Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-03-15
BORDEN MANUFACTURE
ING COMPANY ORGANIZES
TO BUILD A LARGE
COTTON MILL.
Authorized apital$5Oo,O 900
Mill to Be Ready for Operation by septem-
Manufacturing Enterprises.
The announcement that we make

in the above heading is a FACT.
And in this fact every CITIZEN
of Got9sboro 10 particular, Wayne
county in general, and the State
at large will feel a thrill Of pride
and an increase Of hope and a
quickening of the spirit of energy.
: Goldsboro Is to have another
Cotton Factory. 1t is to be up~to-
date in equipment, and its output
will be the best quality of yarns
that the best machinery of the day
can spin; and this means that the
new mill will have no superior in
the country at large: and no
equals, unless of recent construc-
ton and equipped with the best
machinery that is now being made.
The new mill is 10 be
owned and operated by "The
Borden Manufacturing Cons
pany," whose name it will bear,
and this of itself is an earnest, not
only in GoIdsboro but to the COM
mercial world, that it will be ore
of the finest, and a success froIl
the start: for the name of Borden
in this community,-as we'll as in
connection with the big factories
of Fall River, where a branch of
the family reside-has ever been
synonymous with success, and
therefore their pride of ancestry
and public spirit, together with
their we'll known business sagacity,
put beyond all question the sue
cess of the Borden Mill.
The company is composed en-
tireIy of members of the Borden
family and their business asso-
GATES. Its paid up capital is $780,
600, with the privilege of increas~
ing to $500, GOO as occasion re-
quires. Mr.. Frank X. Borden IS
president and Mr.. E. B. Borden,
Jr., Is secretary and treasurer,
AMI Mr.. K. J.. Davis is general
manager.
All the construction aud ma
chinery Contracts are now being
negotiated. and the new mill
is to be in operation by the first
of September-the month that
marks the opening of the new
{ year in the trade world. Yes,
vacation is then over. Summer
travellers are returning. The vast
machinery Of business life turns
with accelerated motion. The
churches enter upon a new cam
paign Of evangelization- The
schools gather in their vast po-
pulation of children, and lessons
begin.
And SO with the coming of
next September will the Borden
Cotton Mill gather ia Us horde
Of skilled operatives-wiu h all
that this signifies to the com
munity, of profitable EN- ploy>
meut to hundreds, coy homes to
the workers, q lucrative market
town for the farmers, cash Gus
toners to the merchants ETC.
making the hours of the day joy
Gus with the masic of its myriad
spindles and feeding the heart
Of the night with fire" from the
smokestacks Of its busy engines.
It means more than this, too,
for Goldsboro. It means q deem
ening aud widening of faith in
the future Of our town; a keener
realization of the advantages and
possibilities that are ours;a thrill
of fresh energy through every
pulse, inspiring US to renewed
hope and confidence and determ-
ination and increased endeavor.
and all these, attuned to united
action and a common purpose on
the part Of our reawakened peo-
pie mean yet other factories and