The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-11-20
WINNING WINSTON.
SOMETHING OF HER GREAT RAIL
ROAD PROSPECTS.

ROAD PROSPECTS.
Rock-Bottom Facts-M aaufaeturing Now
and What it is to Become-He Who Runs
May Also Read.
TFrora the Southern 1obrcco Journ1l.1
Il admit that Winston is a live,
prosperous tobacco town and has a
splendid record, but hasn't she done
about all she is going to do?" asked
Mr.. O. V. Ercautious, who has failed
to make money by not buying Wins
ton real estate for five consecutive
years. Every year when he comes to
Winston he puts fat little pile in his
home bank to draw against in case he
should buy lot or two in Winston:
then he comes up and is amazed to
find out that the lot he might have
had for a thousand dollars is in de-
mand at $3.50, and SO he thinks of
his little fat pile drawing him his 6
per cent. and he goes back and puts
it to work again, only to find the next
year that his pet lot has gone up into
the $1,000 class. But he will buy,
never fret your soul about that, but
he will get in at the top. There is al
ways room enough at the top; Mr..
Webster said so.
But let's see; has Winston done all
she is going to do? Let's see about
that. Have you read what John
Hanes, the straight forward, matter
of fact official head cf the tobacco
trade, said about the tobacco business
of Winston Salem for 1887 1889.
Here it is in substance:
1857 and 1888. s,699.479 5 66,739.36 S11 IL
1885 ard 1882. IL, ,l47 ,045 I,l69,37 81
1889 and 1890. IL ,IsS e43 1881, ,9O4.6O II SO
Uniform and steady prices have
been maintained. The shortage in
quantity was due to decreased acreage
and light weight, but the prices show
increase. The tributary and accessi-
BILE territory TO the market has been
gleatly extended. 1t has embraced
some of the older counties. and along
the lines of the N. w. n. G. and r. q
S. railroads the Virginia line has been
crossed and new territory added.
In the face Of this, would such long
headed men as he and his brother
build the largest plug factory in the
South unless tley believed in it, line
upon line? or would r. j. Reynolds,
who has made fortune in Virs inia
and one in Tennessee, be poring over
plaus for mammoth factory that Will
be a village in itself, unless he was a
believer? or would Captain Gilmer be
building factories, and the Grays and
Fries's and Whitakers and Lemleys
be buying all the property their sur
plus will allow, unless they felt quite
sure tht Winston had not done all she
was going to do? The acts, not the
empty words Of = citizen, speak his
faith But that is not all. What
will Winston be when the next tobac
co erop-comes in? This is not specu-
lation. 1t is the mere completion OF
work in progress. There will be d
great North and South line completed
to Roanoke, Va, and the great town
building railroad, the Norfolk & Yves
tern, will have direct access to Wins
ton in a maximum four hour schedule
w hat does that mean? 1t means that
the north end of the Shenandoah Val
ley railway will be under the shadow
of the National Capital and the South
end will be in Winston. These are
the cardinal directions. The tributary
lines can be seen by study of the rail
way maps, aud can DE utilized Decor.
| dinghy, as enterprise and forecast OF
our manufacturers may be directed
But Winston cannot help p being the
Southern terminus of great National
line. Then let's turn and look down
into the fieecy fields of the lower
South. Already preliminary surveys
have been made from Winston as the
pointof departure to the best collec-
| tion of connections south of US. They
are not obstructions. They are the
natural continuation of line with 8
defined policy and provided treasury
1t will haul the people and product.
Of South Carolina, Georgia, Wes
Florida and Alabama TO the North
aud it will go to the point Of the lar
g,st and quickest delivery from tn,
convergh g roads, collecting the trave
of that territory, whether it will b,
the Seaboard AIR Line and Charles
ton, Cincinnati and Chicago at Ca
stawba Junction, or the Seaboard ant
Piedmont Air Lines at Charlotte, tn,
good Judgment of the management
will determine. But that the roat
will tie built and will haul cottol
from the lower South to the thousand
ofspindles whirling in Winston Saleu
is quite as certain an event .s the mex
Presidential election. Nov let US lool
10 the sunrise and the sunset. Tn,
extension of the Atlantic and Danvill
to a junction with the Roanoke an,
Southern will give us three lines t,
| Norfolk, via. Richmond and Danvill
and Atlantic Coast line by Tarboro
i and the Richmond and Danville via
Burkeville aud Norfolk and Western
and via. Roanoke and Southern an,
Atlantic and DanviIle. The G. F.
Y. V. gives direct connection witt
Wilmington and Charleston.
The orders for the survey of th
road from Wilkesboro to Bristol ar
out, and the head of the greatest de