The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1891-05-16
WHITING OF CHARLOTTE.
WHAT RESPONDENTS OF
LEADING JOURNALS THINK
OF THE ''QUEEN
CITY,

Mr.. Mckissicl1 says There is no Bun.
ccmbe About the Beautiful Dilworth
LOtsW lille, Mr. Bia ckbu,n N Agrees and
| Says That it is Sound Business to In.
| vest in Them.
! (Staff Cor. STATE CHRoNICLE.)
CHARLOTTE, N. c., May Is. The top
ic that absorbs all attention in these
quarters is the coming sale of Dilworth
lots.
Everything is in stir preparing for
the visiting of hundreds of monied men
on the Goth, Dist and 22nd, and is
highly expectant that Charlotte will
make home run on the long fly ball of
progress hit by the 4C's.
Notwithstanding each day this writer
has trimmed his pencil and written of
the stir which possesses the soul of Char
| lotteans, and Notwithstanding he has
written all his friends about this growth
almost unparalleled in the history of
North Carolina cities, it behooves him
to allow the same readers a glance at
the opinions of others.
The Richmond Times has sent Mr..
John D. Murrell, distinguished. high
toned and industrious gentleman as we'll
as sound and healthy writer, to spend
q few days in Charlotte and in his letter
to his paper he makes use Of these truth
full expressions
Cotton has made Charlotte what she
!. is. To cotton is due the fact that Char
. lotte has so far outgroWn herself that
new territory becomes a necessity; that
. Dilworth, the incompatible home site
= of the future, has been brought into ex-
istence, beautifed and laid off for sale.
In the long time ago all the supplies for
this section came from Charleston, and
q cotton raised in Mecklenburg and sur
y rounding counties was laboriously
hauled to the little town oil
Cheraw in South Carolina, and
thence foated on small boats dowr
the Pee Dee to the above-named city
e Later on the famous plank road from
tFayettev:le was built acroIs severa
counties, and thence went much of it.
and from there down the river to deer
, water. This order of things is changed
and now the railroads that radiate from
l. Charlotte like the ribs of an umbrella
). take their quota of bales from every sta
"a ton, and ship them, if need be, to tht
n utterm0st par Of the earth. With al
N thsse facilities to the planter, Charlotte
"a remains splendid ma1ket and grea
o shipgiag pciIt for all this section, anG
q also for 64>e.al counties in South Caro-
q lima"
10 Concerning the residence lots to b
Z SOLD i'll Dijworth, the City of Avenues
! Mr. f 2. Mckissick, who gracefully
I handles the correspondents pencil for tn
" Charleston News and Courier, (and, b
fe the way, an Apollo Belvidere in per
g soral appearance), gives place to the fol
W lowing honest opinion:
re "No one who has any legitimate desir
m to increase his surplus or make on
as should fail to come here during the sale
u There is no buncombe about these lot
r. in Dlworth; there is no scheme for tn
an initiation OF prices; but desire to ctf3
ar good property in good city for goo
ha prices. Those who may come here e1
pecting a One-hoIs9, shallow braine
AZ sale will be disappointed. The Four G
n. Company is sou Id, substantial bus
nm ness corporation. It has expended
great deal of morey in making Dilwort
# attractive, and consequently those wh
,}e are its stockholders cannot afford to pc
d NIT any clap trap or buncombe abo,
az. the sale In other words, it will be tt
1O best land sale that has ever taken pla,
10. in tie South Aud those who may inve
,re their money in the property in Dilwor1
r will realize handsomely in the very ne
,is future from their purchases. Takir
on everything into consideration that b.
no an? bearing upon values OF real estat
mi, hu lvCi
an cannot conceive why the vaiue of Il
,ad Dhworth properly will not increase
his least so per cent in the next five years
NJ. B NJ Blackburn, the Allan
val CONSTITUTIONS ell-knowD, able ard q
gressive industrial writer, says:
the Money placed IN Charlotte is not
.itv speculation but it is sou d busine
an investment.
,rt- 81 wcud rather own building lot
Oh 4riotte, with the present indicatio
tho of i1nmel'ia advances, than in any ci
zoos Of T1y knowledge There is sure to be
tbe jun IN values and | would that | cou
,hle com nand surplus Of $4,000; eve
nds dollar would 60 in Charlotte dirt.
have n 3ver seen better opening for
investor or home-seeke and more
H., pecially / have never seen as good
'oiy opportunity for real estate men,
Ine Augusta Chronicle, one of
succ essful family Of Chronicles in
South, is lucky in sending that or
and genial fellow and beautiful writ
DAY Mr.. L. H. Pattillo, to this scene of
pup dustrial action, and he declares:
s OF The past twelve months have bee
10 OF period of unprecedented activity
every department of industrial and c.
:. O. mercial enterprise in Charlotte. En-
smpt factor in business reflects the gen
old, activity. The railroads have
Earl crowded with freight; the banks
own. transacted an enormously increased
on q ume of business, and have earned hs
tives some returns upon their capital.
Again, Mr.. O. A. Matthew'S, of
lered Columbia State, young man OF sp
xt of did newspaper tact, says:
I can see no just reason why Charl
cannot double her present population
d. the next FIVE years. Every thing i
n to her favor and ABSOLUTELY nothing OF
es.- importance is lacking, the wheels of
,ster, train of progress which is now mo
on so smoothly and with the rapidit
, best a carrier pigeon.
pub To all this the writer Woaio utte
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