The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-21
BASIS OF IT'S GROWTH.
The Industries That Make Goldsboro
Great Town.

tIOIUSIOIO. y -. jan. 10. NtptdlA vi
respondence.) -Goldshor is prospecting
and growing rapidly. One among the
factors of this progress is the manu-
featuring industries giving employment
to hundreds of people who put IN cir
culatios quite large sum of money.
Another very impogtant factor is Colds
boro's back country. whose products are
marketed here.
Mentioning some of the clements that
combine III the upbui;,ling Of Wayne
county's capital 1T lis notice first:
The Wayne Cotton MN. which has
q capacity of three thousand spindles.
10 looms. running day and night. and
giving employment to aboIC one hundred
and twenty-five operators. They make
a very fine quality of cotton yarns ara
brown shceting. Mr.. Sol We'll is Presi
dent Of the company and Mr.. +. b.
Borden, .Jr., secretary and treasurer.
Next the Goldsboro Furniture Manu-.
featuring Company, which was est1b
liShed here in the fall of 1898: Nj W.
II. Borden, president; Mr.. ] l.. Ror-
den, secretary and treasurer. This bust
ness has grown beyond the expectations
of its promoters, and the demand for
their goods has increased t3 the OK
tent that they are now fill NJ orders
from Maine to California. Their large
and extensive shops are thor lu2hly
equipped with first class macil;:cr. ana
tools necessary to carry on the business.
In fact the business has recently grown
SO rapidly that it was found necessary
to put in more machinery and new
one-hundred and fifty horse power lat
est improved Coils engine. This indus
try is giving employment to from sixty
to scventyfive people, is situated near
the main line of the Wilmington and
Weldon and Southern railroads. ana
has side tracks running right up to the
doors of the stock rooms.
The Wayne Agricultural Works have
been established here ten years. Mr..
w. Ii. Smith is president. Mr Charles
Dewey, vice president and Mr.. !. NJ.
Powell. secretary and treasurer. The
works consist of Il first-cIass foundry and
other shops necessary for Turning orr
and finishing UP all kinds IF iron work
and general agricultural i}pl2ments.
The first year this business was cStah-
lishcd their output was abou; thirteen
hundred plows, and this year they viii
manufacture and sell about fifteen thou.
sand. They also do Large business
filing orders for thousands q tons cf
iron work made in car building. This
plant is not controlled by or connected
with any combination.
The Goldsboro Cotton Seed Oil Min
and Fertilizer Factory is one uf The
In Il Of -,
the State. 1t is certainly one &c thu
most complete and up-to-dale mills
have ever seen. Last summer this mill
was completely overhaulcd ami iuprov-
ed machinery took the place Oc the old
style machinery. Also a 16o dorS,-pow-
er improved Corliss engine was put in and
an electric dynamo with sufficient power
to light every department has been added
to the plant. Their capacity i, the
consumption of one hundred tons OF cot.
ton seed per day. Besides the large
output of oil they make the best quality
of cotton seed meal. The fertilizec fac
tory connected with this mill places upon
the market their celebrated brand Ct
Prolific Cotton Grower" fertilizer. The
rapidly increasing sale of this
fertilizer proves its worth. They
employ from seventy-fve to 100
men. Mr.. +. =. Borden is president u
the company; Mr.. +. NJ Borden. Soc
rotary and treasurer and Mr. G. +.
Taylor, superintendent.
The Enterprise Lumber Company Is
situated on the main lines of the Will
mington and Southern railroads. This
mill manufactures all kinds of rough
and dressed lumber. The capacity is
10000 feet per day The business has
been established about twelve years. All
of their machinery is modern and first
class. They own and control several
thousand acres of timber lands; have d
logging camp about twenty miles from
GoIdsboro and tram road about ten
miles III length which conveys Il portion
OF their logs to the Coast Line road be-
tween here and Smithfeld, whence they
are brought to their plant here A good
many of their logs are RATED down
Neusc river within two miles of the
mill. whence they are brought over
another tram road belonging to the
mill to their plant. The officers of this
company are Mr.. \. O'Berry, president:
Mr. \. Ii. Edgerton. secretary and
treasurer; Mr. NJ Il. Robinson, vice
president. The directors are n. ODER
ry. Dr. NJ. +. Robinson, Charles Dewey,
Thomas Edmundson.
One of the Oldest established enter
prses of Godsboro is Dewey Bros. Ma
chine Shops and Foundry. They build
and repair all kinds of stationary and
tram road engines The good work FOR
which this establishment has so long
been noted makes any newspaper article
almost unnecessary The owners of the
plant have never failed to take advan-
tage of the latest improved tools and
machinery, to thoroughly equip their
shops for turning cut all jobs satisfac-
torily and with dispatch. Two miles
from GoIdsboro on Ncuse river is n
shingle mill owned by Mr. A. L. Griffin.
The capacity of this mill is somewhere
between twelve and fifteen thousand
first class sawed cypress shingles. AM
Informed that this mill is doing we'll and
has been a financial success since first
started.
Another important industry owned aud
operated by the We'll Bros. is the thor
oughly equipped plant known as the
Goldsboro Rice Mill. They handle
thousands Of bushels of rough rice from
this State and South Carolina annually.
Tho -ioo oftor boip,r 1Io,,o,;