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GENERAL BUSINESS DATA

Retail and Wholesale Business Hillsville
Type of Business Number of Concerns Number of Employees Capital Invested Annual Payroll Volume of Business
Automobiles, accessories 3 10 $31,000 $9,000 $108,000
Drugs and miscellaneous 3 7 20,000 7,400 55,000
Furniture and hardware 2 6 35,000 3,400 90,000
General Merchandise 2 7 25,000 2,780 70,000
Groceries 5 14 13,900 4,600 106,800
Total 15 44 $124,000 $27,180 $429,800

Retail and Wholesale Business Galax
Type of Business Number of Concerns Number of Employees Capital Invested Annual Payroll Volume of Business
Automobiles, accessories 4 41 $164,500 $51,500 $593,000
Department stores 2 7 105,000 5,900 220,000
Drug Stores 2 8 35,000 5,100 65,000
Dry goods, notions, etc 4 16 67,000 16,700 145,000
General Merchandise 7 16 93,200 11,900 213,000
Groceries 11 31 340,000 33,080 1,136,000
Furniture 3 11 100,000 11,700 185,000
Hardware 3 9 133,200 12,600 170,000
Ladies’ ready-to-ware 2 3 33,500 2,700 32,000
Miscellaneous 6 13 72,500 12,800 96,200
Produce Houses 2 7 18,000 6,580 170,000
Total 46 162 $1,161,900 $170,560 $3,025,200

Galax Postal Receipts
Year Amount
1918 $5,475.00
1919 6,384.20
1920 6,732.10
1921 8,409.63
1922 9,229.09
1923 11,262.61
1924 12,297.22
1925 13,682.61
1926 15,608.95
1927 16,802.69
1928 19,257.24