The western sentinel., 1891-06-25
UPWARD AND ONWARD.

The following able article appeared
in Saturdays edition of the Charles
ton Is. c. News and Courier:
1t is pleasant during these hot, sui
try days and very warm nights to
visit or even think of a place where
the average summer temperature is
only 800, the nights cool and de-
lightful. and the M orning atmosphere
bracing and inviSorating. Such is
the climate of Winston-Salem, North
Carolina, which has an altitude of
over one thousand feet, and is in
plain view of Pilot and other spurs of
the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains.
The winter climate Of that section is
likened to that of the south of France,
having mean temperature of 400,
and the whole section has for years
been noted for it's healthfulness.
And Winston-Salem is not lacking
in points of interest, for the quaint
old Moravian town of Salemis worth
Il trip itself, with its porticOs over
the streets, it's homes for bachelors,
maidens and widows, its streets lined
with rows of elms and cedars, it's fine
old church and the Salem Female
Academy, where many of the best wo-
men in the South have been educated,
and which had $50 students the past
session. Then there is the Moravian
Cemetery, with all it's tombstones
alike and all made to lie fat on the
ground-an interesting spot for q
stranger.
Separated from Salem by only one
street is her daughter, Winston,
which has accomplished so much in
such short time.
In Winston is located the Davis
School, (military,) the largest in
North Carolina, which had about two
hundred and fifty young men during
the term just eloseu.
There are four graded schools in
Winston Salem and the average at
tendance at all the schools is one
thousand, four rhundred, and there are
found seventeen churches of seven
different denominations.
The mighty factories, with their
more than four thousand employees,
will entertain and instruct for many
a day and hour.
TO II casual observer the rapid
growth of Winston is remarkable, for
in 1880 the two towns had Il little
over four thousand people and were
at the end of little branch road
twenty eight miles from the main line
of the Richmond and Danville at
Greensboro, and now is found bust
ling busy city of nearly or quite fif-
teen thousand inhabitants, with
paved streets, electric railways and
electric lights, two systems Of water
works, etc, and rapidly becoming a
railroad centre. But when the causes
of this great change are looked into
it is soon seen that this is only the
beginning of what must follow with
such resources and such men to de-
velop them-,nen who have made her
what she is and will make her what
she should be.
There is paid out from the Winston
warehouses in cash for leaf tobacco
alone at least $50 per head per an
mum for every man, woman and child
in the county, and most of this mon
ey is spent right in the town.
There are thirty-six plug tobacco
factories and about seventy-fve 9th
! er factories, extensive wagon works,
| woolen mills, cotton factories, cigar
and smoking tobacco factories, ma
chine shops, etc, which pay out over
81 900, 900 year in cash for wages.
This is over $4,000 a day, nearly
twenty-five cents for every man, wo-
man and child in The Twin-Cities.
Is it any wonder that with such q
stream of life-blood being constantly
pumped through her arteries Win
ston-Salem should be the most sub
stantial, liveliest and best town ofits
size in the upper South, and with
these industries constantly enlarging
and increasing, and various others
| being added, that her future should
| be beyond the ken of US all?