The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-03-15

THE TRADE OF STATESylLLE IN
MEDICAL HERBS.
IredelI County, its Growing Capital.
Its Diverse Industries and its Hope.
full Outlook.


1reden county has not 100, 600 inhabitants
instead of 27.000,
In 1878 the county was formed from
Rowan II there had been / 600 more
births than deaths every year, and no en-
igration, these would have made 100. 900
>ouls-without immigration This would
have been less than three births a day IN
excess of deaths. OF course a more rapid
rate than this has been kept up by our
good housewives. See, then, What war
and emigration have done for us If the
average Carolina woman had these hun
dred years been given half a chance she
would have peopled the whole State twice
as densely as 1t now Is.
What an inviting welcome Is there here
for men and women who desire hon
est quiet living, cheap homes and
good farmeS or profitable employment
There is enough water-power III lredell to
run all the mills in the Carolinas. The
climate cannot be excelled. 1t is phys-
cally impossible for this section to be des
olatcd by a cyclone.
Ample accommodations for summer
resort will be furnished here this season,
and many find this medium ground pleas
anter than the mountains. With a chance
for easy living, freedom from storms,
floods, and all malarial diseases, isn't it
them on the Western plains and fail TO see
the advantages Of this locations
sTATEsvILLE.
situated in the heart of this great county,
145 milest west of Raleigh, 100 miles east
of Asheville, and As miles east of Char
lotte, is the capital The Western North
Carolina Railroad opens commerce to the
East, West and North, and the Atlantic,
Tennessee and Ohio Railroad to the South,
and a new era has dawned upon us. The
StateSville Of to-day is a new creation.
Schools, business houses of various kinds,
and on a large scale, wholesale houses,
factories, markets for tobacco and cotton,
are among the evidences of her progress.
Within few years Eastern men have
come here and settled to raise tobacco,
and now the tobacco crop is one of the
most profitable, and Statesville being nat
urally the outlet for this produce as well
as the large quantities Of cotton raised in
this and adjoining counties, tobacco ware
houses, manufacturing tobacco, and a
lard. cotton market are the results. Alex
ander wilkes she, Watauga, Allegheny,
Yadkin and Surry con'THtIles; bring mther
very largely their produce of aInlSosssss esery
kind. The fact that so many merchants
come here to trade explains why the
wholesale house of Wallace Bros is per-
haps the largest in North Carolina. Win
ston is the only town in the West that can
compete with it in trade, and Statesville's
advantage over Winston lies in the fact
that she has a great cotton and tobacco
market, whilst Winston must rely on her
tobacco for her greatness.
A BOTANIC DEPOT.
There is a firm here-Wallace Bros
who have three immense warehouses filled
with every Indigenous herb. They have
agencies in all the Western counties of
the State to collect these herbs, and skill
full botanists who assert them and prepare
them for shipment in their warehouses
here. Great bales of these herbs are
shipped to Northern, European and South
American markets to be used for pharma-
ceutical purposes. There is no such trade
| as theirs, of like kind and extent, in the
United States, and their profits are said to
| be extraordinary.
Here is a field for a new industry, ii
| some one with the means will take hold of
| it. It is to reduce these herbs here to
| liquids. In this way huge bale of herbs
can be bottled and the freight become
nominal. If small bundle of some of
| these herbs-and such is fact-will sell
for $3.50, how easily it could be reduced to
liquid, which would probably sell fo1
l Twice lildU Suul! LII HOW many ways CAL
| wealth be made if we but knew when and
where to begin
Here are the headquarters of the revenue
crew of this State Here the odiousness
and corruption Of their nefarious system
are seen in all its hideous forms. Soor
new distilleries with a capacity Of three
gallons day will start, and storc-keeper:
and gaugers will multiply till the election
is over. Soon the assessments will begin
and the corruption fund swell. Talk abou
county government for the East, and th'
tariff, but unless the Democratic part,
does something to choke this tyrant it vii
| appeal to Western voters in vain.
But there is less decided convictions an(
fewer expressions of opinion about candi
dates than usual. 1t is utterly impossi
BILE to tell what shape affairs may assume.