The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-17

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! is Secretary 1t has capacity of .
100000 feet annually These mills all
own their steam tug boats to haul logs
and are modern mills. The Pungo Ltm-
! Der Co. operates steam slxidders and
. leaders on steel tracks in the woods to
j haul out and load logs ON the train
which takes them to the water for float
ing to mill, and dispense with the use
| cf them to great extent. The Roam
| oke Railroad and Lumber Go. do the
same. and also the d. c. Way Lumber
| Company. It's mill is located
ON the Pungo river near Leech-
vile with 4 capacity Of some 100000
feet and it's postoGfice is Haslin. The
general office of the Pungo Lumber
Company is in Washington
This is the centre of a fine trucking
section. The trucking interests have de-
veloped wonderfully since about 1887
when only a few hundreds of packages
were shipped. A few visits of some of
the leading farmers to Newbern gave
them wonderful inspiration in this
direction and soon the business began to
develop.
Below is a list of years with pack
ages of Irish potatoes shipped by the O.
u. Line 1890. 1851 barrels: 1891, H.
al; 1892, 1864; 1893, 9,346; 1894, IT,
9lS; 1895. $50; 1896, 30.S54; 1897, 81
SOS. Large quantities Were also shipped
in car load lots to Wetsern cities.
Up to 1882 the GAINESVILLE Railroad
was a competitor of the O. d. l.. Since
1892 the Coast Line has been compete
tor and for several years the average
shipment of various packages of truck
by the Coast Line has been about 60,000.
cabbage, Strawberries, asparagus, beets,
&c making many of these packages.
Mr. w +. Bangham, who is one of the
most progressive and successful men in
Eastern North Carolina is the leader in
truck. He grows each year thirty-five
acres of cabbage: thirty acres of cucunl-
hnrs: fifty acres of spring Irish potatoes:
fifty-five acres of fall crop, Irish seed
potatoes; thirty acres OF heets; three
acres of tomatoes; eight acres of aspara-
gus. twenty acres of caulifiower and
large acres in spinach, kale, cauli-
flower, egg plant, etc. He ships for nine
months each year. and for two months he
ships two to six ear loads daily. He
aas just dug 1000 barrels of fall or Sec
nnd crop seed Irish potatoes of which
he makes a speciality. His fine truck
farms named Cottage Grove" and Hon
ey Pod are as beautiful and rich farms
as can he found anywhere in ,.-e world.
IN a sense. trucking is Specializing on a
big scale--if the seasons hit, you make
hig money, if Norfolk gets its immense
crop in first, North Carolina truckers go
broke" Mr.. Baugham and others who
truck with as much system and atten-
tion to detail as are observed in a bank
ing institution have found trucking prof
liable II is destined sGon to be Il much
greater industry than at present. / dined
With a friend who had excellent celery
shipped from Kalamazoo. That ought to
be stopped and the money be kept at
home.
The chief truck crop is potatoes, OF
which from 75,000 To 100000 barrels are
shipped during the month Of June. In
January. about 1,000 barrels Of second
crop potatoes are shipped for seed pdr-
| poses. About LOCO carloads Of cab
lage and peas 20 from this place every
year; and large quantities of cucumbers,
beets, beans. lettuce, Strawberries aspar-
| agus--in fact, almost every variety of
truck and garden vegetables. The year
~ output is worth $3.50 and IL
hardled within period Of ninety days
Washington possesses considerable iln-
! portance rs n market and shipping point
for the ether products of the snrrourd-
ing country. From 10000 TO 100000
bushels of rice are sold and re-shirped
Not great amount of cotton is raised in
this section, but about $4,000 bales are
handled here, annually. A large part
Of the corn produced in this and adjacent
counties is marketed here.
There are portions of this county and
adjacent counties that produce fine rice
There is rice mill here that was sue
cessful industry until the formation of
the rice trust. When the trust laid its
icy hand ON the MILL it was closed and
the price Of rice has been pressed down
20 a price that leaves little or no margin
| of proft. A gentleman told me last night
that he knew one farmer who had ! 400
bushels. hut the price ives so low that he
was trying TO hold it. AT present prices
be would lose money on it. rice deai-
or in New York, ] see, attributes the low
price to ''the monetary stringencies pre-
valent at nearly al trade centres" He
also says there are not It few who, well
heelcd financially, are quietly picking
UD tFGstIH IptS luEA ItuENuhutI tlft1
present prices are far below normal worth
and that no investment in the grocery
}ne promises larger peeuniary reward.
Advices from the South note steady
movement at all points. A.eceipts at
nearly all milling centres are falling away
and there is growing disposition on the
part Of planters to defer sales until after
"tne turn Of tne year" Still, there are
those who must sell to meet maturing
obligations. No one realizes more than
the grower that present returns are in-
adequate and no fair remuneration Tor
land employed and labor expended, but
liquidation is Imperative, hence supply
for the moment, ample. The current
month will probably see the end of the
pressure and then will come quick recov-
cry and advance all along the line
The question that puzzles me is this;
How is it that all articles made by
trust have gone up from % TO 100 per
cent because. as they say, of good times
and plenty of mepey, while rice tobacco
and other farm products have gone down
because OF monetary stIingencies pre-
valent at nearly all trade centres" II
the trusts do not use their power to rob