The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1883-12-22
MONROE LIKEWISE
HAS 4 TALE TO TELL OF PROS.
PERITY AND GROWTH.
The Capital of Union County makes an
Inventory and Looks towards the CONE
ing Year with Courage.


Inventory and Looks tow waTds the COM
ing Year with Courage.
Special Oorrerpondcuce Of Zh< Carorsele
MONROE, n. c.. Dec. ls.-While the re-
turns are coming in from so many sections
Of the State, l would be glad for you TO
announce to your readers that another
- county has been heard from" Monroe
is situated Immediately on the Carolina
Central Railroad between Charlotte and
Wilmington. about twenty five miles from
the former and ie0 miles from the latter.
and Is the county seat OF Union. Incor-
porated about lS44, at the close OF the
war Monroe had only two or three hun
dred inhabitants. The population is now
estimated at from 2. 800 TO 5000 A more
active, energetic people, and a more wide
awake place is not TO be found In the
State. This wonderful increase in the
population and growth Of the town is at
tributable TO the thrift and energy OF the
people, and the magnificent country sur
rounding us
Monroe is a great business centre, COM
manding trade from Mecklenburg, Cabar-
rus, Stanly and Anson counties. In this
State York, Lancaster, Chesterfield and
kershaw in South Carolina, in addi-
ton to Union. A more accommodating set
Of business men were never congregated in
place of the size Of our town, and this
fact is we'll attested by the constant growth
OF business. Large quantities OF wheat,
oats, corn and other commodities to which
the county and surrounding country Is so
well adapted are brought here, but the
principal thing is cotton. We have both a
cotton weigher and an inspector, separate
offices filled by seperate persons, and gen
eral satisfaction is given to buyer and sell
Ter. In one year there have been bought
upon our streets from the wagons 2O,731
bales OF cotton. From this source there
are near a million of dollars put in circu-
lation in our town annually almost every
dollar Of which is spent here.
We need a little capital to put up and
run machinery, and with that we are ready
to measure arms with any small town in
the State. There is a magnificent opening
here for cotton seed Oil mill. Can't you
send us few capitalists? II they hesitate
about coming we will be content with some
good, honest, healthy men in good circum-
stances who are able and willing to work
and after all they are more practical.
There is not an unOccupicd house in the
place, and though the sound Of the ham
| mer ceases not, the demand exceeds the
| supply. There are in Monroe 26 dry-goods
stores, grocery stores, 3 cOnfectiOneries,
drug stores, 2 shoe houses, millinery
establishments, l book store, / iewelrY
store, tin shop, boarding houses, no.
| tel, restaurants, l bank, bar-rooms,
AiNCIy SCoOlCS, y SOtCOA BUS \StO0uIJ "ioA
glist mills attached, l Touring mill (steam)
furniture store, l marble yard, church
es, "a white and coloreO beef markets
practicing physicians, 8 lawyers, 2 den
| fists, l newspaper. Besides numerous
| smaller schools for both races, we have
| high school with seventy-five or a hundred
students, under the management of Prof
! Monroe. recently of Winston, assisted b,
| a corps of capable teachers. We have {
military company, and two most excellen
brass bands, white and cOlOred. The whit'
| band has for the last two years furnished
| the music at the Commencement exercises
| of Wofford College, S. c., and year or 81
ago they played acceptably for Trinity il
this State.
/ The present year has been almost a fail
ure in the way of crops, but the people
are jubilant and happy. There has beel
! seeded such a crop OF wheat and oats \.
was never seen here before, and it is lock
| ing beautiful and promises an abun dan
| yield.
! Since the war we have paid a railroad
| deDt of $4,000, now we are out Of deb
and have money in the treasury. We ar,
! building a splendid two-stOry brick dwell
| ing, with all the modern conveniences, fol
what few paupers there are in the county
| and when that is done we will be ready To-
a new court house and Jail. To sum up
we are out of debt, have money in th'
treasury, and several years ago the keeper
of Our poor house weighed three hundred
| and fifteen pounds UNION.