The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-29
FURNITURE EMPORIUM.
High Point liz tho Wonder OF the Cen
tury--Its Marvellous Growth.

High Point TX tho Wonder of the Cen
tury--Its Marvellous Growth.
The grand old county OF Guilford
Inns another little city which is the
Wohoer OF the times. / am speaking
now Of High Point the furniture-mak
Ing emporium Of the South. The place
was named BY tho engineers who sur
Veyed the North Carolina Railway
now a link in the great Southern
Railway line, and they named Il bv
driving stake where the passenger
depot now stands simply TO mark the
niShest point between Goldsboro and
Charlotte. 1t became a station and then
q little country village. TWENTY years
so there was small tobacco factory
~ inc place, also a smaller cotton fac
tory. planning mill or two and sew
erai stores, with a real good old conn
Try MOTEL In 1892 a man, attracted hy
the magnificent timber to be found
NEARBY. bui!t and commenced to oper-
ate furniture factory Within year
another man did The same thing and
tnen another and set another. Fac
toraes or various kinds followed in
rama succession, and they are sttll
gong there, and to-day High Point *
one a mong the hest known towns IN
al the Southland. This is due ~
course. TO the fact that the sixty-fye
factories which are TO-DAY TURNING oI,t
larger plants in the main and are
greater IN number than those or any
other southern town, and then ,ha
products Of these gigantic plants are
shipped TO all of tho markets Of ,bo
Tour quarters Of the globe. Thus Il
comes about that from a small be
s 'S lew years ago High Point
mas grown to be manufa ctu,.inn
centre on which it may be said the
eyes OF the world are now turned.
Varied Manufactures, Etc.
a majority OF the sixty five factorics
IN Hlsh Poin, turn out furniture or
something directly related to furniture
.tiiu 'hat is why 1t has been dubbed
me furniture emporium of the South.
~ me wood- working factories make
everything from railway cars down 10
toothpicks. including all kinds ~
household and office and schoolroom
furniture, bngg!es and carriages shoe
cases, hubs and handles and smokes
coihns and Baskets. shuttle blocks
Wheeis, trolley cars, wagons, cts etc'
Hcn tnere are paint works. overall
Iaclories, ice factories. brick making
plants, cotton factory, paper and
twlne factory and foundrics and IRON
"orklng establishments There ara
also newspapers and job printing
SHOPS and splendid hotels and the
town has new and first class water
supply, the water works having cost q
great aeai OF money, the modern filtra-
non plant alone costing 100000 The
Town has five banks, one national AMI
!our State institutions Another ma
aional bhnk Is now being organized
and capitalized.
4 New County Coming.
MAYOR Fred Tate, with whom I had
quite chat the other day, is very
proud Of High Points census showing
me clty's present population is s.7G5
when Is gain Of IT. per cent. since
.soo, and the town has not extended
its limits IN nifty years. in fact. has
never extended them II is now lust
exactly as 1t was when first laid off,
containing four square miles The
mayor told me that High Points per
cchtasc OF increase in the decade is
Ereater by far than that OF any city
or town in the state that has not in
creased It's territory. and greater than
that of any that did annex outlying