Business Opportunities

This information was first published in 1888:

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.  

THE section of which this book treats is full of business opportunities for people of all professions. There is room in the city for new factories of the various branches, and homes in the county for farmers, millers, stock growers, dairymen, truckers, lumbermen, etc. A person of almost any honor­able calling will find an opening here, such as might be expected to be found in any really thrifty and rapidly growing city like Charlotte. The mercantile and commercial interests of the city are by no means overdone, and there is abun­dant room for new factories of various kinds. The opening for manufactories is especially attractive on account of the railroad facilities and the fine shipping arrangements secured by the six railroads of the city. Those who are casting about for a suitable location for a factory of any kind, would do well to remember this, and to bear in mind that there is not an idle wheel in Charlotte. The iron mills, the cotton factories, the machine shops, the furniture factory, clothing factories, and all the smaller manufacturing plants run on full time, and seldom get even with or ahead of their orders. It would be well to remember, too, that every manufacturing plant in Charlotte pays. There is not a factory started here in recent years, that has not found it necessary to increase its facilities by the addition of new machinery and buildings. Iron workers, machinists, architects, builders and mechanics of all kinds can drop right into business here. Skilled labor is in constant demand, but other than those who are of steady habits, industrious and energetic, will make a mistake by coming here, though the artisan possessing these qualifications need not hesitate to cast his lot among us. Our people are energetic and industrious, and those who would wish to succeed among us must be of the same character. In the county good opportunities are offered both the backwoodsman and suburban farmer. Truck, dairy and poultry farming have proven successful ventures, and there are now three large dairy farms, and several truck and poultry farms in and around the city, all returning good profits to the owners. The county offers inducements that cannot be excelled by any other county in the State. Many of them are recounted in other pages of this book. The stock grower will find here the home he needs, and the thrifty agriculturist will find a soil surprisingly fertile. Those who have a turn for the culture of grapes will find that this is the real home of the grape. Descriptions of the lands, the prices at which they may be bought and the crops which they produce will be found further on.