. Descriptive sketch of Winston-Salem, its advantages and surroundings, Kernersville, etc. WN, N. C. There are a nuniber of substantialtobacco factories in this county, allof which go to build up the inter^stsof the Twin-City, as most of thempuichase their supplies from our to-bacco warehouses and spend a fairshare of their profits in the Twin-City. One especially deserving men-tion in these columns is that wliich isin successful operation at Walker-town, under the proprietorship of ). Sullivan. Mr. S. is a native ofthis county, has hud thirty years ex-perience in handlingtol»acco, and thee
. Descriptive sketch of Winston-Salem, its advantages and surroundings, Kernersville, etc. WN, N. C. There are a nuniber of substantialtobacco factories in this county, allof which go to build up the inter^stsof the Twin-City, as most of thempuichase their supplies from our to-bacco warehouses and spend a fairshare of their profits in the Twin-City. One especially deserving men-tion in these columns is that wliich isin successful operation at Walker-town, under the proprietorship of ). Sullivan. Mr. S. is a native ofthis county, has hud thirty years ex-perience in handlingtol»acco, and theexcellency of Sullivans Best, andSullivans Free and Easy plug hasacquired for it a wide reputationamong lovers of the wped. Mr. Sulli-van commenced in an unpretentiousmanner Ijut has added to his facili-ties until he now has a well equippedestablishment and manufacturesabout 150,000 pounds of highgrade tobaccos each year. The county has several other fac-tories and there are three or fourtobacco firms in Winston that areomitted by request, or from otherreasons not necessary to RED ELEPHANT TOBACCO WORKS. [See page ST.] PUBLIC RICHMOND & DANVILLE LINE. Fifty years ago the aggregate rail-roads of America measured less than250 miles and required about 1,000employees. Ten years later it hadgrown to 7,000 miles, 5,000 employ-ees, and $200,000,000 of capital. To-day there is more than 150,000 milesof iron highway in the United States,the year just past having shown aconstruction record of 12,524: miles,which is greater than any precedinji12 months. Nearly a billion of lol-lars is now invested in railroa 1 en-terprises, and 750,000 hands ]< (juir-ed for its operation. All other agen-cies combined are overshadowedwhen compared with what railroadshave done in the development of ourcountry, as every mile of road isestimated to bring 20,000 acres ofland into feasible culture, raise itsvalue 100 per cent., and add im-mensely to the wealth of the coun-try th
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