The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-04-24
PROGRESSIVE CITIES

PROGRESSIVE Cities
The SENTINEL is here to serve
Winston-Salem. Therefore we cheer
fully surrender the larger part of ouI
editorial space this week to the follow
ing article from the Wilmington Star
which is truthful and honest and al
the same time exceedingly compliment
tary to our progressive city:
There is no city in North Carolina
which has sprung into life and magni-
tude like Birmingham and Anniston
and some other young cities in the
iron and coal belt of Alabama, Geor.
gia and Tennessee, which the iron fur.
naces have called into existence as il
by magic, but, while this is so there
are in North Carolina several cities
which show marvellous growth and
give promise Of becoming great indus
trial centres in the near future. Ashe-
ville's growth within the past ten years
has been remarkable, so has Char
lotte's, Raleigh's, Durham's, Reds
ville's, and other places which we
could mention, while Fayetteville and
Greensboro have taken on new life
and are looking to an industrial future
which even the most sanguine would
not have cared to hope for few years
ago.
But perhaps the most remarkable
instance Of the rapid growth of an un.
pretending county seat with a few
houses, into prosperous and progress
i've city within a decade and a half,
without any boom, but simply by
thrift and business enterprise is shown
by Winston, or Winston Salem, for
the two cities are now practically one,
which is rapidly coming to the front
as one of the leading cities of the State,
with q future as bright and full of
promise before her as her most hope
full citizen could ask for. She is today
one Of the largest tobacco manufactur-
ing centres in the United States, and
has more tobacco factories in operation
perhaps than any other one place in
the United States, every year adding
to the number. She manufactures
now from ten to twelve millions pounds
of leaf, nine tenths of which is sold on
her own warehouse floors and raised in
the country tributary to her. She
don't make a pound that she doesn't
sell, and which is not the equivalent
of so much cash the hour it is boxed.
Her markets reach from Maine to
Texas, and westward to Utah. This
industry represents millions of dollars.
Her people are workers, however large
their incomes may be, and herein, with
their progressiveness, lies their success
and the secret of the city's steady and
rapid growth. We don't believe that
within the corporate limits of the
Twin City, as Winston and Salem are
sometimes called, an idle white man, a
man without some useful occupation,
could be found, and the young men are
taught and it is impressed upon them
by example that to work is not only
honorable, but that man must work
with head or hand to be respectable
Until within the past year she has
been dependent on one avenue of en-
try and egress by rail, the branch road
from Greensboro, but the completion
ofthe Roanoke & Southern section to
Walnut Cove making connection with
the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley gives
her another and competing highway
for trayel, and her freights, which are
immense
The exrention of the North West
ern road which by June will reach
Wilkesboro, sixty miles westward,
will eventually in all likelihood 90 to
Jonesboro, Tennessee, or some other
point, to connect with the Western
system of roads, for it is not going to
run into the ground at Wilkesboro.
This will put her on trunk line to
the great west connecting with Gin
.inatti and other Western cities.
The Richmond and Danville Com
pany which controls the North West
ern running on to Wilkesboro is also
pushing another road through Davie
county southwark to connect at Sails
bury with the Western road, or at
Gastomia with the Atlantic Air Line,
which will give her. another outlet
The same company is surveying
line to from Danville, Va, to Winston
which If constructed will connect with
its line nov being extended southwark
through Davie, giving her another
trunk line, toabecome great highway
Of travel north and south.
The Roan0ke ~ Sontkhrn complofod