The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
Manufacturers, Dealers, and
Exporters of yellow Pine
and HardwoodS, yellow
Pine and Cross Arms,
Locust and Painted
Oak Brackets, Lo-
Gust an Painted
Oak InSula-
tor Pins.
BRANCH FACTORIES.
At Roaring River, Mount Airy, Good Springs,
Low Gap and Jones, North Carolina. These
With the Home Office at EIk'n Makes
the Largest Mandatory of its
Kind in the World.

In an edition of this kind giving a
resume of the manufacturing enterprises
OF the State the Bailey MANUFACTURING
Company OF Elkin North Carolina, de-
serves extended notice at orr hands
both ON account of the magnitude of its
operation and the quality of its products.
The business was founded by Mr.. D.
w. Baily, native of New York, and
formerly inspector of the water supply
of the city of New York. About four
years ago he visited the vicinity of Elkin
on a quail hunting expedition and was
attracted by the remarkable natural adj
yantages, the mdeveloped resources, aud
the great future and possibilities of the
section. He was quick to see these adj
vantages and four years ago the present
business was established. The rapid
growth of the business to its present
mammoth proportions shows that Mr.
Raily's faith was well founded. The
principal factory is located in Elkin, and
this is supplied with material, such as
cut timber for cross arms, brackets and
insulator pins from saw mill three
miles east of Flkin, which gives employ
ment to from seventy to one hundred
people, and is the largest mill doing eX-
clusively this kind of work in the world.
Mr.. Baily is the inventor of a portable
machine operated by steam with a ca
pacity of five thousand per day.
Some idea of the magnitude of the
business may be had when it is known
that the combined daily capacity of the
different factories is twenty-five thou
sand pins and brackets. During the
month of June ninety Thousand eight
hundred locust pins were delivered from
the factory, enough to build one wire
line nearly three thousand five hundred
miles, The timber used in the manufac-
ture of these products is of the very best
kind. and is secured from the surround
ing country. From four to six car loads
of manufactured products are shipped
weekly from the different stations where
branch factories are located. 1t would be
difficult to mention the markets for the
products are shipped to many parts Of
the world Large shipments are made
to England. Northern and Southern
points an. Cuba. This company furnish
ed the material for building the first tele-
phone line i'm the Klondike.
This company pays out annually for
material more than one hundred thou
sand / lars, add this Il us enormC
pay roll. and it will be seen of what
great advantage this enterprise is TO
Wetsern ,orth Carolina. 1t is doing as
much as any other enterprise to place
North Carolina products before the
word. During Tune a Clcvslan :, Ohio.
firm placed a five Thousand dollar orGer
with the company and it is now filling an
order of a million feet of ten-foot cross
arms for company in the same State.
Mr.. Raily has great faith in the future
of ElLdn, and is playing no little part
in its rapid growth. lie has recently
bought twelve acres to be devided up into
building lots just across the river com
manding Il fine view of the Blue Ridge
Mountains. Cottages are to be erected
upon these lots and sold on easy terms.
Elkn is most desirable place to live,
and no one could make mistake by
casting his lot in this favored section.