The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-18
WILSON FLOUR|SH|NC
Six Million Pounds of TobaccO
Sold This Season.
Factories, Schools, Shops, Warehouses and
Stores, All Busy. Street Improve
mentS Going On.

Especial to the News and Observer)
Wilson, N. c., October 17.-Coming UP
from the depot this morning travelling
man who comes here quite often re-
marked:
81 believe Wilson is about the most rad
idly growing town in Eastern Carolina .
And with the hustle and push now going on
here among the tobacco warehouses, on
the cotton yard. and the hum of machin-
cry heard at the various mills. any one
who visits Wilson must admit that she
is certainly making rapid strides in bus
mess, growth and prosperity
The closing of last weeks tobacco bus
mess here showed that one million two
hundred thousands pounds had been sold
on this market at an average of from
~ to cents. More than six million
pounds have been sold since the season
began. On the cotton yard business ac-
tivity is displayed, the price being from
97s to 10 cents and over for the fleecy
staple. Cotton has not been coming in so
fast, however. for the last three or four
days, owing to the slump in prices. A
farmer told me today that he wasn't
scared about cotton going down: that he
had paid every dollar he owed had plenty
to eat at home and fifteen more bales,
which he expected to get from 10 to IL
cents for. His argument was that capt.
talists who had their money invested in
factories could not afford TO let the ma
chinery lay idle if they had to pay u
cents for the raw material. l expect that
I farmer is not very far from right.
The Carolina Bright Cigarette factory
: is now running three machines, with a
capacity of one hundred and fifty thou
sand to each machine They will have
the fourth machine running by next week.
This will give them capacity of six hun
dred thousand cigarettes per day. They
arc badly behind in their orders. and l
am reliably informed that the popularity
OF the Carolina Brig,lts is rapidly in
'creasng.
The large carriage and buggy factory
of Hackney Bros, is still turning out
fine vehicles. They have recently added
another two-tory brick building They
, now work from seventyfve to eighty
hands Their payroll amounts to over
$500 week. The reputation of their work
has extended to such extent that they are
getting more orders than they can fill.
Superintendent Mangum of the graded
school reports larger attendance than
ever before.
The Kinsey Seminary for young ladies
has opened well, and bids fair to have
a successful session.
Doctors Moore and Anderson's new SAN
itarium is one of the handsomest and
most thoroughly equipped buildings of the
kind IN the State.
Street improvements are going on with
a full force of hands; bricks are being
laid at one of the principal crossings at
. the corner of Nash and Goldsboro street.
This am told, is an experiment, and. if
the brick is found hard enough to stand
the wear it is proposed to extend the
work over the streets. The question of
buying a rock crusher is being discussed
and it is very evident that the people
here are determined not to have the
streets in the same condition they were
last winter. Mr.. Silas Lucas, the brick
maker, having full confidence in the hard
ness of his brick has given the brick for
the test.
Judge Moore is holding a one-week
criminal term of court. Most of the cases
to be tried are petty larceny and fight
ing One capital case is set for Thurs
day. A special venire of one hundred jul
rors have been summonsed. 1t is w. d.
Ruffn charged with killing r. l.. Bull
lock last December, ]. e. and F. A.
Woodland and ]. F. Bruton are for the
defence; Pou. and Finch and Aycock and
Daniels will assist Solicitor Moore in the
prosecution.
The cotton seed oil mill plant here is
in successful operation. They are build
ing S0x25 foot two-story frame house for
a fertilizer factory. Grinding machines will
be soon at work grinding up tobacco stems