The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-14
HENDERSON'S PROGRESS.
ITS TOBACCO MANCFACTURING
ESTABLISHMENT

ESTABLISHMENTS
The Ii ONE of the Golden Belt is Going
to Manufacture the Tobacco it Grows
and Handles.
Editorial Correspondence
HENDERSON, n. c., March 13.-Yes-
terday's STATE CHRONICLE conveyed to
its 1000 readers an account Of the bril-
liant and auSpicious opening of the |
Tobacco Factory erected by Col. ".
| H. S. BURGWYN 4 COMPANY. It |
was an occasion long to be remembered. |
and one that will be remembered most |
pleasantly. I trust that the magnitude |
OF the success of Col. BURGwYN's factory |
will be in keeping with its auspcious
opening.
Henderson is glad to add another TO-
bacco factory to its other manufactures
and mammoth tobacco establishments
1t has been four years since | went
through Henderson's great tobacco con-
Germs, and in that time the change for
the better has been marked. The same
has been true of Henderson in ali
lines. The handsome blocks of new
stores, as we'll as the mammoth prize
houses, warehouses and factories bear
evidence to the substantial growth of
this good town. A gentleman told me
!, this morning that Henderson's business
: was in better shape than ever and that
its business men were more prosperous.
!, / did not need this assurance. \ look
at the solid new buildings, peep into
the busy tobacco warehouses, glance
} at the new and improved machinery
: tell the tale Of HendersonS substantial
: progress better than any words of mine
: could do.
wish that the CHRONICLE was big
enough for me to attempt an account of all
the evidences Of prosperity that | see
around me. Recently the town has put
= in an electric light plant and now it is
! as brilliantly Illuminated at night as any
city o. the continent. Arrangements
have been made for putting in water
works, and sewerage will shortly follow.
Is Then the citizens Of Henderson will enjoy
/ all the comforts that any community
u can offer. 1t now has excellent school
j facilities and it has the handsomest and
IS costliest brick churches of any town OF
IL its popu lation il North Carolina.
g AS this is a tobacco made town, | must
content myself with a few words only
lg about its tobacco interests, and leave othe
L industries for future time. Hender
son sells annually from eight and hal
to nine million pounds of bright tobacco
Notwithstanding short crops, the terri
tory from which Henderson draws ha
w. been so enlarged that as much tobacc
no will be sold here this year as ever Tc
,se bacco is sold here from the Richmond ,
az Danville railroad to Pitt county, an
h some South Carolina tobacco here find
,r- a market.
les Tobacco Warehouses.
10 There are four tobacco warehouse
here: D. Y. COOPER'S; HARRIS, GOOCH
COS, OWEN DAvIs's and the Aiiianc
warehouse.
!, The above stated facts, that eigf
vs and half Or nine milllo
- pounds Of tobacco is sold her
annually is the best evidence tn;
the tobacco warehousemen are liv
20 progressive and fully understand the
1in business, and they are personally
ne clever as they are wise in the manag
OF ment and enterprising in the prosec1
es- ton of their business Mr.. DAY
Ter COOPER everybody calls him Dave b
90. cause they like him) tells me that
Pc usually sells about 1000, 900 pounds
gh tobacco. He has the largest warehou
q in the State. My friend CAPT. E.
ere PARRISH, Durham's great hearted wal
e a houseman, who has an immense war
ere house, will be inclined to dispute th
er- statement, and in advance | will S;
Tn that CAPT PARRISH's warehouse is son
ere feet larger, but Mr. COOPER has lar
basement and says that his
therefore the largest. Few nj
understand how to make a tobac
49,. warehouse profitable. A gentlem;
WV here tells me that most Of the wal
oes housemen in the past seventeen yea
'ss- have failed Certainly few have ma
big money. All the gentlemen (not
cluding the Alliance warehouse) W
Sol run warehouses here Mr.. DAVIS, HA
OF RIs, GOOCH & Co., and Mr.. COOPER
ond own and manage their own warehous
and their own capital is invested. Mu
ever money is invested in this business a
ONE this it is that always makes the BE
the derson market lively and prices stead
and The tobacco warehouse business here
tire truly on q solid basis.
NE, Leaf Factories.
1au; hi There are sixty leaf factories he
nau lI'1 All of them are of substantial and pie
1uoo ing architecture. Their own
.no are the most progressive to5at
oeo men in the South. Their purcha
~ o. are shipped to every quarter Of
n'n globe. Among the most promln'
dealers we may mention W. E Ga
~ & Co, J. P. TAYLOR & Co., GEOE
SMlTHsON, CLARY Bros, / 81 B. DA7
,oy- J. g. ROBERTS, BURwELL y PARK
'. STRAUsE & RAAB, W. H. HART q 5
Il. NJ CANON, E. G. BARNES, ".
o, WALKER & Co, E. HARRIS, and otht
an. whose names | do not recall.
,nian Plug Tobacco Factories.
rican There are two-one newly erected
w, b. S. BURGWYN i Co, oeScrpt
of which the CHRONICLE printed yes
day. The other is owned by the t