The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-23
7. W. MEwBoRNE & CO, Kinston, \. c.

the time the crop of 1895 was in thor
ough readiness for the market a ware
house was erected, mainly through the
effort of Mr.. Grainger. Prize houses
were built, and the date for an opening
sale was advertised. The next morning
after the first sale Kinston woke up
to find itself full fiedged tobacco
market. Its first salewas asuccess. Sub
sequent sales were even greater sue
cesses, and when the season was over
the admonition was given to other To-
bacco towns to watch Kinston. During
the past spring and summer this
warehOuse-the KinSton Warehouse
has been enlarged, indeed nearly dou-
bled, another immense warehouse has,
been built, a number of new, thor
oughly equipped prize houses have
been erected. Several new buyers and
warehousemen have male their home
in Kinston, and few weeks ago when
the first sale of the crop of 1896 was
held, the tobacco farmers of Lenoir
and adjoining counties flooded the
town with that bright golden weed
for which this section of North Caro-
lima has within the short space of three
years made itself famous all over the
tobacco world. Big daily breaks are
being held now, and the town of Kin
ston is bounding forward, vieing with
its sister cities in Eastern North Caro-
lima in the great march of progress
which the successful culture OF to-
hacco carries into every section it
touches.
This new industry in Kinston is
largely the work of j. w. Granger, and
the Kinston Warehouse, the pioneer
sales room of the little Lenoir city,
win remain a monument to his grit
and farsightedness.
Kinston expects to run its sales dur
ing the present season away up into
the millions, and she will do it.
L. HARVEY & SON.
Messrs. L. Harvey & Son are movers
in the everyday business life of Kin |
ston. The firm is composed of Mr.. IL. |
Harvey and Mr.. C. Felix Harvey, and |
they do a general insurance brokerage |
and cotton commission business of !
magnitude.
Mr.. L. Harvey is one of the corner |
stones on which the industrial editice |
Of kinston has been building for years
He is live, energetic, clever and pops
lar and valuable citizen, and is largely |
in a number of k1nStOn lead |
ing business enterprises.
Mr.. Felix Harvey is a young gentle
man of splendid business attainments, |
Of sterling integrity and universally |
popular. The firm is equipped with |
ample capital and every facility requi- |
site for extensive and successful bust |
ness operations.
Kinston has a town full of live, cley- |
err business men. The rich productive |
back country that surrounds it-one of |
the best farming sections in all the |
the town natural advan |
tages that are conducive to its growth |
and prosperity. It is going forward.
Lenoir county is certainly one of the
best agricultural counties in the State.
The lands are rich and easily cultivat-
ed It has such extensive farmers as
the Woods, the Kennedys, the Gamma
dys, the Wootens, the Graingers, the
MewborneS, and hundreds of others
whose farms are models.
This is an extensive trucking section,
and there are hundreds of acres in Lee
noir devoted TO the growth of berries,
potatoes, peas, beans, cabbage and 9th
err vegetables. Lenoir is a rich county