The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-05

HENDERSONV|LLE

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Editor Manufacturers Record:
We have grown from q town of aboue
1900 to about 5000 in the last four years.
Most of our buildings are new and of neat
and pretty design.
Henderson county is rich in natural re-
sources. It is fine farming country
raising almost all the necessities of life.
It is good stock-raising country, has
fine water-powers, and the finest climate
on earth. Our summers are cool and pleas
ant. our winters mild and dry. The rural
population are industrious and progressive
This makes the business of the town steadi-
~ increase. We now have in prospect
the establishment of cotton factory, .
furniture factory and broom factory; q
wagon factory and an organ factory is be-
ing talked of by some of our more pro-
gressive citizens. We have the raw ma
terial right at our doors for all of these in
dustries except the cotton factory, and we
are only l5 miles from the cotton fields.
We have the labor here; in fact, we have
been furnishing most of the labor for the
the cotton mills of the Piedmont section
ever since they have been in operation,
and we have now decided that it will be
better for us and them also to furnish them
the work at home. Besides these indus
tries, some of which will be put in opera
ton this spring, we are going to begin
the work ON the electric railroad from here
to Gaffney, 8. c.. within the next go days.
But one of the best resources of this
country, aud especially of this town, is the
steadily increasing tourist business. Before
the days of railroads in this country some
of the weather. people of Charleston. S. c.,
found out that we had the finest summer
climate on earth. The next year they
brought a. few of their friends, who were
more than delighted and convinced of the
truth of the statement, and they, in turn,
brought aSfew of theirs, and 30 on and on
IN ever-increasing ratio we have built up
our summer business, not knowing what
we had until few years ago. We then
built summer hotel, and it paid 80 we'll
that we soon had the second and then the
third, and now we have the best hotel
accommodations of any place of its SIZE In
the South.
Our crowd has increased each year until
last year we had more than 10000 people
in the town of Hendersonville from May
to October 1. by actual count, and not by
guess. There was probably 5000 in the
country around who were not counted in
this.
A very conservative estimate of the
amount OF money left in this county by
this travel for the necessary expenses has
put it above $5OO,O0O. Besides this, many
have bought homes in the town and eoun-
try and others have bought property and
built on it, and yet others have bought and
will build
We have people living here from every
state in the Union. We not only have
fine country, rich in natural resources and
natural beauty, but we have good social
advantages, good schools, good churches
and good citizenship. We nave good
railroad facilities, and will soon have bet
ter. We are easy of access to the outside
world.
Mr.. J. II. Jordan, one of our contrac-
tors. told me this morning that he had on
hand now for construction two new resi-
dences to cost $4,000 each, one to cost
$500, one to cost $4,000, and an improve
ment tc cost $4,000 Besides these, he has
several small jobs. He is only one OF sew
eraJ who are just as busy as ne. Anyone
who has not seen the progress made in the
last three years would be astounded. 1t
ia one Of the growing towns OF the growing
South. There has been over $2OO.OOO
worth of real estate changed hands here in
the last IL months, and there is every indi-
cation of unprecedented activity in every
line of activity here this year.
We have some of the best water-powers
in the South near here, which, when they
are developed, will furnish power 70 run
all the industries necessary to make this one
Iof the best industrial towns in the South.
We also have valuable mines and timber
LANDS TO furnish the raw mater lal. AL we
need now is for few more of those who
are hunting investments or hemes to come
to us. w. a. dARLALD'