The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-01
ITS FUTURE GROWTH SURE
Interviews With Leading Men on the Progress
and Outlook for the City.

awake the people have been, and 1T is
evinced by the character of buildings
that have been and are now being erect
ed; in the mammoth manufacturing in
terests, and by no means least, BUT IN
FACT l THINK THE PRIME CAUSE Of
the city's improvement, in the healthy
educational attainment, which is most
evident
MR.. @. E. RAWLS said, II think Dur
ham is on better foundation and her flu
ture brighter than ever before in her his
tory. We have the best school system Of
any town in the State. according to our
size and population, and this alone is an
evidence OF our future prosperity"
SHERIFF F. ID. MARKHAM said: q
think Durham has just begun to grow
and / believe that with our many advan-
tages on all lines. Durham will be twice
it's present magnitude ten years from to-
day. / see no signs of any abatement in
any enterprise, but, instead, new build
ings are still springng up"
MR.. J. W BURR( uG.iS sad: For
it's age, Durham has no equal in
North Carolina, or l might say the whole
South. There is more property changing
in any town l know of for it's size. All
kinds of property is steadily advancing
in price all the time, and l think I make
no mistake when l say that on an aver
age Durham real estate has increased in
value from 25 to 80 per cent within the
last two years. Durham is destined to
be a large city in the near future and |
think without doubt has one of the bright
Of in, oil
the Sunny South"
MR. H. A. FOUSHEE said: 81 have
watched the growth of Durham very
closely in the past eight years. I'm
questionably it's condition and future
prospects are better now than at any
time during this period. There is more
confidence manifested and felt by our
citizens now. The American Tobacco
Company has invested very considerable
sums of money here during the past two
years and at present is building large
four-story stemmery and three story
storage house. The Golden Belt Manu-
featuring Company has just started it's
large plant, and the Durham Hosiery
Mills will move into it's new building
about the first of December. The Dur
ham Traction Company is filling it's pow
er house with machinery, and has let the
contract for eight miles of street rail
way, which will be built as rapidly as the
condition Of the weather and the progress
Of the sewerage system will permit.
''These enterprises haye created
strong market for real estate and prices
have advanced % per cent. in eighteen
months. Durham has the advantage of
in ho TO in hot ha
has three different railway systems. Con-
manufacturers can secure bet
ter freight rates than elsewhere and
much more expeditions service. 1t is
generally conceded that there are but
four towns in the State that will eventu-
ally be cities. and Durham is usually
placed third in this list. My own Opin
ion is that ten years will show that she
is second. With her great wealth-more
than that of any other town-and with
our capitalists investing their surplus in
local enterprises, there is no reason why
Durham should not take first place. The
latent possibilities here are certainly
great.
THE one feature which has perhaps con-
tributed to Durham's success more than
any other thing, has been the fact that
our citizens pull together better than
anywhere else. However much we have
differed among ourselves, we have always
presented solid front to the outside
world. l apprehend that this feeling is
stronger today than it ever was, and l
believe that in the cultivation of this
spirit will come future greatness.
MR.. ]. S. MANNING said, Durham
the last twelve months along the line
Of the building of manufacturing, mer-
camille and dwelling houses. Two very
large manufacturing establishments have !
been built in the past twelve months in |
a part of the town which needed in it the
location of manufacturing establishments
Around and near these two large factory |
there have been erected large |
number of dwelling houses and quite a
number of store houses. On the main
street of the city several handsome mer-
camille buildings have been erected, and
in all parts of the city residences have
been built and are being built. The city |
has grown and is growing in all direc-
lions, and if the observer who knew it
five years ago, should visit here to-
day. he would scarcely recognize the city.
In the matter of street improvements
The city has made very decided progress
1t will make more in the next two years, |
as it has this year voted to issue bonds
to the amount Of 100000 for this pur-
pose.
''At no time in the history of the city |
has the volume of business in all branches |
been so great, and there is steady in |
crease. Wholesale houses are being es-
tablished, and the time is not far distant
when the city of Durham will have one or
more wholesale houses in all branches of
the mecantile business. With it's rail-
road facilities it offers large inducements |
to the Wholesale merchant.
I'm the matter of graded schools for the |
education of the children of the city. no
city in the State offers any better ad-
vantages, and l doubt If any city in the |
State offers advantages equal to the city |
of Durham.
THE outlook for the future of the city |
is very bright. and it is based upon the |
varied and successful experience of the
business men of the city
MR.. j. n. SOUTHGATE said: Durham |
is thirty years old and probably the young |
est among the prominent cities of the |
There has been a steady |