The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1891-04-17
L0UlSBURG 1 CUMMING.
1T SOLD 0VER a MILLION ANDA
HALF POUNDS OF TOBACCO
LAST YEAR.
Louisburg's Steady Progrr>s and Pros
perity-..A Birds Eye view of the
CoWn and the Business.
EStatf CorrespondeIce.1

IStatf Correspondence
LoUIsBURG, n. c., April lo-fnere is
nc doubt about it, the citizens Of this
good old town are wide awake to the
growth and prosperity of their home,
and they have indeed opened their gates
of hospitality to all who have come to
live with them AS a business own,
Louisburg is to-day, by big per cent,
far ahead of what it was three years ago;
in tact this writer knows Of no little |
town within the borders Of the Safe hat |
has made more rapid strides in 50 snort |
a time than this place. What has bean
the cause OF its growth, do you ask ?
You will get the answer in one word =
determination Ia August, 1885, the
Railroad from Franklinton TO Louisburg
was completed. Up TO that time good
deal Of the cotton raised in Franklin
| county was shipped by the Wilmington
& Weldon road, and Rocky Mount used
TO be the point to which quite q number
of the farmers ia this section carried
their cotton. But it goes there no longer,
from the fact that the buyers hero pay
just as high prices for cotton as the
farmer can get at any market
There has been shipped from hera this
| season over GEO bales Of the ii ecJ
staple. So it viii be seen TO start with
that the town has q thoroughly estab-
iished cotton market. But the most i'm
portant motor power which has caused
the town to 60 forward SO rapidly is the
establishment of the tobacco market.
at first Louisburg had some trouble 70
build up market for leaf tobacco, but
pluck and determination has conquered
Ia 1886 the first tobacco warehouse was
built on the south side of the river by
Col. Jones, and for awhile d good deal
of the weed was handled, but owing to
the fact that the farmers n this imme-
Giate section had not begun to grow to-
bacco in sufficient quantities to supply
the market, it was a hard matter to
make q success at the start so as to
bacco market it did not amount to much
) up to about three years ago, but since
j that time she has been hummer, and
| 40 mistake, and she proposes to keep
j humming. Three years ago the live,
3 pushing business men Of this town got
together and organized Tobacco Board
5 Of trade and begun to put out money.
|
tobacco men from other sections to come
among them and help build ur
the market In 1899 NJ W. T
7 Hughes, a live, enterprising young
s man from Danyille Va, who had beer
: raised up IN the tobacco warehouse bu
S sines9 took charge OF house on the south
: side Of the river, while ct the same timt
a Mr.. J. B. Thomas opened up the Frank
!, lin warehouse This house is now run BY
! Meadows g. Peasants. DR.. Meadows il
) from Oxford n. @. and has had years O
;, experience in the business, Mr.. ". III
!; Peasants is old re sident of Louisburs
+ and has been successful business maj
f for number Of years. The farmers see
a ing that the citizens of this place wer
/ determined to build up market for to
bacco doubtless thought something lik
e this: if you people can afford to speuG
L SO much money for the purpose of sell
t. ing our tobacco surely We can afford t
d stand by you and make the tobacco t
10 be sold. So with the understanding g
If that united we stand, both farmer an,
arehousemen went to work in dead ea1
It nest In addition to the warehouse
le mentioned, Messrs. Edgerton & For
ie ompleted large brick house last fal
IS known as the River Side. This house
d. complete in every particular it is 80 b
30 1913 feet with two easements below th
G. main floor used for prizing and handle
as ing the leaf tobacco. THIS makes thre
N | ware houses now in full opera
ton Each is fitted up wit
all the necessary machinery for packin
and prizing; also elevators for carryin
the tobacco from the top floor to til
basement Beside these warehouses al
al seven prize houses now in use, and mo-
nv Will be built this Spring. MessrS Boa
right, Bro & Co., Of Danville, Virgini
have put out good deal Of money her
and are occupying large 81 story fran
he building with brick fOundatiO
tal This building is owned by a stoc
company, composed Of the busine
d. men of the town. There b
9n- been over one and half million pount
he of tobacco sold on this market duril
ial the season just about to close. The
have handled tobacco from the COUNT
'io of Nash, Franklin, Granville, Nanc
lct Pe rso., Warren and Wilson. The
nd bacco market now being thorough
ges established as paying business, b
ph been an incentive for many impro'
ty. ments on the part of the citizens with
al the last twelve months. Handso1
to brick stores have been erected, To-
ur- Hall built which will seat about thl
aph hundred comfortably, with all necesss
Ine. stage paraphernalia. Handsome resid
ces have been built on the south side
the river. Streets have been opened
and vacant lots have been laid off
sale. The property is beautifully L
ted, and there are some
zen- pretty building lots to be b
a, upon as we have seen in any town.
el%i The Louisburg Female College was
] o4- established here in 1865, and so far 8
yes healthy location for young ladies, sui
it to say in talking with an old citizel
the town he told Us thatthere has nc
7ys- been a death in the school since It's
tablishment. Rev f. u. Jones, who
President Of the Greensboro College
young ladies up TO hisdeath taught /
Tor some time. The building is a Ia
four story brick building, and sets
pain twelve acre lot with q fine shade 81
in front. The school has been in cha
Of that we'll known Christian gentlen
Prof. S. D. Bagley, wno as q superln
dis dent and educator for young ladies,
the no superior IN the State. For three
N sions his faculty in every departmei
of taaoborc