Tyson and Jones Broadening Manufacturing Again, July 17, 1925

Tyson and Jones Broadening. . . Will Make Furniture One of the Features of the Factory

By Bion H. Butler

The other day I dropped in at Carthage to see George Humber operate the recorder’s court and the commissioners tackle the July job, and the road folks go through their routine. But every body was so busy they had small time for a hillbilly from the Sandhills, and I went down to Tyson and Jones’ to see what is going on at that old place. It is going on all right. A lot of ingenious machinery has been put into the big shop, and more is being placed, and it looks as if one of these days the buggy factory will be more of a furniture factory than a buggy shop.

Already a considerable line of furniture has been established, and the signs are that more will follow. The first things are porch chairs and swings, kitchen tables, library tables, and things of that sort, and what struck me was that they are arranging their schedule to use the wood that grows in Moore county so they can buy their raw material from Moore county farmers, and incidentally save freight on lumber that might be hauled form some where else.

Mr. Green, the superintendent, says the shop is finding excellent oak in the neighborhood, and by working it on modern machinery built for furniture making, the Moore county oak shows up mighty alluring. Then the Tyson and Jones style of making things honestly and putting it together so it will stand and so it will look right, turns out a desirable line of stuff. While I was nosing around the factory, I ran across as fine a maple table as a chap of my modest tastes would care to own. Moore county has a lot of fine wood for furniture uses, and if the crop that is steadily growing can find an outlet at the furniture factory the farmer has pretty fair prospect for the days ahead of him, for oak trees are growing every day, as well as some other kinds.

The factory is turning out some buggies, a considerable number of truck bodies, is painting automobiles and doing it like Tyson and Jones always did everything, and in addition upholstering cars has been taken up as another side line. Tyson and Jones knew for years how to do a good upholstering job. They have not forgotten. And another thing that interested me was that the employes of the factory have increased until about 50 are now busy, and more are coming in every day. Two new men had signed on while I was hanging around the place. The outlook is that before many weeks the number of hands will be well up toward a hundred, and that means a lot of prosperity for Carthage. With 75 to 100 hands working in the factory, and a lumber mill over the country to the farmers who provide the lumber for the operations, the Tyson and Jones factory under its new management is becoming so largely an exclusively Moore county affair that it is one of the best industries in this part of the country.

From the front page of The Pilot, Vass, N.C., Friday, July 17, 1925

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