The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-05
DEVELOPMENT IN
NORTH CAROLINA
Industrial Brieflets From All
Parts of the Statehood
Business Everywhere.


rolina. ike those of Southwest Virginia,
are becoming strong on cattle raising.
The Marshall News-Record estimates
that already this season a quarter OF
have been shipped from that region,
and the shipping season is not yet
more than half over The News Rec
ord says. further: Haywood county
furnishes the greatest number Of the
stock for the Northern and Eastern
markets from this section. and there
Will be approximately 200 carloads
shipped from that county alone These
estimates are founded upon actual fg-
ures already in hand. and if anything.
DO not do justice to the cattle raising
industry in THIS section"
The prohibition laws Of North Caro-
lima. while forbidding the whiskey dis
tilery. allow the 'run..ing Of the wine
press. and the Charlotte Observer has
discovered that Il f. almost as i'm
portant industrial institution as the
cotton press The difference is that its
operations are. confined 10 a LIMITED
area One winery alone in Wilmington
consumed last year ha-f million BUSH
els OF scuppernong grapes. and hfth
AZ many blsckberries. and that is only
one Of numerous similar establish
ments in the state
t. Mcbanc. one Of the most pros
porous ana hrstling towns of the state.
the year 1912 viii leave a record Of
marked development in. commercial IN
dustrial and farm lines OF eDdeavor.
Better still. Mebane looks forward 70
an even greater expansion OF its Va
ried industries during the year 1919
addition OF two manufacturing plants
10 the already long list being assured
The new Union Depot in Wilmington
is 10 be a ten-story building. affordinS
arnpie ONCE room for all OF the de-
partrnents OF the railways centering
there.
Salem is another town that
is 70 have "A new post-oftice building
This good year.
Lexington capitalists are 20 erect and
EQUIP ne wcotton factory this year
work upon which IS to begin in early
spring
\ Winstou-Salem paper figures out
that nearly TWO new buildings per day
for every working day in the year was
tne record made BY the hyphenated
GOWN in 1912.
Rv rolling NJ q granl total OF slso.-
sf5ss. the Chaflottee post-oftice in lsi :
forged ahead Of all It's previous rec
ords by the neat margin Of sl2,5l9IS
The figures FOR 1911 were sl54,2ssZ0-
The year just gone was good one
for Salisbury. IN fact. II was the
best in the city's history Hundreds OF
privaf. reside noes have. been efeetcs.
business houses built and handsome
courthouse begun
The location Of the proposed new
road. the virginia and Eastern Caso-
lima. from Henderson 10 either wilson
or Rock Mount will be finished within
tho next sixty days. The route VIII
be by either Louisburg and spring
Hone or Castalia and Nashville. Bias
for the construction OF the road VIII
be received in sixty days
The fisheries convention recently
held at Washington. y c. Under 'he
auspices Of the North Carolina FISH
cries Association. recommended to the
General Assembly of 1913 the passage
OF IN act 10 establish a commission
for the protection OF fisheries IN the
state. The counties represented al the
were Beaufort, Brunswich'
Carteret. Chowan, Craven. CurritSch'
Dare. Edgecombe. Hyde, Orange. Pam
leo. Pasquotank. Perquimans and Pitt
The Dacotah Mills. Lexington. y u
will build an addition and install new
warping and spinning frames ana
equip for an additional mill OF e
900 spindIes and 500 looms, TO cost
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