The banner-enterprise., 1884-03-17
NORTH CAROLINA INDUSTRIES.
[From the Fayetteville Observer. ]

rom the FayetteVllle ODSerVer.
TwENrY-EIoHr THOUSAND DOLLARS IN
COME FROM ToBAcco.-The Newton Enter
prise says that Major w. w. Rollins, of
Warm Springs, Madison county, cleared this
year on his TOBACCO crop $4,000.
ENTERPRISE AND GROWTH OF DURHAM
Durham, says the Reporter, will add one
million dollars to the manufacturing capacity
this year in cotton, woolen and tobacco fac
tories. Eight hundred and fifty thousand
dollars is already under way and the resi-
dences to be built will average one every
day in the year.
AsHEvILLEs EXTRAORDINARY TOBACCO
MARKET.-The secretary of the Asheville
Tobacco Association, says the Citizen, re-
ports for the month of January: Sold at
the several warehouses during the month,
488, ,299 pounds for $97 ,352.70, an average of
1898 per hundred. This average is the
highest yet obtained, and still places Ashe-
vile market ahead of any in the United
States
RICHES "LyINa AROUND LOOSE The four
pound nugget Of gold, says the Stanly o.
serUer, alluded to as found in Montgomery
county, though remarkable, is hardly a cir
cumstance when compared to the nugget
whicA was found at the Reid mine in .Cabar-
rus county, N. G. Tke nugget in question
weighed twenty-eight pounds, and for a long
while it was used as q prop for q dwelling
house door, the occupants being unaware of
it's value. This is fact well authenticated.
THIRTEEN CoTToN MILLS IN ALAMAMcE-
We were at Company Shops, says the Ala
nance Cleaner, one day last week, and were
shown through the new mill by w. H. Tur
rentine, the vice-president of the company.
There are one hundred plaid looms ,ninety-fve
of which were running at the time referred
to. Each loom averages a product of about
fifty yards daily. This MAKE the thirteenth
cotton mill in operation in this county. An
other will start in this place during the
spring, while others will be increased in ca
pacity, and probably others built before the
close of the year. Truly, Alamance is a
manufacturing county.
GOLD IN CABARRUs AND Mica IN JACKSON.
Our energetic townsman; w. A. Smith,
has struck bonanza in the way of gold
mine, says the Concord Times. Last week
he realized from three and one-half tons of
ore taken from the Rock River mine, one
hundred and six pennyweights of clean
gold, it being an average of about thirty
dollars to the ton. And the Asheville Cai-
zen reports that the people of Jackson are
finding many rich mines of mica in various
parts of that county. Jack Long, Register
of Deeds, cut about 500 worth out of one
oupply ~ tho obaato onrincr 63xxJQ
inches. Beat that who can.
THE GOLD MINES OF NASH AND HALIFAX.
The Arlington Placer gold mine, com
prising twenty-one hundred acres, in Nash
and Halifax counties in this State, was sold
last week to Pittsburg syndicate, by Mr.. Z.
w. Lyon, of Thomasville, who himself re.
tains an interest in the property, The Ar
rington adjoins the Thomas and celebrated
Ports mines Of Franklin county, and is iden-
tical with them in formation. The Lexing-
ton Dispatch says that the Ports has a mint
record of over a million dollars gold pro-
duction. The ordinary surface earth, accord
ing to the reports of two experts, has an av-
erage gold value Of seventy-fye cents per
cubic yard, and the gravel, Of which there is
an abundance, Is worth from four to ten dol
lars per ton. 1t Is the intention of the pur-
thasers Of the Arlington TO commence work
on an extensive scale uuder the management
Of an efficient and experienced practical su-
perintendent. The Ports Is now being OPP
Grated successfully BY company Of gentle
men from Bradford, Pa. This region is by
far the most prominent one OF its Find In the
State, richer than many paying mines in
Georgia and the West.
IsmGo.-It Is well known that indigo was
an article Of export from North Cerolina in
the olden times. The Kinston Free Press
says that DIR. Hyatt, Of that town, intends
experimenting in the cultivation Of indigo