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Yadkin Valley Power Boom Sparks North Carolina Industry
The Yadkin River area is hailed as an evolving electrical power laboratory promising vast capacity. Officials note North Carolina’s manufacturing surge, rising from eighty million to two hundred forty five million dollars in output, with cotton mills and other industries expanding power use from fifty three thousand to nearly one hundred forty thousand horsepower. Growth stretches from Pinehurst through West End to Montgomery and Charlotte, as road and railways knit new towns and farm centers into a booming industrial web.
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Yadkin
Yadkin Valley
Salisbury
Southern Railroad
Rockingham
Seaboard Air Line
North Carolina
Pinehurst
West End
Wagle Springs
Samarcand
Candor
Norfolk Southern Road
Charlotte
Jackson Springs
Montgomery County
Moore
Piedmont
Montgomery
Mt. Gilead
General Assembly
Plymouth Rocks
Rhode Island