TERMS OR SUBSCRIPTION, $1 PER YEA
Mr. J. S. Carr, of Durham, is in New
York and Northern cities this week.
His candidacy for governor for three days
and nights, (the same length of time
Jona was in the whales belly) seems to
have made no impression on him. If he
had obeyed the call at first he would
have been nominated. Whether he will
yet go preach to the Minevites remains
to be seen. He can get some Sunday
School teacher to interpet this. If he
don’t understand and comprehend it.
Mr. Broady Duke,of Durham, is build
ing a cotton factory, a street Railroad
and has established a factory for the
manufactory of pants. These are moves
in the right direction. It gives employ
ment to the worthy poor, both male and
female. If all the men in North Caro
lina who possess large wealth were to do
as Mr. Duke is doing the people would
rise up and call them blessed. Mr. Broady
Duke is one of the cleverest men in
North Carolina, liberal hearted and open
handed.
At time of going to pre?a we connot
learn who the F-/ublic^B nominee for
President at Minneapolis is, and to the
great masses it matters little who be may
be. It will bethe same oid story of Rob-
b r Tariff and Taxes from begining f o end,
th 'dear people will as usual pay the fid
lers. That the affairsof the financial and of
Amtrican politics are exceedingly defec
tive, is beyond question, and whether
the Democratic or Republican parties
will ever remedy them oi rot is a ques
tion of grave doubt in the minds of many
sober thinking citizens. I he nay is rot
fat distant when existing parties must
conform to the needs and demand of the
peop e or be swept from off the face of
the earth. Why should the war policy
of finance prevail in time of profound
peace and why should not the circula
tion of money per capita keep pace with
the increase of wealth and population.
Echo answers why.
Why Bears Are Plentiful.
Old settlers say that there are more
bears in Sullivan County, New* York, to-
}day than there were a generation ago. A
‘number of facts make this statement one
[easy to be believed. Long ago the forests
Thronged with a race of brawny hunters
‘who shouldered deadly rifles and were
keen-eyed for the-chase. The hills were
Slotted with the little homes and clear-
Jings of woodsmen who made their living
iwith axes, were iron-nerved and clear-
eyed, and could shoot true. Tanneries
and sawmills giving employment to many
(men sat by the sides of all the streams.
The woods were full of the sounds of
•axe-blows and the creakings of ox-
chains. Youths grew up with a desire
for fame and they took rifles and went
'to seek in the woods. A hardy race of
huntsmen made terrible war on the game,
With the vanishing of the great forests
these men disappeared from the face of
the earth. Not all men now are hunters.
There are those surrounded by the best
cover for game who never taste partridge
or vension the year round.
When Sullivan County was covered
with a growth of heavy forest-trees hun
ters walking through the woods bad
goo I traveling, and could see far, for the
'brush, under the shade of the great trees,
was not thick. Now the huge forest
monarchs have gone their ways to the
river-rafts and the sawmills, and after
them have come second-growth and
brush, thick as the hair on a dog’s back.
The game finds excellent crouching
places in the places in the dense thickets,
and escapes the hunter’s eye with ease.
—New York Tribune.
How Parliament is Opened.
When the Queen opens the British
Parliament in person sho proceeds in
state to the House of Lords and corn,
mauds Black Rod to let the Commons
know “that it is Her Majesty’s pleasure
that they attend her immediately in this
house ” Black Rod ^proceeds to the
House of Commons and formally com
mands their presence, on which the
speaker and the commons go up to the
bar of the House of Lords and the Queen
delivers her speech, which is read by
the Lord Chancellor, kneeling on one
knee. —Chicago Herald.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT
BESSEMER CITY, N C.
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The suspender girl has come to stay.
Mrs. Ballington Booth receives but
seven dollars a week for her services to
the Salvation Army.
Miss Nina Picton, of New York City,
is one of the few successful women com
posers of orchestrations.
When two rings are used at a wedding,
the bride pays for the groom’s ring and
the groom for the bride’s.
In Finland the women consider a kiss
on the lips as the greatest insult, even
from their own husbands.
Open work scrim with ribbons run
through it makes a pretty strip tor the
centre of the dinner table.
With her income of $500,000 a year
Mrs. William Astor ought to be able to
struggle along comfortably.
Lexington, Mo., boasts a woman ex
press agent, a woman manager of a tele
graph office and a postmistress.
A new dormitory for Vassar is to be
built ’.ith the $50,000 that is that col-
lege’4 share of the Payer weather bequost.
Rubbers of white leather are among
the odd things bought by fashionable
wemen to wear over their party slippers.
Give your best young man a bouton
niere of nine violets if you would have
him fashionably attired as to his button
hole.
The Duchess of Marlborough now buys
her clothes in New York. She says the
American modistes are better than the
English.
Queen Victoria has decided to send to
the World’s Fair some specimens of her
knitting and spinning, done when she
was a girl.
The late Amelia B. Edwards was a
woman of letters. She was entitled to
wear Ph. M., L. H. D. and LL. D. after
her name.
Dr. Mary P. Jacobi, in New York
City, and Dr. Mary Hoxon, in Washing
ton, are each repute! to earn $40,000 a
year at their profession.
Mrs. Ingalls is quite unlike her dis
tinguished husband in physical appear
ance, for she is as short and plump as the
Kansas ex-Senator is tall and thin.
Miss Alice Rideout, whose designs for
sculpture at the World’s Fair were ac
cepted, has just taken the contract for
theic execution, the sum being $8200.
The “Coston Signals”—the colored
light system of signalling both on land
and sea—was the invention of Mrs.
Martha J. Coston, of Washington, D. 0.
More than 400 married women have
applied to the Bureau of Charities and
Corrections in New York City since the
1st of January for relief for themselves
and their children.
The women of Toronto, Canada, not
only took an active part in the late local
elections, but they compelled the men to
work as well, and so robbed the rings of
much of their power.
Miss Lalla Harrison, of Lee^m-a, T.-»n-
don County, Va., has been selected as
the most beautiful woman iu that State
to represent it as one of the original
thirteen States at the Columbian Ex
position.
The women of Cincinnati, Ohio, have
asked for a separate room in the Woman’s
Building of the World’s Fair, which they
wish to furnish and decorate throughout
as illustrative of the culture and art of
that city.
Herrmann, Lane County, Oregon, can
boast of quite a brave young lady who
has recently taken up a claim on the east
fork of Indian Creek. Her claim is above
all other settlers and it is said she stays
weeks by herself.
It is said that enterprising Loudon
shop-keepers employ well dressed women
to stand in fronc of their windows and
by “nhs” and “ahs” of delight attract
people’s attention to the glory of the
goods inside the windows.
The jewelsot Mrs. Astor, widow of
the multi-millionaire who died, recently,
in Paris, are probably the finest in
America. At times she has appeared in
public wearing precious stones valued at
between $50,000 and $100,000.
The money order department of the
Pittsburg (Penn.) Postoffice is exclusively
iu charge of Miss Mary Steele, and the
receipts, almost $2,500,000 last year,
mark it as probably the largest business
handled by any woman in America.
Miss Howe, the woman who won the
second prize in the competition for de
signs for the Women’s Building in the
Columbian Exhibition was a classmate
of Miss Hayden, who won the first prize
iu the Boston Institute of Technology.
Ex-Empress Eugenie, of France, felt
so acutely the complete absence of rec
ognition which she experienced when
walking about Paris last year that she
declined to stay there on her way to 1
Cape Martin, though much pressed to do
so.
Mrs. Potter Palmer has asked permis
sion of the German Government to have
the great doors of the Strasburg Cathe
dr.al, which were designed and wrought
by Sabina Stembock, reproduced for the
Woman’s Building of the Columbian Ex
hibition.
A fashion writer from Paris calls this
“the banner year of fashion,” for there
is nothing ugly. Mam’selle won lers if
she overlooked Russian blouses when
glancing in at the shop windows down
the Rue de la Paix or over on the Boule
vard des Italians.
A new industry has been invented by
a clever girl. She calls herself an ac
■ mutant and auditor for large houss-
lolds. She finds plenty of enployment
>1 looking after the business of a few
amilies of large expenditure, whose
tends have not taste for the work.
The fabrics most used for blouses and
-iiirt waists are made of fancy surahs,
■ash silks, fine French flannels and
cashmeres, but for summer uses they are
cade of linen lawn, percale, embroidered
mslin and plain China silk daintily
Qttonholed and embroidered on the
I root pleat and the collar and cuffs.
The new straws are dyed in all the
ashionable colors, and many of the bats
ire tartan. The old-fashioned, boat-
rnaped hat is coming in again. The
• burning consists of two long ostrich
■athers, arranging one on each side, be
veen the crown and the brim There
a velvet bow and a paste buckle in
.ont.
BESSEMER CITY, N. C.
INCORPORATED 1891, UNDER THE LAW OF NORTH CAROLINA
Stock full faid and Non-A.ssessalt»le
Stockholders are Liable for Nothing Except Their Stock.
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL STOCK, $5,000,000.
SUBSCRI BED. $650,000.
PAID IN, _____ $457,000.
Situated on the Richmond and Danville Railroad, six miles rioi-th elf Kind’s Aniribmi. N, 0., and twenty-eight miles
west of Charlotte, N. C. Formerly known as All-Healing Springs Staiidri.
Mr John H Inman, of New York,
President of the Richmond & Danville
Railroad system, has subscribed to
twenty per cent, of the capital stock of
any and all the manufacturing enter
prises (including furnace and steel plant)
to be located at Bessemer City within
three years. This isa big thing for the
Company. The Railroad Company has
given exceedingly favorable rates to the
managers of Bessemer City. In fact the
railroad facilities are unsurpassed, and
the officials, of the Richmond & Dan
ville Railroad are doing all iu their pow
er to aid the development of Bessemer
City.
Since writing this prospectus the Bf 8-
semnier City Mining and Manufacturing
Company has developed a vein of fine
Bessemer Iron ore over twenty feet wide
at one point,on a vein of which they own
three miles; and at two other points on
same vein, where it has been opened, it
is 14x17 feet. The vein of ore, alone, is
worth the capital stock of the Company.
ORGANIZATION.
President—J. S. Carr.
Secretary and Treasurer—J. A. Smith.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
J. S. Carr, J. A. SMITH, J. A. Carroll.
DIRECTORS:
J. S. Carr, Tobacconist and Banker,
Durham, N. C.
J. A. Smith, Tobacconist and Miner
als, Bessemer City, N. C.
J. A. Carroll, Banker and Cotton
Manufacturer, Gaffney City, S. C.
DR. B. F. Dixon. President Greens
boro Female College, Greensboro, N. C.
J. A. Pinchback, Real Estate and
Minerals, Bessemer City, N. C.
WM. D. Rice, Insurance and Loan As
sociation, Richmond, Va.
ioRpubM/S Uf THE CuMPAfst.
This Company proposes to develop its
vast and numerous deposits of fine Bes
semer iron ores by mining and shipping,
and by erectit g on the property iron and
steel works, to put the ores in the shape
of finished products. Owing to the fact
that our ores are of a high Besse ner
grade, and average over 60 per cent, mc-
talic iron, we can ship them at a hand
some profit to the rolling mills and fur
naces in Virginia, Maryland, and Ala
bama. This we are now doing and will
continue to do until the Company shall,
after mature deliberation, decide what
kind and capacity of steel plant or fur
nace is most profitable to erect. The
profit on the raw ores will pay a good
dividend on the stock of the Company.
This, coupled with our lime qu irri- s,
granite quarries, and sale of town lots,
will make the stock of the Bessemer City
Mining and Manufacturing Company one
of the safest and best dividend-paying
stocks in the South. The stock being
full-paid and non-assessable, the proceeds
of all lots sold will be distributed as a
dividend on the stock. With our iron
industry to draw a great number of labor
 rs, mining experts, and engineers, with
their families, and a large cotton factory
and other manufacturing enterprises, we
may expect a good demand for building
lots at our first lot sale, and the Company
will have no lot sale until these things
are guaranteed absolutely.
town-lot sales.
The intention of the Company now is
to have its first lot sale the last of Octo
ber or first of November, 1891, as the
iron works, a two-hundred-room hotel,
to cost fifty to one hundred thousa ul
dollars, cotton factory, capital to be
$100,0 0, two saw and planing nulls,
sash, door and blind factory, and shoe
factory have already been guarant e i,
and the Company expects to have sev
eral ether manufactories guaranteed b ?
November. And this, we think, will
justify a first class lot sale. \Ve appre
ciate the fact that the town-lot busine s
iu other sections of the country has been
inn in the ground ; but this has no b ai-
ing whatever upon Bessemer City. Many
of the town-lot schemes have either
failed or are in a state of stagnation be
cause tiny Lad no basis for a solid foun
dation. And in their flaming pros
pectuses they say they are situated in the
great mineral b It, etc, etc. We say to
you, we own the belt and the minerals,
too, and if you don’t agree with us in
saying that we have five times the basis
of any other Company offering stock for
one-fifth of the money asked, then we
don’t want you to invest. Other com
panics than ours, doubtless, are very
valuable, but we leave it to the intelli
gence of the reader to say, after an ex
amination of the following plan of or
ganization and prices paid for property,
whether or not our claims are well
founded.
PROPERTIES OWNED BY THE COMPANY
Nine mines of fine Bessemer orcs on
about two thousand acres of land o'ned
by the Company in fee; a valuable lime
stone quarry adjoining Company’s prop
erty ; a great quantity of gold-bearing
quartz, which seems to be inexhaustible
and h«s been worked profitably iu many
p'aces and only awaits further develop
ment; a large deposit of fire-clay, three
miles from Company’s propeity, said to
be as good bs any known cla in the
w rid; a vast deposit of glass smd on
Company’s land, said by experts to be
the finest known; a mountain of whet
s one rock on C mpany’s land, mi l an
in xiiniK-tible supply of the finest kind
of building granite within ouy mile of
3P JR, O S F 3±l O T TT S
OF THE
centre of Company’s town lot property:
and nine thousand six hundred beautiful
business and residence lots, the residence
lots 50x140 feet, with alley 20 feet wide
in rear of each lot; business lots 25x140
feet, with alley twenty feet wide
in rear of each .lot; These measurements
apply to all lots except those on the
mountain strip, as shown on map, some
of which are only 50x125 feet. Price
paid for whole property, $325,000.
PLAN AND TERMS UPON WHICH PROPERTY
WAS BOUGHT.
One half in the stock of the company
and one-half in cash, the original owners
of the property agreeing to invest the
whole of the cash payment tin the Com
pany’s property in manufactories; a bank
iind such other industiies as the board of
directors may from time to time think
best. Under this plan not one dollar of
the proceeds will go into the pockets of
the original owners to pay for property,
except as above named] and those who
purchase the Company’s stock wi get
the direct benefit of their own money, it
being invested in the Company’s prop
erty, alongside of the lots drawn by pur
chasers of this stock, upon the following
plan:
The Company will capitalize at ($650 -
000) six hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars, issue one-half of this, as agreed
upon, to original owners of the property,
sell the remaining half at Ally Cents on
the dollar to get the motley to brake cash
payments to owners of the propetty, as
agreed upon. This last half of the stock
shall be put in the treasury of the Com
pany, by the owners, to be sold and in
vested under the management of the
Company, and when so invested it shall
be the private property of the respective
original owners, as their interest may ap
pear. And to each purchaser of this
treasury stock the Company will give one
lot to each share of stock, diawn for al
ternately throughout the Company's
property; and said stock shall be de
clared fully paid when fifty cents on the
dollar shall have been paid in. Thus
each purchaser of this stock of the par
of $100, costing $50, will get a beautiful
and valuable building or residence lot
and it is reasonable to suppose that any
one of them wh’ ’ may happen to be
drawn near the r e of the property or
business part. .•- u will brixig more,
than the $50 palo or the whole; and we
believe the stock . jughtat$50 will bring
’he par value of $100 within two years.
The original owners get no lots with
their stock, but all stock shares alike as
io dividends, and is alike, with the ex
ception of the lots given to the pur
chasers of the treasury stock named.
The object of the Company in giving
away the lots to each purchaser of its
stock now is to absolutely secure them
against loss and to cause a rapid devel
opment of its property, believing that
the other half ot its lots kept will bring
more than the whole without said de
velopments.
PLAN OF SECURING INDUSTRIES.
The Company, as per a mutual agree
ment with original owners, proposes to
get practical men to invest to the ex
tent of one-half of the stock in a bank,
cotton factory, and such other manu
factories as will bring the greatest num
ber of skilled laborers and mechanics,
who can pay a good rent for good bouses
or build their own houses. Thus the
Company, with $162,500 cash, can, un
der this plan, secure manufactories to
the extent of $325,000; and this amount
of cash, invested by outsiders in indus
tries on the Company’s property, in ad
dition ti the large mining operations of
the Company, will make the Company’s
lots, as well as those given to stockhold
ers, exceedingly valuable.
SITUATION OF THE COMPANY’S PROPERTY.
The town-lot property comprises sev
enteen hundred and seventy-eight acres
(1,778), two miles and a quarter long,
with the Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line
division of the R. & D. railroad running
the long way through the centre of the
property, shuated in Gaston county, N.
C., six miles northwest of King's Moun
tain, and twenty-eight miles southwest,
of Charlotte, N. C. This is one of the
finest farming counties in North Caro
lira. Here cotton grows to perfection.
We are reliably informed that Gaston
county pays more tax on fanning stock
than any other county in the State. The
taxes on property in Gaston county are
about one-haif what they are in Cleve
land, the adjoining county. Gaston
c un’y has three railroads, seveial large
colleges for both males and females, and
already fourteen or fifteen cotton fac
tories in operation. So it will be seen at
a glance that you are not going to a
wild and poverty-stricken county to in
vest your money. It is said that almost
one-half of the farmers in Gaston coun
ty are money-lenders; and we are sure
•he price of farming lands are higher in
Gaston county than any other county we
know oh The cotton produced will
supply double the number of factoties
that now exist. Wheat, corn, oats, rye,
grasses and fruits arc as fine as in any other
section of the United States. All these
products, united with the vast mineral
resources, make Bessemer City peculiar
ly adapted to purposes of the Company
set forth
Bessemer C ty, it must be remembered,
is one of the healthiest and most pictur
esque places in Western North Carolina,
being about fourteen hundred feet, above
the level of the sea. It is situated at
wm>t has formerly been known as All-
IIeaiiug Springs station, now changed
to Bessemer City. In short, it is the
gaiden spot of Western North Carolina.
HOTEL.
Tie large hotel alluded to is n >w be
ing built, a d will be leady for grists
t. i .v lot -ale in October or No^m IT
i s i liltedi !i top of Whetstone Mun -
lain, 125 feet above the railroad track
but the ascent is so gradual that a horse
carrying two people in a buggy can trot
comfortably to horse and occupants from
the depot to the hotel door. The new
depot is at the foot of the mountain,
about four hundred yards distant from
the hotel. A prominent hote’ist says
ollt new hotel can be filled to oveifliw-
ing (even #ith 509 rooms'! by northern
visitors in winter and sdiithcrfl visitors
in summer. This will be a valuable Ac
quisition for a new town. The scenery
from, the top of the new hotel is unsur
passed by any on this continent. A vie w
can be had of ten counties, in whole or
in part. Mr. W. R. Richardson, the
civil engineer who surveyed Bes emer
City, says there is no view at or near
Asheville that will compare with the
view at Bessemer City.
We have endeavored to set forth Sorin
of the merits of Bessemer City, giving
only the plain, unvarnished facts, i
such a manner that we think all who in
speCt our property will remark (as did
well travelled business man the othbr
day) that we had not put forth our
claims ill terms half strong enough.
Our Company is organized under a
liberal charter, and the character of the
gentlemen at the head of it is ail abso
lute guarantee that its affairs will be
managed with faithful economy and
business sagacity, and that all who in
vest in this stock offered will make from
one to five hundred per cent, on the in
vestment in from one to five years.
USAHAUtEit OF MINERALS
Below we give some Analyses of a few
of our ores, and they are analyses But of
a handful of ores, but of car loads and
of five-hundred ton lots:
Analysis of Iron Ore from the Ormond
Mine of the Bessemer City (N. C.) Min
ing and Manufacturing Company, by
Henry Thomas, Jr., Chemist for Man
chester Iton Company, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Per Cent; Per Cent.
Silica .02 .900
Phosphorus .033
Iron .63 .984
Manganese .210
Lime .361
Magnesia .594
Analysis of Iron Ore from the Ot
mond AUnc ■ * the Bessemer City (N. C.)
Mining and Manufacturing Company, by
11. M. Curry, Chemist for Carnegie
Brothers & Co., Pittsburg, Pa.
Black Powder. Blue Powder. Lump.
Per Cent. Per Cent. Per Cent.
Silica 1.550 2.480 1.510
Iron 65.350 64.558 65.794
Ph’sph'rus 0 007 0.004 0.028
The samples were dried at 212 degree
F.
Analysis of Iron Ore from the Ormond
Mine of the Bessemer City fN. C.)
Mining and Manufacturing Com
pany, by Dr. Otto Wuth, Chemist,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Metallic Iron.
Phosphor
Per ct
Per ct.
65.67
.033
68 03
.036
67.04
.013
66.91
.013
67.97
.023
61.50
.011
61.53
.009
62.36
.028
66 54
.008
67.06
.009
68.05
.024
67.10
.008
67.84
.014
68.05
.024
These ores contain no sulphur, copper,
nor titania. The aniysis given was made
mostly from actual shipments of ore
made to parties in Pittsburgh, and were
not selected samples, but actual run of
the ores. The analysis of 14 car loa ’s, or
about 300 tons, shows the true character
of one of our mines.
Analysis of Iron Ore from the Ormond
Mine of the Bessemer City (N. C.)
Mining and Manufacturing Com
pany, by Dr. Otto Wuth, Chewst,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Ore A. Peret.
Silicic acid .97
Alumina 2 57
Peroxids of iron 95.60
Lime .53
Magnesia .21
Phosphoric acid .031
Metallic iron 66.91
Phosphorus .013
Traces of sulphur; no copper, titania,
or arsenic.
Ore B:
Metallic iron 52.10
Ore C:
Metallic iron 64.53
Analysis of Iron ore from the Ferguson
Mine of the Bessemer City (N. C.)
Mining and Manufacturing Com
pany, by Lehmann & Mager, Chem
ists, Baltimore, Md.
Per ct.
Metallic iron 67.18
Silica 4.67
Sulphur 0.11
Phosphorus 0.05
Analysis of Lon Ore from the Little
Mountain Mine of the Bessemer Guy
(N. C.) Mining and Manufacturing
Company, by Lehman & Mager,
Chemists, Baltimore, Md.
Per ct.
Metallic iron 54.32
Silica 6 67
Metallic manganese 0 45
Phosphorus 0 07
Analysis of Fire Clay from the Btssemer
City (N. U.) Mining and MaM:fi>c-
turing Company, by Ledoux A to.
Chemists, New York
t’er ct. v
Combined water and loss
An
ignition
5.51
Si lira
71.30
Alumina
17.46
Oxide of iron
1.15
Lime
none
Magnesia
none
Ooda
2.48
Potash.
2.11
The above arc a few of the analyses of
ores that have been shipped in large k t-.
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stock is not worth the price it jo ^a lur.
Th^y are given as an inducement to stim
vlate the development of the property-
Terms of subscription: Ten per cent,
cash and ten per cent, each month after
until 50 per cent, of the par value has
been paid in, when stock will be declared
fully paid. Remember, the par value of
your stock will be $100, declared full
paid when $50 shall have been paid, and
deeds to lots will be made to purchasers
when 25 per cent, of the par value of th®
stock has bees paid, provided he wants
to begin the erection of a building
thereon, Otherwise deeds will not be
made until purchase-money is paid.
DRAWING FOR LOTS.
If all of the stock is not sold on or be
fore May 1, 1892, the Company will pro
ceed to have the lot drawing without
further delay. The Company will re
serve two lots and give next two to
stockholders throughout the property
alternately. Map of all the lots furnish
ed on application to the Company.
Remember, any one of the lots you
get may bring you more than you pay
for stock, and doubtless will. A prom
inent business man says this is the most
attractive scheme ever presented to the
public.
COTTON FACTORY ; ND BANK.
The proceeds of first stock sold will
be applied to the erection of a cotton
factory, and every farmer in Gaston and
adjoining counties ought to take from
one to one hundred shares of stock in
The Bessemer City Mining and Manufac
turing Company; for th-? price of cotton
is so low that the only hope the farmers
have is in building factories and in spin
ning their own cotton. The mills in
operation in Gaston county now pay an
average dividend of fifteen to forty per
cei t ., and our facilities at Bessemer City
are ahead of any other location on account
of water and cheapness of fuel. A relia
ble party will contract to deliver all the
wood needed f r all the factories to be
established at Bessemer City, for a period
of ten years, at one dollar per cord, and
we vouch for this.
The numerous factories at Bessemer
City, and others near by, open a fine
field for a Savings Bank for operatives,
and a bank with any amount of capital
can find active employment for all its
funds in the legitimate business of the
county.
ORE MINING.
Our Company will mine fifty to one
hundred tons of iron ore daily, and will
double this as soon as more machinery
can be put down.
DIVIDENDS.
At present price of ore the profits will
piy eight to ten per cent dividend on
the purchase price of the stock the first
year, even while we are opening up the
mines
BLAST FURNACE OR STEEL PLANT.
The intention of the Company is to
get all its mines opened up and build a
direct process steel plant or blast fur
nace. This will further increase the
dividends of the Company.
HOTEL.
The large and handsome hotel is now
being erected, and will be opened lor
guests on December 1, 1891.
We have a permanent arra gement
made, whereby any purchaser of lots, or
of stock drawing lots, wishing to build
can buy merchantable brick at five dol
lars per thousand; all framing and rough
lumber at $9 per thousand: dressed
weather boarding (clear), $14.50; sec
ond class, $12.50; flooring (clear), $16.-
50; second class, $14.50; ceiling and
mouldings in proportion; sawed shingles,
$2.50 to $3 per thousand, according t >
quantity; wood. $1 per cord; lime, 80c.
per barrel; nails and all hardware as
cheap as same can be bought at any
point in the United States, freight added.
Thus it will be seen that purchasers
know exactly what they will have to
pay for materials before they buy. These
prices are all guaranteed for a period of
thiee years.
HISTORICAL.
Bessemer City is situated on a higl
plateau, 1,250 feet above the level of the
sea, overlooking a space of country as
far as the eye will reach, embracing all
ora part of ten counties. No malaria or
mosquitos ever known he.e. On the south
side of the Blue Ridge. No piercing fog.
The coming sanitarium of America for
consumptives and all weak-lunged peo
pie and asthmatic sufferers. Overlook
ing the battle ground where the cele
brated battle of King’s Mountain was
fought in the Revolutionary War; where
the hardy militia of the mountains liter-
ally massacred the British General Fer
guson and his army. It is not generally
known that King’s Mountain was named
on account of General Ferguson’s mes
sage to General Cornwallis. On the oc-
cssien of the beginning of the battle
General Ferguson sent a message ter
General Cornwallis, saying he was firm
ly entrenched on the King’s mountain'
(King George), and all the devils in
hellcould flot remove Kim. But it seems
that the mountaineers of the Carolinas
possessed more power than his Satanie
Majesty and his hosts. Within one
mile, and in sight of the new hotel,
stands the old blast-furnace used for
making cannon balls during the Revo
lutionary War. many of which are found
here now. This furnace is immense, be
ing more than forty feet square, and
stands a silent but lasting monument to
the heroism, endurance, and industry of
our forefathers. It went out of blast ire
1792, just one hundred years ago lacking
one. The ores used by this furnace'
were the finest in the world, and the
same mines which have lain idle since
are now owned by the Bessemer Cit
Company. And also within sight of the
new hotel is the soot in the adjoining
county (Mecklenburg) where the first
Declaration of the Independence ot the
United States of America was signed.
With our famous mineral water,
surpassed climate, soil, and minerals, we
can truly say that the advantages pos
sessed by Bessemer City are unsurpassed
by any and equalled by few in America.
And before many years Bessemer City
will be the queen city of Western North
Carolina, and consequently of the South.
Cast your lot with us and find yourself
in a pleasant and profitable place. Now
is the time to make a judicious invest
ment. Address,
BESSEMER CITY
Mini! anil Manufacturing: Company
BESSEMER CITL'Y, N. e.
We extend a Merry Christmas greet
ing to all the readers of the Messenger,
and invite them to call and inspect our
stock of
Toys and Holiday
Presents.
Our store is a veritable FAIRY PAL
ACE filled with everything pretty aid
funny and nice. Novelties of every
kind.
D O Xs Xs S
From one cent to two dollars each.
GUNS. PISTOLS, DRUMS and STEAM
ENGINES for the boys. Present suita
ble for anybody. No need to go to tho
cities for nice presents; we have them, as
NICE
Goods
As anybody’s, or if 5011 have only five
cents to spend we will give you as good
bargains as if you had bought largely.
Come here to spend your nickles or
your dollars. We have got more TOYS
and HOLIDAY GOODS than all the
other houses in ten miles of here put
together.
Again wishing you a merry Christmas
and hoping to see you in our store, I re
main, Very Respectfully,
B. R. WILLEFORD,
KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C.
J. A. PINCHBACK
J. A. SMITH
J. A. Pinchback & Co.,
Dealers in General Merchandise,
BESSEMER CITY, - - N. C
Everything bought cheap, everything
sold cheap. We have no time prices.
Come and see what we have. Brown
Sugir 4 cents and Granulated Sugar 5
cents per pound, one pound or a hun
dred, Bacon, Lard, Flour, Coffee, Mo-
lassss, Syrups, etc. in proportion. We
have our price, we ar not doing a crop
time business. Dry Goods, Boots and
Shoes, and everything usually kept in a
first-class store.
RICHMOND & DANVILLE R'Y.
South Carolina Division, C. & L. N. G.
Daily except Sund’y. In effect Ap’l 3, ’91
No. 11.
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Hudsonville
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Saw Mill
10 11
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Granite Falls
10 02
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Hickory
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10 25
Newton
9 60
10 44
Maiden
8 40
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Lincolnton
8 11
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Hardin
7 44
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Dalias
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Gastonia
6 50
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Crowder's
6 33
12 44
Glover
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Yorkville
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Guthrieville
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McConnellsville 5 18
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Lowrysville
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Chester
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Sol Haas, Traffic Manager
Jas.L. Taylor, Gen. Pass. Agt.