The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-09-13
THRIVING WINSTON.
What Col. Cameron. of the Asheville Citi.
zen Saw to Write About While
in the Twin-City.

What Col. Cameron. of the Asheville Citi-
Saw to Write About While
in the Twin-City.
Col. j. ID. Cameron, one of the editors of
the Asheville Citizen, paid brief visit to
instot-Salem few days ago, and on his
return home wrote over a column article for
his paper regarding his visit here. We
have only space to give extracts ofthe many
nice things he had to say of our towns and
people:
ga brief visit to this active and very
f1ourishing little city suggests the justice of
noting some of its features and the causes
operating to develop it into perhaps the
largest interior town IN North Carolina.
Winston, as it is, is the creation of the
, Northwestern North Carolina railroad
Previous to the construction of that road it
was only known as the county seat of For
syth county, a fringe of dwellings around
! the court house square, and the village a
mere appendage to the old and noted town
of Salem. A narrow street separated the
two corporations, and to the eye they APP
peared as one. The surrounding country
was rich agriculturally, and was remarka-
BILE for the excellence and abundance of its
fruits. But it lay also in the centre of a
remarkably fine tobacco region, embracing
the counties of Forsyth, Stokes, Surry, and
parts of Rockingham and Guilford. When
the system of warehouse sales was establish
ed in the South as one of the direct out
growths of the internal revenue system,
Winston was not slow to throw its doors
open rs market; and warehouses were es-
tabilshed, at first on moderate scale,
grown now into four extensive substantially
| built brick edifices with every convenience
for buyer and seller. The annual sales on
the floors of these warehouses is now be-
| tween fifteen and twenty million pounds.
The "plug" trade of Winston has been
| pushed to every part of the United States
| and marked feature in its tobacco industry
is that most of the new material is manu-
| featured at home.
One thing is evident at glance every
| body works, every man has been the arch
| itect of his own fortune; the habits of the
| people forbid the existence of idlers, and
there are few none there living on the
| interest of inherited fortunes. The old Mo-
ravian element of industry, thrift and hon
esty pervades all newcomers, and all brains,
hearts and hands are united to the Que end
of advancement and development.
The population of Winston, by recent
census is between 1000 and 5000; Salem
grows apace, and numbers about 5000 peo-
pie; the eye therefore taking in at one view
| the habitation Of about IL 900 jewellers and
workers But Winston does not mean to
stop here. 1t is not going too far to say
| that Winston is in its infancy. At present
it has but one railroad. 1t was evident that
| this would not suffice, and therefore, as one
| step to advancement, home construction
company, composed of Winston men, was
organized with purpose to unite with the
| builders of the Roanoke q Southern road
| extending from Roanoke City, Va, to Win
| ston, distance of los miles. Work is be-
| ing actively prosecuted at both ends. We
visited the scene of labor at the Winston
| end, where several hundred men were ac-
| lively engaged in squads working at con.
venient intervals. Not far from this line
and, fora distance of ten miles running
nearly parallel, is the road being pushed
rapidly towards Wilkesboro, several miles
! of which are already graded. Another
road, the Midland, is partially graded be-
| tween Winston and Mocksville in Dayie
county, a distance of 26 miles; and we were
informed that full working force would
very soon be put on this line to effect the
connection. 1t is possible, Also that a road
will be built from Winston to Reidsville
| Thus it will appear that Winston will be
the centre Of very widely radiating system
of railroads, the effect upon the advancement
of Winston being direct and inevitable.
Wide streets, freshly painted and often
elegant houses, abundant shade, undulating
surface and extended landscape give great
charm to the aspect of Winston. Every
where are the evidences of prosperity and
comfort, few of luxury colossal fortunes
the signs of "A people well at ease with them
selves and with the outside world.
We noted among the new structures a
very beautiful Methodist Church, very Ca
pacious, elegant in design and proportions,
and surmounted with tall and graceful
| spire. The cost of the whole was upwards
| of $4,000. On the same street, not far
| distant, is a new Northern Methodist
church, of brick, of palmer design, and con.
spicuous for its tall and graceful spire"-
| -FOUR brother is in error in regard to the
new Northern Methodist church, as there is
no such church erected here as yet. The
one he referred to must have been the
| Methodist Protestant.