The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-04-26

More than a hundred different var
ieties of trees are found in this and
surrounding counties. Mica, iron,
manganese, asbestus, and traces of
| gold are here; marble, granite, soap
| stone and sandstone are abundant,
and the entire county is fairly settled
| up with an Industrious, and peace
| loving community. How ever
there, is room for population three
l or four times as great. Lands are
| cheap and good citizens from any
section of the country will be well
comedt The county, has over fifty
i g'rist and saw mills, twelve wagon
| shops, eight tanneries, four potteries
| and a number of tobacco and other
minor factories outside of the Twin
| City There are ten villages, among
the largest of which is Kernersville,
eight miles east of this place on the
N. W. n. C.. r. r., and which town
| has about l 900 inhabitants.
STOKES COUNTY, ETC.
Our mother county-Stokes-was
formed from Surry in 1877, and nam
ed after revolutionary colonel. 1t
lies north of Forsyth and has an area
of 44O square miles. 1t is generally
quite level but becomes broken
around the Sauratown mountains,
which cross the county diagonany
and form a picturesque scene, in plain
view from Winston. Moore's Knob
is z, 2,5S3 feet in height and was used
by the signal corps of the United
States Coast Survey in 1857. Dan
River, the longest in the State, flows
centrally through Stokes and with
it's net work of tributary streams
gives excellent water privileges 1t
produces fine grade of tobacco and
about thirty factories are in the
county.
Stokes county is adapted to all
kinds of products raised in this coun-
ty, and in some respects has even bet
ter agricultural advantages. 1t has
several valuable iron mines some of
which have been worked in a limited
way for seventy years. There are
outcrops of semi -bituminous coal in
the county and feldspathic clay for
fire bricks is found near Danbury, and
soapstone. Mica mines have been
worked four miles from Danbury.
Limestone and marble are found in
the county and the great need of this
country is railroad transportation
facilities. Danbury, the county seat
is a thriving town, and there are
several other good villages in Stokes
county.
Surry, Yadkin, Davie, Davidson
and contiguous counties are similar
to Forsyth and Stokes in location
products, etc. What all this section
needs most for rapid development
is RAILROADS.
This vast region through to and
around Cumberland Gap, with its ac-
knowledged mineral wealth and many
fertile valleys, might well be termed,
the railroad desert of America, for
there is no other section that has
been known to the white man so long
and with SO many valuable features
of commentator that is still lying
undeveloped. No thoughtful can man
examine this region of hundreds of ac-
res of unmined coal, with its noun
tains of iron ore, abundance of fire
clay, etcetera, without expressing the
greatest of surprise that it has not
come to the knowledge of capitalists
long before this and been amanufact-
uring district, with it's thousands of
blast and coke furnaces, rolling mills,
cotton manufactures, and a million
of attendant inhabitants.
Throughout all this vast country
are immense forests which have
scarcely known the woodman's axe
and the great desirability of making
a permanent outlet to it's natural
wealth cannot well be oyerestimated.
From Winston to Cranberryis is about
one hundred miles, and road could
there connect with those now build
ing to the Gap, where they will tap
the air line across Kentucky. This
connection would place Winston
within less than $50 miles of Cincin-
natl with her twenty eight lines of
railroad, radiating to every point of
the compass. 1t is strange indeed if
q corporation cannot be formed to
take hold of these advantages.
MORAVIAN CHURCH.