The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-09-27
HIGH POINT is IN 1T
One of the Towns Which Is Sure TO
Get There.
A Globe Man Takes a Brief Whirl
Around the City.
COL. JOHN DYER STILL ON EARTH
About the Factories and General Business
Which Live Men Operate-As
Tobacco Market.

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| Tobacco Market.
There is such thing as being in it to
your own disadvantage. High Point, a
beautiful little city in the Piedmont Sec
ton of North Carolina, is in ii for busi-
ness; in it for her advantage, and is
rushing, booming town. This Album of
Song, which goes around the country
seeking beautiful places to stop for an
hour or so at a time-ever ready to hear
the plaintive lay of the real estate man as
he carols his beautiful fiction, found
nothing but solid facts at High Point.
There arc three thousand people to start
with. They are of the progressive kind
and so they have some seven churches
and two academies-male and female.
They have two newspapers, The Enter
prise and The Living Issue. The Enter
prise is conducted by J. J. Farris, who
reported good and growing business.
Colonel Farris has just ordered fast
cylinder press on which to print his in
creasing circulation. The Living Issue
is living and doing well. We hold that
the more newspapers town supports,
the better the evidence of the towns
prosperity.
In point Of enterprise, all sorts,
High Point many of larger COM
petitors; but there is not only tobacco
market here, but it is manufacturing
town The warehouses have not yet
opened up, on account of the backward
season, but will begin business about the
first of October. The warehouse which
will do the business is the Anchor. 1t is
in the hands of experienced tobacco men,
R. P. Pickett & Co. proposing to operate
it. The Anchor has ample accommoda.
tions for all who come, and it will sell
tobacco. 1t is fine structure-7Ox150
: feet-with plenty of light and all that is
. needed. The Anchor and its manage
: ment have been introduced to the trade
and they feel that this years sales, the
) crop considered, will discount last year s
by long odds. The one great institution,
the greatest of all the manufacturing
lIi Ing IL L OllC, 10 ClC pug
, and twist establishment of w. p. Pickett
, & Co. The finn consists of w. P. Pickett,
r j. Welch and T. NJ. Pickett. 1t was
established in 1872, and its output has in
creased each year until now it ships a
million pounds year. If that is not do
ing very well, thank you, then we do not
know what about it. The two most pOpu-
lar brands made by this firm are "Red
Ham" and &c. H." OF course there are
numerous other brands, but these two ap-
pear to be good leaders.
The second plug and twist manufsc-
,, tory is that of the name of J. II. jenkins
& Co, incorporated in 1889, Mr.. jenkins
having died, the president is Mr.. w. P
Pickett r. G. Lea secretary and treasurer
with G. P Se'lars superintendent. This
establishment has a capacity of hall
, million pounds, is in a mammoth build
ing four stories, of brick, sixty feet front
, and hundred and fifty back.
Some Of the we'll known brands made
by this firm are: Red Deer" Nations
Choice" Hearts Content" and others
- Colonel Lea was once a Durhamite. i
you want your watch repaired, you car
have that done by Shell & HOugh, tht
L leading jewellers of the place. Mr. Shel
has recently located in High Point, com
t ing from Mississippi while Hough is al
3 old time High Pointer. If you wan
j. something in the way of a tombstone
[. and all of us will some day, Mr.. B. F
Sordan, who for twenty years has done
!. some of the finest work in American anC
h italian marble will do you a job in tn
right manner. We looked at his wOrl
and he said nothing. Il speaks for itself
Col. J. c. Welch the liveryman, say
: that he has horses that can make mill
q in three minutes or some that will max
5. a mile in eight days. He proposes t.
If suit all tastes, and his business show
u that he does.
The High Point Furniture company i
one of the solid institutions of the place
and does a big business which grow
with the years. They manufacture me
f. dium and cheap grade furniture, an
Sc they give universal satisfaction.
:, In the basket business, however,
d takes Capt. w. H. Snow, to remove th
rag from the bush. He makes a ware
le house basket which would hold an ele
:. phant, in point of strength and durabil
ity. 1t is an improvement over all hi
other makes in that line. Colonel Johl
! Dyer an old warehouse auctioneer, VIII
visited Shows establishment with u:
said they were the best he had ever seen
a His field basket, the same kind Of mate
rial, with Russia iron bottom, is hum
mer also. His cotton baskets, which wi
. hold eight pounds of seed cotton, az
constructed from the same material
Captain Shows establishment is We
sr filed with stock, Notwithstanding hi