The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-10-27

NORTH wILKEsBORo.
The Industrial, Sanitary and Other
Advantages Of This Place.

Advantages of This Place.
Few towns, if any, in North Carroll
ma has such record for progress as
the town of North WilkesbOro.
About eighteen months ago the Gen
eral Assembly of North Carolina
chartered the town, the site being
composed of a number of farms and
the population being all told 48. The
Winston Land and improvement
Company, owning the property, has
laid off in lots, public squares and
reservations about 200 of the 1,0S6
acres of town site lands, has graded
nearly ten miles of. streets, has built
one large stone culvert costing about
S., 500, and one bridge 80 feet wide and
more than 800 feet long: also built the
stone piers for another bridge across
the Yadkin river, has built the best
school building in North Western
North Carolina, costing, all told,
S5 200, is about completing the bank
and opera house block which is Is by
100 feet, three stories high, built of
brick with an iron front and is one of
the most substantial buildings in our
commonwealth. The building con-
tains on the first floor banking room
25 by 10 feet, company's Office 25 by 80
feet, one store room 27 by 100 feet and
another store room % by 100 feet. The
second story contains in. front four
offices suitable for professional men,
opera house of sufficient size to ac-
| commodate town with 10000 pOpu-
| lation, together with newspaper office,
composing and power press rooms.
Third story contains gallery, over the
| offices on second floor of the opera
hall, and photograph gallery. The
store rooms and offices will be for rent.
The company has just commenced
| the erection of large tobacco factory
| which will be run by the North
Wilkesboro Tobacco Company, COM
posed of Winston and North Wilkes
| boro business men and run under the
| supervision of two of the largest and
ers of Winston. The virgin soil of
| this section produces the finest quail
| ty of tobacco which has color, body
| and weight not surpassed by any pro-
| duced in the world as evidenced by it
| taking first prize at the Worlds Fair
| held in Vienna few years ago. While
| the growth of tobacco in this section
| is in it's infancy there is enough pro-
| duced in the territory tributary to
| the town to run several large factO-
ries.
/ The company will also erect large
tobacco warehouse in the near future.
| The company is aiding in building the
| Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist
| churches. The Presbyterian, very
handsome structure of modern design
| and architecture, is nearing compile
| tion. The company has 100 acres OF
| land, the soil of which has been made
| by the deposits from the Reddfes and
Yadkin rivers, which is the finest
truck land in the State, and it will
| not be long before the truck grown on
| these lands will be sought after on ac-
count of its superior quality and easy
access to the markets, being only three
| hours from Winston and four hours
| from Greensboro. While the company
has done all the work named and
much more, the citizens have been
i've, active and energetic. The mer-
chants, saw mill, planning mill, sash
and blind, foundrymen, contractors
professional men, live stock dealers,
| fruit dealers, blacksmiths, wagon
| makers, newspapers and laborers are
all doing well. The population is now
six hundred. The town boasts OF
more miles of graded streets than any
town in the State of less than 5000
population; has an excellent hotel, az
has a splendid bank, Bank of NORTH
Wilkesboro, has good school, one o.
the best weekly newspapers in the
State. North Wilkesboro has some
of the best merchants and bushes:
men in the State. A number of othel
large enterprises are under agreement
to locate in the town. The town need:
two or three more tobacco factories
one or more cotton mills, one wooleI
mill, one or two large wagon and car
riage factories, several more stores
two or three large tanneries and man.
other enterprises will pay handsomel,
here.
The climate, water power, scenery
productiyeness of the soil and healtl
of the people are unsurpassed. In ;
word, the valley of the Yadkin rive
lying between the Blue Ridge on th
North, and Brushy Mountain on tn
South, is the Eden of North Carolina
The town has grown in spite of tn
hard times and unusual depression il
business. Many lots that were pIlr
chased last spring at auction, hav
been re-sold at a profit of from 25 t.
100 per cent. The character of tn
buildings will do credit to a city an,
attract attention of all who visit tn
town. We counted fifteen new build
ings in course of erection few day
ago. North Wilkesboro. is the comin
town in Northwestern North Care
lima. VISITOR.