The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-11-02
THEY ARE DOING 1T
The Old Town Is a Hummer All
Around.
Brief Facts and Fignres of What Is
Now Going On.
LUMBER AND BRICK BEING BROUGHT
A General and Universal Rush in the
Grand Act to Help Build Dur
ham Is Apparent.

"eheraI ana universal Rush In the
Grand Act to Help Build Dur
ham Is Apparent.
The immense quality of lumber, brick
and stone which is every day coming
into Durham over the different lines of
railroads to be used in the numerous and
extensive buildings now in course Of
erection, tells the story of the city's
growth in cold and clammy figures,
which to those who have not kept pace
with the undeniable boom, which started
year ago, is almost past belief.
The GLOBE has from time to time men
toned few of those on the business
streets and which would naturally he no.
ticed by the casual observer, but. to at.
tempt to enumerate or even guess at the
hundreds of cottages and more preten
tious residences going up in every direc-
tion, in and around Durham, would
amount to task that no one is willing
to undertake.
In an interview to day Captain White,
agent at the r. & D. depot, stated that
during the month of October an average
of over carload of lumber a day had
come in over that road making oyer
100000 feet, the greater part of which
goes into Colonel Carr's hotel and the
Erwin cotton mills.
And it is still coming.
In addition TO this the r. & d. is bring
ing car loads of brick from University
Station for Brodie Dukes bonded ware
house, which has now reached the second
story, car loads of handsome brown stone
for the First National bank building,
which is also getting we'll along, and
building material in general all of which
is going into solid and substantial brick
and stone structures and bringing Dur
ham every day nearer to the future posi-
bilities of a great city.
Captain White, when questioned as to
the comparative business of the r. & D.
during his residence in Durham, which
has been only a few months, stated that
it had increased over thirty per cent and
was still increasing, as evidenced to-day
by the appointment of Mr. Propst as
assistant agent.
Capt. r. /. Cheatham, agent at the D.
& n. depot, says that over fifty car loads
of lumber have come in over his road
during the month just past, which means
over 100000 feet, and brick and stone in
proportion. He also states that the
shipments from Durham have had
marvellous increase, showing that the
business done in the city to-day, par
ticularly in the manufacturing line, is
greatly in excess of anything ever before
known in its history, and proving beyond
a doubt that Durham manufacturers are
losing no time and are having no diff
Guilty in getting their goods on the market.
The l.. & D. is bringing in an equal
amount Of building material. and when
it is remembered that we have in Dur.
ham five large lumber yards doing big
business, and four brick yards, with
ample machinery,,and taxed to their full
est capacity, no better index is needed of
the city's present growth and general
prosperity.
The Duke factory alone is turning out
2, 500, 900 cigarettes day, and the output
of other factories compares favorably
with it.
The amount of lumber, brick and stone
which is jest now going into solid i'm
provements in this city cannot now be
estimated. But the fact that it is here
cannot be denied.