NEW YEAR EDITION.
THE NEWS AND OBSERVER.
VOL. XLVII. NO. 95.
LEADS AIL MTil CNiOlllM DAILIES IN NEWS AND SKUTIfK.
North Carolina’s Progress in IP.
A Review of the Industrial, Educational and
Religious Work of the Past Year*
OUTLOOK FOR THE END OF THE CENTURY
Enterprises Carried to Successful Completion and Those
Projected For the New Year.
Letters From the Towns and Cities of the State Show What
Has Actually Been Accomp ished, the Capital In
vested in Buildings, Factories, Schools,
Municipal Improvements and Tell
What Our People Have
in Mind to Do,
The year which closes today has been
one of unexampled activity, so far as
this State is concerned, in the establish
ment of enterprises for the conversion
of raw materials into finished products.
There has been a vast expansion of those
industries that experience had already
shown could be profitably conducted in
this State, together with ventures that
are practically new to North Carolina.
It is a tale of prosperity and growth,
such a showing as promises greater
things for productive industry in all lines
where competition leaves the citizen free
to do with his brains and capital his
untraimneled best.
With a view to ascertaining what has
actually been accomplished during the
past year the following letter was sent
to the mayor of ever)’ town in the State,
as well as to many others who, of neces
sity keep abreast with the industrial
movement in their several communities.
Dear Sir: On December 31, the day
preceding New Year’s, the News and
Observer will print a special NEW
YEAR’S EDITION, devoted to a re
view of the industrial aud educational
progress of 1890 with a glance at the
outlook for 1900. In order to make the
review aud forecast complete and cover
the State, we will request every Mayor
in North Carolina to write a
short communication giving these facts
with reference to his town:
1. Amount of capital (estimated) in
vested in manufacturing today aud the
amount in 1890.
2. Amount invested during the year
1809, the new industries established,
and the old industries enlarged. Names
of new industries, banks or other agen
cies that promote the business growth
of the community.
3. Amount spent for building and re
pairing in 1899.
4. Educational changes and growth.
5. The manufacturing and busiuess
outlook for 1900.
The publication of this correct data
from every progressive town and city
in the State, signed officially by the
Mayor, will, I am sure, be of great value
to your community and the State. I bog
your co-operation in having your city’s
industrial situation and prospects fully
presented in this edition.
Thanking you in advance for your
assistance in an enterprise that will Ik*
helpful to your community and to the
State, I am,
Very truly yours,
JOSEPHUS DANIELS.
The replies are given below and speak
for themselves. It is a remarkable fea
ture of them that there is hardly one
but shows that some productive industry
has been established, while many show
an increase in population and capitaliza
tion, in the enlargement of established
plants and the founding of new ones
that is phenomenal. So much for wliat
has been done.
The indications are that if the State
Is spare*] panic and depression in 1900
that it will surpass 1899, or any previous
year of the State’s history, in forcing
North Carolina forward as a manufac
turing community. Within the year
there have 'been incorporated over 200
new enterprise* having a total* capital
stock of more than $0,200,000.
COTTON MILLS.
By far the most striking feature of
the year’s industrial progress in the
State has been the projection and
building of new cotton mills, and the en
largement and better equipment of old
mills. So numerous have been the en
terprises of this sort that many conser
vative men have warned our people
against the danger of committing them
selves too exclusively to one industry,
and advising rather that surplus capital
he invested in small manufacturing
plants of other kinds where the products
will find a ready sale in contiguous ter
ritory.
In 1870 there were 33 mills with 39,897
spindles; in 1880, 80 mills with 199,433
spindles; in 1898, 180 mills with 1,018,-
000 spindles. Today the enlargement of
the old mills and new ones just begin
ning operation will increase the number
of spindles to no less than 1,200,000.
In 1890 the cotton crop of the State was
about 500,000 bales, and her nulls c* n
sumed 300.000 bales; this year the crop
estimate is 480.000 bales, and her
mills will need over 400,000 hales.
The capitalization ol’ the mills in the
State reaches the handsome figures of
$20,702,400, and we have approximately
1,200,000 spindles. In addition to the
cotton mills there are 11 wo.den, 28 knit
ting. 1 silk aud 1 jute bagging mill
The undeveloped water power of the
State would turn at least 340.000,000
spindles, and manufacture about seven
times as many bales of cotton, the
* ntire country produces. The late W. <’.
Kerr, State Geologist, estimated the
water power to he 3,500,000 horse power.
Comparatively speaking, very little of this
immense force has been utilized.
One remarkable phase, and certainly
a most encouraging one, of the cotton
null situation is that nearly all the mills
projected are actually being built, aud
almost entirely by local capital at that,
showing clearly the substantial ami
noil-speculative nature of the movement
for more mills.
There have been projected during
3899 iu this State 32 mills to manufac
ture cotton in some of its forms, the
mills having a total minimum capital
of $2,483,500. This does not include
the mills projected in IS9B and built this
year. The new cotton mills are as fol
lows:
Name of Mill and Location. Capital.
Gibson, Concord $100,(KM)
Win de mere, Albemarle 30,000
Avalon, Mayodau 150,000
Indian Creek, Liucolnton 30,000
Scotland County, Laurinburg. 50,000
Fountain, Tarboro 100,000
Robbins, Gold-boro 12,000
Glencoe, Glencoe Mills 112,000
Bala, Patterson’s Mill 0,500
Hart and Ilolt, Fayetteville.. 300.000
Shelby, Shelby 300.000
Daniel, Lincoln County 100,000
Pattersbn. Halifax 30,000
Sanford, Sanford 300,000
Delgado, Wilmington 250,000
Tuscorora, Mt. Pleasant 30,000
Revolution, Greensboro 300.000
Bonner Knitting, LaGrange.. 2,000
Pembroke, New P.erne ...... 75,000
Elizabeth City, Elizabeth City, 20,000
Axner. Develop., Spray 300,000
Lula, Gastonia, 100,000
Carolina, Car. Cot. Mills ... 00,000
Alamance, Alamance Mills... 20.000
Winston Knitting, Winston .. 0,000
American, Spray 200,000
Royal-1, Wake Forest 50,000
Neuse River, Falls of Nouse, 300,000
Catawba, Newton 25,000
National Finishing, Greens
boro 120,000
Melrose, Raleigh 25,000
31 $2,183,500
COTTON SEED OIL MILLS.
As compared with mills for the manu
facture of textile products from cot
ton, mills for the manufacture of by
products are of comparatively late
origin, nothing, comparatively, having
been done in the erection of plants for
handling the valuable by-products of cot
ton until within very reeen* /ears. Dur
ing 1899, however, eight mills for tin*
manufacture of cotton weed oil meal and
fertilizers have been been projected in
this State. They are as follows:
Name of Mill and Locution. Capital.
Cowell, Swan aud McCotter,
Bay boro $ 8,000
Selina, Selma 25.000
Concord, Concord 30,000
Machesfield. Tarboro 10,000
Cleveland, Lattimore 10,000
Wilson, Wilson 20,000
Monroe, Monroe, 21.000
Davidson, Mecklenburg Co 20,000
LU MBE R COM PA NIE S.
The lumber industry of the State as
a result of the unprecedented activity in
building lias had a year of phenomenal
prosperity. It has been the report from
nearly all important towns of the State
that contractors have been unable to se
cure material to erect buildings on con
tract time, and many saw mills are
months behind with orders. From the
nature of the industry it is quite impos
sible to secure the data as to the actual
output in lumber or the increase over
previous years. * Men in the industry,
however, estimate that the increase in
production over 1898 is not less than 30
per cent. Hundreds of thousands of
acres of timber laud in the East have
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31, 1890.
been bought by companies already in
Operation and extensive options have
been secured in the west and ranch tim
ber bought outright.
The following are the new lumber corn
I«raiea organized during the year and
their capitalization:
Xante and Ixioation. Capital.
Pinola, Mitchell Comity SIOO,OOO
Manteo. Mantco 10,000
South Mt„ Hickory 60.000
West Car, Asheville 2,000
Howland, Goldsboro 100,000
Reading, Randolph Comity.... S,(MIC
Sawyer, Asheville 0,000
Cobb iV Thomas, Sanford 10,000
Ay don, A.vden 10,000
Fell ha von, Bellhavcn 80,000
Union, Macon County 50,000
Ritter, Mitchell County 50,000
South Mt,. Rurke Increase.
Mt. Airy, Mt. Airy 85,000
Elise, Elise (Moore County).... 10,000
McMullen Alilier, Faison. 50,000
Brooklyn 5,000
W. W. Sims, Wilson 25,00e
Total capital $562,000
"TURNITURE FA( T<)RIF>S.
The manufacture of furniture has been
confined almost entirely to one town in
(his State—Uigh l'oint—until very re
eently and is still but a more beginning
if opportunities be considered. The fac
tories that are in operation have en
joyed great prosperity and have, in gen
oral, liven unable to meet the demand
for their products. They are, so far a*
quality is concerned, making a grade of
goods that challenges comparison witl
any on the general market and command
ready s ales throughout the Eastern and
Soutlethi States. During 1805) nine ad
ditionul factories have been projected a
follows: Rockwell Furniture Company,
of Rockwell, Rowan county; the Macon
Furniture Company, of Eouisburg; the
Kinston Furniture Company, of Kinston:
the Hugh Point Chair Company, of High
Point ; the Piedmont Table Company, of
High Point; the Iloyall A Borden Fur
niture and Mattress Company, of Dur
ham: the Carolina! Furniture Company
of Durham; the Mocksville Furniture
Company, of Mocksville; the Union Fur
niture Company, of Durham. In all
about SIOO,OOO have been invested in fur
niture factories during the year,
MISCE LEA XIX) T;S FACTOR IES.
Besides the manufacturing establish
ments above mentioned there have been
projected during the year 20 corporate
enterprises for the manufacture of vari
ous articles, having a total capitaliza
tion of $842,000. The factories are a
roller mill in Rowan county; the Central
Manufacturing Company of Lexington;
to make wooden utensils; tat tannic acid
factory in Cherokee county; a clothing
factory in Charlotte; an ice and bottling
establishment in Statesville; a distillery
at Hamlet; a trousers factory at Char
lotte; a canning company at Xewbern;
roller mills in Durham; a harrow com
pany at Statesville; -a stone quarry at
Asheville: an ice factory at Statesville;
a casket company at Charlotte; a factory
to make hardware at Winston; and axle
and hub factory at Wilmington; a con
fectionery company at Greensboro, and
one at Wilmington; n brick and tile plant
at Asheville; an iron and steel imple
ment factory at Elizabeth City; a buggy
factory at the same place; a roof and
paving material plant at Charlotte; n
roller mill at Elizabeth City; a carriage
factory at Hertford; a shirt factory at
High Point and a bayonet-shovel com
pany at Durham.
There have boon organized beside 24
mercantile companies with a total capi
tal of $308,000. Telephone companies
have been organized and systems are to
Ik> put in at Bakcrsville, Salisbury,
Winston, Rutherford ton, Kemmsville,
Corbett, Morganton, New London and
Liraiberton, while the two long distance
systems are rapidly extending their line*.
It is only a matter of a short time until
the State will Ik* a net work of telephone
systems, greatly facilitating business.
El ho where will he found articles by
able specialists covering lines of indus
try that nerd not be mentioned here.
WINSTON.
A New Bank, Furniture Factory and
Two Knitting Mills.
Winston, X. 0„ Dec. 28, 1899.
To the Editor: Your request for in
formation in regard to the educational
and industrial progress of our city came
to mo in the very busiest season of the
year, and it is therefore impossible for
me to give you the information desired.
I will say, however, that there was not
less than $500,000 slant in building and
repairing in 1899. This includes
buildings now being constructed. I would
say, to lx* conservative, that there is not
less than three million dollars invested
in manufacturing interests here in the
two towns. This will exceed the amount
invested an 1890 by a Knit, one million
dollars. *
A savings bank was organized this
year, a large furniture factory and two
knitting mills, a fair association with
SIO,OOO capital. A large new opera
house ini contracted for. The outlook for
next year is encouraging. Our tobacco
manufacturers art* invading new terri
tory, and rapidly increasing sales. Our
tobacco market will nearly if not quite
reach 25 million pounds of leaf tobacco.
Many new industries will no doubt be
'inaugurated, some of them of real im
portance to this section as well as to
the State.
Our educational facilities are first class.
We have perhaps the best equipped
graded school system in the State. In
Salem is the. famous female college, and
the boys’ school. There is no doubt but
that the Davis School property will be
sold or leased to a large institution itX
Virginia.
1 must not forget the gas plants. Tvo
of these eom-erns will begin business
in 19()t). The street ear and elect re
light company will enlarge and extend
its business. Truly,
G. E. WEBB.
Secretary Chamlier of Commerce.
For Mayor J. W. Griffith.
Winston-Salem, N. C., Dec. 30.
The dying year of 185)0 lias been of a
bright and successful one for Winston-
Salem, the only Twin City in the Old
North State. For many years this citj
'as heen recognized, wherever she b
mown, as one of the most thoroughly
'Uterprising and hustling towns in thi
utire South. Her business men are o'
• In- go-aliead kind and <*otipled with
latie-al advantages Winston-Salem today
ins the proud record of being one of tin
dggt’Ht ami best cities in the State.
industrially speaking the Twin City
was grown and moved forward during tb
vtva • 1,895). The two po*toffiei*» wen
onsolidntod .Tilly Is:t, making it the only
ijst class office in the State. The tw<
riggest deals made during the year wa
he purchase and consolidation of th<
troot railway and eletric light plant
with the Fries Power end Manufactur
tig Company and the capitalization of
he li. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
t $5,000,(KM). One-half or more of tin
lock was taken by memlbers of th<
American Tobacco Company. The street
•ail way, under the new management, 1
in told, is more than paying expenses,
vhile the former owners lost money
Flu* South Side Car Line will be ex
t-mlcd to Waugh town. The material
urn been purchased for this work and th
uanaigt nicmt is considering an extension
<> North Winston.
During the year the Twin City lus lie
oino a a important railroad centre. Thi
vas the result of the completion of tin
Mocks vifle-Moon-evillo Railroad. The
southern now handles all of the eoai
hipped over the Winston-Salem branch
>f the Uorfol hand W< stern Read from
he coal mines in southwest Virginia, via
Mooresville to the South. The yards
if the two roads here are greatly en
urged in order to handle the increased
business.
in tobacco circles 185)9 has heen a
tanner year. The manufacturers are
veil pleased with their tiade. The ship
mats for the y< :>:• have been in the
eighborhood of 18,000,000 pounds. The
ales of leaf last year were nearly 19.
00,000 pounds, and the warehousemen
tre predicting that these figUTi s will be
uereased six or more million this year.
A new enterprise, which has made
splendid success from the start, is the
Winston Furniture Faetorly. The com
pany is giving employment to a large
Whi of lieimD and is behind with ordqrsr.
The South Side Cotton Mill is working
lay and night. New looms art* being put
u to meet the increase of business.
There has been a great deal of building
his year; not as much as in some former
years, but every carpenter and mason
has had no trouble in finding employ
ment. A contractor said to me: “There
has been plenty of work, but wages have
not advanced. This will have to come,
however, if McKinley prices continue to
go up on things we eat and wear, or else
there will bo dissatisfaction with the
workmen.”
The new and mammoth factory of the
It. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company will
he completed early in the new* year. This
means an increase in the output of manu
factured tobacco for 1900.
The large and handsome new First
Baptist church is nearing completion and
he pastor holies to dedicate it within a
few months.
The merchants here report the best fall
trade for many years, 'idle holiday pat
ronage surpassed all former records.
The outlook for 1900 is quite encourag
ing for every enterprise in Winston-
Salem. There is nothing to retard the
Twin City’s growth and prosperity, un
less it be the coming Presidential elec
tion, which never fails to have a more or
less damaging effect upon all business.
R, ID. CARMICHAEL.
, City Editor Sentinel.
MORGANTON.
A New Bank, Electric and Telephone
Company and Gold Mine.
To the Editor: In reply to your re
quest I will say as to Morganton:
1. Total amount of capital in
vested in 1899 $145,000
Total amount of capital in
vested in 1890 30,000
2. 1899. Bank (Burke Co.) $30,-
000; Electric Light Co., $5,-
000 35,500
Telephone Co 4.000
3. Amount, spent in building
and repairs 185 K) 60,000
4. No changes, but increased interest.
5. Manufacturing and business out
look for 15K)0 very flattering,
I would also state that in the last
month or two $30,000 have been paid in
cash for gold mining properties in
Burke, and we have a new long distance
Telephone Company at very moderate
rates that gives universal satisfaction 1 .
The town owns the electric light plant
and while only charging about half the
usual city prices stilt gets its own street
light practically for nothing.
Wishing you the success your effort
certainly deserves. I am, very respect
fully, vour obedient servant,
JOHN TULL.
Mayor.
To the Editor: This is one of the old
est towns in the Western part of the
State, dating back to 1781—its county
Burke having been formed in 1777.
It bears the name of the West Vir
ginia wagoner famous at Cowpens and
Saratoga, and commissioned toy Wash
ington to suppress the whiskey insurrec
tion in Western Pennsylvania.
Prior to the Civil War it was the
seat of a summer session of the Supreme
Courr, and had a State reputation as a
pleasant town to spend the summer in.
It was then a straggling village with
limit 600 people, though they were quit*
i remarkable people, and of force in tht
State and society. This has been true o
hem from the days of the Revolution
.ml is somewhat true of them yet.
The town lies on the Western Nortl
Carolina Railroad, one of the leadittj.
iuea of the great Southern Railway,
ourteen hours from Washington, novel
hours from Raleigh, four hour# fron
Charlotte and two hours from Ashe
> ille.
The State's largest and finest charity,
he Hospital for the Insane, is located
lere, as well as the State School forth.
Deaf Mutes of the White Race. Th»
opulalion of the town proper i* be
tween 2,500 and 3,000—0 f the count j
ibout 20.000. Since 1890, it has niadi
most of its progress.
The Alpine Cotton Mills, the Lesh
Camp Tannery, the Morgan Manufac
tiring Company (wood works), and th<
logan Roller Mills are its chief indus
ries. They reprs, lit about $150,000 in
> lari't eqnipmmii, and do business to an
tmount of w hich I am ignorant, but evi
iently at a profit, as they are eoritiun
mely engaged.* They furnish employ
ment to several hundred persons. Then
tre many saw mills in the county, and
he shipment of lumlx*r, both hard woods
and pine, is a leading industry'.
There are some thirty stores in the
place, churches of the Presbyterian.
Episcopal, Methodist and Baptist com
niinions and two churches of the colored
copulation, which here number about
me-fifth of the whole.
About $40,000 was expended during
he past year in buildings—the Method
sis having in that time well under way
me of the handsomest churches in the
West, and which represents about one
fourth of tht* above sum.
The town has a well equipped electric
ight plant of its own, and a good tele
hone system, connecting it with all the
tear by towns. The latter is a private
mterprise. The Burke County Bank,
owned by leading citizens of Catawba
f strong financial standing does the ex
change business of the place, and furn-
Vhts any needed nocormmodaition in the
way of money.
The health of the place deserves m >re
than a passing remark. The situation
ni the sunny side of the Blue Ridge
nd just under it. while 1,200 feet above
the waves at Beaufort was the induce
ment, which led the State to select it as
the Inflation for two of its chief insti
tutions.
The Oatwba River flows around the
town and its drainage is excellent.
While but few Northern people have
tune in those who have come are most
• xeelli nt folk, and are well pleased with
their environments.
The debt of the town is about $17,000.
and the tax rate is 50 cents on the SIOO
valuation.
The Morganton Herald and the Burke
County News, both weeklies, are the
county newspapers, and receive a fair
support.
The farming lands along the Oatawba,
the Johns and Linville Rivers and on
the numerous tributaries of these are
of excellent quality, and produces in
abundance all the fruits and cereals, of
the temponaite zone.
Since 1836 gold has been successfully
mined in the county and in earlier days
it was the chief industry. Considerable
capital from Virginia has recently been
invested in old mines, and the vein mines
arc now in large demand. Most of the
work hitherto has been placer mining.
The forests of th county arc* now' be
ing rapidly cut down without yielding
any great income to their owners, and
this is one industry that cannot unre
servedly be commended. Otherwise all
the signs here an* favorable to progress.
WM. S. PEARSON,
Editor Herald.
WILMINGTON.
$550,000 Put in Factories and §500,-
000 in Buildings in 1899,
Wilmington, X. C.. Dec. 27, 1899.
To the Editor: The information which
you sc*4c in regard to the educational
and industrial progress of this city can
only be given with approximate correct
ness. as heretofore no records of such
matters have (been kept. We are try
ing to remedy matters in this, as iai many
other respects. The figures I herewith
send are believed to he a. conservative
estimate of true conditions.
1. The total amount of capital in
vested in manufacturing in this city in
the year 185 X) was (about) $750,000; the
total amount today is (about) $2,000,000.
2. During the year 1899 amount in
vested (about) $550,000. The' new in
dustries established during the year 1899
have been, among others, one large cot
cot mill, one national bank, a wood
working establishment, machine shops
and the enlargement of several plants.
3. Amount spent for huildin mul re
pairing during 1899 (not including the
above) about $500,000.
4. The educational growth has l>een
steady, and (excepting costly appliances,
such as can lx* seen in the rich cities)
it can be truly said that the schools of
Wilmington are equal to any in the
United States.
5. The manufacturing and industrial
outlook is more encouraging than it has
been, and the building of good roads by
the county, which has liegun, and the
sewerage and street improvement about
to be commenced in the city, with tin*
reduction of the city debt, will add great
ly to the encouragement.
I have given von a hasty generalization.
ALFRED MOORE WADDELL.
Mayor.
PITTSBORO.
Development of Water Powers, and
Goal and Copper Mines.
Pittsboro, N. C., Dec. 29, 1899.
To the Editor: The industrial progress
of this (Chatham) county for 1891) and
the outlook for 1900 are very encourag
ing.
During the year 1899 more important
SECTION ONE—Pages I to 8,
PRICE FIVE CEi>
itid more numerous industries and entor
irises have been undertaken than during
my previous years.
Among these enterprises may be men
ioned the purchase by the Cape Fear
L’ower Company of the well known
vater power at Rockville for the p;ir
ose of transmitting electric powPV to
eighboring towns, and the purchase by
lie Erwin Cotton Mills Company of sev
eral miles of water power on Haw River
or the purpose of establishing on;* or
uore large cotton mills. Negotiation#
re now pending for the purchase of
ther valuable water powers (with which
his county is peculiarly blessed) for
he purpose of operating manufactories.
The Mineral interests of Chatham are
eing developed very successfully. The
celebrated coal mine at Cumnock is now
.orked on a more extensive scale than
ver before. The Ore Hill Iron Mine
s also being worked more successfully
ban ever before. Efforts are bring
nade (and the prospects are very encour
(ging) for the successful working of sev
ral deposit# of copper ore.
Our farmer* are in better condition
ban they have been in several years.
They certainly owe much less —are much
ess iu debt —than in many years past,
*ven if they may not have much more
money. While their crops in 1899 may
iot have been equal to the average, yet.
hey have sold them for a higher price
han in several years.
The merchants say that thrir trade has
>een larger this fall than in mnnv vears.
H. A. LONDON.
Editor Record.
OLD FORT.
§IOO,OOO Invested in Graphite Mining
as a Starter.
Old Fort, X. C., Dec. 27, 1899.
To the Editor: I take pleasure in an
swering some of your queries of a late
date to the mayor:
1. No capital invested in manufactur
ing here in ISA*
2. Amount of capital invested in mami
faeturing during the year 1899: $5,000
in nulling; $20,000 in lumber shipping;
$5,000 in distilling; $4,000 in new build
ings and repairs. One new store house
and stock and two new stocks of mer
chandise have been also added recently.
Two residences are in course of con
struction with more to follow, and the
outlook for 1900 is bright for building,
shipping lumber, manufacturing a: d min
ing. A large plant for manufacturing
stone ballast for the Southern Railway
is to be placed here, at once. The Con
nelly Graphite Works, just above, are
spending SIOO,OOO as a starter for thrir
immense business and hare droves of
men at work, building and grading. Ibis
graphite business under the able man
agement of Professors Huer and Weisse
promises to be a mammoth affair for this
country. There are other mining opera
tions planning with some real estate
transactions consummated and a bettor
demand for realty of all classe*. The
volume of business generally for the
closing year beats the record and pros
pectors are inquiring and looking about
for investments.
Respectfully yours.
WALTER GRAHAM.
MT. AIRY.
Factories and Quarries Double Their
Capacity, 8 Miles of Railroad.
Mt. Airy, X. C.. Dec. 26, 1899.
To the Editor: I send you below data
as to the progress of our town.
We have this year about $65,000 invest
ed in new machinery and manufacturing
enterprise®. There has been built this
year two new Hour roller mills; one to
bacco factory has doubled its capacity;
the furniture factory has also doubled
its floor space; the Hamburg Cotton
Mills has added fifty looms to their
plant. Resides these there has been
numerous smaller enterprises started up.
There is not a vacant storehouse or
dwelling house in the town. The Mt.
(Airy and Northeastern Railroad is
graded sixteen miles out into the heart
of tin* hard-wood timber belt. The
tract has been laid nearly half way and
the trains are running on it. The Mt.
Airy Granite Quarries are working nh
the hands they can get, and want as
many more if they could be had. For
pew dwellings and repairing old ones
thero has been spent this year about
$40,000. This does not include manu
facturing enterprises. In the matter of
education, we have established this year
first-class graded schools for both races,
and they will bo run eight months or
more this year. I think the manufac
turing and business outlook ( for 1900
is better by far than it has heen in
ten years or at any time in the history
of the town.
We have no bonded indebtedness on
the town, and mot exceeding SI2OO in
debtedness of any kind. Consequently
we have a low rate of taxation.
Yours truly,
J. A. IIADLEY.
‘Mayor.
YOUNGSVILLE.
A Bank And Tobacco Stemmery Put in
Operation. New Buildings.
Yoimgsville, N. 0., Dec. 25, 1890.
To the Editor: In regard to your New
Year’s Edition, our town makes tin* fo’
lowing report:
There is no manufacturing going
lien*. The amount invested during
year 1899 is about $20,000, invest
a bank, stcmmicry for tobacco pad.
dwelling houses, #etc. There hrv
about SIO,OOO spent for repairing
ing, etc. Educational advantages b
creased about 40 per cent. The 1
outlook for 1900 is much better.
a big demand for dwelling lions
hut cannot be furnished at pro
'Respect fully.
C. C. WINSTON. 1