Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1883-06-28
THE TWIN CITY.
THE IMPRESSIONS OF VISITOR.
Some of the Principal Business Establishments Re-
viewed.
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Winston is the bon-ton town of North
Carolina. There is a cosmopolitan
dash and brightness about the place
that is quite captivating, a sort of go
aheadativeness not met with in small
towns, where things usually move in
a groove, and every thing and everybody
has sterotyped air. The population
has increased thousand percent in
the last nine or ten years. The town
only had about four hundred and fifty
people in 1870, and it now foots up to
about five thousand souls in sound
numbers. New people, with new ideas
come here every year and infuse new
life and zest into the place.
Atlanta Ga, Dragged itselfinto pros
perity and why not Winston? Why
you ought to placard your little city in
every city and town in the Union.
Make the world think there is no place
in North Carolina except Winston.
That is the way to get people interest
ed ia a place. You have delightful
climate here, elegant water, the grand
head center Of great tobacco mark
ct. With an immense business here,
yearly increasing, there is hardly any
conjecture as to where Winston's
prosperity may end. The county-seat
of Forsyth and the terminus of the
North Western North Carolina Rail
way, and the twin sister of the beauti-
full old town of Salem, there is no rea-
son why Winston should not become
the most important town in Western
North Carolina.
[ certainly was very much impress
ed with the idea that Winston was an
exceedingly important place on my ar
rival, having come from Greensboro
and arriving here at II o'clock at
night, finding it difficult to get a room,
the hotels being very much crowned
and then as we drove up, and dlscoy-
cred beautiful fountain prettily dec
Grated in front of the Central Hotel, [
made ID. my mind that Winston was
a considerable town, and have not yet
found any reason why I should change
my mind On the contrary, [ am more
than ever impressed that my first I'M
pressions were correct.
There are a great many large and
handsome business houses in Winston,
among the number five wholesale houses
with an immense trade. The retail
trade is also very extensive, represent
ing every department of business, doing
business on cash principles, which is
the safe way and the only safe way,
consequently the number Of failures in
Winston are small and infrequent.
Many people resort to Winston for
the summer, the fame Of which, as a
health resort, having gone abroad.
The future Of Winston is assured.
ANY town in the midst of tobacco
market is found to be prosperous. New
avenues of trade will be opened up,
when the several new railroads are
completed, the Virginia Midland, the
Yadkin Valley, and the Winston and
Fayetteville which will contribute very
materially to the prosperity of this ia
nous little town.
/ have not been able to get at the
altitude of Winston, but from the de-
lightful coolness of the atmosphere, it
must be very great. But one does not
care so much for the altitude of place
SO long as the "dividends" are all right.
This little city did not aspire to be a
tobacco market previous to 1872, but
from that year it received the impetus
and has since gone steadily upward.
The first warehouse for the sale of leaf
tobacco was opened in 1872, and now,
! behold, there are four extensive ware
houses and some twenty-three or four
tobacco factories here, with sales every
day in the week. More than fifty
counties in Virginia and North Caro-
lima send tobacco to Winston, and the
capacity for its production in the back
county is unbounded. Crowds of buy
ers from all over the country daily
flock to Winston and help to give the
town bright and busy look. Win
ston is acknowledged to be the largest
leaf tobacco market in North Carolina
The sales here for the year 1882
amounted to twelve millions ofpounds
Planters who bring their tobacco here
have no difficulty in receiving the
highest cash prices, without delay
There is no branch of American in
dustry in which exists keener com
petition than in the manufacture ane
sales of tobacco, Or for that matter
one that pays better.
Quoting from the Winston Bassines
Revieau, it says: "Since 1870 there ha
been no stagnation in the growth o
business of the place. Every day ha
found it little ahead. Within tn
past twelve months there has been fiji
teen large brick stores erected, whil
the contractors and builders say thi
viii be buster year than ever. Ev
erything-conduces to the future pros
perity of Winston and in the year
that aresto come it will be the fir.
town in the State in population as
is in every other respect.