 63 per cent of them operating farms which they own free and clear of mortgage debt. In 1917 the total taxable wealth of the county was In 1918 these stockholders had per inhabitant to their credit in the banks, a total savings account of nearly The real wealth of the people in Orange, however, was best revealed during the thrift campaigns of the war when in eighteen months the citizens of the county took more than of Liberty Bonds, Thrift Stamps, and the like, an average of $83 for every man, woman, and child, black and white in the county. This is all wealth over and above living expenses; it is money out at interest, growing without care. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.