The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-11-17
NEW BUSINESS FIRM.
Gentlemen of Varied Experience
at the Head oft.

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ness houses. Messrs. Charles n. and
Arthur L. jerks, the partners in the en-.
terprise, come to us not as strangers but
as young men who are already well
known to many of our citizens, both so.
cialIy and in a business way. They are
the sons of COL c. W. jerks, of the
Spraguc Motor Company, Of New York,
gentleman widely known throughout
North Carolina. Col. ,Jenks, it will be
remembered, located and put in success,
full operation the corundum mine in Ma
con county, W hich at the present time
pays the greatest profits OF any similar
mine in this country.
Both Col. jerks and his sons are firm
believers in the natural resources of Wes.
tern North Carolina, and the new firm
has unsurpassed facilities for presenting
to Northern capitalists the almost une.
qualled inducements offered by this sec
tion of the State for legitimate and safe
investments.
While dealing largely in timber lands
and mineral properties, the Messrs. jerks
will give especial attention to city and
suburban property, and also to busi-
ness which has received meagre atten-
ton in this State as compared with
other sections of the country, viz: Life
and Accident insurance. The firm will
represent the Travellers Insurance Com
pany, of Hartford, well known to all our
readers as one of the largest and finest
companies in the world, and will en-
dCavor to give it the same preeminencc
here that it has acquired elsewhere.
In view of the fact that the McSsrs.
Jerks will be one of Ashcville's repre-
sentative firms, a short biography of the
partners may be of interest to our read
crS.
Mr. Charles n. jerks, the senior mem
Der of the firm. was bornin North Brook
field, Mass, thirty-tour years ago. In
1871, he came to Macon county, in this
State, when for a TIME he worked in the
corundum mine now owned by Captain
Lucas. He became very familiar with
corundum matters, which interest he has
always retained and cultivated, being
to-day one of the few corundum experts
in the country. He has always been an
invetcrate sportsman, and his successes
in bagging bear, deer and other game,
are well remembered by all the older resi-
dents of Macon, Jackson and Transyl-
vania counties.
In 1875 Mr.. jerks became connected
with George Campbell, Esq, of West
Westminster. VT, who was up to the
time of his death, the foremost Merino
sheep breeder of this country. A year
later Mr.. ,IenkS went into the sheep bus
mess i'll Texas, and became part owner
in one of the finest properties there
Owing to sickness he came North in 1891
and soon afterward began shipping stock
and sheep to the West and dSouth-western
states and territories
In 1856, he went to Montana to take
charge of large rancho there. He man
aged it so successfully that the owners
were able to soil it after time at a large
profit.
Mr. Jerks has a host ofwarm personal
friends all through the North and West
and among the mountain people here,
aud has a thorough acquaintance with
the timber and mineral lands of Western
North Carolina.
Mr.. Arthur Z. jerks, the junior part
ncr of the firm, was born in Boston,
Mass, twcnty-tour years ago. He grad
uatcd from the High school at the age OF
fifteen, spending the next two years of
journalistic arena in reportorial ca
pacity ana finally became the city editor
of the Brockton, Mass, Daily Gazette
which position he held until 1885, when
he entered Yale University, graduating
from that institution last June In his
sophomore wear he took the prize offered
bv Lippincott's Magazine for the best es-
say on Social Life at Yale" The com
petition for this prizr was open to any
Yale undergraduate and there were no
less than 20 men who wrote tor it. Ii
was rightly considered as the greatest
literary honor that could be secured by a
Yale student at the time, and the success
tul essay was published in the August
number, 1887, of Lippincott's. Mr..
Jcuks during his senior year in college
was managing editor of the Yale Record.
one of the leading illustrated papers OF
the college world. He was also a mem
Der of the Apollo Glee Club of Yale Uni
verSity for three years, and was business
manager of the club during the last two
years of his course. 1t was due to Mr..
Jcnks efforts that the club was enabled
to take its highly successful trip of last
April, when it visited Savannah, Charles
ton and Atlanta, singing to delighted
audiences i'll each city.
A glance at the references presented by
the Messrs. jerks will Indicate at a
glance the character of their backing,
which will establish for them immedi-
atcly a reputation ordinarily acquired
only by years of business life.
\ Curiosity to Many.
Barker at his fruit stand yesterday ex.
hibted large bunch of cocoanuts as
they were taken from the tree-a closely
compacted cluster of dozen or more, in
their green huskS looking for all the
world like cluster of green gourds. ex.