The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-06-11
HustIing Town Now Has
Seventy Factories
GROWT is SUBSTANTIAL
Home Talent and Home Capital Al
most Exclusively Employed In the
Jpbuilding of The Second Largest
Furniture Center in The World.
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fflgh Point. June S.-Iiigh Point,
midway between Atlanta and Wash
ingtOn, in twenty years has increased
from 500 to $4,000 people. This has
not been due to the raising of to-
baccO, which has been such a source
OF wealth to nue. of this Piedmont
section, nor to the discovery Of oil,
nor to the development of mining. 1t
is the result solely Of manufacturing.
and the town is today the second
greatest furniture manufacturing cen
ter in the world. Seventy factories,
hfteen churches, four public school
buildings, five banks, and t~Wenty-four
passenger trains daily are small parts
of the story. When twenty years ago,
three young men put their money into
a rough frame building and filled it
with saws, planners, and sand-paper-
ing machines, conservative neighbors
thought they were foolish. But they
had confidence in their undertaking,
the future was kind, and success was
assured. Then followed, and there
continues to follow, venture after Ven
ture.
The advantage which High Point
has over other manufacturing towns
is the variety Of articles manufac-
tured. This fact is appreciated by
bOth small and large buyers. 1t is
convenient for the latter to have a
market from which he may procure
all that he needs at once from the
same shipping point, and Tor the for
mer to have the advantage of mixed
cars. Such a condition greatly en-
hanceS prOmptneSS and freight rates.
This fact, together with the estab-
lished reputation for reliability of
goods, fills the High Point market
with dealers the whole year, and has
1,.I -oo.1 -1~-
ments.
Market Spreads.
AT first this market confined itself
almost entirely to the South, but as
manufacturing interests grew orders
poured in from every section of the
East and West, from New York to
California, and from Chicago tC
Texas. In addition to this, ordersa are
received from South America and Eu-
rope and hin
One unique feature Of this nan
featuring is that home talent and
home capital are chiefly employed
The spirit Of manufacture has beer
instilled into its citizens. Merchant
physician, lawyer, preacher. all have
stock, many Of them important eXecu
tive positions, in the new and grow
ing factories. Young men In the shop
cOunting-room, or on the farm, lOol
: forward to the time when they viii
have sufficient money saved to TAX
l stock in some factory.
But aside from furniture, there ar
manufactured baskets, engines, shirts
s trousers, collins, buggies, mattresses
bobbins, shuttles, trunks, tobacco
g street cars, show cases, paints, wheels
: silk, and, to demonstrate that Hlgi
Point is not peculiar in its variety,
f large cotton mill suddenly doomed u
his spring on the western horizon Q
the town.
6 Piedmont Railroad
The Piedmont railroad extending
+ from brownsville to Denton n eStl
6 mated as worth about 100000. wa
bought last week by the ". n. Cole
Company Of New York. The purchas
includes twenty miles Of road, two 10
cOmOtiVeS, and rOlHng STOCK common
surate therewith~ In former year
Z the road was projected to High Poin
and graded part Of the distance bu
)f was never finished. Since the Cole
interests now have the matter IN nan
it is said the road will be connecte
with the Southern railway on IN
south and extended to High Point Q
the north.
.e New Gas Plant.
L These same Coler people also haN
- the contract to put in the High Polf
le Gas plant. and with this IN view, the
are moving their Salisbury branch OF
le flee here. While the citizens Of III
y, town nave for some years enJoye
electric lights and street cars, the
- have never had the pleasure of+reat
ing cook with gas signs at ever
corner. The h~ousekeepers are elate
- over the prospect.
- In the heart Of High Point score
- Of hands are busy joining the ne
"a street car line to the Main street lin
The connection is at the corner
Main and East Commerce in front
the new government building, viii
1t the new line which is to be ready I,
70 ears in thirty days is to follow Con
lie nerce street. Hamilton avenue, ar
pc East Green, to the territory east
the silk mills.