The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-10
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1911.
A FINE COMBINATION OF -rIGGERso

they mean how they happened to be
placed in that order. where they came
from and how they ever got together
In just that position. They are not
historical. they will not remind any
one that Mr.. Bryan was hl'y years
old last March year ago, or that
Yucatan was discovered by Francis
Fernando Cordova in 1oli, or that
iceland was ono of the thirteen
provinces which formed the League of
Utrecht in 1879. or the birthday of
Emilio del Cavalicre, the famous mu-
steal composer, in 1850. The figures do
not mean anything like any OF these
thin gs-they only mean that the City
OF Winston Salem Is to have nifty thou
sand population in 1915; only that and
nothing more, and that Il will succeed
in It's ambitious cndcavor We have not
the least doubt. Why not? In 1880.
its population was 4.la4; in 1900. It was
1850. and In 1910. It's population was
22,7Oo. Since the Census was taken
in 1910, the corporal, limits of the
now estimated that the population
inside of tho town limits and the pop
ulation served by the city post Office
is S2.S5o.
There is every reason why Winston
salem should continue TO grow. Look
a; these figures: y gain in the tax
valuation of Winston Salem from ST..
l6eS62 in 1900 to Sl3,247s04 in 1911:
a gain In the value OF manufactured
products from SiS.o00,00o in 1900 to
ufacturing and johbing business from
10000. 900 in 1900 TO siv.pej 900 in
1911: gain IN banking capital and
surplus from ssoJ. 800 in 1900 to S2,267.
o6o in 1911; gain in the payroll of
the manufacturers of 81 ,95o.OO in 1900
To si.50u,0o0 in 1911. gain in tho
number of hands employed in tho fac
tories from $3.50 in 1900 TO 1900 in
1871: gain in the post-oiiice receipts
from S45,06i i'll 1900 to S94.Sl7 in 1871;
a gain IN the number of statesmen
travelling for Winston Salem manu-
facturers and jobbers from l67 in 1900
10 5ll in 1911. There are l35 facto-
ries in Winston salem whose products
OF S33.000000. There arc ~ wholesale
and commission houses there whose
business last year reached s7,Ooo,OoO.
is IL any wonder that the progressive
people OF that town have determined
that it shall have 5000 population
in 1915? But for the fact that they
are conservative in spite OF their pro-
gressiveness, we should marvel at
their modeaE- in view of what they
have accampU she'd when nobody was
looking. When the Richmond Boosters
were down there last week they were
Impressed by the wonderful prosperity
Of the place, OF which there were album
dant signs on every side. and when
they were told that Winston salem
ranked NTH in the per capita wealth
Of It's people they We're all the more
impressed with the greatness of the
town and the splendid character OF
Its people. They were most Impressed.
however. 10y the team work of its
people shown By SIS board of trade,
which had total membership OF lGs
in October. 1910. and on December
rs. 1910, a membership OF eco stalwart
workers and shouters for their city.
That is the spirit that is bound to win.
IT must not be understood how
ever. thnt Winston salem is the
only thriving city in North Carolina
There are Greensboro. and High Point
and Thomasvillc, and Salisbury ana
Charlotte. and Raleigh and a score OF
TWO of other places IN! Boosters did
not reach, OF which something vii
have TO he said before the story ha.
been finished, great towns filed win
a great people who think well of them.
selves, but none too well, ana that ar,
attracting 10 themselves new peopl,
and new Industries every year, ina
make nearly everything they need anc
that are disposed to set the rest III
their best ncighboriug town. this i'm
periHl CITY on tn. Iatn.s