The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-03-20
OUR STATE INDUSTRIES.
THE sPINDLES ARE HUMMING ALL
OVER NORTH CAROLINA.

OUh OlAlE lNDUOlhlEO.
THE SPINDLES ARE HUMuNG ALL
OVER NORTH CAROLINA.
The Progress that Tarheels have Made in
! q Week "A Glorious Record of New En-
terprises that will Make our People Rich.
THE man who carefully reads the
papers of North Carolina will simply
be astounded at the great number Of
Industries that are inaugurated every
week. Below The SENTINEL has
gathered only a few of the most i'm
portant notes-there were Many
which escaped us-but they \are
enough to show that our peopls are
rapidly improving their condition and
fast rising to prosperity
-Statesville is to have roller
Touring mill.
Another cotton factory is to be
built at Concord.
Capt. w. Pickens is building a
street railroad line in Henderson.
Coal has been found in Bladen
county and o fine granite bed in
Wake.
| North Carolina has nineteen nat
ional banks with capital of $2,426,-
600.
| Raleigh is to have a big tannery
and will increase the capacity of the
wagon works.
Dick Bogart, Greensboro man,
has ordered a car load of ostriches,
and will establish an ostrich farm.
The C. F. & Y. V. Railroad
shops at Greensboro are now turning
opt 25 fats and 8 to 10 box cars per
week.
The Greenville Reflector says one
merchant will sell upwards of $4,000
yards of tobacco plant-bed cloth this
season.
The cotton mill at Jonesboro has
orders nearly six months ahead for its
yarns and is doing thriving business
evidently.
1t is estimated that not less than
100000 worth of town lots and coun-
ty lands nave been sold about Marion
within the last thirty days.
The committee on celebrating the
completion of the Cape Fear & Yadkin
Valley Railroad has decided to have
it at Wilmington on the 26th and
9th instant.
The Egypt Coal Company has
just put an eighty horse power steel
boiler in the mine and are taking out
from so to rs tons Of coal per day. A
fine quality of iron has just been dis
covered near the mine.
The Catawba Lumber Company
has been Incorporated at Hickory,
with capital of $4,000. The in
corporators we're w. B. Burtless,
Robt. Winkler. F. r. Whiting, j. H.
Parke and D. w. Shuler.
There are 261 orphans now in the
Oxford Orphan Asylum. They make
between six and seven thousand dol
lars year by making and selling
shoes, brooms, garden products, and
running printing ofhce.--Oxford
Friend.
"A half Devon COW belonging to
Mrs. S. G. Smith, of Goldsboro, has
been in constant milking for FIVE
years. during which time the aggre.
gate amount of milk taken from her,
as furnished by Mrs. Smith, is H..
$40 quarts.
The farmers are doing an i'm
mense amount of work in this section.
They are living ON less and working
harder than they ever have, and with
go,.d crops this year the bird of pres
perity with once again abide with US.
Wilson Adyance.
Mr.. Vanderbilt has 300 men at
work on his Asheville estate. His
palace will be located on q high knoll,
and will command view of the coun-
try for miles around. In grandeur
and extent, this house of Vanderbilt
will eclipse many Of the famed castles
Of knight erraDtry days.
The South Piedmont Land and
Improvement company was organized
at Greensboro Tuesday, with a capi-
tai Of $25, 200. r. r. Gray, T. C..
Worth and E. p. Wharton are the in
corporators. It's purpose is to buy
and sell land in North Carolina, Vir-
ginia and Tennessee towns. They hold
about $4,000 worth in Greensboro.
Very little stock Is to be had, as it
was all taken in State
Chronicle.
The Salisbury cotton mills are
nov making from $50 to $50 clear
profit per day. The knitting mills are
running on full time with sufficient
orders ahead to keep them at work
for several months. The Salisbury
Gas Company has recently put down
| 81, 900 feet of new mains, and placed
half dozen new lights in the suburb
of Brooklyn. The output of the COM
pany has increased $4,000 feet per
month for the past two or three
months.
The lumber business along the
line Of the Cape & Yadkin Valley
Railroad has, within q few years,
grown to enormous proportions. There
are now along this line 128 saw and
planning mills, which are daily cutting
| and dressing thousands Of feet Of the
best lumber in the South. There are
also number of mills Of large capac-
! ity employed in cutting dogwood and
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