The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-06-21
of the building used for an engine and
boiler room 20X6O The mntiye nnXer is

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boiler room, 20x6O. The motive power is
one 275 horse power boiler and 100 horse
| power engine. There is a separate engine
for the electric light plant that lights the
entire building. There are 4,500 spin
dies. The capital stock of the factory is
| S75, 600. The mills are run night and
day giving employment to 100 hands.
They work up As bales of cotton per
week. The mills run on hosiery and soft
twist yarns and the net production per
week amounts to II, 900 pounds. We be
making this class of goods. They use
only the best cotton and turn out a high
grade of yarns which they have a con-
stant demand for in Northern markets.
| This mill uses Automatic sprinklers and
| the fire system throughout the entire
building is complete. The premises are
paled in with neat paling and the yard
Is beautifully sodded with grass. The
company pays every attention to the
comfort and health of their operatives by
providing them with all necessary con
veniences for living that are conducive
to health and happiness, knowing full
well that it is to their interest to do so.
1t is we'll known fact that those en-
ployed in this factory are far above the
average Of those employed in good many
| other mills in point of health. Another
fact of special note about this mill is that
from the interest that the operatives take
| in the success of the business it shows
that they fully realize the fact that the
company's success is their success. There
| fore there is the most pleasant relations
existing between the employer and the
employee. The company runs no store
but pays their men off every week in
hard cash, and they are at liberty to trade
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good plan; and is calculated, we should
think, to be satisfactory all around. Col.
| W. II. WILLIAMS zone of the Governors S
staff is president of this mill.
In addition to this, there are three 9th
er cotton factories in the county one at
Monbo, one at Long Island, and one at
Maiden.
OTHER MANUFACTURES
The Newton FIGURING and Corn Mills
were established about ten years ago. 1t
is a two story building. This is Burr
Mill and makes flour, nominy, meal and
feed stuff. Their brands of flour are well
known and have a ready sale in markets
already established. Connected with this
mill is a cotton gin and saw mill. They
gin about 400 bales of cotton per year.
The flour and corn mill run all the year
| round They lose no time at all. The
| saw mill not very far from the cotton gin
is kept pretty constantly at work getting
out framing for house building. They also
saw good deal of oak which is used
mostly for posts. The members of this
company are Messrs. RHYME, MEAHAFFY
Il FINGER. Mr. J. T. MEAHAFFY is Mana
ger.
Another enterprise which Newton cali
| boast of that good many other towns in
the State need is a tirst-class machine SHOP
| nd ft1 ro1 hnr fO
do all kinds of work in their line. There
is no kind of casting or moulding wanted
but that can be had at the Newton Foun-
dry. Mr.. J. F. FINGER, the proprietor of
this shop. is an old and experienced ma
chinist aud can and is prepared, il called
upon, to do any kind of repairing on en-
gines or to make one out and out. Such
an establishment IS certainly great con-
venience TO any community.
The kiliian FIGURING Mills and Cotton
Gin has been established about eight years
and Ia tie season gets is share of ginning
u do. They have large trade on heir
many brands OF good f .ur all through this
and other States
Beside th.Sa Newton enterprises there
are doz ns Of other >ma.. -tpU f.a'1r 70
establishments in Catawba county. There
are half dozen tanneries. buggy facto-
reS, wool carding places, makers OF Whis-
key, and al jug Town there are half a
dozen stoneware establishments.
Just seven miles from Newton is a lime
kiln now burning lime both for building
and agricultural purposes.
Nine miles from town is the Shuford
mine. 1t is not now being operated. The
stockholders are making arrangements to
enlarge the capital stock of the company
so as to enable them to go to work on a
more extensive scale than heretofore
Among the minerals found in Catawba
county are gold, iron, marble, and others
The are eight gold mines in the county,
three iron mines and one alum mine.
THE CATAWBA COUNTY BANK.
This is an institution that every town
ought to have and ought to look upon as
one of the most convenient enterprises OF
the town. Business men know how incon
venent it is to carry on business in a town
of about 1000 inhabitants without bark
ing facilities. This bank is a new enter
prise in Newton, having been established
only about two months ago, with paid
in capital stock of 81 5 200, with the priv
ilege of increasing it to as much more as
the stockholders may deem necessary.
Mr.. II. r. KENYON, formerly of New York
and recently Cashier of Johnston City
Bank Of Tennessee, is the Cashier of this
bank The vault is a brick fire proof vault
with a double wall between WnlCn IS AT
air chamber, each wall being twenty in
ches thick The safe is burglar proof OF
the latest improved make, protected by a
double chronometer time lock. A burglar
can tell at once from the ticking, which is
to be heard when it is locked, that not
even those knowing the combination car
get into it until the time for opening i,
has arrived.
TIE CHURCHES.
There are four church buildings in the
town. The German Reformed, Lutheran
Presbyterian and Methodist. In the frs
mentioned there are 125 members. DIR
J. c. CLAPP is pastor. Their present house
of worship is a frame building, but they
have in course OF erection a very hand
some brick building which will soon h'
, finished and will seat about 400 comforta
bly,. 1t will be one of the incest churche:
in the State This church was established
in the year 1850.
The Lutheran church is brick struc
ture and was established about 1852. [
: has about 70 members. REV. J. MOsER i
the pastor.
: The Methodist church is also bricl
| building and was established here in 1885
5 REV. j. NJ. LUMLEY is the pastor. The
have $50 we were informed) about rs mem
, bers.
The Presbyterian church is a very neat
r handsome little brick building, situated
t on the main street on the left hand side a