HICKORY
“The Best Balanced Town in the Best Balanced State”
City’s Growth
a Steady One
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By B. F. SEAGI.F. Jit.
HICKORY, a city of commerce md industry, of oppor¬
tunity, is an ideal location for those se<<kilig new
fields for their endeavors.
Hickory is a city with a population of 111,000, in which
are located about eighty diversified mnniifncturing estab¬
lishments with an invested capital of more than *12,000,-
000, and an annual output valued at considerable over
$50,000,000.
This city with its numerous diversified manufacturing
enterprises with their large payrolls, combined with an
ample supply of native white labor of an exceptionally
intelligent type, is the trading center of a population of
50,000 people.
In Hickory manufacturing plants a hundred separate
articles are made. These products include nuto parts, seat#
and tops, box shooks and wooden boxes, brass, bronze and
iron castings, all kinds of building material, butter and
creamery products, cotton mill supplies, chairs, wooden
crates, church, office and theatre furniture, general house-
bold furniture, dining room suits, hosiery and knit goods,
juvenile and kindergarten furniture, harness and leather,
interior mill work, overalls, paper boxes and cartons, pot¬
tery, pumps, sash cords, shoe strings, tapestries, wagons,
wooden toys.
Hickory has the largest school desk and wagon factories
in the southeast. The furniture industry here employs hun¬
dreds of people and their annual payroll runs into large
figures.
There are thirty-three hosiery and knitting mills in
Hickory, with upward of 4,000 employees, with an annual
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