The state chronicle., 1891-06-24
A CITY OF SCHOOLS
AND INSTITUTIONS,
Durham's Enviable Re-
cord as the Health
lest City of North
Carolina.
ITS MARVELLOUS GROWTH.
THE Ne" Enterprises Projected By
the Durham Consolidated Land
Company-Oher Pro-
gressice Steps.
[Staff Cor. State Chronicle


DURHAM, n. c., June %, '91-
Whether we consider the railroad
facilities referred to yesterday as
the cause or effect of the present
prosperity of the city; whether it
is a post hoe or propter hoe PROPOSE
tion, is immaterial to our present
purpose. What we have demon
strated is that out of a hamlet, Dur
ham has become city; that from
its population of three hundred less
than u quarter of century ago, it
numbers now its ten thousand !:
that out of its feeble industry of
one tobacco factory, it now displays
the largest of their kind in the
known world that from its insig-
niiicant title of Durham station.
its name is n familiar and honored
sound III both hemispheres and in
the antipodes; and that from the
primitive conveniences of a country
village, it is adorned with all those
costly appliances approved by the
experience of the wealthiest and
most advanced cities-gas, electric
ts,water-supply, sewerage, street
railways, telephones and other aids
to health, comfort and social conve-
nience. Truly it is a marvellous
change,
Among the designs of the consol-
idated actors now enlisted in build
ing up Durham, represented by the
Durham Consolidated Land and
Improvement Company, is the West
End Cotton Factory soon to be
erected at Il cost not less than S1O0.-
600; and the Wescarr Knitting
Mill, ut Il cost of not less than $40,
600.
While she has the largest an,
best equipped smoking tobacco fac
tory in the world, she has also one
of the best cotton factories in tn,
State; while she has the largest an,
best equipped Cigarette Factory il
the United States, she has tn,
largest fertilizer factory in the
State; while she has the only smut
factory south of the Potomac. sh,
has the largest and best equipped
Bobbin aad Shuttle Factory in th
State; and she. alone of all the cite
in the State, las Il factory for tn
manufacture OF ChcrootS, one TO
IN, manufacture of Medicated Cig
arcttes, and one for the manufactur
OF tobacco bags.
Among her factories are to b
enumerated eight tobacco factories
ami fruit canning Establishment
Space does not admit more tha
ref renee to her eleven handsom
churches for all denominations, he
ample school facilities, which il
cludc the Graded Schools for bot
races. her Methodist Female Sem
nary, her boys classical school, an
her unique possession of a School
Music, unsurpassed by any Sout
Of the Potomac in its systems al
results. And to these are soon
be added the Female Baptist &c
lerp. Ground for which has alreat
been broken.
OF the crowning educational q
ry, Trinity College, we will spei
subsequently.
As aids to education there q
two daily newspapers, two WteL
papers. and one Educational Jou
nal.
There are three banks in the cit
giving facilities to the amount
$1,000, 900.
The taxable value Of pro .ty
1890 was S3,S2S,000. In Is.
Durham paid an Internal il ven
tax of SGGG,2G3.Sh
The death rate for 1870 "
ll.oGto ,oOopopulation, the ma
est in the State.