The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-10-27
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zens of Mt. Airy. While speaking Oh
this house, we must not forget to remem-
her that Col. Z. r. Aiken, one OF the pest
a~uctioneers in the South and who one
time lived at Durham, is the a~uctioneer
for Brown & Jordan's Planters ware
bouse. which will open November l, and
to which opening a cordial invitation is
extended to every planter, buyer ana
manufacturer in the South.
Colonel Jordan has been one OF the
live men of Mt. Airy and has largely
assisted in every enterprise in the town.
The Farmers warehouse, by W.. D..
Poor and A. Beasley, is a place Where
much tobacco is sold and where they are
ready TO handle all that comes. Colonel
Poor left Winston to locate in the live
town Of Mt. Airy last November, while
Colonel Beasley, an equal partner has
been for eight years an a~uctioneer, and
talks lust as glibly now as ever. They
bought the old Brewer warehouse, which
is 1G0x9O feet, and they will do the
square thing by all who deal with them.
w. s. Dasher is their book-keeper, and
he is a dasher in all that the term
implies.
OF course when we met the Globe
warehouse we felt a little bit at home.
II is Of brick 1G8 x 20 feet, and the first
sale there was in February, 'S7. Last
wear they sold about a million and a half
pounds, and this year the sales will be
increased. We tried to whip Joe Ashly,
but as he weighed about twenty more
pounds thar we did and had on his win
ter clothes, we made an arrangement to
send our fighting editor to see him. }. b.
Mutt, a gentleman from whom we tried
to borrow a dollar, has been for three
wears the bookkeeper, of this concern.
Mr. f. S. Smith, of Stokes county, is the
new bill clerk, and Joe Ashly says that
the crowd of them, with John Dyer, as
~auctioneer, we'll known in Durham, will
raise the very old devil over there and
sell tobacco to the queens taste.
w. C. Moore, who bought tobacco for
a long time in Raleigh, is now a leaf
dealer in Mt. Airy, and any man who has
doubts concerning the future of that
place, should quietly talk a half hour
with Colonel Moore, and he will doubt
no longer.
Lucius Tilley, an old Durham boy, has
been for two years in Mt. Airy and has a
prize house 36xS0 feet and four stories
high, and last year handled over million
pounds of leaf tobacco. He talks Mt
Airy all the time and can prove to you
while YOU wait, that the place is destined
to be a hummer. He handles all grades
of leaf tobacco.
We do not propose in this hurried re
view of as busy a town as Mt. Airy t.
make any attempt at the real truth of it
wonderful growth and progress. But WI
do want to call attention to another fact
which will furnish some food for though
to young men. Sparger Bros. have
plug tobacco manufacturing establish
mcnt which is 52x17S feet and is six sto
rieS high. The capacity of this institu
ton is about 1000, 900 pounds. 1t is no
for us at this time to describe their bus
mess. Enough to say hat orders TO
their plug tobacco keep them busily en-
gagged, and 800 hands actually employee
cannot supply the demand.
But as to a thought, the brothers ar
j. II. and B. F. Sparger.
Out at white sulphur springs, abou
twenty years ago, Col. ]. II. Sparge
started the plug business. He worked
he introduced business methods, and tC
day he is the senior member of the fir
OF Sparger Bros. The business they ar
doing, while really marvellous, suggest
taat honesty, ambition and enterpris
always gets to the front with both feet.
Col. George P. Pell, who runs the YaC
kin Valley News, is one of the indefat
gable workers for the town and is doiu
much towards its u~pbuilding and gener'
prosperity by letting the world know
its advantages and resources.
In this unfinished narrative we hay
failed TO do justice TO Mt. Airy, yet
we have an enpaoement to return TO IL