The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-27
Superb Facilities and Loca-
ton Indicate a Great
Metropolitan City.
With its Present Beauties Of Nature
and Advantages Made by Man it
isthe Place in Which to Locate
if You Are Looking for the
Best in Business Life
aud Home Sur
roundings.

roundings.
Great is Winston and wonderful the
story of it's progress.
The growth of a hamlet of 80 people
into a Twentieth Century City of over
10000, and this in thirty years. must needs
be a story OF progress worth the reading
1t must tell of energetic and determined
men, who built future city upon a
broad and solid basis, and the story Of
Winston is all of this
1t is one of the twins in the city de5iG-
mated as Winston Salem, twin that tells
of the rush and push Of nervous energy,
linked to another whose history dates
back near revolutionary days. 1t has in
it's arteries the red corpuscles of rich
commercial life, based upon great manu-
featuring industries, which are growing.
growing. growing as the days and weeks
crowd themselves into years
You want 10 visit Winston to know it.
as words are lacking with which to tell
of it as it IS. Its right to be conside red
with the foremost points in the young
South is shown in it's modern county
Courthouse which stands in the center
Of the city. a monument to the people who
approved it's erection. the finest court
house in North Carolina.
FORSYTH COUNTY.
Talking of this beautiful court house
leads one to tall, of Forsyth countA of
which Winston-Salem is the county seat.
The county is in the heart of what is
termed the Piedmont section of North
Carolina. 1t is three hundred miles from
the Atlantic ocean on the east and one
hundred miles to the west there rises into
magnificent attitudes the Allegheny
Mountains. 1t is in very truth, "at the
foot of the mountains and this tells of
the character of the climate and the
topography of this beautiful section. 1t
is thousand feet above tide water and
it's nearness to the mountains give 1T the
invigorating ozone which sweeps down in
the breezes from their heights.
Such a region is famous for it's health.
In an isothermal belt that passes through
the fairest portion of the globe, it ranks
with the balmy Mediterranean basin and
the lands of the vine and the olive in
it's climate and it's products. Its seasons
of growth are long it's winters mean
between the rigors of the North and the
perpetual summers of the. far South.
The advantages of the county belong to
the city. For twenty-five years past the
average spring temperature has been %
degrees, summer " degrees, fall 80 de-
grees and winter 48 degrees these giving
an average of 60 degrees for the entire
year, with an average annual rainfall or
1896 inches. Blest is the county in its
drinking water also. From springs and
wells innumerable come pure, clear and
delicious free stone water as healthy as
any in the world, while the topography
makes the drainage a matter of ease, all
these gifts of nature making it land
where men grow up into the three score
and ten, a region of both physical and
mental development
A RICH COUNTRY.
A land of rich fertility it's acreage is
some 100000 acres. fully 80 per cent. or
which is ready for the farmers. Excel
lent country roads and modern railways
make transportation no problem, the
homes of all the people being near to
the highways Of travel and trade. The
native forest growth is of the best quail
ity. oak, elm and other forest trees reach
ing great size, while patches OF pines are
or the uplands The soil is generally
gray. sandy loan. These lands are easily
cultivated and all the products Of the
field and garden are grown, some OF the
soil which to the uninitiated would seem
OF little value, producing the fine bright
leaf and mahogany tobaccos, which nave
given fame as a tobacco procing State to
North Carolina.
Backed as it is by such a county OF
resources and fertility, it is no wonder
that the Twin City has grown. winston
is indeed product of the modern age and
the possibilities of it's growth are un-
limited, for in two decades 1t has sprung
forward like young giant. In few
wears sit must develop into one OF the
most prosperous trade and manufacturing
centres of the South. In appearance ana
conveniences it now compares most ia
surably with the larger cities OF the
country It's city electric railway, I'M
excelled water-works and sewerage ,sys-
tenn. electric light and electric power
plants, we'll paved streets, modern school
system. beautiful county and city build
ings, great manufactures, large whole
sale business, bright and attractive retail
stores. excellent hotels, and many other
sthings all confirm this statement
COMMERCIAL WINSTON.
Commercially Winston is place OF
Great activity a spirit OF enterprise
characterizing the people, whose success
elbows that the claim that Winston offers
more attractions for capital than any
other CITY of it's size in the South, is
wei grounded one, capable OF being sub
stantiated by countless individual ex-