The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-04-03
TARHEEL INDUSTRIES.

...Alamance county has fifteen cot
ton mills, consuming, in round mum
bers, $4,000 bales of cotton each
year.
An additional force of hands will
soon be put on the Yadkin railroad
and the work will be pushed rapidly
Salisbury Herald.
The Tyson & Jones Buggy com.
pany at Carthage last year cleared
Is per cent. They want additional
capital and ought to have it.
81 100000 of the old debt OF
North Carolina has been funded into
new four per cent. bonds. There only
remains now about 81 800, 900 out
standing.
The contract price for the Van
derbilt railroad, from Best to Balti-
more, is said to be $1,000, instead
of SIS, 900, as enormously published.
-AsheViYe Democrat.
The new hotel at Asheville is to
be called the Kenilworth Inn. 1t will
contain nearly 400 rooms and will
cost 100000 The owner expects
to complete it by next December.
..Morganton Herald: Mr. Blanton,
late of the firm of Blanton & Dysart,
will csta blish bank in Marion. The
lot has been bought and the mate
rial for the building is being placed
on the site.
ID. H. and r. L. Holt, managers
of Glencoe and Carolina Cotton
Mills, of Alamance county, have pur-
chased Il site for a one hundred thou
sand dollar factory and will erect the
same at Burlington, n c.
1T is rumored that a large deposit
of phosphate rock has been discov-
cred in Cumberland county near Fay
etteville. Specimens of the find"
have been sent to the State Geologi-
cal Department for examination.
The Laurinburg Exchange is au-
thnrity for the assertion that the
Norfolk & Western railroad says it
will daily give the Cape Fear & Yad-
kin Valley railroad 800 carloads of
freight as soon as they meet beyond
Mt. Airy, N. c.
Il. Banks Holt is adding "a feet
to the south end of his cotton mill at
this place. He will also build tower
up with the addition Room will be
made for about SO more looms.
Last week 2OS spindles were added.
This mill (the Oneida) will contain,
when these additions shall have been
made, 236 looms and 4 400 spindles.
Cleaner.
...One of those counties, Burke, has
a ''whetstone ridge" full of finest grit,
but it is used only by the neighbors
who stroll that way and pick up a
"whetrock" for personal use. In all
the 25 counties in North Carolina
having better whet stones than are
shipped from abroad, is there not one
man with sufficient enterprise and in
dustry to start a grind stone and
whet stone factory?-Hickory Press.
The machinery has all been re-
ceived for the Crown mills and is be-
ing put in place. The factory will be
put in operation in ten days or two
weeks. The main building of this
new enterprise is 6Ox75 feet, and it
will contain 5000 spindles. 1t will
have a daily capacity of about 1000
pounds of thread, in the manufacture
of which about eight bales of cotton
will be consumed.-Greensboro State.
The formal opening of the Cape
Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad
will take place at Wilmington April
10th and 18th. Invitations and
passes ar" being distributed all along
the line and an immense crowd is ex-
pected to attend. An excursion to
'arolind Beach will be given the visi-
tors OH the 10th and one to Wrights-
Vile Beach on the 18th, and a ban
1uet at 9 O'Clock that night.-Greens-
bOr0 Patriot.
The work of constructing the
Georgia, Sarolina and Northern rail-
road is being rapidly pushed, and
will be completed within the present
year. This road was chartered in
Georgia, South Carolina and North
Corolina. 1t runs from Atlanta to
Monroe, N. c., and there connects
with the Seaboard and Roanoke sys-
tenn. When this road is completed
Atlanta will have ten railroads, reach
ng out in all directions, each adding
20 it's business, wealth and popula-
ion. She has several more in sight,
ind as a consequence the Atlantians
ire happy.-StatesviH Landmark.