The news & observer., 1905-06-10

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as crowded as if they lived in cities.
the rule here and it is a good rule.
The men and women employed are not
set apart i'm their life as is often the
case. The children attend the public
schools and all belong to the same
churches. SO that the mill population
is not a separate class from the bal
ance of the community AS is sometimes
the case.
When other mills have failed TO pay
dividends this mill has regularly sent
good management. Nothing is wasted.
The mill gets it's water by electric
power from springs nearby. it makes
it's own electric light. 1t has its own
machine shop and all machinery Is
repaired here When a piece of ma
chinery gets to a point where repairs
are needed, the management does not
wait out makes the necessary repairs
right here, saving cost of sending to
some big machine shop and the freight
both ways. 1t is by such foresight
and such economies that dividends are
made. The mill is using wood now.
When wood gets high coal is used. 1t
is not dependent upon either.
Very near the mill is a beautiful
stretch of woods through which
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flowers bloom. 1t is the purpose of
the owners of the mill to convert that
sloping hillside along the brook into
park one of these days, and it will
make q lovely one.
The success of the cotton mill en-
couraged the people here to build
other factories and two years ago an
oil mill was put up by company of
which A. j. Barbour is president, r.
A. Wall secretary and treasurer. 1t
makes enough by paying no freight
almost to pay dividend. 1t gets all
its seed from the farmers who deliver
them at the mill. 1t sells all or nearly
all the product of the mill at its doors,
the farmers. 1t has been a great ad-
vantage and blessing to the town and
to the farmers in the surrounding
country.
The other manufacturing plants here
are two planning mills which do a
large business, a buggy factory, a
furniture factory and cotton gins.
The business of the factories and
the twenty y-five mercantile houses and
the farmers who live nearby demand
ed a bank to be the clearing house for
all the necessary business transactions
ana so the Bank of Clayton was or
gar.ized With Ashley Horne as presi-
dent and C. M. Thomas as cashier. 1t
has done we'll and is we'll managed.
Clayton's business houses embrace
some cf the strongest concerns in Cen
trail North Carolina, drawing business
from three counties. AS a business
centre and cotton market Clayton has
made mighty strides. 1t has doubled
it's population with.n Egc years and
is confident that it will continue to
grow The people have faith in
themselves. All the manufacturing es-
Establishments they have started have
succeeded we'll and it will be their
policy to invest all their surplus in en-
larging present factories and in erect
ing new ones gradually, and upon such
scale as will be within their ability
to control the stock and develop their
young men.
Clayton has not only prospered in
manufacturing and in business. but
1t has built up in the Clayton High
School a flourishing school that is a
credit to the town, as well as it's chief
pride. During the session just closed
the number of pupils enrolled was 240.
modern school building, in the CEN
ire of a large campus, costing over
$4,000, has been erected, and nearby
are dormitories that have this year ac-
cOnlmOdated something like fifty