The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-04-03
INDUSTRIAL WINSTON.
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THIS LIVE TOWN.

THIS LIVE TOWN.
Actual Figures Taken From the |
RecOrds.-The Town Has No Superior |
in all the Best Elements That Go to |
Make Progressive City.
WINSTON, N. c., April 1st.-Of all
that has been said about the growing
towns in North Carolina, none, perhaps,
can show better array of facts or
greater material or industrial prosperity
than this. the most progressive town in
the State.
Forsyth county, of which Winston is
the county seat, as will be seen from the
special report made to the Government
at Washington, has fewer mortgages on
farms, no county debt whatever. farm
era have more money in the bank and in
better condition than any other county
in the State.
Winston-Salem, considered as one in
interest and population, has fifteen thou
sand of the most thrifty people in the
south. To show the rating of this
amount of population, Bradstreet rates
them at five million dollars.
To give an accurate and detailed ac-
count of all the varied interests of the
places. cannot be done in one letter.
We give below only those that strike us
first. leaving the others for the future.
The town has excellent railroad facili-
ties, with reasonable prospects for other
roads at an early day. The Northwest
ern North Carolina, branch of the
Richmond & Danville, extending from
Greensboro here; the Wilkesboro ex-
tension, also branch of the Richmond
Il Danville; Roanoke and Southern, in
construction from Roanoke, Va, to
Winston, thence south; trains now run
ming between Winston and Walnut Cove,
a town on the Cape Fear and Yadkin
Valley Railroad.
In 1883 the entire tonnage of these
roads amounted to 10000, 900 pounds.
In 1889 the increase was exactly twenty
per cent.
The banking capital of the town
amounts to four hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars, as follows: Wachovia
National Bank, $3.50, 900; First National
Bank, 100000; Peoples National Bank,
$15O,OOO; Forsyth Savings Bank, $780,
900; the aggregate surplus amounting to
$l55, 200, which does not include the
Peoples National Bank, just organized,
or the Forsyth Savings Bank.
The moral and religious aspect of the
community is unsurpassed by any other
in the State, owing to the peculiarities
of the Moravian and Quaker settlers of
this section.
OF churches, there are fourteen
Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist, Mo-
ravian, Episcopalian, Protestant Metho-
dist, Friends, and one Catholic in course
of construction.
The educational advantages are supe-
rior to any town of its size in the State
having the oldest and most widely known
female college in the South, that oi
Salem Female College, established ir
1902, which has over three hundred
students, from all parts of the United
States. Special trains are run during
certain seasons of the year, from Texas
to Winston to accommodate the pupils
There ia also one of the finest grade<
school systems in the State, with an en-
roilment Of fourteen hundred pupils
Another building is to be constructed a
once, regardless of cost, for a high grad
school. The Winston Graded Schoo
building cost $27, 900.
The tobacco interest, the largest of al
others, is rapidly increasing. This mar
ket is considered the largest in the worl
for fine chewing tobaccos. From OctC
her LIST. 1889, to March Goth, 1890, th
sales in the warehouses amounted to tn
sum of one million three hundred an
eight thousand, seven hundred and fit
dollars and eighty-seven cents, an avel
age per month of one hundred and Sc,
entv-three thousand one hundred an
twenty-five dollars and ninety -eigt
cents. These figures are taken froI
the actual records. The amount of rev'
nne Maid the government in one sing
dav. February 1st, 1890, amounted
the enormous sum OF ten thousand tw
hundred and twenty. seven dollars. II
GALE of,revenue stamps amounts TO aDol
ninety thousand dollars per month {
one million dollars per annum.
There are four hotels, and arrangement
have been made for building another
cost one hundred thousand dollars vii
Ali modern improvements and conve
fences.
Twin. City Daily, Winston Sentine
winston Republican, Peoples Pres
piedmont Advertiser, The School Teac
or and The Academician.
Of the several public improvement
Going on we mention the Electric Lig
and Motive Power Co., With cash cal
tai OF zoe, 900 for lighting the town al
to furnish the power for the electl
street railway which is now being CO
structed.
Finding it too much to describe t
many industrial and other enterprises
single letter we give only the list, {
pecting to write them up more fu
later on. There is telephone exchar
With one hundred subscribers;
Mug tobacco factories with annual o
nut of three million three hundred tn
sand dollars; fourteen leaf or prize wa
houses, annual output of one mill
one hundred and fifty thousand dolla
four large sales warehouses, three su
factories, three smoking tobacco fat
ries: one cotton factory with an ann
consumption of one million pounds;
WOOL factory with an ann
consumption of 100000 pour
hos;orv mill. two ste