The Greensboro patriot [December 23, 1887]

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1 SI V1U ISIII.l, |H (Ma , M:»M:mi:h,vo.,.«n ) GREENSBORO, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1887. fZ. W. WIIlTEllK.%D.Edllor# ProprifIti.
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Timber
14 1,1 I la-lil liur the
UapllOl all
an impromptu speech before his
fellow citizens said : i saw, during
my trip, n country upon which the
Almighty lias with most lavish
band bestowed ilis Holiest material
gifts. It is gorged with every
Especially of
i, because, as it is
ol Virginia, poverty
has driven hundreds of thou.amis
ol bei native oitizeus into exile.
v.. fi ie I-. >■' irth I iarolina is the
md richest portion
LtADIMG INDUSTRIES. 0| ,rtl •""«' »"* -*
iavi rer rested.
Von know that she product
ton, rice, indigo, tar, pitch, turpen-ind
superior timber. That
: as the Rip Van
if the l.'iiion, whose native
ortueof fionworth,
thence. The
vineyards of West
ern Pennsylvania, and around the
on the islands ofLake
n I those scattered through
■ : cuttiogs taken
the native vines of North
na—the Catawba, the Lin-coin,
the Isabella, and richer than
all, the Scn| . if which, as
it has nol -1 • been successfully
mti d, Eastern North Caro-lina
has the monoply. There it
spontaneously as a weed.
The woods and hill sides teem
with the richest honey-bearing
-. and the bees invite you to
put up a rude box, thai they may
reward your kindness with the
Bweetcst treasure. There is not a
pn luce that will not
thrive in North Carolina: and as I
traveled through this native wealth
and beauty I saw how sin had
drii "u ma it of Paradise.
; i ROAD FACILITIES.
The impoi tanc • of Gn euaboroas
a railroad centre lias not attracted
that general notice it really
or had its citizens
bei II given to sell assertion.
i et map will show that rail-roads
run from it in six directions.
! chmond .x Danville pursues
th and northeasterly course
to I... nchbnrg and to tidewater;
the North Carolina road runs doe
igb n chain of growing
towns to Kaleigb, and south to
mry aud Charlotte : the Yad-kin
Valley road has opened op a
fertile and richly endowed country
betv eei i y and
. . ol navig ition on the
and is extending
ile rapidity
da bor-railroad
to
i
US towns di-
Greensboro. Con-ns
are made ! I Uese -
roads with all the transportation
• ite, and with
such i . shipping to
ivilized
.did openings
'.i i ndo
I,such as cotton and
; foundries .ml ma-i
chain aud plow woi i--.
. stories:
l»u '.ei fuel ! ies, chair.
If AMERICA.
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lit. Male.
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-. ..; shoe, irillon wan . furniture, gun
GREENS
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place is from the flue timber forests
tributary to Greeusboro and is al-ways
in demand. This liue of bus-iness
is successfully carried on here
bj the Greensboro Sash and Blind
Company, Wharton, Uuut it Co.,
Brooks & Love, Davis, Wainuiau
i: Co., and Thos. Woodroffe & Sous.
During this year the Greensboro
Shsh and Blind Company has ban
died about 3,500,000 feet of lumber
and controlled about $30,000giving
employ ment to from 'JO to 25 hands
daily all the year round. Whar-ton,
Hunt & Co. have handled
about 1,-00,000 feet of lumber aud
controlled about $10,000 to $20,000,
giving employment to some 12 or 15
hands.
Brooks ,'i l.ove have handled be-tween
2,000,000 and 3,000,000 feet
of lumber and controlled something
near $30,000, giving employment
to about 10 hands. Davis, Wain-man
have their mills located in
Randolph,but transact the business
of the lirm here where they make
their headquarters. This lirm has
handled about 3,000,000 feet of
lumber aud controlled about $0O;-
000giving employment to 30 hands.
Thos. Woodroffe & Sons havo han-dled
and consumed probably 1,500,-
000 feet of lumber. Mr. Woodroffe
says he isdoingsplcudidly and has
not lost fifty dollars during the
year; has no complaint to make
against any one This firm em-ploys
from 10 to 80 hands, all the
year round.
GEEENijBOBO'S BIO TRADE FACTOR
The Cape Tear & Vailkin Valley
rail road is and must be for a long
time to come the principal factor in
increasing the business and pros-perity
of Greensboro, aud to the
untiring and zealous, heroic M d
manly efforts of Julius A. Gray,
the very efficient President, and
J.W.Fry.Gun. Superintendent, this
great line ot railway, the people of
Greensboro and generations yet to
conio are duo a lasting debt of
gratitude. ....
In fact, the officers of this road,
one and all, have displayed a dis
position to build up cities and
towns along its line that has gain
ed the confidence aud esteem of all
mankind.
This road runs from Payetteville
to this point, and thence to the
Virginia line, where the C. P. .X V.
V. meets the Norfolk ei Western
Julius A Gray, D W C Benbow,
Greensboro; Eugene Morehead,
Durham; Robert T Gray, Raleigh;
Jno D Williams, E J Lilly, Fay-ettcville.
AGRICULTURAL HORTICULTURE.
The opportunity tor engaging in
mixed agriculture, in daryiug, in
poultry growing amd fruit raising
in the country surrounding Greens
boro are many and good. Unlike
most other towns in these parts,
our trade is not dependent upon
any one staple, a failure pf which
always brings depression, tight
money aud 'hard times,' but we
havo a groat diversity of produc-tions
and small industries, yielding
revenue every day in the year, so
tint the failure of any ouo crop
does not materially affect the busi-ness
interests of the city.
The nursery business of Guil-ford
county, sale of fruit trees aud
green anJ dried fruit has brought
an immense amount of mouey into
the county within the last twenty
years, and quite a number of men
havo made independent fortunes
in this business alone.
The manufacture of spokes,
handles, carriage material, shuttle
blocks, bobbins, etc., has given
employment to a great number of
men, and created a market for
white oak, hickory, dogwood, per-simmon
and other hard woods,
which were only valuable as fire
wood before the war.
Tho truckiug and poultry trade
has attained immense proportions,
the daily shipments to loreigu
markets—we mean the markets of
other States—brings thousands of
dollars of revenue to the producers,
dealers aud transportation com-panies.
COMMERCIAL.
Greensboro has very nearly 150
business houses, wholesale aud re
tail. These with our foundries and
machine shops, onr saw and plan
ing mills, tobacco factories, ware-houses,
spoke aud handle factories
and various other enterprises, do
an annual business of nioro than
$30,000,000. The territory tribu-tary
to the trade of Greensboro is
the whole ot Guilford county, a
large portion of Alaniance, Ran
dolph, Chatham, Moore, Mont-gomery,
Davidson, Forsytb, Rock-ingham
and Stokes; and as the C.
material aud lumber repository 10
x40.
Wharton, Hunt & Co., steam dry
proprietors say the pig iron can bo, son is au old hhiid at tho business
produced here, with limestone at and never allows a pile ot tobacco
Germautonandcoalat WalnutCove go off for less than its full value.
for less money than at Birmingham. j A Bailey & Co. buy largely all the' kiln 3Gx40.
We too have very valuable iron year round, and pay the highest; Brooks & love, lumber aud buil-ore
in this county and situated on I market prices for all grades, jders' material manufactory 48xl2o.
the line of railway centering here.' U C Berger is always on the
We havo also some valuable gold j lookout for good fillers and could
mines in this county. The Fisher, buy twice as many more. I'ncle
Hall, seven miles south of this Jack Tatum comes in for all sorts.
place, is now, and has been for
nearly two years, worked very
profitably. It and others were
successfully operated before the
war.
The coal fields at Deep river,
fity miles south of this poiut, also
on the C. F. & V. V. Railroad near
Ore Hill, South of us and Walnut
Cove on North, is being operated,
aud is produciug ...;.il Stud to be
equal to the Focahontas mines for
steam and much superior to that
coal for gas. The coal fields in aud
around Walnut Cove are being de-veloped
and some very rare and
rich veins of coal are bciug discov-ered,
much more than was at first
anticipated.
The niinci.il resources of the
county adjacent to Greensboro are
practically uuexhaustible, being lo-cated
within the territory embraced
by the richest miueral district in
the Carolina's aud commands tho
great fields of brown hematite ores,
on which the great aud successful
manufacture of iron must in the
end depend for quality aud profit
in every branch of the most skill
full and best manufacturers of iron
and steele. The uplands are adap-ted
to the growth of wheat, corn,
rye, buckwheat, oats, potatoes, to-bacco,
and aud almost every vege-table
grown in the Southern States.
with small fruit in profusion. Verily
Greensboro is the land of milk
aud honey, the apple, the peach,
the fig and proinegranate, all of
which grow and prosper in open
fields and under the most artless
culture.
GBEENSBOBO AS A TOBACCO MAE
KET.
It is a well authenticated fact
that no branch of industry has
grown more rapidly into import-ance
iu this city and Guilford coun-ty
within the past three years than
has tobacco. This is due to some
extent to the fact that our geo-graphical
situation renders the
Greensboro tobacco market more
warehousemen, industrious and
energetic leaf dealers and mauufae
Hirers have contributed their pro-portionate
share. Considering the
I", it V. V. Railway advances
and then forma a connecting line, »««tward "'« counties of Surry, accessible to the great tobacco pro
Vadkiu, Wilkes, Alleghany and|ducing counties, yet our active
Ashe will find. Greensboro their
most accessible trade centre. To
reap the benefits ol all these nat
mat advantages, we have a young,
active aud progressive set of busi-ness
men, full of energy, push and
elasticity, yet conservative, caretul
and thoughtful in their deliber-ations.
Our busiucss houses are,
almost without exception, sound
and healthy. They are generally
based upon the actsal capital of
|their proprietors, managed with
King & Co., I'cgram & Co. and W
A Fields & Co. manufacturer large
ly and buy all their stock here. W
A Day pays tip top prices for all
smokers and scraps he can get and
then don't get enough. Add to all
these a number of speculators and
Dr C M Glenn, dwelling 30.\C3,
two stories all round, 11 rooms.
/. W Whituhead, dwelling 1GX3O,
two stories, with wing 23x10. and
I, 14x28,8 rooms.
Joseph Albright, dwelling lOx
30, two stories, with I. 14,30, 7
rooms.
W J Ridge, dwcling, 31xlS,two
stories, with L 12x34,1! rooms.
W A Hayes, dwelling lGx3fi, with
warehousemen who are always on ' L 12x32, 4 rooms.
hand when tobacco is moving, and i Derastu* Lewis, dwelling 10x36,
it aggregates a force that can ban j two stories, with L 14x22, 0 rooms.
die all grades and in unlimited A Hagan, three dwellings jach
quantity. The outlook for the com-!lfix3o, with L 14x10.
ing season is Uattering. Crops in I "Cndc Sam" I'nited States court
this section art fine, tho ware house and postoffloe, three stories.
houses and buyers are ready for Hendrix Bros.brick store 25xloo,
business, and if the tobacco year three stories.
r, tobacc
fa rics; and wood
uts of i
i short time the
;. i- grow n
giving Greensboro a direct outlet
to Chicago. St. Louis, New Yolk,
Philadelphia and other Northern
and Westetn market.-.. Trains are
regularly running between this
place and Pilot Mountain over this
line and the road is graded to
within six miles of Mt. Airy,
through a section of country that
had no railroad faculties until its
advent. Since March 1st, 1883,
lave been constructed at and
around its stations (outside of tho
larger town- 8,966 buildings, when
were but Till before. Ol
• iere are 503 new residences,
20 new churches, 6 new academies,
is new schools, and 4 new graded
Bel ';-. In the same region 211
new industrial enterprises have
been started, also 121 stores, 29
warehouses, 12 hotels, 2 banks, 5
newspapers, and 13 tobacco prize
hi nsi -.
Six months ago there were on
holds out as well as it has thus far
it can be safely estimated that
Greensboro will sell four million
live hundred thousand pouuds of
leal" tobacco this season. Tobacco
sold here last week from Monday
morning till Saturday all the way
from fitly cents to one dollar per
pound, though prices were ex-tremely
high all this week.
OFFICEBS GBEENSBOBO TOBACCO
ASSOCIATION,
The officers of the Greensboro
Tobacco Association as elected at
the last annual meeting are :
J F Jordan, President.
H W Cobb, Vice ••
II C Berger, Secretary.
J II Whitt, as't. '•
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
M C Patterson, \\ R Land, and
G II MclCinney.
SAI.ES COMMITTEE.
510 Patterson. G II McKiimey,
and A Bailey.
KAOLINS AND PIBE CLAYS.
This valuable substance has been
discovered in large and almost in-exhaustible
quantities at West
Green, near the city, and the de-posit
is being extensively worked
by the Pomona Terra Cotta Co.
This company was organized about
two years ago, with .V M Smiih
President, and J. Van Lindley
Secretary and Treasurer, and bids
fair to become one of the leading in-dustries
ol'this section. The com-pany
i« turning out nor!, today
that is far superior in many re-spects
to the tile and sewer pipes
made in the New England States.
TBE DAWN OF I NEW EB \.
The year 1887 has been an event
length of time Greensboro has been ' fnl one lor Greensboro, and one
interested in building up a tobacco marked and distinguished for rapid
market, she has made more real strides of progress, in many re
and permanent advancement than
any town in the Carolina* ami Vir
spects. eclipsing by far the most
sanguine expectations of her cili
ginias. From the tobacco year zens. Only last April the citizens
which commences Oct. 1st,'S4 and of Greensboro with almost one
end ending Sept. 30, 'S5, about 800,.
000 pounds of leaf tobacco WAS sold
conservatism and borrow very lit- jon this market. From Oct. 1st. '85
tie money, and this little on short' t„ Sept. 30th, '86, 2,200,000 pounds
time. They keep good bank ac- were sold, showing an increase of
counts and meet their obligations 1,400.000 ponnds within one year,
promptly. Some of our merchants Duringthotobaccoyearof "s7. when
do quite a large jobbing business,! the crop was short and inferior.
voice vi.-ed to issue bonds to the
amount of $100,000 for internal
improvements. This gladcncd the
hearts of our people and they went
to work with renewed zeal to give
tho town a boom. The establish-ment
of an electric ligh.t plant soon
followed: the right-away for a
as well as retail business, and their I endinglastSeptember30th, Greens- street railway system; the estab
the line ol the ' I . «x \ . \ . onlv
line "i industry, ,. ... . .,
27 saw mills; to-day there are UJ,
Stores present as handsome appear
ance as any to be found South of
Baltimore.
OUR EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES.
We venture the assertion that no
■ town or county in this, or any of
"- '1""li also"l8^ttoVVictorics"Vh-u^no'w'iH,-i"i,li,'i; state8',,"•,,etterefl,,0•■ •'''• wuieh is hiSu|y indicative oflizationof a joint stock company
r i li • tl '■ C V x-VVindbv the ''"""' facilities than Greensboro the fact that the day is not far dis- with a capital stock of live hundred
I'hi manufacturing industries al- ': _ ; . _ 1MO /u_ _, | and Guilford county. For instance taut when Greensboro will be one thousand dollars, with headquar-borosold
something over 3,000,0001lishment of a Five Cent Savings
pounds. This wonderful increase IBank, the building ofa fine $15,000
in a short period of time spread all I graded school house, the perfetion
over the country and buyers from j of all arrangements for the early
Durham. Danville, Richmond, constitution of water works and a
Winston and elsewhere came thith- system of sewerage, and the organ-i
»f pure
i
all lh.n
l
- foundry and machine
plow and stove
.: . .
;. ahall .x Ci.'.- Sash and
Blind factory.
lo, ■.',- ,x Lovi - S ish and Blind
\V]i . .x Co.'s lumber
and builders material mills.
McM - ike, Rim and I tau-dle
F.ic
The North Carolina Coach Ma-'
1 omp m; .
r.iei nsboro Mattrasa Factor]
(ii.-. - . ('mdy Co.
In ffi - Luuilx r mills.
Tar lli e! I.iuiuieut Co.
Five plug tobacco factories.
Ie ii tobacco factoi ies.
.1 1< Hall's . igai factor].
tories.
first of January, 1888, the number,
ill and profitable opera- • ' . ',
, I am told, will be surelv increased
to twenty. By June 1888 tne lege for ladies, known tar and wide,
, '.,, , . , , ,, ,,; with an average attendance of 150
number will lie increased double all ...„.,
around.a.s.the road. wi.l.l.,have reach, - 'pup' ils,' the Oak Brid.ge.In.stl-
. , ,, : tute. one of the most tboroughly
ed its terminal point. Everyone 7 " ,
of these late improvements taw Mf^ "'" T "lu™ 2
added to the trade of Greensboro.! 8obo°1 throaguont ",0 Wldth aml
breadth of the laud. New Garden
College, a venerable institution,
founded by the Friends, and among
the few that held its regular ses
The percentage of increase from
the Western extension has been
felt greater, even, than it was from
the conntry between here and Fay-etteville
in ewry line and the effect 8i0M '" *■***• wa,r and"!T
is perceptible on all sides and in noted for lta n,*h u,oraI ^ndard,
the various branches of industry in *«• Th'' G
this city. Two bundred and twen \ McLeanarille a flourishing instita-ty-
one miles of this road isnow fin|tion witl':l a0'"1 lut,,rc; "IC 8nm-ished
in first class style and equip- nieriield I igb School. High Point
ped in the most substantial man-ner,
and the good work continues.
All along its route from hero iu
the direction of its Western ter-minus
is a splendid agricultural
OOUUtry, and one r'ch in many
other natural and mineral resources
i development it will make.
Fisher Ji Co., brick store 34x100,
three stories.
ilarpcr Bennett, dwelling lOxlo,
two stories, with I. 16x24.
church st. 30x30, two stories, 7 jure, defae
rooms, 2 large halls, 7 closets, with ' any of then:
gas fixtures &0. Size of rooms I5x of private c
15.
B. A. sharp,dwelling,2stories, 16-
38, 18x96, 10 rooms, kitchen 31*32.
P A Tate, dwelling.27x34,14x33,
w iug 16x19, 2 stories, 4 rooms 15s
16, 2 rooms 15x18 with bay win-dows,
2 rooms 12x14, 2 halls 9x34 :
cost 12700.00
~Capt Charles Legerton, dwelling
10 H ld/21, 2 stories ii rooms 15\-
16, 1 hall 8 feet.
Dwelling, T M Johnston and
Brothers H»\20, 14x24, 4 rooms and
hall
In some instances it will be sees
from the above that we used some
parties' name twice. Such is due
to the fact that their buildings
wen- on different streets.
Yes. Greensboro is growing and
will continue to grow, possibly not
with the rapidity of Birmingham or
Anniston. or even sonic of our N.
C. towns, but surely and steadily.
Her geographical location, in the
Piedmont country, her healthful
Iclimate, her railroal facilities, her
R P Gorrell, dwelling lUx.'ili. two proximity to the great trad, ecu
stories, with L 14x28.
B W Brooks.dwelling I0x30,with
L 14x28.
Kirkman .\: Fields, hotel 4ox5o,
two stories.
A Hagan, three dwellings 16x36,
each, with L"s 12x28.
Mrs. Seymour Steele. dwelling
two stories, 0 rooms.
John Hodgin, dwelling 18X3Q,
with L 14x26.
W II Turner, dwelling ldilo.
with I. 12x10.
Mrs Cicero Bryan,{dwelling Uix
30, with I. 14x26.
Johu Scott, dwcling 18x36,with
I. !3x2o.
M Strauss, dwelling 18x36, with
I. 16x32.
Mrs Brooks, dwellingli;x2S,with
L 16x28.
W B Burgess, dwelling 12x33,
with L 16x30) two stories. .S rooms.
I. F Ross, dwelling 82x17, with
L lCx.'to, two stories, 11 rooms.
W s Coffin, dwelling 34x44, 5
rooms.
1) E Thomas, store house, brick,
loxl'l. two stories.
ties ol the I'nited States, the vast
extent of territory tributary to her
by reason of the different lines of
railroads radiating from her: her
varied industries: the comparative-ly
progressive character of her peo-ple
: her religious, educational aud
social advantages all proclaim a
brilliant and most glorious future
for the city of Greensboro.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Below are names of the city
Board ol Aldermen, K R King
Mayor, showing their respective
wards, and also a list Of the Stand
ing Committees and the members
thereof, as a' present organized :
FIBSI WARD—Neil Ellington,
David Schenck, W II Turner.
SECOND WARD—8 C Dodson, J
D White,.! W Scott
THIRD WARD-J A Odell, I. M
Hawkins. 1' 11 Price.
I'm ill II W.vuti—W L Bevill,
.1 N Kelson, W !'. Coffin.
FINANCE COMMITTEE—Neil El-lington,
Chairman, .1 W Scott, i
AOd.ll, W E Bevill. 1! It King.
SCHOOLCOMMH PEE—DSchenck,
C P Vanstory, livery feed stables Chairman, }C Dodson. I, M Haw
70.xl.~io. with two wings.
MrsC J Lynch, dwelling36x29,
two stories, with 1. 10x17.
Geo IV ll'hite. dwelling on the
"Queen Anne" style, two stories, G
rooms.
F P Pngb, two dwellings, each
36x16, with L's 14x8, I rooms.
kins. W E Coffin.
STREETCOMMH IEE-W II Tnr
tier, Chairman, J l> wi ite, P D
Pi id . -I N Nelson.
STREET LIGHT COMMITTEE—i
I) White,chairman, Neil Ellington,
P l> Price, W E Bevill.
POLICE COMMH 1 BE—S C Dod
M G Newell, dweilng "K)X 11. t io son, chairman. W II Turner, .1 A
stories, lo rooms. Odell, -1 N Nelson.
J W Lambeth, dwelling. 14x24.
John Fowler, dwelling 28x24.
Gilmer, IVhar'on .x Bevil, to-baccu
factory, brick. S0x4o, 3
stories, with dry house iu rear.
Bevil, Gilmer A Co, tobacco fac-tory
losSo. three stories, brick.
Houston \ Bro, cigar factory.
11" A Mathews. mattress manu-factory.
I) W C Benbow. feed stables,
brick, loxGo, two stories.
I) E Thomas, stoic, bl ick,2ox5o.
Ii P Fonst, dwelling 16x3o, with
L 12x11.
J IV I.andreth store, 12x2o.
B W Andrews, dwelling, 14x32. order, Hon. D. Schenck e
to the oomp
The objec
declared iu
serving and
on and ovi
Guilford Co
the 15th d,
the erection
or other nun
the As
pated in th:
iudependen,
The Presi
raise funds .
ground land
thai, by reqi
has e
funds of th
mclit of wl
report.
Fro .
there
('ushfroi -
I '.l*li I: ■
I
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ill lite |
M A Short, dwelling 38x16, with
L, 5 rooms.
IV I) McAdoo, 2o additional
rooms to the McAdoo House.
IV K Buchanan, dwelling 38x16,
With I. 30Xl 1- tWO stories.
CEMEI BBK COMMITTEE—David
Scuenck, chairman, -' W Scott, I.
M flaw kius, W K Coffin.
ORCi IVIZ ITION
IMI. ,..o:i o.i Rattle Graaad Companj
i In fit -' meeting ol the stock
hi Iders of the '-Guilford I! ittlc
Ground Company" *as held in
Greensboro, N. O., on the nth .lay
of May, A. I)., l-iS7, in the parlors
ol* the UenboW House.
At that meeting, ii appearing
that upwards of ten shares of
. o . had been subscribed and
more than tan per cent, paid in.
the -tocl.hoi lers were called to
eeted
Kl'Ogll
I - 111 l|CII
wit' the I
the l siden
Mr I'm
and from Mi
and IVilliam
nis, James 1
nis, Jess.- II
about I i
Thi-i gives
gleg.lte.il' fo
with 11 acre
make.- I
It is si I II.
miles North
boro, North
Fear \ Va.
which travi
and South. I
the public II
boro to Sum
with and in-the
way. ;
and smooth i
th< year, an
:. sboro i
C II t .1
11 i the gi
ti. ■ iouc s|
gushing out <.
Died
a'joi
land fi
and i ;;
1 In .
adjacent fan
itiou i.
IWS a
'I he .
but little al;
primitive lo
the battle In
The old
briars a
it i.-, very ne i
Any \
battle. .
or Bril
can find uvei
the field.
'i lieC'oinpa
-.line eottagi
ool hou?
oak grove,
the i..
houses
pn -idciit and Thomas B.
q ■ I toad is secretary.
'I he Prcsidi til -: ited the oi.je.-t
of the meeting to be to organize a ' '., .
company,
i li.i--.
to raise funds to pur
m and beautify the
-.1
here is the Greensboro Female Co] of the leading tobacco markets in tors in this city, for the construe
the State. It is a fact of great im tion of all public improvements,
portance, and worthy of special This infuse,! new life in the
mention that all tobacconists from real estate market and prop
North, Bast, South and West must erty immediately began to
come to Greensboro in ordei to change hands: handsome brick
reach every other market in the and frame buildings wen- built,
State, and this is also the best and to day the town is spotted with
point from which to branch oil' to new buildings from centre to cir-the
Virginia markets. But the cumference. Below we give a
past season's trade developed the partial list of the new buildings
fact that this market can handle as complctci during the year 1887
fine tobacco at as high prices as an.l now in progress of erection:
any leaf market to be found, and Dr 1 Henry Smith, dwelling IS
while the amount sold has been in x28, 16x18, 12x18
creasing and large, at no time have .1 I. Miehaux, dwelling 28x32,
W
Classical Institute, Jamestown
High School, Fair View Academy,
Bcllevue Institute, and others up
to the usual high staudard of
excellence. The city has a system
of graded schools equal to any in
the State and a house that will
command the praise and admira-tion
of everybody, recently built at
la cost ol 115,000 Be it said to
the city's credit and honor, the first
nealh .
Judge J. A. Gilmer. residence, .A,„uw\ „,„,„ which the battle ol '
to cost eight thousand. Guilford Court House was fought, ' ""'
Mendcnhall & Co,brick dry kilu jiarch 13, ITSI. as recited in the ;u"' '::
2ox36. charter ol the "Guilford Battle ll
T It Blackburn, dwelling24x46, (i]olul(1 Company."
t^-o stories. The Charter was read and ae
Thos (Foodroffe, office and draw- Mpted| .lhll ordered recorded in
ing room 12x24. ^ tlll, ran0,t of the proceedings.
Baptist church, brick. 5Ux77, \ft,.r discussion of various lie-seating
capacity Son. tails the election of a Board of i:
Presbyterian chapel, an addition Directorg xvaa proceeded with, -''l"-
21x17. h resulted as follows:
I) I' Foust, dwelling 3SxU
1, I0x30, tWO st lies.
I6x lo .',.,' '. ,, ,- ... ' The I
• wait o
Mrs M Smith. 2 dwellin
each, with L's 28x12.
Mis John I.
N. (', adorn
A musi um
tic Bel I,
. of |l
md a few r.i
with linn !> Schenck, Julius A Gray, on the groun
D, DWC Benbow,JWScott and |'"8 foal
John Kelly, dwelling 14x36, with!.. "' .. « o.i. formatio
with I., two stones, 8 rooms.
.las W Forbis, dwelling 36x24,|
two stories, with I. 16x36, Srooms.
11 II Cartland. dwelling 23x40,
two stories and garret, with I. lOx
The in rangements have been per
. and, papers signed tor the possible and certain.
. , OFl ICEBSOF llir. C.
III ice factory and steam COMPANY '-
Fiesident-.lulius
THE LUMBLR BUSINES8. General SuprintC
of Greens- Fry. boro. Finally, here, in
md contributes Secretary—Jno M Rose. | of the city is Bennett's Seminary,
.: il prosperity of Auditor—B W Bidgood. an institution of high grade estab
In fact it is general!] Treasurer—Jas Ii Williams. lished in the South by the M. E.
co eded thai Greensboro is the Attorney—Geo M liose. church for training the colored
inland lumber i:.... l.et in Directors—Col K M Mnrebisou,lyooth.
the I'nited Lumber is New Vork; Charles 1" Stokes,! MIliBs.
i - market to many Richmond. Va.,; Dr Jno M Worth, The large magnetic ore deposit
ites and in Asheboro ; Win A Moore, Mt Airy: South of this city on the C F & V
carried over to Dr W.n A Lash, Walnut Cove : .i V R K changed hands a little more
our buyers been overstocked or
cried "enough," and au able, com-petent
and reliable corpse of buyers
is one of the main springs of sue
cess to any market. On this score
Greensboro is solid. Mr J F-lor .t,;, [0 rooms.
dan buys every grade from prun Centenary M E church. 10x60
ings to fancy wrappers and says he feet, brick.
can afford to pa] more on this mar- .j A Pritchett, st ire 14x36.
ket than elsewhere and will doit, W A Jobc, Store 18x40.
notwithstanding he buys tobacco \| (; xfewell,dwelling30x39feet,
at Winston and Durham. Henry I two stories, 10 rooms.
W Cobb comes in on the home F P Pugh, dwelling 1SX38, two
Thomas ]', KcOgb.
The Board elected as officers of
the Company: Hou I) Schenck,
President, Greensboro; Thomas B ^ tJw
Keogb, Seen tary, Greensboro; .1 ,
v, 8c ■.'.Treasurer, Greensboro.
From President Schenck's report
of November 15th '87, we glean
the following information :
That tho'Guilford Battle G round
was chartered by an act
mmon
.hall fi
where
was shot II
the work ol
graded school in North Carolina. .1 W
was established here in Greens- rtretch for all the tillers smokers .,„,„. v.lth ,. ,,x;.0, 9~
t,|(.slll||,rl)S and wrappers and says he has oi. John SUr, dwelling 1.X30, with
ders ahead already. Mr C.'s busi- L ,,,., , rooms.
neSS has increased so largely that 0V& y V depot 110x56, tW0|CaUSej Children,
he has within the past few weeks v.ories. with six separate and dis
built him a mammoth leaf tobacco Vernon, tinct departments.
factory 40x100 feet four stories high 1)r ,| y Alford, dwellin
to aceommodate his growing trade. ..(. wjtD ( l5x34i i rooms.
MC Patterson. Esq.. comes in for ], ,, .,,;..,.,„.. dwelling 38x18,
r a million and a half pounds of til ^sI|,nrS uUh L , |v.;d. 7 rooms,
lers and red wrappers from the whai
I. l lx3o, 1 looms.
Seb Jones. •"• dwellings, each 16-
x'lo, with L 12x16.
S U Jones, •". stores, 1GX3O.
Uarinda Mitchell, 2 dwellings.
16x32 each.
Jacob I! Sole, store, 11x22.
Jacob B Nolc,3dwellings llx3o ,.0„n,.l,l> W88cn,
S Milton, dwelling 16x4o. of the Legislature of North Caro-
W B Hunt, dwelling 1 rooms |ina ratified March the Jth, 1887.
with I- By the provisions ol its charter
DrMarley, an addition ol one ,m. ca|,„ ,, Btock of the aompany '.:'!"'',,
story to dwelling, 2 rooms 16x1.). SBBj| not exceed twenty-five thous :" 'r "
ayne, addition of 6 rooms Bnd dollars, divided into shares of JMR
a century
full of fruit
health] coi
rooms. "~ ■"»•-• —»-— --------- Thesprin
rail roid Eating forces under General Nathaniel
The
was present
to dwelling, sixe 15x16. i-»-, ,..,eh. It may purchase, two
•\' M Houston, dwelling for | hundred acres of land on which the '
0 battle of ••Guilford Court House"
was fought between the Amei can
IS L
Greene and the British forces un-old
held, w
i Europe. The lumbei made at this Turner Morehead, Leaksville, than a year ago, and the present
highest to the lowest. Mr. Patter Wharton, Hunt & Co., builders' Ceo
I5x House, two stories dining room 20 ureene anu me ......... x, ..,.- lli(,rs ,.,,,,.,,
11x24, ■"> sleeping der Lord Cornwallis, the l.ithuaj f ,n lag,
of March, 1781. kmple protection
to the property, monuments and y Wue
grounds of the company is given . _
ii,\i l r]
30, store r.
rooms.
Moses Strauss, dwellin
Hunt cN Co., saw mill., 15x18,
II Royster, dwelling, on by making it a misdemeanor to in