The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-08


places of business Of this kind here, and
In all of them are to be found an assort-
ment of dry goods, clothing, hats, shoes.
hardware, heavy and light groceries, no
tions, and in fact pretty full line of
all kinds of goods usually to be found,
and in demand by the trades
/ There are two drug stores: one owned
| by DR.. c. T. Sink the other by Drs. Cam
eron and Snyder. Both of these stores
carry all kinds of drugs, fancy articles
and smokers outfits.
Mr.. John A.. Paris is both the barber
and jeweer of the place. He will cut your
hair, neatly shave your face, and if your
watch needs repairing will give you a
good job and shave your pocket Also not
as clean as your face, though
! There are two hotels in Dillsboro The
Springs and The Arcade r. H. Jarrett
and Sons are proprietors of The Springs
and Messrs. Jones and Sisk of The
Arcade. These houses are pleasantly 10
Gated, surrounded by shade trees, and
erected on high elevations, and / know
what l am talking about when 1 say that
for something good to eat and a comfort
able room at either place you will have
no reason to complain. / have tried both.
Beside these hotels, Mrs. T.. J. Watkins
! has a delightful, neat boarding house,
situated on a high hill. She can accom-
modate as many as II to IA guests for
| 80 to $500 per week, and if you seek d
nice, quiet place, surrounded by a beauti
/ full mountain country, pure air and good
water, free from malaria, mosquitoes, and
hot weather, just try Dillsboro, and my
word for it, you viii be pleased.
There are three blacksmith and repair
shops here
Mr.. McDee Mason and Company have a
black walnut plant here and do a fine
business getting on strips Of from foot
to three feet in length and from about
| 2 to inches square. This timber is all
exported to foreign markets, and it brings
high price.
There are three churches here, Metho-
dist, Baptist and Presbyterian. Each has
well organized Sunday school SO as to
train up the young the way they should
go. Thtr, is no pay school here, but the
lice school fund is supplemented by sub
scriptlon, and the school is conducted from
seven to eight months. The school build
ing is Us, d as town hall aud school
room below. with the Masonc temple
above.
Running through the town from east
TO west and en'ptying into the beautiful
Tuckasegee River, which also flows
through portion of the town, Is Il hold
creek, furnishing horse power enough to
turn any amount of machinery, and as to
the water power of the Tuckasegee Qoc
the water power of the Tuckasegee, it is
almost unlimited. and has never been
most unlimited aud has never been
known TO fail any month in the year. 4
short distance from tl.C TaIlIoal track
there Is on the banks OF The river an old
grist mill soon &C be converted into an
up to dass roller mill with a capacity of
Sc barrels of flour per day. Mr. r. r.
Jarrett, of Dillsboro, and Mr.. H. s. Haw-
klns, OF Asheville, are the principal own
ers of this business. They are also going
to put in either a furniture factory plant
OF a knitting factory, and possibly both
| am told that at most any point along
the Tuckasegee from within one-quarter
OF mile from the town, with an Shoot
dam, as much as 500 or over horse power
can be had.
The tan-bark business is a big thing
here. The season lasts from about the
15th of May to October. The bark from
tliN NhScAnuls Odh bICG 10 ElIIDBtu ana
hauled in There will be during the sea-
son shipped to the tanneries and tanic
acid factories, in the neighborhood of 125
car loads of bark, II tons to the car. 1t
sells from the wagons at from $50 to
$500 per ton, and it is hauled in to Dills-
boro from distance of 4 to 20 miles. |
stopped all night with a farmer while on
a tramp from Franklin to Dillsboro He
told me that it took him Giving 10 miles
from Dilisboro), three days to strip and
deliver cord to the railroad.
This is the shipping point of the Harris
Clay Company, manufacturers OF Kaolin,
whose mines are miles distant, and said
to be the largest producing mines in the
United States. These people have now
been running steadily for the past four
teen years, and ship on an average OF one
car per day of 30 tons each This kaolin
is used by the potteries all over the
United States for making chinaware of
the very finest variety: also in the MAX
ing OF fancy thing for decorating purposes.
This company employ about $50 men. with
a payroll of about 81 900 per week. The
product of these mines is transported Ia
the railroad by means of a small railroad
with horse cars. Each of these cars hold
about two and one-half TONS Mr.. Charles
j. Harris is the president and principal
owner OF these mines, and has his main
office at Dillsboro. Mr.. Harris is a ma
tive of Connecticut, and has been in this
place from about 1890, and is a wide awake
and useful citizen to Dillsboro and sur
rounding section. He was, under McKin-
leys first administration. a member of
the Industrial Commission.
In addition to the large business of
this company he has at this place
manufacturing enterprise for the manu-
facture of locust insulator pins for tele-
graph and telephone use with a capacity
of 10000 pins per day. This enterprise Is
known as the Blue Ridge Locust Pin Com
pany and with its entire branches which
are scattered in several counties in North
Carolina manufactures large part of the
supply of the United States. Mr.. S. w
Enloe, who has been with these com
panies for the past eight years as book
keeper and cashier, has the entire control
OF the business affairs of the company
during the absenceNof Mr.. Harris.
While here / had the pleasure of re-
newing my long acquaintance OF Mr.
Joseph j. Hooker, the only resident law