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etcial and Manufacturing Centre;
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This Section Producing as Fine Tobacco as is Found in the
Country, By Bray Brothers
This as a Rapidly Developing Wholesale Center. & By
Milton L. Shields.
Greensboro is the most important
and centrally located city of the Pied
mont section of North Carolina; has a
population ot 12,000,' and is the geo
grahical center of the famous Yellow
and Mashogany tobacco belt ot the
State. This section grows that pecui
alrily fine quality and finely flavor
vored tobacco which has so immortal
ized the name of North Carolina as the
finest bright tobacco section in the
world.
For general manufacturing purposes,
such as plug chewing, plug cut, fine
cut, granulated smoking, and cigar
ettes, and a fine quality yellow strip,the
leaf tobacco grown in this territory is
not excelled by that of any country
or section of the world.
As an evidence of this fact the lar
gest and most successful manufactures
of the world are our largest buyers and
only regret that they cannot get more
of our superior leaf to use in their
famous brands. We sell about 3,500,
000 pounds annually, and with our co
mmodious warehouses, our nice plug
and smoking factories, and with our
numerous energetic leaf dealers, we
see no reason why we should not in
crease this aggregate every year.
We have the facilities for handling
twice this amount every year. Our
banks have an aggregate capital, sur
plus, and deposits of over $1,500,000,
and weare the centre of eight railroads
which furnish us cheap freight rates
to all points of the compass. With all
these natural advantages and the su
perior quality of our tobacco, we see
no reason whatever why our market
should not be doubled in the next two
years.
, We invite all tobacconist to inves
tigate our facilities and our market be
fore they locate or place orders or you
might regret it We will take pleasure
in answering any inquiry you may
wish to make regarding the market or
the tobacco sold here.
BRAY BROTHERS.
Per C. A. Bray.
In this highly favored town, with its
many and diversified interests, no line
, of industry ha9 been sb phenominally
successful as has that of the whole
sale business. Its successhas proven
beyond all per adventure, that this is
the most desirable distributing point
for a large portion of the South. All
points of the compass, North, Bast,
South and West, are in easy access
by our several lines and branches of
railway, and we have every good rea
son to believe that within the near
future another line of railway will be
added to our already excellent trans
portation facilities, furnishing us with
most wholesome competition. Four
years ago the wholesale business of
Greensboro was confined to two lines,
that of hardware and dry goods, now
all lines are represented, and by
houses that would be a credit to our
largest cities. In that four years the
volume of business has increased to
such an extent that a fair estimate
shows now that it is $1,250, 000 per year
greater than it was at the beginning f
that period.
Many reasons have combined to
bring this about the main one of which
is a saving in freight rate to the trade.
This is due to the fact that iobbers
here can buy goods as cheap from the
nannfacturers and importers as can
those in tha larger cities, and also be
cause of the peculiar railway freight
rates in this State, whereby' the ship
per pays freight only on the actual
weight of the case if it be less than a
hundred pounds. Another point in
favor of this as a jobbing center is the
fact that the wholesaler here can sell
goods for less than those in larger cities
because the cost of operating his busi
ness is less, taxes and rents are lower,
labor and clerical hire cheaper, the
cost of living cheaper, etc. All these
reasons and many others which I
will not attempt to mention, combine
to make this one of the most highly
favored jobbing centers of the entire
South.
INDEX.
ATTORNEYS.
PAGE.
Judge James E. Boyd 4
3e rge S. B adshaw 4
A.W. Cooke 5
Judge R. M. Douglas 5.
Robert D. Douglas 4
T. J. Murphy
Scales & Scales
LeviM. Scott. 4
. BASKING INSTITUTIONS .
City National Bank 13 j
ureensDoro iioan ana a rust km
Greensboro National Bank 5
Peoples' Savings (Bank 3
Southern Loan and Trust Co 13
BUYERS OF TOBACCO.
Bray Brothers
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
Agricultural and Mechanical College 15
Central Business College 2
Guilford College 2
Greensboro Female College 8
State Normal and Industrial College 2
HOTELS.
Hotel Guilford 9
The Huffine 3
IMPORT, COMMISSION AND SUPPLY COMPANIES.
Greensboro Supply Co 12
Southern Import and Commission Co 7
INSURANCE COMPANIES;
Southern Stock Mutual and Underwriters 7
, Charlotte.
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Salem. 28
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LAUNDRIES;
u Gate City Steam Laundry
MANUFACTURER S;
15
81 Kakigft.
Brooks Manufacturing Co 11
Cape Fear Manufacturing Company 3
Qiascock & Sons, Founders 14
Greensboro Furniture.Manufacturing Co 11
Greensboro Lumber Co I 12
Greensboro Ice and Coal Co...... .. '9
Greensboro Table Co..;......... 11 ;
Guilford Lumber Manufacturing Co 11 .
Guilford. Roller Mill Co .,12'
Huffine Steam Bottling Works -3"
Johnson & Wataon, Shoes 12.
Johnson Manufacturing Co., Metal Works 14
North Slate Bobbin Co 5 "
Piedmont Iron Co . 14:
Pomona Terrecotta Co 11
Sergeant Manufacturing Co 6
Sherwcgd Bobbin and Manufacturing Co 12
Southern Bobbin Co 5
Southern Tobacco Co 6
Van De venter Carpet Mills 6
nurseries;
J, Van . Lindley Nursery Co -14
sanitariums;
The Keeley Institute, . . iw; 6
TELEPHONE EXCHANGES:
Greensboro Telephone Exchange 12
WHOLESALE AND JOBBING HOUSES:
The Hague-McCorkle Dry Goods Co 6
C. W. Jennings, Wholesale Produce and Fruits. 3
Merchants Grocery Co 9
Odell Hardware Co .". 10
Pheonrr, Wholesale Produce Dealer 10
Richardson DruglCo ...... '. . . . .-. 12
J; W, Scott $ Co.;iDry Goods and Grocries 10
Simpson-Shields Shoe Co 10
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Banking and Its Development as Treated by the President of
I. & L Asso:iation and the Greensboro
Loan and Trust Co.
Greensboro, North Caroling, Its Advantages as a Commercial,
Manufacturing and Educational Centre
The growth and prosperity of a city
depend upon the productiveness of the
surrounding country, its transportation
facilities in all directions and the en
ergy of its people.
Without enumerating the various
Products of field and forest surround
ing this city and the lines of railroad
going in all directions it is only ne
cessary to mention two facts to show
that GreenstK&o is well supplied with
all of the requisities named in the first
paragraph of this letter.
The census import shows that the
population ofreeshoro in; '90 was
3,317 and in lfLwas 035,aa;increase
of 202 per cenj&tia t&i years".
While these '.figures show; a remarka-
ble growth, there is another fact which
shows even a greater increase in the
business development of our city.
The individual deposits in all the
banks here on February 4, 1899, were
1643,156.04 and on February 5, 1901,
were 51,141,538.64, an increase of nearly
half a million dollars, or 77 1-2 per
cent in two years. Several years ago
the business men organized the Greens
boro Indusrtial and Immigration As
sociation for the purpose of inducing
the location here of manufacturing
plants and the establishment of hew bu
siness enterprises of ecery kind and we
feel that the Association has accom
plished, much along these lines..
J. W. FRY.
It Is a common remark of observers
that this place Is naturally situated for
development Into an important com
mercial and manufacturing centre un
surpassed In a large section of the
country. It Is not only In a few hours
distance direct to the larger cities of
the country, but is a distribution point
for one of the largest and richest and
fastest growing portions of the South.
Its railroads diverge n every direction,
and it is the great central andmeeting
point between . he eastern and west
ern part of thejstate. It is sibilated in
the Piedmont Section, the richest; in
the State, an is the center Of one of
the most thickly occupied mar4ufactn
ing section of the entire Souvthjf :': With
in a radius of 60 miles bit thfe point
there are 62 cotton mill, operating
18,987 looms and 525,024 spindles, nine
knitting mills, three woolen mills, in
numerable wood manufactories. The
soil is fertile and the climate admira
ble. PRESENT AND PROSPECTIVE
DEVELOPMENT.
The' present rate of growth of this
place is almost phenominal. In point
of population, the increase for the past
ten years according to the United Sta
tes census reports, has been between
200 and 30p per cent, and greater than
that of any other town in North Caro
lina. The population now within the
actual city limits numbered, according
to the last census, 10,035, while includ
lng;uburbs it will reach the neighbor
hood, of 20,000. Not only in population
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