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peojile. Brad street su js so. Dun say 3 so. the Dmiinner said, so, and I say s-?r andA. HOUM., ESQ.,Merchant, Planter ixad Cotton b^horf Clayton, K. C.so that makes it so. If there be one of the incredulous left, let hloi cast liis eye out of the train window the next time hr* passes through Clayton, I^et him look almost in any direction, and if he don't see enough bales of cotton to convince him of Clayton’s solidity atd business prosperity, he will be hard to convince, lie needn’t tty to count the bales; he would have to stop over a day or two to do that. Besides, these Clayton cotton men have a sort way of estimating the extent of their holdings, other than by counting. •“How much cotton have you on hand now?” I asked one gentleman.“Oh, about an acre and a half or two acres,” he replied.“What? Not yet pieksd/’“Oh, yes; already picked and ginned.And that's w Clayton.There is but this, otherwise— don’t quite know it be that those with their inerca interests that t build factories i quietly building community that had their attenti I advantages that wanted to build s* eking a localic vantages, I thin doctor to put m wanted to build had the requisit Eagles, or other shaukl stop at grows such a vf hard wood tiinbcIf I wanted tc or buggy factory to build it with I ton and got ric the wagons and ston county farm would go to Clay lawyer, for then vernal good leeli. maintained in th that 1 think I w the uext train, three eminent ant J. A. Griffin, Dr. Gattis, to one of i
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The News And Observer
Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Sun, Dec 27, 1896
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