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 taxable property valued at approximately $20,000,000.

Goldsboro is recognized as the industrial city of the eastern section. Its principal manufactured products are brick, veneer, cotton yarn, hosiery and lumber. Goldsboro has four brick manufacturing plants with a capacity of 70,000,000 brick annually. It has two of the largest veneer plants in the South, shipping from 150 to 250 solid cars weekly. Its varied manufactured products demonstrate its facilities for industrial development.

Goldsboro is located on three trunk line railroads, namely, the Atlantic Coast Line, the Norfolk and Southern and the Southern Railway companies. The railroad facilities make it possible to serve eighty per cent of the entire State of North Carolina over a one line haul. Another splendid advantage that Goldsboro offers to new manufacturers is its power. It is served by the Carolina Light and Power Company with hydroelectric power and its present industries are a fair example of the reasonable rates. Ninety per cent of our industrial plants operate with hydroelectric power.

Goldsboro is the county seat of Wayne County, which is one of the leading agricultural counties of the State. Prospective manufacturers will not make a mistake in investigating the possibilities of Goldsboro.

Information regarding factory sites, taxes, insurance rates, power rates and railroad facilities will be furnished with the above information in detail by the Goldsboro Chamber of Commerce upon request.

Goldsboro is recognized as one of the most beautiful little cities in Eastern North Carolina, having a population of 14,500 people whose first desire is to make their city a good place to live in and it offers the following advantages:g

1Fourteen churches for whites, representing all of the leading denominations and under the guidance of the highest type men and women with high spiritual ideals.

2Goldsboro has eleven public schools, maintained entirely by the city. These buildings are all modern and equipped with the latest devices for training children. These schools maintain a faculty of seventy-five instructors, teaching and training daily 3,300 children.

3The city of Goldsboro, realizing that the child needs physical training as well as mental training, maintains well equipped parks and playgrounds, physical directors, a Boy Scout instructor, a Girl Scout instructor, and a Community Service building equipped with a gymnasium, reading room, convention hall, auditorium and all other features required of a building of this kind. This community building was erected and is maintained for the sole purpose of developing and bringing the children up in a way to become useful and progressive citizens.

4Goldsboro maintains a Public Health and Sanitation Bureau with a corps of competent doctors and nurses who devote their time to health and sanitary conditions. Goldsboro has representative posts of all of the popular fraternal organizations, a Rotary and a Kiwanis Club, and a well organized Womans' Club with over four hundred active workers devoting their time to civic development; a Chamber of Commerce composed of all of the business and industrial man-power of the city devoting their Forty-Six