The daily state chronicle., 1891-03-31
4 SOLID BOOM.
III ATS THE KIND OF PROGRESS
WINSTON ENJOYS,


An Enthusiastic Winstonian Talks
enthusiastically of the Present and
Future of That Place e--Facts and Fig.
ures Showing Its Greatness.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRoN1oLE.)
WINSTON, N. G, March 80, 1891 -
Returning from the delightful old
town of Salem, where l attended the
Easter ceremonies, (sse account in to
days CHaONICLE [ was overtaken on the
way by an enthu siastic Winstonian, and |
like all true Winstonians, he soon
launched into praises for the business
enterprise and growing importance Of |
this town. | was not specially in need |
OF conversion, being already very favor
ably impressed with what had casually
seen Of Winston, but he told me SO much |
OF recent and prospective developments
here that found myself sharing his
enthusiasm before we had rt ached the
hotel 1--WE are bound to be far and
away the commercial metropolis Of
North Carolina" be said We've got
the solid business men here, the capital
and the enterprise and we've got the
tributary country to back it up. The
Roanoke q Southern railroad will be
completed through to Roanoke this fall,
and that elects US sure The Mccksville
extension of the r. & D. road will be
completed May 23rd, and it wont be two
years before we have more roads and
better ones than any town in the State
We already make more plug tobacco
| thon vh ID an1 fcr II ub
it is made There are 38 plug tobacco
factories here now, and they can't begin
10 supply their orders. ?. H. Hanes
23lx112 feet SIX stories high. 1t has
l double the capacity of the old one, and
will begin operations next Tuesday
r with 500 hands to start with,
but the indications are that it won't
be long before they will be
t Just as far behind with their orders as
q they we're compelled to be with the old
t factory, for their goods are in growing
0 demand all the time, and they get order
g everywhere, from Maine to Mexico
;, Then there is the r. J. Reynolds To
J. bacco Company, which Is forced to in
}. crease its capacity, and Mr. Reynolds
n told me the other day that work will be
6 | uCAU IC uCW
n house will be 260X143, feet, running
e through from depot to Chestnuts Street
2, six stories high and brownstone front
9. 1t will be built on the plan of tie north
,e ern silk mills, no stairs OR elevators in
G side; all on the on side; no tobacco fac
id tory like it anywhere, and will have 81
a. com plete protection against fire as to bt
I'd frSt-class insurance risk, a saving 0
Just half the present cost Of Insurance
l. will enable the firm, which now en-
pjoys now about $50 hands, and sells to
bacco everywhere in the Union, to jus
IN treble It's capacity. Why, the manufac
turers of plug tobacco alone will pay ou
this year over million dollars to tnei
% hands here The sales Of leaf tobacc
IL have been unusally large, We have bee
,ol running double sales all the time an
full sales every day this year. Th
:. Farmers Alliance opended warehous
here ten days ago, by the way. and hay
ro- prospects for a big business
nd "The people here have closed up bi
contract with the Manufacturers Ret
oe ord, of Baltimore, by which Winston
to be made the Records North Carolln
50 headquarters, and we expect big thing
Io' from this connection, for you know tt
~ ~ Record is the recognized organ Of a
~ ~ Southern enterprises and industries.
NC i ''The New York Life Insurance Con
Ia pany has just made a proposition
~. Winston to construct here fine Off
"0 building, to cost not less than 800, ,C0
ne aud the prospe Gets are that the terms W
10 be complied with.
W oWn' "The contractors for the Hotel II
'ui z9ndorf are getting material on han
n ~ and ground will be broken in two week
~, The new graded school is nearly col
w. W., pleted, and new houses are g)ing up
~ every part of the city. One Of the me
gu en successful brick makers in the world b
'no ' removed here from Washington, Wi
NY machinery to make all kinds of brio
Another brick manufacturer is tryi
ano to buy ground from the West End Ho
n. Company to make brick for that sectl
49, a.. Of the city. Contractors and bullde
Iois Il are busy, and you will see things fail
10y begun here this spring and summer.
g.on . "The Land Companies are gettl
"' things in shape for lively campals
the Electric Street Car Company has
ouC ranged to extend its Main street Ii
one and half miles further south,
eau the lands of the Winston Salem 1mpro
say ment Company which they certain
nen' wouldn't do unless they expected Aeo
ung out that ay-and l tell you everyth
Tant horo i,s+ looks ca nronis;no and
;any splendid right now that l almost |
M sorry for any of my friends who do
Ao live in Winston"