Conclusion

This information was first published in 1888:

A WORD IN CONCLUSION.

OUR sketch is necessarily brief and is in many respects imperfect. As we glance over it, we see places where words could well be added, yet we are content to let it go as it is. No one who reads this book will be disappointed upon making a personal investigation into the status of the resources of Charlotte and Mecklenburg county, as set forth in these pages, while there is a possibility that many will be agreeably surprised. It is better to please our visitor than to disappoint him, and we have borne this point in view. We have endeavored to underrate, rather to overrate. Probably more than the half has been told, but we are confident that we have not told all. To those who seek a home in the South, we would ask, What more desirable locality can be found than in Mecklenburg county? We have shown that taxes are cheap; the climate exceedingly agreeable the year round, with no droughts, blizzards or cyclones; the soil fertile and land cheap; the country finely adapted to the raising of fine stock; the city flourishing and offering every inducement to manufactures and trades that could be offered by an important railroad center; lands cheap; the people liberal spirited and hospitable; religious freedom prevailing; a county abounding in resources for the farmer, miller, miner and manufacturer, and a city affording all the comforts and conveniences oi a metropolitan center. It is to such a locality as this that we invite you! To Charlotte, the Queen City of the Old North State, and Mecklenburg, the Banner County!