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  History 
  of 
  Durham. 
  

  

  cannot 
  justify 
  himself 
  in 
  taking 
  leave 
  of 
  the 
  subject 
  without 
  

   tendering 
  his 
  most 
  grateful 
  acknowledgments. 
  While 
  he 
  

   does 
  not 
  intend 
  any 
  invidious 
  discrimination, 
  he 
  would 
  

   acknowledge 
  the 
  kind 
  offices 
  of 
  Mr. 
  H. 
  N. 
  Snow% 
  especially, 
  

   in 
  valuable 
  assistance 
  cheerfully 
  rendered 
  him 
  in 
  the 
  col- 
  

   lection 
  of 
  statistics 
  and 
  other 
  important 
  data. 
  This 
  gentle- 
  

   man 
  is 
  Mr. 
  Carr's 
  private 
  secretary', 
  and 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  

   industriou.^, 
  sapient 
  and 
  affable 
  business 
  men 
  connected 
  

   with 
  the 
  factory. 
  

  

  M. 
  E. 
  m'dOWELL 
  & 
  CO. 
  — 
  PHILADELPHIA. 
  

  

  This 
  firm, 
  although 
  not 
  residents 
  of 
  Durham, 
  are 
  so 
  inti- 
  

   mately 
  connec-ted 
  with 
  its 
  tobacco 
  interests 
  as 
  to 
  deserve 
  

   mention, 
  forming 
  as 
  they 
  do 
  quite 
  a 
  financial 
  desideratum 
  

   in 
  the 
  prosperity 
  of 
  our 
  people. 
  They 
  are 
  the 
  sole 
  agents, 
  in 
  

   Philadelphia, 
  of 
  Bhtckwell's 
  Durham 
  Tobacco 
  Company, 
  

   and, 
  as 
  is 
  well 
  known, 
  have 
  ample 
  and 
  unequalled 
  facilities 
  

   for 
  the 
  distribution 
  of 
  their 
  goods 
  throughout 
  the 
  country 
  

   and 
  the 
  world. 
  They 
  have 
  large 
  capital, 
  and 
  have 
  business 
  

   connections 
  in 
  all 
  the 
  principal 
  cities 
  and 
  towns 
  in 
  the 
  

   United 
  States 
  and 
  Europe. 
  Their 
  export 
  trade 
  is 
  constantly 
  

   augmenting, 
  and 
  their 
  domestic 
  business 
  embraces 
  all 
  the 
  

   United 
  States 
  and 
  Territories. 
  Tiiey 
  have 
  purchased, 
  altered 
  

   and 
  superbly 
  embellished 
  a 
  large 
  brown-stone 
  warehouse 
  in 
  

   Chesnut 
  street, 
  Philadelphia, 
  in 
  which 
  a 
  large 
  portion 
  of 
  

   their 
  rapidly 
  increasing 
  business 
  is 
  transacted. 
  This 
  acqui- 
  

   sition, 
  together 
  with 
  their 
  other 
  warehouse 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  city 
  

   and 
  their 
  large 
  branch-houses 
  in 
  New 
  York, 
  Chicago 
  and 
  

   other 
  places, 
  enable 
  them 
  to 
  place 
  the 
  goods 
  they 
  handle 
  as 
  

   fast 
  as 
  they 
  can 
  be 
  manufactured. 
  

  

  W. 
  DUKE 
  SONS 
  & 
  CO. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  largest 
  smoking 
  tobacco 
  and 
  cigarette 
  

   factories 
  in 
  America, 
  and 
  the 
  goods 
  produced 
  are 
  of 
  a 
  supe- 
  

   rior 
  quality 
  and 
  elicit 
  ready 
  reception 
  wherever 
  introduced. 
  

   This 
  manufacturing 
  enterprise 
  has 
  grown 
  up 
  into 
  gigantic 
  

   proportions 
  in 
  a 
  remarkably 
  short 
  space 
  of 
  time 
  and 
  from 
  

   very 
  unpretentious 
  beginnings. 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  Duke 
  came 
  out 
  of 
  

   the 
  late 
  civil 
  war, 
  like 
  thousands 
  of 
  others, 
  an 
  almost 
  bank- 
  

   rupt, 
  the 
  only 
  property 
  surviving 
  the 
  devastation 
  of" 
  grim- 
  

   visaged 
  war" 
  being 
  a 
  wagon 
  and 
  pair 
  of 
  mules. 
  With 
  these 
  

  

  