The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-27
WINsTON-SALEM

week. tie editor Of THE DEMOCRAT
had no time to write OF lnston-
Salem. A weeks absence from the
Office caused piles upon piles OF
work to accumulate, and we could
only refer briefly TO the very pleas
ant occasion OF the Press Conyen-
ton in Winston Salem. We write
now under a little less pressure:
but We do not mean by this to say
that we feel equal to the opportu-
nifty of writing up the busiest and
foremost town IN North Carolina.
Touching the growth OF the twin
city of Winston Salem, we can only
say, as has been said hundreds OF
times before, that it is simply
marvellous. In 1880 the population
was 1900. Now it is $4,000. In
his address of welcome TO the
editors, Mr.. j. c. Buxton made
these statements concerning the
wealth of Winston Salem:
"The taxable value of our prop
erty in the corporate limits OF
Winston Salem III 1881 were $780,,
600. In 1891 it is $500, cc3l, an
increase of S4,321,O5S in ten years,
In 1881 our banking capital was
$25O,000. In 1891 it is 100000,
al 'ncrese of $250,O0O. in 1881 our
tobacco industries nu mbered eigh
teen. In 1891 they number fifty,
an increase Of thirty,two, and the
output is ten times as great. We
had only one railroad in 1881, %
miles long. We now have three
railroads with 24O miles of track.
In 1881 we had no graded schools,
and only one or two small private
schools, with less than 800 scholars.
In 1891, we had not less than 800
white girls and boys at public and
private, boal ding and day schools
within our corporate limits.
Within the past ten years several
of our old church buildings have
been pulled down and magnificent
structures, costing more than $780,
900, have been erected"
1t has been said, and we do not
question 1t, that Wlnston-Salem
employs more operatives in manu-.
featuring industries than any other
town or city in the eutire Sonth.
There are about eighty manufac-
torres of different kinds in the
twin city, more than fifty of them
beng tobacco factories. Besides
| halt-dOzen warehouses;, tbele are
machine shops, touudries, box, car :
ming, basket, buggy factories, wool
en- and hosiery mills and the roted
Fries FIGURING Mills.
The streets are every day one
steady hum Of business flom early
! morn uuti! late hour in the night.
The numerous throbbing engines,
electric plants, the hum Of the street
cars and thousand other things
make 1t Impossible to tell when it
thunders.
Here thrift Is seen Oh every hand
and we were told by unquestioned
authority that no man Or woman
goes unemployed who is wiling to
work for good pay. To be SUITE.
! there are idlers-as where on earth
can one turn without finding them?
-but1n the main every one is we'll
employed and finds satisfactory
remuneration TO- his labors. Energy
and talent have labored together.
hand i'll hand, for a quarter CT a
century; and 10 place IN this broad
Southland can show greater pres
perlty growing out of the ashes of
wars fell destruction than the
bustling and delightful twin. city.
Winston aIem.
The growth and prosperity of the
town is source Of qualification
and pride to those who have grown
as the town has grown; and the
wonderful success of the noble peo-
pie that push its vast and varied
enterprises, Is a source of real
pleasure to every North Calolinian.
The great power that has built the
town Is the system of giving EN-
ploymen to all who seek It. Paving
out more than million of dollars
every year to laborers, the employ
ers have developed the town to their
own profit, and have, at the same
time, paid laborers such wages as
has enabled them to live and Law
up competency for the years to
come. And SO every one Is, in
general way, well-to-do. There is
no very great difference in the
wealth OF the people. To be sure.