The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-11-15
our TOBACCO FACron1ss.
What n Writer has to Say of Winston's
Future Outlook.

What Writer has to Say of winston's
Future Outlook.
In recent number of the Wilming-
ton Star we find the following kind
notice of Winston's tobacco facto-
ries, and our city's prospects for the
future. Such notices are worthy of
appreciation:
Winston is comparatively an out
of-the-way place, being dependent for
the present for connection with the
commercial world on branch rail
road. Had she been located as fav-
orably for transportation and traffic
with great through lines of railroad
to carry freight to and from here
with hundreds of passengers daily
from other parts as Durham, for in
stance, there is no telling what pro-
portions she might have reached or
what the extent of her trade might
now be. With her limited facilities
for transportation, it is remarkable
that she has accomplished as much,
and within the brief period of fifteen
years, become one of the largest
chewing tobacco manufacturing
counties in the United States.
AS an illustration of how her trade
has expanded cite the fact that one
of our manufacturers ships his work
into nineteen States, North and
Suoth, among his last shipments
being one to Salt Lake City, Utah
Territory. This is getting pretty far
| away from home. 1t must be re-
| membered that this has been done
without any special attempt at
drumming up trade or advertising,
our manufacturers depending more
| upon the merit of their work, upon
which they hold lasting reputation
and success must depend, and doubt
less they acted wisely, for they have
not only built up a great business,
but are building up to greater and
grander proportions to-day, while
the business of at least one of her ri
| walls across the border has dwindled
to comparatively insignificant pro-
portions.
| There is not one of our manufactu-
rers who does not give his personal
| attention to his business and who is
not familiar with all of its details.
He has his subordinates, of course.
skilled men who supervise the differ
emit departments, but he supervises
all, and may be found at his factory
from the opening to the closing
hour, as busily engaged as any man
in his employ. They are working
men, and act on the principle that
industry and attention to business
are essentials to success.
They are inspired by local pride
and thus work together and aid each
other, believing that what helps one
helps all. and that the success of one
contributes more or less to the sue
cess of all.
Winston is bound to become a place
of much greater Importance than she
is because the representative men OF
her Industries, especially of her great
industry, act in concert and march
step to step and shoulder to shoulder
in every movement or effort to pro-
mote the general prosperity.
If the proportionate increase in
the number. of her factories is kept
up for few years more land the in.
dications all point that way), it will
not be long before the twenty-six fac
tories which will be in operation next
year will be doubled in number and
the present ten million pounds out
put doubled or trehssd.
There is future before Winston
and Wilmington had better be get
ting ready to shake hands with hel
and get better acquainted.