The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-07-05
HIGH POINT.
LIVE AND PROG GRFSS.v TOW y
OF VARIED Il Dt SIKIES.
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lffGH POINT. n. G.. June il, 1889 To
day is 4 t2ight and beautiful day. The
wn Is alive With visitors who are passing
-4rough euroute home from their pleas
.rt trip 10 Trinity College commencement,
s.a-ch institution lies just five miles South
ea>t IF here. This morning, in company
with hundreds Of friends we came over
jere where some boarded the train. others
pgeterriDg TO spend a while and enjoy the
SIMMER days III this pleasant place. High
Pe5nt is admirably situated. Lying upon
rHa highest ridge on the Richmond x Dan
He K l., between Richmond and Char
tte, is climate is temperate and far sur
passes that of many towns a hundred miles
west OF here. The drainage Is perfect be
lug secured by the streams which flow on
either SIDE OF the town many feet below
the situation. Though not western town
High Point is ,065 feet above the sea
level, thus giving it the advantages of a
delightful climate. Every season hundreds
ut sportsmen take advantage Of its genial
innate and unsurpassed game fields
around, and come IN companies; bringing
JaelC families, to enjoy stay here. Nor
tJ,> the summer or Winter resortel pass
lt oy. In periodicals Of southern resorts
E.gh Point Is by 10 means put IN the back
ground, but by Its situation and remarka
hly good health record it has been classed
among the most desirable resorts. Perhaps
the reader may like TO see something Of the
enterprises " hlcn have developed this place
and What nature has done for it, OF this
| write:
The history of High Point is not entire
i new, but for many years it has been
a town, although her people never realized
till lately the fact that they had nd
yantages which could make it, sou day
q pushing and successful manufacturing
center.
When Guilford county was formed many
wears ago High Point was unheard Of
t;uIltord Court House lived many years
AND so had the majority of towns in Gull
ford county before High Point made any
4r-renuons Of even beng village. As
t41y passed she gradually developed and
= today one Of the most thriving towns III
the State.
Her business enterprises are such as
have made Atlanta and Richmond the
metropolitan cities OF the South. They are
varied such as machine shops, lumber
mills. shuttle mills, sash and blind facto-
ries, tobacco factories and cotton mills.
These have been the making of nearly
every manufacturing center. 1t IS not
cotton mills, shuttle mills, or machine
shops that have by themselves made cities,
but all of them together. This fact
been demonstrated by nearly every thirty
iug city y most thriving business in
the place Is the tobacco factory of
W p. PICKETT 4 co.
This firm was established here in 1872
and is composed of some of the most Ell
terprisng men in the county Mr. ". 7.
pIeKETT is a native Of Davidson county
and may be said TO have been ''cradled in
tja hos ada q life I'm SIDpSS
and has devoted many years to its manu-
tacture The other members of the firm
are Messrs J. J. WEIGH and f. NJ. PICK
EFT. The firm is doing an immense busi-
ness, working on full time and manufac-
turing tie finest grades of plug and twist.
The factory is large building and we'll
ventilated. There are 80 hands worked
and the capacity of the factory Is from
three fourlhs 10 one million pounds of to-
bacco. Among the many brands &C. IL H)
Cleveland and Hendricks stands in the
cad and has a fine reputation. Besides
This we'll known firm Is that OF
j. H. JENKINS \ co.
Mr. JENKISs, the head of the firm, is an
old manufacturer and ex deputy collector.
He came from Yadkin county here several
Years ago aud has decided to return TO his
old vocation. Accordingly few weeks
ago with several others the above firm was
perfected for working on a very large
scale. He is a fine tobacco manufacturer,
and has at one time furnished great por-
ton Of the State with his goods. The 1ner
chants viii recognize him as the former
manufacturer of the famous brands: King
Of the Forest, Yadkin Valley, Dixie Girl,
tcc The company has such men as Mr.
j. H. MILLS comprising it. They will
only manufacture medium grades this
nf hQ nIla n
on the market, but will pay much atten-
ton to the style of putting it up. The
capital stock is $4,000 and the capacity
Of the factory 800, 900 lbs. This is anoth
er enterprise which will do much in
the way of development for this section.
EMPIRE PLAID MILLS.
This is owned by stockholders and has
capital stock Of 0,000 The officers
Of the company are r. E. CAUsEY, Presl-
dent; Z. H. c.. FIELD, Secretary and Treas
urer The President is quite a young
man, being just in his twenties, and Is a
graduate of Eastman National Business
college, Poughkeepsie, n. y, where he
lifted himself for active business life. Mr..
GAUsEY is perhaps the youngest cotton mil
President in the State, and has exception
Al ability as a business young man The
factory consumes tremendous quantities
0f warps out of which they manufacture
J-@VO yards OF SOOuS per udy. Iue Soouo
they manufacture are not only the usual
production of plaid mills, but they boast
Of a superior brand known as, 'The Ken
wood" which has gained for the mill an
envable reputation in most every whole
sale drygoods house in the Union. They
work 100 hands and 112 looms, which are
superintendent by very experienced man
ager, Mr. E. J. STEED. Their statesmen
4 the Union are MEssRs. COFFIN, ALTIMUs
4 Co, New York, Boston, Baltimore and
Philadelphia. The report of the success
Of the mill is fattering, they having had
to call in their travelling men SO as to
catch up with orders. This mill offers a
great inducement for spinning mill to
be located here. They will guarantee to
take the output of a $40, coo mill. There
would be no trouble in raising half of
this amount here, and they would besides
have a market at their door, one that
would contract by six and twelve months
10 take from 800 to 1000 pounds per
day The expense of preparing to ship
and freight would then be avoided and 1t
would prove both lucrative to the compa
ny and beneficial to other enterprises OF
the town.
SHOWS MODERN BARN.