The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-15
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lung upon q WORD IDLY spoken,
md enterprises Of great pith and
have gone by the board
and been finally abandoned be
cause some kicker kicked at the
wrong time or threw cold water
upon what afterwards proved tol
have been a good scheme. /
North Carolina is strcwn with
the skeletons Of embryo cities
towns and villages Of great expec-
tations and wonderful possibilities,
but which, owing to the inditler-
ence and want Of public spirit Oh
the part of some one particular
individual who, unfortunately for
the rest, happened to own property
within its limits, never got beyond
the stage of helpless infancy, and
which have grown gray and palsy
stricken while yet in their swad-
ding clothes, ..a,a4 te !
Aud Hillsboro is not an excep-
ton. The fact that the town is no
larger to-day than it was twenty
years ago; the fact that our man
uflcturing interests are so limited
and our mercantile business very
little better than it was when
Orange county farmers rolled their
tobacco hoggsheads to Petersburg.
Va, and the Indian in his native
feathers Was a familiar tigule on
our streets tile fact that Hills
boro is known to the world only
through history and the part it
played in the early days; the fact
that il is referred to now only as
a ''niaa old town. where health
and pleasure seekers come in sum
mer to be out of the heat aud
hustle Of The city and enjoy a de-
lightful climate, good shade apa
pure water, is not the fault Of the
people without but apparently the
choice of the people within.
As will be remembered, when
Colonel Buck Blackwell decided
to build a. factory an4 giYe his
manufactured tobacco, not only a
national but a worldwide reputa.
ton, he ut first wanted TO locate
at Hillsboro and made repeated
efforts 10 secure a suitable site.
Failing TO make the purchase he
went a little farther down the road.
and the widely-known, prosperous
and progressive city Of Durham is
the result.
When the Richmond and Dam
vile railroad company vas bnild.
ing its road, it wanted to come
nearer the town. But somebody
objected, and it woald take a good
mathematician to figure out what
it has cost the town Of Hillsboro
i'm hack fare and drayage alone
during all the years that the
depot has been located where it is,
when il might have been but a
hundred yards away.
| And TO come on down, when Il
was given out last week that
Messrs. James Webb and Allen
Ruilin had completed their ar.
rangemcnts for u 100000 cotton
factory which would be built al
once in Hillsboro, there came
also u report that the scheme wa.
likely 10 fall through or he indefi.
nitely postponed because Ole o.
the parties owning the land upon
which the factor was 10 be built
wanted more for it and would not
sign the deed.
| Everybody who has studied III,
history Of growing towns and who
knows the difference in value 81
property in q village and property
in a city, knows that n property
owner can well afford to give away
valuable sites as AN induceIneni
TO any manufacturer 10 locate in
his town. d. egood factory mean,
II thousand new people. New
lpcople means demand for new
houses, and house, canhOt IL
built without bnt securing lot,
lnpon which 10 build tl,emz htcaI
Issssas rfiakes.a sudden i.nnp. and