The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-27
AS A TOBACCO MARKET II LEADS
1t Offers Unrivaed Advantages to the Capitalist
and Home Seekers.

points. and constantly new enterprises
are being projected.
Tie commercial activity of the place is
made up by the work of large number
of manufacturers and johbers while
metropolitan retail establishments add to
the spirit OF progress which is the key
note of every day that passes, for each
day adds something to the growth and
development of the city.
To the man who wants rapid pen
picture of this modern city some figures
on the general industries of the place will
prove of interest, as will also general
summary of the things which go to make
Winston the progressive city that it u.s.
SOME GOOD THINGS.
There are here two systems of water
works and these supply at most moder-
ate cot the clearest and purest of free
stone water. The streets are paved with
Belgian blocks, while the roadways are
macadamized. A really modern electric
street car line furnishes ten miles of the
best electric railway in the State, one
terminus of it being at beautiful park,
now barely two years old, in which each
additional year brings new improvements
and attractions. With electric power
comes the electric lights, but not alone is
the city dependent on this for it's light
ing, as a gas company is also doing big
business.
Then there is a city market where the
best that the season affords is to be
found, while orders to it and to the
many elegant stores may be given over
one of the two telephone exchanges
which the city affords. Three steam fire
companies and two hook and ladder COM
panies make ample provision against fire,
a fact which is recognized by the insur
ance people who do business in the city.
THE RAILROADS.
The traveller to the city can reach it
by rail over two Of the great railroad
systems of the South. one of these being
tire Southern and the other the Norfolk
and Western, the two reaching north,
cart, south and west rich tributary
sections There are twenty daily
trains which put travel and traffic into
the city, a great factor in its favor.
Once in it's borders two first-class hotels
and many excellent boarding houses offer
rest and epicurean feasts to the traveller.
The city is just four hours run from the
capital of the State. while in ten hours
one can come from Washington City and
sit down to as elegant a table as can be
found in the South at the Phoenix Hotel,
SO admirably conducted by Mr.. A. ].
Young, whose wife is an indispensable
help in making it a famous hosiery and
happy social centre in hotel life.
n AS TO INDUSTRIES.
OF the industries which go to keep
actively at work the population of this
city list of them can not be exactly
accurate. for constantly new company
comes into existence. Just the other day
there was organized a new factory, one
to manufacture irsn bed-steads, with
capital of $4,000 to begin with New
buildings for this will be hurried to COM
pletion and in ninety days it is hoped to
have this new industry is running order, |
employing more people and adding to the
wealth and population of Winston.
But here is list, and it has received
the approval of Mayor Eaton, the pro-
gressive head of the city administration
of Winston, who keeps tab on all that
pertains to the advancement OF the city |
interests. Without any attempt to speci-
fly the Importance of each industry by its
order in the list these are:
Three candy factories, 3 harness fac |
tories, founderies, 4 machine shops. 3
roller mills, the largest chemical works
in the South, / chair factory, furniture
factories, 1 box factory, 8 lumber yards,
wood yards, undertaking establishments |
3 wagon factories, 2 buggy shops, 4 wood
shops, 2 large mills furnishing builders
supplies. blacksmith shops, barber
shops, shoe shops, ! architect, livery
stables, tin shops, cleaning and press
ing establishment 2 laundries, l bakery, 2
mil 1c holm or
ganized. marble yards wholesale dry |
goods stores wholesale grocers, ice
plants, plumbing shops, 2 cotton mills,
/ wooden mill, bottling works, job
printing houses. daily papers, week
lies. 1 monthly, l Tobacco Journal, large
fertilizer works cigar factories, l cigar
cite machine factory, / electric power
plant with $500 horse power, brick maxi
ing plants, l broom factory l we'll fixture
factory.
TOBACCO.
), But the leading industry of Winston is
the manufacture of tobacco. The section
is famous for it's tobacco and Winston is
the great mart where it is sold and manu-
featured. Four large tobacco warehouses,
handling an acreage exceeding twenty
million pounds yearly and paying farm
throughout the year shows the great !
possibilities of the business. The future of
Winston as a great tobacco manufacture
ing centre is assured because of the great |
present that it has. It's manufacturers
enjoy the reputation of making the best
fiat goods in the world and their plug to-
baccos over the South are as staple as
sugar and coffee.
In the making and handling Of this
great business there are invested about /
81 500, 600 in buildings and equipments,
over 5000 hands being employed, these
receiving $4,000 week and working 25,
00e 600 pounds of tobacco annually, the
bulk of which comes to Winston in farm
er's wagons. being sold on the warehouse
floors. In the city are ten plug tobacco
factories, and thirteen leaf tobacco fac
tories, with others still in prospect
This tobacco business of Winston is so |
great that the leaf sales of one year
are given here.
This was 21,3sO,O12 pounds for $1,s72,- |