The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-10-27
A Place Where Brains and Enter
prise Get a General Move.
Everything Is Recognized and the Town
Proposes TO Expand.
MT. AIRY A HUMMER FROM WAY BACK
The Old Man in His Careless Way Takes
in One of the Growing Towns
of North Carolina.

means sit down at a table over game of
and all agree that the country is in bad
way and that their individual fortunes
are going 10 smithereens, it is a good
general rule that that intangible thing
which we call Times" tighten and that
Times" are hard.
If these same gentlemen agree that
Times" are good, and that there is much
in sight, when they leave the hall it SIM
ply means that they are to unloose their
purse-strings.
And every man becomes boomer.
1t was an unfortunate circumstance
that this writer did not get TO see all of
the business parts of one of the great
towns of North Carolina.
And that town is Mt. Airy.
To illustrate, we might say just here.
that in little talk with Col. L. w.
Ashby he gave US some information. He
said that seventeen years ago he located
at Mt. Airy, and that then there were 143
people in the town. To-day there are
| between three and four thousand people
at Mt. Airy and every man is talking for
the place
They have boomers there and yet the
boomers tell the story of the town and
it is most marvellous one.
We do not care to go into much of it's
| history, but we will take a few points
from recent directory published of that
city, and while that does not do the sub
jects handled justice, it will give some
idea of the towns growth and promi-
nence. 1t is as follows:
Mount Airy in 1880 had population
of 400 and no railroad In 1890 she had
1 500 souls and and was the terminal
point of the C. F. & Y. V. system. To-
day she can we'll claim 5000 of as prog
ressive people as live in the upper South.
This is her story told in short para
graph. The future presents a most
promising view, and those who believe
in the development of Western North
Carolina towns are bold enough to de-
clare their belief that this splendid young
city holds in her grasp strong and
healthy growth unsurpassed by any other
town of her class.
| "The location Cf this vigorous noun
tain metropolis is such that it inspires
the confidthce not only of her citizen
ship but of those who search for points
of profitable investment. She is on the
go. Surrounded by the lordly Blue
Ridge which winds from east to south
west, by the scattered ranges and bluffs
of the Sauratown and Slate on the south
and southeast, with the famous Pilot as
key to the fertile basin of country in
which she lies, Mount Airy is naturally
the trading mart for those who dwell
along the Virginia berder in the north
western portion of the Old North State.
She has long been noted among the ag-
ricultural classes as the cheapest market
in all this great section, and many come
from the progressive towns along the
Norfolk and Western sixty miles away
to get the benfit of our prices. For
many summer visitors from every
portion of the country have come
to dwell for a season at our
now famous White Sulphur springs
and so fast has the town grown
into popular favor among those who
seek health and pleasure that she is now
numbered among the favorite resorts OF
the state. For the accommodation OF
those who may be attracted hither by her
growing commercial and resort trade, her
progressive citizens have erected two ele-
giant modern hotels, equipped them with
all modern improvements and opened
them TO the public, believing that the
ever increasing travel demands that Mt.
Airy should possess as good sccommoda-
tions as can be found. The Blue Ridge
Inn, located in the business part Of the
place, built of brick with arched doors
and windows trimmed with native gran
tie, has splendidly appointed rooms,
stairways, ETC., and ample acconmoda-