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1889.] Document No. 13. , 7
rupled itself in four years. Four years ago it was a coun-try
town. To-day the property is worth exceeding three
million dollars, and the resident population increased to
six thousand. This means that four thousand people,
wealthy and fond of spending money in the pastime of
building cities, have gone to Thomasville, most of them
to stay there all the winter, and many to stay all the year
round. * * * Only a week ago a wealthy Northerner
bought about a half of an acre of ground, paying ten
thousand dollars for it. A tract of land near the city,
five acres, was sold to another Northern man for three
thousand dollars. In general, the county lands near the
city have trebled and quadrupled in value, and will continue
to increase. The county is rapidly filling up with the
cottages of visitors. These range in cost from $i,200 to
$25,000, and extend for miles into the country. * * *
Mr. S. G. McLendon furnished forty names, each one of
which represents either a big Northern corporation or
wealthy individual from different parts of the North and
West, who had bought lands in the suburbs, and in some
cases as far out in the country as ten or twelve miles.
" It is one of the most interesting of all the lessons to
be learned from a view of Thomasville, that people who
come from the North to live during the winter at Southern
hotels not only begin immediately to cast about for a per-manent
location, but evidently desire to remain down
South both summer and winter as long as possible."
EASTERN.
North Carolina has been placed in such a position that^
with continued efforts in this direction, millions of dollars
will come into the State and aid in populating many acres
of idle and, what has seemed to us, worthless land.
North Carolina can't afford to stop for one moment.
Our towns and villages can and must be filled every win-
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| Full Text | 1889.] Document No. 13. , 7 rupled itself in four years. Four years ago it was a coun-try town. To-day the property is worth exceeding three million dollars, and the resident population increased to six thousand. This means that four thousand people, wealthy and fond of spending money in the pastime of building cities, have gone to Thomasville, most of them to stay there all the winter, and many to stay all the year round. * * * Only a week ago a wealthy Northerner bought about a half of an acre of ground, paying ten thousand dollars for it. A tract of land near the city, five acres, was sold to another Northern man for three thousand dollars. In general, the county lands near the city have trebled and quadrupled in value, and will continue to increase. The county is rapidly filling up with the cottages of visitors. These range in cost from $i,200 to $25,000, and extend for miles into the country. * * * Mr. S. G. McLendon furnished forty names, each one of which represents either a big Northern corporation or wealthy individual from different parts of the North and West, who had bought lands in the suburbs, and in some cases as far out in the country as ten or twelve miles. " It is one of the most interesting of all the lessons to be learned from a view of Thomasville, that people who come from the North to live during the winter at Southern hotels not only begin immediately to cast about for a per-manent location, but evidently desire to remain down South both summer and winter as long as possible." EASTERN. North Carolina has been placed in such a position that^ with continued efforts in this direction, millions of dollars will come into the State and aid in populating many acres of idle and, what has seemed to us, worthless land. North Carolina can't afford to stop for one moment. Our towns and villages can and must be filled every win- |
