The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-05

- aLS SCEA ol CfCII Alt
all throughout the state the impulse of
progress has been felt and with most
favorable and encouraging results. We
congratulate the Raleigh News and OBJ
server upon the excellence and desir-
ablenesS OF its issue of Sunday last.
IL sent out a 24-column issue, and most
OF IL is given to a record of develop
ment and well directed enterprise in
many fields. The tact and industry are
manifest We are glad 70 bear this tes-
timony, and TO avail ourselves OF some
ngues gathered out OF many pages of
recorded growth and prosperity. IL
gives in review the industrial, educa-
tional and religious work of 1899. and
publishes letters from the many towns
showing what has been lone in the cap
TIA invested, in buildings erected. in
factories, schools, etc. The new year
promises excellently. and 1t is to be
sincerely hoped that no setback will
be given by bad government. by ne
gro supremacy restored, by my finan-
cial crisis. and by a great fall in agri-
cultural products. In 1893, there were
over 200 new enterprises incorporated
and s6,2o0,0 900 invested therein. We
copy:
In 1870 there We're SO mills with 49,
S97 spindles; in 1886, so mills with 1s9. 433
spindles: in 1898. 1S6 mills with 1.0lS,-
900 spindles. Today the enlargement OF
h old mills and new ones Just Begin
ming operation will increase the num-
Der Of spindles to no less than hoo, coo.
In 1896 the cotton crop of the state was
about 500, 900 bales, and her mills con-
sumed 300, 600 bales; this year the crop
estimate is 4S0, 900 bales. and her mills
will need over 400. 900 baies
The capitalization OF the mills in the
state reaches the handsome figures of
$50, 702, 400, and we have approximately
100. 900 spindles. In addition to the cot
ton mills, there are IL wooden, IS knit
ting, L silk and 1 jute bagging mill.
The undeveloped water power of the
state would turn at lease lao, 600, 600
spindles, and manufacture about seven
times as many bales of cotton as the
entire country produces"
I'VE are gratifed to see that in addi-
ton to the thirty-oneI incorporated cot
ton mills there are eight COTTON seed
mills operating. They are:
Name of Mill and Location. Capital.
Cowell, Swami and McCotter,
Bayboro .............. .........S 5000
Selma, Selma $4,000
Concord, Concord .............. 1000
Machesfield. Tarboro ...-......... 10, 900
Cleveland, baltimore 10. 900
Wilson, Wilson 20, 900
Monroe, Monroe ................. q 200
Davidson, Mecklenburg County. 2 1000
There are n new lumber
mills with total capital of 1852, 900.
Furniture manufacturing has made
good Roadway we are pleased to see. 1t
has often been pressed in The Messen-
ger that it was strangely suicidal to be
selling off the most valuable timber to
northern corporations for a trif1ing con-
s~ideration instead of manufacturing it
into furniture, wagons, buggies, agri-
cultural implements, etc. We copy
again as to the work of those estab-
lished now:
"They are, so far as quality is con-
cerned, making a grade of goods that
challenges comparison with any on the
general market and command ready
sales throughout the eastern and
southern states. During 1899 nine ad-
ditfohal factories have been projected
as follows: Rockwell Furniture Com
pany, of Rockwell, Rowan county; the
Macon Furniture Company, of Louis
burg; the Kinston Furniture Company,
of Kinston; the High Point Chair Com
pany, Of High Point; the Piedmont Ia
BILE Company, of High Point; the Roy
all & Borden Furniture and Mattress
Company, of Durham: the Carolina
Furniture Company, of Durham; the
Mocksviile Furniture Company, of
Mocksville; the Union Furniture Com
pany, of Durham. In al about S100. 900
have been invested in furniture fact)-
ries during the year."
1t is interesting 10 GO owe, the pages
in The News and Observe and read
the very encouraging reports from the
larger towns as well as he smaller
ones and ven the villa ges. Many mis-
cellaneous factories are reported, not
included in the above, that show su~-
cess. 1t is gratifying 20 read from
small centers such reports as follow
Ole Fort, 800, 900 in : graphite mine
Mt. Airy, factories n %Quarries doubie
their capacity; Youngville, a bank and
tobacco stemmery; Murfreesboro, man
ufacturing concerns enlarge; LenrIr,
capital in factories is quintupled;
Wilkesboro, locust pin and canning
factories established; L~aurirburg, S100,
900 cotton mill; Scotland Neck, $40. 600
in manufactures; Ga~stonia, 5000. OG0 in
factories added, n $240, 900 in build
ingS; Rocky Mount, cotton, wood and
ice factories; Chapel Hill, new totel,
bank, cotton mill and iron mine works:
Shelby, 800, 900 cotton mill; Hickory,
sites for three new cotton fac ,ories Sc
cured; W~adesboro, trebled Us invest
ments in factories; Spring Hope, 80 per
cent. increase in investments; Burling-
ton, nav factories started; RoXboro,
new cotton and pants factory with wa
ter works; Wake forest, a new cotton
factory and canning plant to be built.
Raleigh has made very notable pro-
gress. New buildings Numerous. repre-
senting 81, 000, 900. Wilmington has adj
vanced no little. There has been great
activity in house building. Mayor
Waddell estimates the total amount
of capital inve 5red in manufacturing
in this city in the year 1880 was (about)
$3.50, 600; THE total amount today is
(about) 81, 0O0, 900. During the year 1897
amount ineste1 aoout) SI10,000. The
new industras established during the
year 1899 a been, among others, one
large cotton mill, hnc national bank, a
woodworking establishment, machine
shops n the enfargament Of several
plants. Amount spent for building and
repairing during 1899 (not including the
above) about $500. 000."
The educational progress in the state
has been commendable, but there is
great room for more Improvement, and
in many directions. Write for more
Improvement, anG i'll many directions
While there havc been religious reyi-
walls and fair additions to the churches
there are vast waste places where the