Download or read book Miller's Newton-Conover, N. C., City Directory, Including Maiden, N. C., 1959-1960, Vol. 3 written by Charles W Miller and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Miller's Newton-Conover, N. C., City Directory, Including Maiden, N. C., 1959-1960, Vol. 3: Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, Buyers' Guide, Numerical Telephone Directory Ninety percent of the area's population are home owners, and nine tenths of the population is white, one - tenth Negro. The foreign-born percent is negligible. The native-born labor potential is good, and the people widely-recognized as the best type of workers, with special skills in hosiery, cotton textiles and woodworking industries. The climate is most agreeable, with seasonal averages: Spring 56 degrees, Summer 74 degrees, Autumn 57 degrees and Winter 50 de grees. The average rainfall is inches. The' elevation is 993 feet. Transportation facilities are excellent, and this community is served by the main line of the Southern Railway, the C N W Railroad, Queen City Bus Company, conover-newton Bus Lines, and Piedmont Airlines in nearby Hickory. More than 20 motor express lines serve the com munity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.