The Charlotte Democrat., 1891-05-08
We have received the following letter
from Washington wishing to know the
amount of business done in Charlotte:

WE have received the IollOWlng leLCef
from Washington wishing to know the
amount of business done in Charlotte
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 90, 1891.
Mr.. EDITOR =" Will you kindly mail me one
or two copies of your paper? l am not par
tcular as to the date, as merely wish to gather
from them the amount of business done in
your CITY,"
We refer Mr. Dow and others to our
advertising columns, which shows live
trade, and we take from the Raleigh
Chronicle write up of our city by it's
special correspondent, George P. Pell:
WHAT is SOLID Town ?-Too many peo-
pie are deludiDg themselves with the idea that
the securing of any kind of a factory is great
step toward the progress of their city and that
the question whether the hands be Bohemians.
Negroes or Americans should not make a diff
ference in estimating the comparative Industrial
and social wealth of places. A greater mistake
was never made. Stick pin here: That Char
lOtte contains more white labOrers than any
other town or city in North Carolina, and, an
other pin. that they are on the average better
paid than any laborers in the State.
HERE ARE THE EVIDENCES In 1882 there
were no cotton mills in Charlotte. Now there
are four of the largest in the State-The Victor,
IL $40 spindles; Charlotte Cotton Mills, 10000
spindes; The Ada Mills, 10,224 spindles; Alpha
Mills, 5000 Whiting spindles These en-
ploy over 500 good hands, who are all white,
and live settlement of cash dealing people.
Then, again, here are the Charlotte Oil and
Fertilizer Works, the greatest of its kind on the
line of the Richmond and Danville Railroad.
There is invested in this $50 900 and the output
is 400 barrels of oil per day, 10000 tons per year
of acid phosphates, rs bales per day of cotton
ginned. and its annual production is valued at
81 900 600. This is great, and white labor is
chiefly used.
And still again: What place can be city
without the skilled mechanic? In the extensive
Mecklenburg Iron Works. the Carolina Spoke
and Handle Works the D. A. Tompkins Co 8
establishment and others. several hundred skilled
white mechanics find profitable employment.
A LONG FINAL RoLI-CALL- Finally beside
these other great industries above, which give
lucrative employment to hundreds of good white
citizen laborers, let me add the following, which
will only confirm my statement that Charlotte
is compelled to go ahead BECAUSE HER WEALTHY
MEN ARE WHITE AND HER LABORING CLASSES
ARE WHITE AMERICANS: North Carolina Gran
ite Works. Standard Oil Co.'S Works, Green
City Shoe Factory, Elliott Furniture Co, Shaw
Harness Factory, Star Grain Mills, Mecklenburg
Ice Factory, Worth's Ice Factory, Liddell Iron
Works, Oliver Oil Mills, Charlotte Clothing
Manufacturing Company, Dixie Pants Factory
Asbury Machine Works, Ahrens' Machine
| w orks. two Cotton Congresses, Street Railway
Co., Electric Light and Water Works Co, Knit
others.
There is one thing with which this city i:
blessed, first class hotels. The Central, which il
the Oldest and enjoys a large patronage, is large
commodious and well equipped. And the Bu-
ford, modern in equipment. with elevators, bells
and every Improvement elegantly furnished and
| wonderfully well kept
Charlotte is really on the hum. Her enter
prising men believe in it; and the greatest tes
of all is her banking capital mot equalled by tina
| of anv town or city in North Carolina apprega
ting almost the enormous sum of 81 900 600, anC
all that in city of fourteen thousand people
What could it mean otherwise than Charlotte il
going upward?