The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-12
HUM Of INDUSTRY
Read This Letter and
Watch 1t vibrate.
Inc EtoWah MiIIs.--1he Sewerage
Systematic Wynne Building
How Greensboro is Push
ing Forward.
ing Forward.
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Greensboro. N. c., Aug. 11.-Mr. j.
= WSnne, of Raleigh, recently pur-
chased the corner on South Elm and
West Market streets, known as Gard
ners drug store. A contract has been
let for the erection of q new store and
office building, and the work of tear
ing down the old structure began TINS
morning. The new structure VIII
front on both streets and will be
modern building of brick. stone and
glass. Ihe first floor will be used by
Mr.. Wynne as a drug store, and the
upper floors will be utilized as offices.
Gardner who has occupied this stand
as n drug store so long, as to become
fixture in the city, and who has q
State reputation, has nearly com
pleted a new building one door suth
of Wynne'S purchase. on property he
purchased a month ago, and is moving
.n.o Z.
The last pipe of the eighteen miles
of sewer extension which Guild & Co.
sewer contractors. have been building
for the city, was laid this morning.
This winds UP the sewer work which
has been prosecuted with great vigor
for more than twelve months, and
gives to Greensboro. with the sewer
age already in use. perhaps the best
and most extensive system in the
State.
Rev J. r. McCulloch. editor and
publisher of Our Church Record
the Methodist Protestant church paper
in the State, will leave here September
LIST for Adrian. Ohio. where he will
become professor of mathematics
in the flourishing college. Rev. Mr..
McCulloch Will not move his family
for the present. He vii! retain his
III ,f..f.y I'm sF.Is
Record and the publication VIII be
continued. He was n professor in this
college about ten years ago. having
filed the position three years with evil
dent satisfaction and ability, as he
has had repeated calls since coming
back 10 North Carolina. to accept a
chair IN the faculty.
The Etowah Mills.
Mr.. w. I. Young, president and
treasurer of the FtOWah Mills and
other officers of the Corporation re-
Gently chartered by the State. with a
capitalization of one million dollars to
manufacture medium and fine cotton
fabrics at Greensboro, signed contracts
this morning for the erection of build
ingS. The contractors are the j. F..
CalliVan Building and Construction
Company, of Greenville, S. c.. and
Palmer, Mass. This company makes
a specially of constructing cotton
mills and the specifications Of the
buildings here call for the very latest
and most modern designs in factory
construction and architecture for con-
venience and economy Of equipment.
The main building TO be known as
Mill No /. will be 302X120 feet. a
basement and two stories above: Mill
No. 2 Will be two stories. 136x252 feet.
In addition to this will be a dye house
and q finishing house. built separately,
but connected with the main building,
each to be two stories. dimensions of
40X136 feet Another Building, the
engine and boiler room, 52X104 feet
is specified. and with this building a
smoke stack $50 feet high, calling for
a six foot draft, sufficient for 1000
horse power is. specified. The con-
tractors obligate to have these build
ings ready for machinery by February
first 1905 The cost Of the construc-
ton of these buildings alone is named
at 100000. but it is more than prob
able that changes and additions will
run it UP higher.
Cottages for tie Mills.
The contract for the construction
of cottages, warehouses, reservoirs, etc,
will be given out later, and proba bly,
to home contractors. These addition
al buildings will cost very near anoth-
er hundred thousand dollars. CALI
van &, Co, state that they will begin
work September 1st and will have 200
men on hand to do it, The Southern
Railway is putting in a spur track.
and it may not be completed by Sep
TENDER LIST. in which event. the con-
tractors will be delayed a few days in
getting material on the ground The
brick plant on the ground has made
about half a million brick. brt it has
been found that it cannot get them
ready fast enough. This brick making
will continue, getting ready another
million during the fall HedgecOck 81
Co, brick makers, have been engaged
to move their plant to Blues Creek, in
Stokes county, twenty miles distant
and will make q million and a half for
the contractors. The property on
which these great operations are go
ing on. is seventy acre tract West of
Lindley Park, two and one-half miles
out, and between the main line and
the Winston branch line of the South
ern Railway. The building of this
mill means at once an extension of
the street car line, another mile thus
putting it very nearer to Guilford Col
leme.