Where to Build Your Factory— Hendersonville? THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL THE COLLECTION OF NORTH CAROLINIANA C P 971.U5 HU9c North Carolina Where to Build Your Factory Hendersonville Western North Carolina ? Published by CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Hendersonville, N. C. An All Year Round City You will have no summer shut¬ downs because of heat—no reduced force on winter days because of snow and cold in Hendersonville, N. C. Ideal Manufacturing Sites are available at the most reason¬ able prices. We will gladly give complete information on request. B Hendersonville Real Estate Company A. R, Hanson P. L. Wright Hendersonville, N. C. Facts and Figures of Hendersonville Industrial Advantages of Henderson County North Carolina and its Progress NEWS PRINT SHOP. HENDERSONVILLE. N. C. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill https://archive.org/details/factsfiguresofheOOhend Facts and Figures HENDERSONVILLE NORTH CAROLINA The Place To Build Your Factory Henderson County metropolis, County seat, and financial center. Population 1923 (Est.) 5,000. Assessed valuation approximates $7,500,000. Exactly midway between Cincinnati and Jacksonville, on the famous Route A, the long¬ est continuous scenic highway in America. 40 miles north of Greenville, S. C. 20 miles south of Asheville, N. C. 40 miles north of Spartanburg, S. C. 5 miles from Kanuga Lake. 7 miles from Summit Lake. 2 miles from Lake Osceola. 3 banks, total deposits $2,225,000, resources $2,600,000. Million dollar gravity water system, one of the best ever constructed. Electricity, 2c to 4c per Kw. domestic use; lighting 9c. $300,000 public school system, with propos¬ ed bond issue of additional $300,000. 6 church organizations. Your favorite lodge. 3 Golf Courses. 10 miles paved streets. Public library, park, etc. 1922 building permits, valued $200,000. 3 hosiery mills. 2 moving picture theatres, City Hall and auditorium. Splendid transportation facilities. Main line of the Chicago-Cincinnati and Florida line of the Southern Railway. Bus line to all nearby points. Modern highways in every direction. Motorized fire department. Center of one of America’s fastest growing apple sections. Surrounded by beautiful estates. 1922 farm products value, Henderson Coun¬ ty, $1,500,000. Has Parent-Teacher Association, Kiwanis Club, Merchants Association, and two news¬ papers—The News and The Times. The town of Hendersonville, with its excel¬ lent transportation facilities, its natural ad¬ vantages of climate, its satisfied labor, its sani- ^ tary improvements, and its unlimited hydro¬ ps electric power, make it a healthful and desir- ^ able place for manufacturing. 3 Industrial Advantages HENDERSON COUNTY Hendersonville the County Seat Western North Carolina offers the cream of advantages for industries of all kinds. Of¬ fers every advantage that can be found in the lowlands of the South, besides distinct ad¬ vantages that they do not have. Location. Located on the Southern Rail¬ way—making connection in Cincinnati, Ohio, for points west, in Asheville, N. C., for points north, and in Spartanburg, S. C., for points east, south and north. Just about an hour’s ride from the richest cotton section in the United States, and only about eight hours from the coal fields of Tennessee and Virginia. Sites. Hendersonville has any number of sites available that will accommodate the larg¬ est as well as the smallest development, accessi¬ ble to railway facilities, with a large supply of water available from Mud Creek, French Broad River, and other streams. The typography of the sites is such that industrial villages can be constructed very economically. Climate. Our climate offers the most healthful environment it is possible to find anywhere—cool and pleasant summers, very mild winters, with a nocturnal and diurnal variation of temperature that is a true stimu¬ lant and a constant source of renewed energy, so essential for the working efficiency of the mill operatives. The human machine, no less than the mechanical one, must be efficient if a mill is to make money. We have the ideal cli¬ mate for the rich man to play in—then why not more ideal for the poor man to work in. Our freedom from typhoid fever, hookworm, malaria, and other similar diseases which dis¬ sipate energy guarantee operatives that can work 365 days every year. These are essen¬ tial facts that must be reckoned with when computing the item of labor. Mention may be i 4 made of the fact that an all-time County Health Officer is employed, effect of whose services to a community needs no comment. Water. For domestic consumption the city will have available 1,000,000 gallons per day of pure, clear water that is being brought in by the new water system, now under construc¬ tion, and which will be completed during the summer of 1923. This supply is obtained from the Pisgah National Forest Reserve, 17 miles northeast of Hendersonville, and can easilv be increased to 3,000,000 gallons a day. This water is so pure and free from foreign matter that it does not have to be cholorated or filtered. Labor. The mountains of Western North Carolina have the best native help in these United States, especially does Henderson Coun¬ ty—97 per cent pure Anglo Saxon—purest in the United States. The native help that can be had here is not infected with European “isms”, and is free of union interference. Enough local help can be had to meet any demand. A very large per cent of the mill operatives working in the lowlands came from the moun¬ tains of North Carolina and are anxious to re¬ turn to their native lands if given the oppor¬ tunity. Most any number of trained opera¬ tives can be had from this source. Working Hours. Our freedom from re¬ striction in working hours is a great advantage, for by just so much more time a plant can operate it can reduce its overhead by exactly the same amount. These working hours are not apt to be changed for only in January this year, a move to reduce working hours in North Carolina was hit squarely on the head. Freight Rates. Present rates applicable on Knit Factory products from Hendersonville to: Baltimore.$1.15 1-2 Washington.72 New York.$1.22 Boston.$1.29 Philadelphia.$1.22 Above rates apply in cents per 100 pounds, any quantity. Present rates applicable on Cotton Factory products to: Boston.81 Philadelphia.81 Baltimore.77 New York.81 5 Wages. Wages for ordinary day labor range from $1.75 to $2.50 per day. Beginners in Factories are paid from 50c to $1.00 per day until they learn. The average mill opera¬ tive earns from $8.00 to $15.00 per week on piece work. Taxes. In the matter of taxation, we as¬ sure fair treatment. The present county of¬ ficials have promised their co-operation with the citizens of Hendersonville^and Henderson County in seeing that no burdens in the way of taxation will be placed upon any industry that might locate in our county. Our taxes average about on a par with other counties in the State. Coal. Steam coal is being delivered in Hendersonville for $4.75 a ton—contract price. Run of mine is being delivered at Henderson¬ ville for $4.86 a ton—contract price—from the Virginia mines, and 11 cents a ton cheaper on both steam and run of mine from the Tennessee mines. Our coal rate from the Virginia coal fields is $2!59, and from the Tennessee mines $2.48. Building Material. Everything needed in the way of building material such as: brick, sand, crushed rock, building rock, and all grades of lumber can be had locally within a few miles of the sites. Hydro-Electric Power. We have available for immediate use, 18,000 horse power at prices ranging from 3-4 a cent to 1 3-4 a cent, ac¬ cording to the amount contracted for. This supply within the next three years is to be increased so as to have available 50,000 horse power. Good Will. The good will of a community is absolutely essential. The good will of the citizens of Hendersonville is 100 per cent for industries of all kinds. They will pledge their co-operation in seeing that they receive fair and square treatment from county officials and otherwise ; to hit squarely on the head any movement to reduce working hours in North Carolina, and will endeavor in every way and at all times to protect the interest of mill owners and their property. Any other data will be furnished upon re¬ quest to the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of Hendersonville, N. C. 6 NORTH CAROLINA By MISS H. M. BERRY Editor of IV. C. Industries Greensboro Daily News Extent* North Carolina is a State of such vast area, 46,740 square miles of land; has such a di¬ versity of climate and soil, stretching as it does from the Smoky Mountains and Blue Ridge on the west through a most varying typography of mountain, hill and dale, plain, swamp, marsh to the tidewater of the coast, a distance of more than 500 miles; is capable of such variety in agriculture, in manu¬ facturing and in many other industries; one finds it difficult to compass in small places even a brief reference to its resources, its developments and its possibilities. Natural Resources and Possibilities. With the development of a small fraction of its water pow¬ ers, it has built up manufacturing industries that are the amazement of the country and its possibili¬ ties for an expansion of these industries and the introduction of new industries are beyond the vis¬ ion of the most sanguine dreamer. Its soil, climate and latitude make for the development of a greater range of farm products than most States enjoy. Its forested and wooded areas are greater in extent than those of any State east of the Rockies and tha industries growing out of the resources place it in the forefront of those States manufacturing furni¬ ture and wood products. The fisheries, both inland and deep-sea, offer splendid possibilities for the development on a large scale of sea food and ferti¬ lizer industries as well as attractions to the sports¬ man and tourist. In mineral resources it is noted more for the variety of its species than the extent of the deposits. A more extended use of the building stones, of which it has a great variety in species, color and texture, and of the clays and shales, with which it is abundantly supplied, will open a field for investment which should lead to the establishment of numerous and profitable industries. Resort Possibilities. One of the State’s great potential assets, however, is in the development of summer and winter resorts. With Pinehurst in the sandhills, one of the most^widely known winter resorts of the world, Hejad-oreonviHe, a year- around resort of the mountains, whose fame is not limited to this country, it is believed that the resort and tourist possibilities of the State have been demonstrated but barely touched. The variety and wholesomeness of the climate; the wonderfully beautiful mountain scenery of the west, with its forested peaks and nestling green valleys; its multi¬ tudes of cascades and waterfalls; its canyons and deep gulches; its sparkling streams, a fisherman’s paradise; its flowers and forests; the varied land¬ scapes of the hill-and-dale Piedmont; the hills and bluffs extending in some sections almost to tide¬ water; the vast plains of the east dotted with lakes and wide rivers and sounds; and the picturesque beaches along the coast—every section abundantly supplied with forests and woodlands, with drink¬ ing water, pure and delicious, as well as with 7 mineral waters of many varities and conspicuous virtues—all offer possibilities for the • development of summer, winter and all-year-around resorts suf¬ ficient to challenge the initiative, resourcefulness, administrative and financial ability of our own peo¬ ple as well as those who come from other sections to help us touch these potentialities into* realities for human use. People. The people of this great State, on which Providence smiled in the making, are of singularly homogenous character. It was originally settled by Virginians, mainly English; Pennsylvanians, prin¬ cipally Scotch-Irish and German; Scotch-Irish, Scotch Highlanders and Lowlanders, Swiss French Hugenots, Germans from the Rhine and elsewhere, and the fusing of these elements of Anglo-Saxon, Celt and Norman have given the vision and ag¬ gressiveness of the English, the conservatism and acumen of the Scot, and industry and steadiness of purpose of the Teuton, which are creating a State that is destined to be one of the marvels of modern civilization. The 1920 census revealed more than two and a quarter millions of this sturdy popula¬ tion—one generation removed from the most dev¬ astating war of history, which took an excessively heavy toll of her sons—now vigorous, strong, just beginning to catch its stride financially, agricultur¬ ally, industrially and exhibiting a courage in com¬ munity effort which is challenging the admiration and encouraging the imitation of her sister States. Progress as a State. Within the past 18 months, in spite of the depressed prices of its agricultural products and the slowing down of some of its in¬ dustries, this State has appropriated fifty million dollars for the construction of a State system of highways and two millions a year for their main¬ tenance. Along with its counties, it is spending twenty-four millions on its public school system. It has appropriated six million for adding to the equipment of its public institutions with greatly increased maintenance appropriations. To this the counties have added upwards of twenty millions for county road construction, and they are con¬ tinuing to vote bond issues for both roads and schools. The majority of its cities and towns are making provisions for street paving, waterworks, sewers, electric lighting, increased school facili¬ ties, hotels, hospitals and advancing with rapid and vigorous strides toward a realization of all those things which make up modern civilization. Agriculture. Investments: North Carolina had invested in all farm properties in 1920 _$1,250,166,995 Represented by: Farm land values _ r _ 357,815,016 Farm buildings_ 218,577,944 Implements and machinery_ 54,621,363 Livestock - 119,152,944 Earnings (1919): From all crops_ 503,229,313 From dairy products_ 14,912,137 From chickens and eggs_ 18,979,687 From honey and wax _ 356,003 From wool_ 154,302 Total earnings from agriculture and allied industries_$ 537,631,532 8 Comparison with other states—1920 crops: It has been estimated by the United States Bureau of the Census that the value of all crops in North Caro¬ lina for 1920 was $412,374,000, a loss of nearly a hundred millions from the crop of 1919, but even at that the State’s rank was sixth in all the States of the Union. Only five States—Texas, Iowa, Illi¬ nois, California and New York—made a better show¬ ing. The crop wealth for the State during 1919 was $503,229,313. Twelve other States and only three Southern States made a better showing than this in 1919. These latter figures were recorded in January, 1920, with cotton at 14 cents a pound, four months after cotton prices began to slump the August be¬ fore. North Carolina outranks all other Southern States in the avearge value of all crops in 1920. In 1920 it produced 838,940 bales of cotton and ranked seventh of the cotton-producing States. North Carolina is second in the whole United States in the percentage of debt-free homes, with an average of 82.0 per cent, being outranked only by Nevada. 1921 Crops. According to our State Department of Agriculture, North Carolina ranks third of all the States in the Union in crop earnings for 1921, totaling $303,837,400. Texas and California are ahead of North Carolina, the first with a valua¬ tion of $460,452,100; the second with $389,852,900. New York follows North Carolina with a valuation of $281,309,500. Tobacco, with 295,000,000 pounds and $85,450,000, ranks first. Cotton, with 337,700,000 pounds lint and $59,000,- 000, is second. Corn, with 48,700,000 bushels and $40,908,000, takes third place. According to this department, North Carolina ranks first among all the States in the following particulars: Production of cotton to the acre. Value of the tobacco crop. Production of soy beans. Home economics and development of woman’s work. Individual wealth of the white population. North Carolina holds second place in the fol¬ lowing: Value of farm crops per acre. Value of farm crops per capita. It ranks third in the production of sweet pota¬ toes and of peanuts; fourth in value of all crops. And Western North Carolina is fast becoming a famous apple growing section. Manufacturing'. Nearly a billion dollars, or to be exact, $943,808,000, is the factory value of the manu¬ factured products of North Carolina in 1919. This total does not cover hand trades, building trades and neighborhood industries; that is to say, domestic industries not organized into factory system. Factory industries alone considered, only four¬ teen States made a better showing than North Caro¬ lina, and only one of these was a Southern State, Texas. North Carolina was among the fifteen fore¬ most States in the Union in manufacturing in 1919. Twenty-Year Advances. During the first twenty 9 years of the new century the factories of this State rose from 3,465 to 5,999. The factory wage earners rose from 72,000 to 158,000, more than double in number. The volume of their annual wages rose from 14 millions to 127 million dollars, nine times as much. The primary horsepowers used in our factories rose from 154,000 to 550,000. The capital employed rose from 68 million dol¬ lars to 669 million dollars, ten times greater. The total value of products rose from 85 million to 944 million dollars, an increase eleven-fold. The value added by manufacture of raw mater¬ ials, rose from 40 million in 1899 to 416 million in 1919, more than ten times as much. Twenty years has brought the greatest change in highways—now spending 65 millions for good roads. No state can boast better roads. State’s Relative Position. North Carolina led the South in 1919 in the number of factory estab¬ lishments, with 5,999 against 5,603 in Virginia, her nearest competitor. In the number of wage and salary earners, she led Georgia, her nearest competitor, by 34,000. In the capital employed, she led Texas by more than 100 million dollars; Virginia by 230 million dollars; and Georgia by 250 million dolllars. In the total value of manufactured products, Texas was the only Southern State that outranked North Carolina in 1919, and her lead was only 57 million dollars. Our next competitor was Georgia, which fell behind by 250 million dollars. In values added to raw materials in the processes of manufacture, North Carolina far and away led the South, with 417 million dollars against 298 mil¬ lion dollars in Texas, 269 million dollars in Virginia, and 253 million dollars in Georgia. But even more significant is the per cent of value added to raw materials by manufacture in North Carolina. In this particular we led the whole United States, Wyoming alone excepted. Our ratio of increase in value contributed by the processes of manufacture was 249 per cent, the next State in the South being South Carolina, with 220 per cent. North Carolina leads the world in tobacco manu¬ facturing. The 33 tobacco factories of the State consume a fourth of all the leaf tobacco used in manufacture in the entire United States and pay a fourth of all the tobacco taxes of the Union. North Carolina leads the South in the cotton tex¬ tile industry in almost every detail: In the num¬ ber of mills; in the number of spindles and knit¬ ting machines; in the number of looms installed year by year; in the total capital in use; in the volume of wages paid; in the gross value of tex¬ tile products; in the variety of cotton textiles pro¬ duced; and, even more significantly, in the ratio of values added to raw cotton in the processes of manufacture—our own mills consume a half million bales of cotton more than the State produces in average years. There are now 513 textile mills in the State, compared with 180 in South Carolina and 173 in Georgia. North Carolina has more mills that dye and finish their own product than any other Southern State. The largest towel mills in the world are located at Kannapolis. 10 The largest hosiery mills in the world are lo¬ cated at Durham. The largest denim mills in the United States are located at Greensboro. The largest damask mills in the United States are located at Roanoke Rapids. Winston-Salem contains the largest underwear factory in America. Gaston County, with around 100 mills, is the center of fine combed yarns in the South. At Badin is the second largest aluminum plant in the country. Moreover, we lead the South in the number of furniture factories, in the amount of capital invest¬ ed, in the number of operatives employed, in the variety of products and in the total value of the annual output. Other forms of manufacture in the State are: Woolen mills, silk mills, beds and bedding; various types of woodworking establishments, such as tan¬ nic acid, veneers, boxes and box shooks, wood pulp, vehicles and parts, building materials, cooperage materials, shingles and laths, bobbins, etc.; bottling works, brick and tile, canneries, cereals, chemicals, clothing, concrete products, confectioneries, cotton mill supplies, cottonseed products, dyes, fertilizers, flour, meal and feed mills; granite products, leather goods and shoes, lime and limestone, medicines, mica products, monuments, marble and granite, naval stores, furniture, including bedroom chairs, dining chairs, etc., optical goods, pottery, roofing and sheet metal work, talc products, window shades, toilet articles, etc. Waterpowers. Statistics recently made public by the State and Federal Surveys show the amounts of developed and* undeveloped waterpower in the various States. Ranked in the order of magnitude of developed waterpowers, North Carolina stands fifth with 360,000 horsepower, being excelled only by the States of New York, California, Washington, and Maine, named in the order of their importance. In potential or undeveloped waterpower, North Carolina is exceeded only by the State of New York of all the States east of the Mississippi River. It is estimated that there is at least 1,500,000 horse¬ power in North Carolina streams which can be de¬ veloped for future use as industrial needs arise. The State at present has an average daily output of hydroelectric energy of well over 2,000,000 kilowatt hours. In this respect it is exceeded by no State east of the Mississippi except New York, which contains Niagara Falls power. In output of indi¬ vidual power companies also, North Carolina ranks well to the front, the annual output of the Southern Power company reaching about 790,000,000 kilowatt hours, an output exceeded by only eleven companies in the entire United, States and Canada. The peak load of this company for one day is estimated at about 218,300 kilowatts, which is equivalent to 293,000 horsepower. Forest and Forest Products. The forests of North Carolina originally covered the entire area of the State. At the present time they occupy ap¬ proximately two-thirds of its land area and of the 31,000,000 acres, about 20 millions are in timber or woodland. It has been estimated that 75 per cent of the mountain lands, 55 per cent of the Piedmont, 11 Microfilmed S0LINET/ASERL PROJECT and 75 per cent of the coastal plain retain a forest growth. It will thus be seen that wood, lumber and manufacturing industries dependent upon this natural resource make it of great importance in the State and are vitally interested in a continuance and, if possible, an improvement in the supply of raw materials. In the production of lumber (1919) North Caro¬ lina showed the greatest number of custom mills of any State in the Union and it was the only State reporting such mills sawing over a million feet each. It was seventh in the production of lum¬ ber in the United States in 1919, its cut being 1,645,435,000 feet with an average value of $30.21 per thousand, or a total value of $49,980,481. In tne value of wood and timber produced from the farms in 1919, North Carolina leads all other States with a total value of $32,735,000. The merchantable lum¬ ber produced in this State during this period con¬ sisted of the following: Yellow pine with a billion and a quarter feet; oak, 136 million feet; chesnut, 69 million feet; hemlock, 48 1-2 million feet; spruce, 43 million feet; with lesser quantities of cypress, cedar, maple, red gum, birch and beech. In manufactured products, North Carolina con¬ sumed in 1919 38,571 thousand feet in the manu¬ facture of veneers, being eighth in the list of States; 122,397 tons of raw forest products consumed in , the manufacture of natural dyestuffs and extracts, occupying third place in this industry; 61,745 tons of tanbark wood, having fourth place; 45,100,986 pounds of materials consumed for tanning extracts. In cooperage stock, North Carolina produced 2,764 thousands of tight staves and ranked eleventh; 117 thousands tight heading and ranked twelfth; 40,620 thousands slack staves; hoops, approximate¬ ly 100,000 cords. The furniture industry of the State, much of it dependent upon supplies of raw material, is not included here; the output of this being included in the figures under “manufacturing.” Earning’s from Basic Industries. From manu¬ factures (1919), $943,808,000. From farms, $537,- 263,912. From mines and quarries (1920), $8,000,000. From forests and wooded areas, $80,000,000. From fisheries, $3,000,000. Total, $1,572,071,912. This does not include earnings from hand trades, neighborhood industries not organized into factory systems; earnings of laborers and employes, banks and trust companies, insurance companies, mer¬ chandising, hotels (commercial and resort), etc. North Carolina Wealth. Resources: Total wealth on the tax books (1920), $3,170,512,000. Banking resources (June 30, 1921), $386,046,574. Federal Taxes: North Carolina paid the Federal Government, during 1921, $125,669,000. Sources: Income and excess profits, $38,669,000. Miscellaneous (mainly tobacco), $85,831,000. The average federal income tax paid in North Carolina is exceeded only by that of NeAV York City. The federal taxes paid by North Carolina in 1920 exceeded the total amount paid by all the other Southern States combined. Purchasing Power. Indicative of the State’s purchasing power, there are now owned within the State 160,000 motor cars representing an expendi¬ ture of upwards of $175,000,000. 12 First Bank & Trust Co. Hendersonville, N. C. Renders every financial assist¬ ance possible to all industrial enterprises, and is deeply inter¬ ested in the general growth of this community. Capital and Surplus - - $155,000.00 Hendersonville Has a Wonderful Climate— But— Far More Important than Climate or Location is the Question of Industrial Power —It’s Quantity, Quality and Cost. The Blue Ridge Power Company, now operating in Hendersonville, can furnish such power, in practi¬ cally unlimited quantities, at a very low cost. A steady, uniform power, for pro¬ pelling machinery and furnishing a light, devoid of flickering and variation, is of the utmost import¬ ance, to insure quality production and maximum output at minimum cost. Located here, are the main offices of the Blue Ridge Power Company, which will insure customers a ser¬ vice unexcelled elsewhere. A complete stock of Electrical Supplies and Appliances are car¬ ried at all times. Blue Ridge Power Co. Hendersonville, N. C. UNIVERSITY OF N.C. AT CHAPEL HILL 00030718322 FOR USE ONLY IN THE NORTH CAROLINA COLLECTION THIS TITLE HAS BEEN MICROFILMED -— K Form Na. A-368