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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28

structure or interfered with it at all
his spirit would haunt them after his
death
When Mr.. r. Y. McAden bought the
property and began to improve the
grounds and riverside, it became ne
cessary to tear away the old Dutch
mans arrangement on or near the rock
whatever it was. The McAdens had
never heard that such destruction
would bring down the wrath of the
old Dutchman's spirit. And if they
had heard of it they are made of ster-
ner stuff than to permit any old fell
lows rawlings to deter them from pros
ecuting their business.
Several times, however, since the
McAdens tore away the old mans fix
lures lightning has struck the rock
to which it was attached, and the SUI
perstitious in Vaudeville believe the
old Dutchman's ghost is getting in it's
work. The wis., trace some ore in
the rock that attracts the lightning.
In 1884 he enlarged the plant by the
erection of a weave room in which
the manufacture of plaids began.
Mr.. McAden built on a picturesque
hill, whose 5ase is washed by the waves
of the CAtawba. beautiful home,
shaded by stately oaks, and hemmed in
only by beds of beautiful flowers, vine
clad driveways, and grassy lawns,
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ture of fine yarns, making numbers
Dos to sos of the different phys. 1t was
only few years ago that the South
made up its mind to compete with
New England on fine yarns, but the
fact of the South's ability to do SO
and do it successfully has in these few
years been thoroughly established.
The Trenton mills is every day more
thoroughly demonstrating this impor-
tant fact, and the Trenton yarns are
already recognized everywhere as
among the choicest smoothest and
best fine yarns that go on the market.
Mr.. Geo. w. Raglan, one of CASTOR
las livest and most popular citizens,
is the managing genius of the Trenton
mills. He is in love with the cotton
manufacturing business. He is
successful business man, clever gen
tleman, and one of the most popular
citizens of his town and section.
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the company, is one of the largest and
most successful merchants in CASTOR
county He has for years been con-
trolling spirit in the industrial life of
his town and county, and in all his
business engagements he is ably
assisted by his son, Mr.. John L.
Love, a gentleman of sterling integ-
rity, of ripe business experience, and
high character. The mercantile firm
of Love a. Son is one of the oldest and
most successful business establish
ments in this State, and both the Sc
Nor and junior members of the firm
are recognized leaders in the com
mercial and industrial affairs of their
town.
Mr.. G. A. Gray is not an old man bat
he has been spinning and weaving cot
ton for number of years. He began
at the bottom and by dint of his integ-
rity and industry he has climbed to
the top. His first salary III cotton
mill was pittance. He was young
and inexperienced then. His salary
now is in keeping with his worth as
conservative, careful and successful
cotton manufacturer. He deserves the
confidence of his associates and it is
accorded him. If he says build the
mill bigger" it is built bigger. Ii he
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cfent Secretary andTreasurer, to
whose industry and practical knowl-
edge of the cotton mill business rs
largely due the success OF the enter
prise Mr.. Ray is native of Charlotte
but has been at the McAden Mills al
most from their incipiency. He ranks
among the best and most efficiency
mill man in the south, and is as clev-
er as he is efficient. He knows his bus
mess in all it's details and is one of the
cleverest Oarolians thai live between
Murphy and Manteo.
DIR. Nc Alden, the president of the
mills is one of the States most prom
inent, successful and useful citizens.
Charlotte has the honor of claiming
him as citizen, and he is q strong
force in it's industrial and financial af-
fairs. He rs President of the Mer-
chants and Farmers Bank, of Char
lotte, director in several of it's lead
ing cotton mills and other industrial
enterprises, and one of the most pop
ular citizens OF the Queen City.
Taking up Che management of the
McAden Mills after his brothers death
DR.. McAden has steered the great en-
terprise along through prosperous
times or panics, keeping the mills in
the present ranks of Southern indus
tries.
The McAden Mills are now equipped
with fifteen thousand spindles and twis-
ters, 800 plaid looms, and the plaids,
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and the roaring of the rushing river
was mingled with the hum of machin-
cry and the cheerful songsof hundreds
of busy and prosperous men and wo-
men, and the melody of grand vol
ume of industrial music was waited
on the winds of each morning.
Years ago, so the tradition is, there
lived on the Catawba river where Nc
Adenville is now located, an old
Dutchman who had his home on the
loftiest elevation of the place. He had
here a small stone structure of primi-
tive build that answered his purpose
as a protection for his spring or for
his fishing, I've forgotten which. But
that is immaterial as it is not the point
of the story. In his old age this
Dutchman warned his neighbors that
if anybody ever removed his primitive
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States capable and efficient treasurer.
Another is Mr.. j. H. Craige, son-in-law
of Mr.. Jenkins. He has been bold,
aggressive and successful advocate of
industrial development. Still another
is Mr.. L. L. Jenkins, son of Mr.. David
A. Jenkins, Gastonia's popular young
banker and manufacturer. Mr.. j. ID.
Moore is another; the Wilson's and
MOrrises are others.
And to these men and their associ-
ates is due the building of GastOnia's
splendid new cotton factory, the Mode
ma Mills. This factory was inaugu-
rated before the panic had ceased its
raid upon industrial progress, but,
backed by men with grit and deter
mination, it stood boldly up and de-
fed the ravages of the industrial mon
ster. 1t laid brick while the panic was
tearing down business enterprises
north Of us and west of us And be-
fore the panic had spent its force the
Modena Mills turned on steam, and
1900 spindles and 1913 looms began
making 39-inch brown sheeting from
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THE M0DENA MILLS.
BUILT ON THE INSTALMENT
PLAN AT FIFTY CENTS PER
SHARE PER WEEK.
UPON 4 SOLID FOUNDlTION.

Il was Inaugurated Before the Panic,
Bat Grit and Determination Were
Stronger than Any Panic--G astonia
Is ChOCk Full of Wide-Awake Pro-
gressive Men, Among them the OH
GERS and Managers OF the MOdena
Mills.
When community has in it a few
aggressive, active, enterprising men,
it is only a matter of time before a
spirit of progress win take root and
grow until it inau"urates manufactur-
ing and other enterprises that will re-
dound to the interest Of every man
and woman in the section.
Gastonia has a number of these
men. 1t has had them for many years,
and because it has had them it is one
of the livest and most progressive
towns along our southern border.
One of these men was the late David
a. Jenkins, for several years tho
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as an able and very successful fnan
'cier. The next year after his removal
TO Charlotte, he was engaged with Col.
A. S. Buford in the construction of the
Charlotte and Atlanta Air Line Rail
road. A few years later he organized
the Asheville and Spartanburg Rail
road Company, and it was largely his
energy and money that built this road
from Spartanburg to our mountain
metropolis. Il. Y.McAden was one of
the most powerful individual forces
that entered into the upbnilding of
the State after the war. He was bold,
aggressive, courageous, and these quail
ties are essentials in any period, but
they were singularly so in those days
when the Industrial bases of the South
had been torn to shreds and its man
hood well nigh destroyed or stunned
by four years of war.
1t was such men as X. Y. McAden who
began gathering up the fragments of
a conquered country and knitting
them into bread-winning and money
making industries that started the
South on the road to prosperity dur
ing years that followed the war. As
lawyer, legislator, banker and railroad
est success came to him as result OF
the ambition that came to him during
his residence in Alamance county.
A few miles form Charlotte on the
south fork of the Catawba river, and
near the junction of this river and the
Charlotte and Atlanta Air Line Rail-
road was a roaring, raging shoal a
mile in length, along which thous-
and horsepower was flashing itself
to waste, Mr.. McAden saw opportuni'
ty for building big industrial plant
He listened to the roaring of the gal
Looping waters, it was music, natures
sweetest music; but it was wasted il
the forests and fields that surrounded
it. He bought the property and IN
1881 built on it the McAden Mills
He placed in these mills fifteer
thousand spindles and twister spin
dies and began manufacturing cottor
yarns of different phys.
McAdenviIle became busy village
with more than a thousand people
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the first mill it built was for a small
town, a regular hummer.
Mr.. G. A. Gray, who caught the in
SEPARATION of cotton manufacturing
on the Catawba river, was one Of tks
moving spirits in the enterprise. Ar.
II. c. 6. Love, another native of Gas
ton county and one of the wealthiest
and most prominent citizens of the
county, was another leader in the es-
Enlistment of the enterprise as was
also his son, Mr.. John T. Love. The
Gastonia Cotton Manufacturing Com
pany was organized on a capital of a
quarter of a million dollars. Mr..
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THE MAIDEN MILLS
AND THE BEAUTIFUL TOWN
OF M'ADENSVILLE ON THE
CATAWBA.
The LATE RUFUS Y. MAIDEN.

The Founder and Builder of the Great
Enterprise, One of the Largest and
Most Successful Cotton Mill Enter
prises i'm the State--Drs John III. M CO
Alden, the Popular President, and
MIR. Robert IL. Gray, the Efficient
Secretary and Treasurer.
Whenever a live, energetic North
Carolinian lives for half dozen years
in Alamance county, somehow or other
he becomes filed with the ambition to
own and manage cotton factory. 1t
is natural that he should, for in Ala
nance the hum of the spindle has been
making music-the music of profitable
industry for more than half century.
The late Rufus Y. McAden lived for
eight years in Alamance county, and
to this fact is probably due the sub
sequent building of that magnificent
cotton factory, the McAden Mills, loca-
ted at McAdenville, in CASTOR county.
Rufus Y. McAden was born in Caswell
county, North Carolina, in 1833ss%In
1889 he moved to Graham, the gounty
site of Alamance county, AID began
the practice of law. He was comment
in his profession and two years after
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within little more than a year, estab-
rished for itself and it's product a rep
utation among leading buyers of the
country. The Modena sheetings are
fully up to the standard and win
friends among buyers and consumers
strictly on their merit.
Mr.. i. L. Jenkins, the president of
the company, is ore of the livestyoung
men in the State. He is banker, plant
err and manufacturer, and a success at
each He is alive to whatever tends
to build up his town and community;
and his time, money and energy are
kept employed in this direction.
Mr.. j. d. Moore, the secretary and
treasurer of the Modsna cotton mills,
is successful and popular Gastonia
merchant, a man of energy and bust
ness sagacity on whose Judgment his
neighbors and business associates rely
with perfect confidence.
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r. c. G. Love was made president; Mr..
John f. Love, Sec. and Treas; and
Mr.. g. A. Gray, Supt. A splendid site
was secured in the northeastern sec
ton of the town on the Southern rail-
road, and a large two story brick
building was soon erected. The mill
started with three thousand spindles.
The following year these were in
creased to 5000, other engagements
followed until now the equipment com
prises $4,000 spindles, including twist
ers and 1913 looms. There are twelve
shareholders in the company and
they comprise the leading men in
Gastonia and vicinity. The directors
are r. c. G. Love, John T. Love, DR.. C..
i. Adams, and G. A. Gray.
Messrs. j. Fl. Craige and James d..
Moore were among the organizers of
the company.
Mr.. r. C. G. Love, the president of
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de~ims and ginghams made under the
Of the efficient management
of the enterprises aided by the superin-
tendents, Messrs. J. W. Holt and Oliver
Senior, are among the most popular
fabrics that go on the market. They
make also surplus of yarns and warps,
single and two-ply, that find ready pur-
chasers.
Mr.. Henry NJ McAden, son of the late
r. Y. McAden, is one Of The cleyerest
and one Of the most efficient Of the
younger cotton mill men in the State,
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There are few places in the State
where nature has done more than it has
at McAdenyille, and there are fewer
where the ingenuity of man has done so
much towards developing natures re-
sources and adding to its beauty. There
are picturesque hills, grassy slopes, beau
tifuf groves, commanding buildings, fer
tile fields singing waters, charming PEG
Die, comfortable homes, happy and con
tented operatives-all at Vaudeville,
joining in chorus of industry that is
adding wealth to one Of the best counties
in the grandest Commonwealth in this
great Union.
Rufus Y. McAden built upon firm and
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THE GAST0NlA MILLS
THE FIRST MILL BUILT In THE
TOWN OF GAS
TONTA.
FINE Yarns AND SHEETIBG

SheetiHg Bieachca and UnbIeached
or Yarns 30s TO sos are the Gas
tonla Mill Products that ere Making
amOus the Name of GastOnia--A
Pew of the Men Who Are Building
Up the Industrial Interest of One of
the States Best Counties.
1t was 1888 before Gastonia made
up its mind to go to building cotton
factories, but when it did conclude to
do SO it went to work in earnest, and
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1894, just little more than a year ago.
The enterprise lives because of the
rush and energy of such men as Geo.
w. Raglan, it's efficient treasurer and
manager; j. L. Falls, its president; L.
L. Jenkins, G. A. Gray, III. F. Forbes,
r. Z. Caldwell and others, upon whose
faith and money the mill was built. 1t
is located in the Southwestern section
of Gastonia, on the main line of the
Southern Railway. The buildings are
new, constructed of brick after the lat
est architectural designs in factory
building, and the machinery equip
ment is the very latest and best. The
5000 spindles and twisters are the lat
est improved, as is evidenced by the
and fineness of the yarns
they make.
The Trenton mills are among the
pioneers in the State in the manufac-
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THE McADEN MILLS, RoAdensville, N. G.

Here his family still resides In an
other beautiful residence, modern in
architecture and arrangement, lived his
son, the late Benjamin T. McAden,
(who assisted in the management of
the property with his charming young
wife, nee Miss Lottie Thomas, of Raj
eigh.
The McAden Mills started on an
era of prosperity when they were first
built and have ever since enjoyed
wonderfully successful career.
Mr.. r. Y. McAden died in about the
year 1892, leaving very large estate,
the management of which in accord
ance with the provisions of his will
was left in the hands of his brother,
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the fleecy staple that grows in the
fields of CASTOR county.
The Modena Mills were built on the
instalment plan, with an assessment
of fifty cents per share per week on
it's stock.
The officers of the company are L.
L. Jenkins, president; j. d. Moore,
treasurer and manager; and ]. o.
White, superintendent. Under the
management of these men it has,
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The TRENTON MILLS
PRONOUNCED BY A GENTLEMAN
UPON HIS ARRIVAL "THE
GEM GASTONIA."
NEW FROM BOTTOM TO TOP.

The Trenton Mills, Built in 1894, are
Among the Pioneers in the State in
the Manufacture of Fine Yarns--Its
Officers are Among Gastonia's Most
Successful, Popular, Prosperous and
Esteemed CitiZens--It Successfully
Completes with New England Mills.
"The Trenton Mills is the gem of
Gastonia."
This was the remark made to the
writer as he landed in the beautiful
little town of Gastonia, by a promi-
rent citizen of that town, and this citi-
zen knew whereof he spoke. The
Trenton Cotton Mills were erected in
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Dr.John II. McAden, of Charlotte.
These two brothers had been many
times associated together in business
enterprises and the confidence that
each reposed in the other was OF SUCH
a character as to make it natural that
the surviving brother should be en-
trusted with the full management Of
the others estate DR.. John III. Nc
Alden was elected to succeed Rufus Z.
McAden as president of the mills and
as the general executive head OF the
great enterprise. the practical man
agement of the mills remaining In the
hands of Mr.. Robert r. RAY, she eff
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he removed 30 Graham, he was elected
10 the Legislature from that county.
In 1866 he was Speaker of the House.
He was successful in law, successful in
politics, and successful in business
affairs.
In 1867 he was elected, while yet. liv-
ing in Graham, president of the First
National Bank of Charlotte. In Octo-
Der of that year he moved to Charlotte
and assumed the duties Of that respon-
sible position. He was soon recognized
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The Monroe Journal thinks that one
thing that hurts the country is that there
are too many $40 men looking for 800
jobs.
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enduring foundations, and during his
busy life he made great State greater,
because he lived in it. DR.. James ID.
McAden, Mr.. Robert r. Ray and Mr..
Henry NJ McAden are worthy successors
and the great work planned and manned
by their predecessor is being carried TO
successful fruition by those on whom the
responsibility of the management OF this
enterprise has fallen.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-10-02
MONEY FOR MINING

Inc extraordinary absence Of new rail-
road enterprises, and the falling off in new
projects generally has banked up enormo,,s
sums Of money. and. 20 borrow a mirage
London Is lake OF money running oyer
That hoard is seeking outlet. and the effect
is seen in the craze for investment in south
African mining stock The bulk of the
money. however, IS not expended IN deveI-
opment. hut most OF it merely changes
hands in London. going from the investors
20 the promoter.
But even the large amounts thus circu-
iating do not make any appreciate differ
ence in the unemployed volume. ana there
is great inquiry now FOR American mines
The developments at Trail Creek have nro-
dueed excellent results. Some prospectors
say the district will prove the greatest
mining camp this country has ever seen
All these statements must he received with
caution but there IS no questioning the
.act that there are rich and profitable
mines there. In other PARTS Of the state
there are known 10 exist deposits OF coal
'ron. sold. silver. copper nickel and tin
Capital Is needed 70 develop them and there
never was a more favorable time 10 interest
investors Il is reported from san Fran
cisco that nearly s75ooo.oeo OF British
money Is seeking Investment IN California
mines. but that is a familiar field. The
new state 81 Washington should offer
greater attractions because Of its vire.9
character. Enough has been shown 10
demonstrate that there IS great wealth in
our mountains. and the profitable working
OF some Of the coal deposits places the
quality beyond all question.
one serious bar 10 trading With mining
properties is that claim owners demand
such fabulous prices Every man who has
filed or Joined IN filing uron claim. ana
owns pieoe Of orc as large as a hazelnut.
considers himself millionaire and wants
million FOR his nugget. leaving 10 The
purchaser ali the expense ana risk. The
chances are strongly against fortunes in a
mine: the vast number Of promising claims
which are never heard OF after the first
output tes,iaes % this. Money is seeking
investment. and reasonable men can make
very snug competence II they do net
capture fortune AZ one turn OF the wheel
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what in the light OF more recent events
they would probably not DO now-vote for
the bill
The law has proved a failure and all
these statements. tables and estimates are
proved TO have been misleading. There is
10 surplus and the revenues are actually
not enough 10 run the government. Tn
der these circumstances the experts are
again called in 10 prepare statements that
viii show that the treasury is not run
ming behind. but is. On the contrary, pick
ing Up and getting in more than it is pay
ing out. In order to make a good show
ing for September the same methods are
employed that have been found useful
during the entire summer. In other words,
expenditures are held back. so that the
actual amount in the treasury viii ap-
pear TO be more than by rights il ought
70 be-
During the last five months payments
10 contractors on government works have
been withheld or delayed, in some In
stances 10 the extent OF nearly causing
a shutting down, and all in order that
the deficit for the month might not ap-
pear so large as IL actually was. BY ev-
cry means expenditures have been held
back in order that the real truth might not
come ont in al its nakedness. When,
therefore. II is proclaimed, as il will be.
that the statement for September shows
a surplus. IT should be with the under
standing that possibly there are many bills
unpaid which should have been settled
during that month.
This method OF bookkeeping may be all
right until after the November elections.
but when detailed account OF all the
revenues and expenditures OF this fiscal
year since July / is made up, ii will be
shown very conclusively that We are run
ming behind at the rate Of about 900
4 year, and that these encouraging state
nents which are being published from
time to time are made encouraging only
through very skillful "doctoring.''