The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24

free from lung and throat diseases. No
norton os the United States lis SO thor
oughly exempt from these destroyers
Of our race.
BElJT. FUl. FOR SITUATION.
The lat, Dr. Elisha Mitchell of the
State University, who persisted IN the
summer . 1851, on the mountain, which
bears his ramn, pronounced the site OF
Morgantol to he the finest location for
q town in the State and perhaps he
had seen ncauy. if not all. the noted
no;nts in North Carolina. Situated ON
the lofty water shed, which triangularly
divides Hunting and Silver creeks from
the majestic Catawba. the town COM
nlands the most magnificent panorama
of mountains to be found in the whole
Southern country and this is to be seen.
not by riding to some elevation, but
from the streets and portieoes of the
houses. like the poor of scripture 1t Is
With YOU always, wherever in town you
60 The original name of the place
was Aider Springs, being so styled IN tn
Act of 1874 appointing General Me-
Dowell, John Blanton and Alexander
Irwin Commissioners of the town OF
Morgan"
The Alder Springs are said to have
been at or near the present Seagle cor
ner. The lard. $50 acres. on which the
town named Morgan (Alargansborough
in the act Of 1888 was located cost forty
pounds, not quite 5000, which was paid
from money arising out of the sale OF
lots. the :fct of assembly directing the
commissioners to sell the thirteen adj
joining and nearest the court house
49,. 4 ,,al, In
mainder ii proportions The lots re-
served fer the court house and district
prison Cfne Morganton was then the
capital of Morgan district were laid off
as the act recites ''for the convenience Of
water"
BY an act of 1888 Waightsill Avery.
James johnson. William Lenoir Joseph
Mcdowell and John Walker Were an
thoriZed to receive from the Slleriffs OF
Burke, Lincoln, Rutherford and Wilkes
counties the special tax levied to erect
"a court house, prison and stocks" for
the use OF the district of Morgan and
to contract for the building Of the sam
The same act directed these gentlemen
our first city fathers. to lay ont and es-
tahlsh a town in Burke county.
The tax levied to erect public build
ings was in Burke zone shilling ON ev-
cry one hundred pounds Of taxable pro-
perty" and Lincoln. Rutherford and
Wilkes four pence on the hundsed
pGrsnds. to be collected for two years.
from all of which it may he gathered
that i'm the catching of worms Burke
was an ea"ly bird. even in infancy, and
understood he art of tollng her neigh
bors-an art not lost when its present
public building was erected just before
Caldwell and Mcdowell counties were
taken from it.
10 conclude with this act Of Assem-
bly, il contained the somewhat novel
provision that every purchaser Of tow0
lot in Morgan who failed within tire"
years from the date Of his deed to erect
a house on each lot purchased s1on:d
forfeit his I!tIe. which revested go instan-
ii IN the aforementioned commissioners.
Even the size Of the house was made
a matter of law. II was to be "a we'll
framed, square-logged or brick house
sixteen feet square at least and eight
feet pitch i'll the clear or proportionate
TO such dimensions" The object was
10 cure the evil of that day. the frequeat
removal OF county sites. BY an act pass
ed i'll 1IS0. all lots fronting six rods on
Main street We're extended back twenty
four rods instead of twelve rods as in
the original plot
The population of the town is 1900 al
increase of three hundred per cent In
the past decade; while real estate has
advanced more than 800 per cent. within
the past i've years. There has been
no mo borfn," no great amount OF fore
ign capital has come IN; but this growth
is the reSr't, in large measure, of home
-, - (.
ginning OF growth.
The town was one hundred years IN
gathering 1000 people--in the tenth OF
that time it has attracted nearly n
many more, while its business has II
creased ten fold, of which details wiz
he given further on. Situated immn
diately on the line Of the Western North
Carolina Railroad, it is fourteen honrs
from Washington and twenty from New
York A double daily passenger service,
equal in oQttpment to any in the corn
try. is run by this company in close con-
necticn with Richmond and Danvllc
trains. Immigrants are given special
rates.
INDUCEMENTS TO MANUFAC-
TURERS.
The town exempts from taxation for
five Years all new manufacturing enter,
Jrisns employing capital to the amount
Of 5000 AID upward. II is fortunate
in the poss, ssion of excellent hotels