The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
Among Hahest Cities North Carolina, With Popuaion OF
of Upwards Of $4,000 Souls. Great Tobacco Manufac-
turing Cent? Located in One Of the Most Fer
tile Tobacco Sections in the World.

The fame Of Winston Salem as a
tobacco manufacturing center and as
one of the hvest cities in North Carolina
has gone abroad until today it claims
first rank among the cities of the South.
Forsyth, of which Winston is the county
seat, is a young county comparatively
speaking, for it was not until 1S49 that
her fertile, well watered and magnificent
ly timhered acres were cut off from
Stokes county and the people given a
government of their own with Winston.
as a county seat. Since that time, for
it was then that the forests were clear
ed away for the first houses that were
built in Winston, the growth of the city
has been remarkably rapid.
The following directory of the various
business enterprises of Winston-Salem
will serve to give some idea of the
citys Importance as business and man
ufacturing center.
WINSTON-S SALEM.
Containing population of upward of
1S,uuO souls. has
Two water works,
Electric lights,
Gas plant,
NO iPlpuOHC SySlhDlS.
Thirty-five daily trains.
Two well kept, up-todate hotels, thor
oughly equipped, with all modern inn
provements,
One female academy of a century of
usefulness,
One boys high school,
Three graded schools,
One State Industrial school,
n - .zia
One knitting mill,
Two laundries,
Two daily papers,
Three weekly papers,
Two monthly papers,
One Tobacco Journal, weekly.
Three banks,
Two sash, door and blind mills with
wood working in all departments,
One tin tag company,
Five wagon factories,
Two well fixture factories,
One chair factory,
One cigarette factory,
Two cigar factories,
One cigarette machine factory,
One bone mill and cotton gin,
One electric light and power company
and street railway, with FIVE miles of
lines operated.
One electric power plant, with 1000
horse power,
Two cotton mills,
One wooden MILL
Three flour mills, ST
Three foundries, s.
One furninlreA factory,
Two bottling works,
Two box factories,
Three brick making plants,
One, broom factory,
Two carriage and wagon factories.
-Four iron machine works,
-Four tobacco warehouses,
100000 pounds annual sales of leaf,
Twentyone plug tobacco factories,
with an output of 100000 pounds,
Thirteen leaf Factories,
One marble works,
Six thousand laborers employed in fac
tories,
Fifteen hundred horse power electric
current ready to be harnessed on TO any
kind of new industries.
Mr.. T. X. Bruner, Secretary of
the State Board of Agriculture, in his
valuable handbook, North Carolina
and its Resources, has very httingy
said:
FORSYTH lies among the foothills OF the
Blue Ridge, and is well watered, Il
broad swell across the central portion
forming the divide between the Dan and
ladkin. with their numerous branches.
The tributaries of the Yadkin, which
drain the southwestern section, abound
in bottom lands of great fertility, and
have heavy oak forests, interspersed with
hickory, walnut, poplar, etc, While IN
the northern and eastern sections, oak
and pine predominant. The soils are
red clay, and gray sandy loan, which
is admirably adapted to the cultivation
of tobacco. Wheat grows finely, as Well
as corn, oats and other grains, and the
grasses; while fruits, vegetables, grapes
and melons of almost every variety
grow in the greatest profusion.
when in 1853 the Unitas Fratum or
Morayian Church, decided to purchase
land and establish settlement in North
Carolina its agents travelled over I'll
IF Harl Granyille's possesses ions from
the Atlantic into Tennessee, and chose,
as the land best suited to their purpose,
tract in what is now Forsyth county,
whose fertile meadows, wooded hills
and numerous water courses attracted
them more than the mountains OF the
west or the Iowlands of the east This
tract they named sWachovia,' and the
first town, Bethabara, was begun on No
yember II of the same year In 1866 the
town of Salem was commenced, and