The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-16
i R1AM THE, CITY WITH
THE WORLD FOR ITS MARKET
Products Sold in Every Quarter of the Globe-Pay Roll
More than Quarter of Million a>Month-- Supported
Largely on Its Own Resources.

made it what ii is are just as potent
now as ever, while the men who are
doing things are increasing their capi-
tai every day, and that means they
have more powerful instrument for
further progress. The big tobacco
factory came because the little fac
tory was profitable enough to build
the big one The cotton mills came
because the big tobacco factories
made money enough to build the cot
ton mills. The modern big buildings
OF Durham are coming because the
factories and mills are earning money
that the Durham people want 20 in
vest in something else, and this thing
is going on, and increasing with every
new investment and every additional
dividend. 1t will take a mighty sin
| gular combination Of circumstances
and a mighty ingenious scheme on
| the part Of the people III control Of
| things to keep Durham from moving
along at its proper gait, which gait is
not an exciting one, yet one that is
| good for pretty fast company.
/ Figuring Out Durham's Future.
Here is how I figure out the future
| of Durham. Day by day the world
| calls for more cotton and more to-
| bacco products. The cotton mills OF
| Durham stand not only as good a
chance to thrive as the other cotton
| mills of North Carolina, but they have
this one advantage over all other mills
they are engaged with other pro
| ducts in the manufacture Of line
| Of goods used by the tobacco factO
ries, and the mill that makes tobacco
sacks is certain to increase it's outpu
and to have permanent marke
while tobacco is made here and solo
in cotton sacks. With all the advan
tages Of other sections Durham cal
manufacture for the general trad
when any other place can. With
peculiar inside in it's market Of it
specialties it can manufacture a
times when others can not.
With tobacco it is a little different
Durham has practical monopoly
Durham is built on the excellence Q
the bright leaf tobacco, which is mad
successfully only in North Caroline
: The bright leaf tobacco has made tn
: cigarette and the granulated pipe to
bacco trade.
few figures will show what a re
markable manufacturing town Du1
ham is. The census of 1910 credit
the factories Of Durham with pro
duct valued at $23.271, 900. Durha1
is given q population of 1924 by tn
same census. That is an average {
s1,270 for every person in the cit,
). big, little, white, black, and all. Th
l average in PittSburg, one of the fore
most manufacturing places of the Un
0 ted States is $4S6. Birmingham, tI
+ Alabama city Of 132,6S5 people, pr(
o duces s24,12S,000 in it's factories, {
slightly more than Durham, althoug
> birmingham is more than seven tim
g the size of Durham. Oakland, Cal
It fornia, with 10000 people, produce
e little less in it's factories than Du
ham, and Atlanta, with $4,000 Pc
pie. produces not quite a half mo-
than Durham's 1924 people.
: I find in looking over the cens
If figures that the other places that pr
g duce manufactures to the value
le about what Durham makes are tow
Is that run from about 10000 people
g to 100000 or more. And this propO
j. ton holds good North, South, Ea
j. and West 1 have looked the Gems
at figures over rather carefully, and
t. far as [ have been able to detect Du
m ham has not another town in it's ella
l. in the production of manufacture
re goods by a city of its population.
t. It begins to be apparent that Du
it ham has been doing something.
lg Where Did Durham Commence?
~ How long has this thing been goi
u on?
in That depends on where you begin
le figure from Up in Potter coun
n Pennsylvania, have stood on the t
OF a hill and looked down lit
n | spring branch which is the head
nc the Susquehanna river flowing into t
OF | Atlantic ocean From tn eaSme SpO
ne could look down another little vail
he dovr,, which flows the Gennesee riH
Id into Lake Ontario and out the
zig lawrence From the same place
hit
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