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The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-04-25
SECONDHAND SMOKES.
Selling Cigar stubs Is "a Lucrative
Business In Naples.

Business In Naples.
Buying and selling cigar stubs is a
large and lucrative business in the
city of Naples. and many persons are
engaged in it. Some of them have
little stalls or shops near the docks,
the arsenals and the manufacturing
establishments where workingmcn are
in the habit of passing to and from
their tasks. Others, with less capital,
have little stands at street corners, a
board laid across a saw horse, upon
which their stock in trade is displayed,
while the petty dealers in this line of
business exhibit their stock in little
piles upon the sidewalk, sometimes
not even a newspaper being under
them.
The supply comes from the cafes,
resta urants, hotels and other public
places. Men and women pick over the
garbage heaps and the dust boxes, and
boys run up and down the pavements
in front of the hotels early every morn
ing looking for "snipes." Some of the
restaurant and cafe keepers sell the
pIlNitSc VI plckluS up the ciPuT
stumps in their places to dealers, and
the proceeds amount to considerable
sum during the year. In other places
1t is one of the perquisites of the head
waiter
Some of the stubs are taken to fac
tories, where they are cut up and man
ufactured into cigarettes and smoking
tobacco. but the greater part of them
are sold to the lower classes of work
ingmen. sailors and dock wallpapers,
who smoke them in their pipes. At
the entrance of the navy yard, which
is upon one of the most freQuented
streets in Naples and in very con-
spicuous place, half dozen of these
secondhand cigar dealers can be found
when the men are coming out of the
gates at the close of their days work.
The employees are not allowed to
smoke inside. and their wages do not
permit them to indulge in the luxury
of cigars or even smoking tobacco at
first hand. so. for a centissimo, which
is the smallest coin imaginable-one-
fifth of ! cent--they buy cigar stub,
crumble it up in their hands and cram
1t into their pipes.-Chicago Herald.
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He had been reading Scenes of Cler-
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by the publisher, and on putting the
book aside he said. "Well. this writer
possesses great ability, but I should
say, despite the name, that George
Eliot is a woman"
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The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-04-25

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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-08

cry, proprietary medicines, dyed cottons
for yarns, fish oil and fish scrap, corn
meal and hominy, photo engravings'
corn whiskey fibre products, shirts, shut
tie blocks. etc.
THE WHOLESALE TRADE.
The wholesale trade of Wilmington
constitutes a very important division of
the city's trade facilities. 1t is probable
that no single city in the country has a
larger number of iobbing houses than
Wilmington. They have every facility
for doing business with the contiguous
territory in North and South Carolina,
having direct railroad and water COM
municatiOn with all sections. The whole
sale merchants have facilities equal to
any in the country. They buy their
goods direct from the manufacturers
and importers or they import direct, and
not only can they compete successfully
with other cities, but in certain lines
they may be said to have almost driven
successful competition out of the mar
ket. The iobbing trade is in the hands
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CLIMATE.

The climate is exceptionally me during
the whole year, and always delights poth
summer and winter visitors. In winter
it is tempered by its nearness 10 the
warm waters of the Gulf stream, wRlle
in summer cool, southwest breezes ploW
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of men of ample capital and frst-class
credit, able to buy as low as the lowest
Their credit is further strengthened by
the fact that failures are very rare, in
fact, almost unknown among them.
NAVAL STORE TRADE.
Wilmington has for many years been
known as the leading market for naval
stores. Shipments are made to all parts
Of the country and abroad number of
important houses are engaged in the
business. The sources of supply Of late
years have not been as prolific as here
tofore, but the industry is still highly
important one.
THE RETAIL TRADE.
The surrounding country for large
radius. and including a number of towns
and villages of more or less note, is
practically tributary to the city in most
of it's lines of retail business Besides
this Wilmington, the principal city in
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almost uninterruptedly from the ocean
but a few miles away. The coolest wealth
er never lasts longer than two or three
days at a time. A cold snap" which
kills vegetation in the immediate sec
tion of Wilmington, is not confined to it
alone, but always extends throughout the
entire South The lowest recorded tenn
perature during the past twenty years
was degrees above zero in the month
of January 1884, when an ever-to-b e-re-
membered blizzard extended over the
whole Southland, destroying even many
orange groves in Florida. The mean tenn
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rerature in the Spring is $50 degrees; in
Summer 1880; Autumn $40; Winter
4S7 degrees.
TRUCKING IS PROFITABLE.
Strawberries grown in and around Will
mington are put down in New York in
refrigerator express cars in exactly
twenty-four hours. A whole page could
be filled with successful experiments.
Here is one letter that speaks volumes.
1t is written by Mr.. F. NJ. Foy, farmer
who lives near Wilmington:
my yield of Irish potatoes. the digging
being finished the last of May, was 220
bushels to the acre. l put out sweet po-
tatoes on the same land in June and
made a good crop. Last year l made on
this tract 1876 bushels of Irish potatoes
per acre and the Sth Of June planted 1t
in corn and field peas. | gathered the
corn in September and made yield OF
30 bushels per acre; also made hne
crop of peas and turned my hogs into
them. This year l made 1872 bushels of
Irish potatoes per acre, and now have
the same land planted in corn.
Il made in one year on two and one
half acres of land over 900 market
able canteloupes that brought me $500.
MIR. w. B. Canady received $146, after
all EXPENSES from strawberries on one
acre. He raised 1877 bushels OF
Irish potatoes per acre, and $50 bushels
of sweet potatoes per acre.
Another trucker near Wilmington Sold
during one spring. from one-half an acre
of land, $234.29 worth OF straWberrles'
For one crate (32 quarts) he received $S,
with which he bought 20 bushels of corn
the following winter This same FARMER
made. as he expressed it, 1.-TWO and haf
crops on the same piece or land he
PLANTED Irish potatoes IN FepruaIy,
sweet potatoes in May, and STRAWBERRIES
in November, from which, it being their
first year, he received only hall crop
Forty thousand packages are now
shipped annually from Wilmington; To-
600 packages of radishes and all other
truck in proportion.
IT is nothing unusual for the straw
berry shipments of a single day to reach
$50, 600 in value. In three days in one
season the shipment of strawberries and
truck aggregated $SS $3.50 And yearly
the area increases. Quite number OF
persons from Illinois and other Northern
States have settled on the fine trucking
lands near Wilmington, and have sue
ceeded beyond their expectations Others
are coming every year.
A MILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY.
! One or the leading business men Of
Wilmington is authority for the state
ment that the development and traffic in
/ fruits and vegetables has brought to the
banks in Wilmington about one million
! dollars in the last few years. This is
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facturers. During the year ending De-
cember 81, 1901, there We're shipped from
Wilmington 247 .457 bales of cotton, Of
which 222926 bales were shipped to for
e:gn countries. In 1900 the foreign ship
ments were PSI, 504 bales, for 1899 226-
1872, for 1898, Els, 450 for 1897, 249,374. and
for 1896, 213,5 500 bales.
There are two cotton mills in opera
ton in Wilmington, employing together
about 600 or $50 operatives The spindles
operated are the equivalent of about
%, 900 in .number, and of the looms about
1000. These mills turn out some 5000
pounds of cotton goods daily, consisting
mainly of madras and Seersucker cloths
and cotton fiannels. The goods are of
the very best quality of their various
grades and find a ready market in North
ern localities.
MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES.
In addition to the cotton factories
there are two iron working establish
ments, which not only supply the home
demands, but execute work throughout
this and the neighboring States. A large
cotton seed and cotton oil plant is also
in operation. There is also an important
bag factory, which makes overalls for
working men. A new enterprise for the
production of brick by an improved Ger
man system is now in operation Another
industry is pine products, made from the
sap and heart of the pine tree. There
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from Wilmington was AZ, $685. feet of
which 33,316,4 47 feet went coastwise, the
remainder, 1878. 1877 feet, being dispatched
to foreign countries. This, however, does
not represent the whole of Wilmington's
lumber trade, large quantities being
sold through the agency of Wilmington
houses and dispatched direct to destina-
tions from the mills. In shingles, 5,614-
$40 were shipped to domestic points and
1161, $50 went abroad. The lumber trade
of Wilmington is not by any means de-
pendent upon the home demand, large
quantities going, as will be seen above, to
foreign countries. The long leaf yellow
pine and short leaf pine, are the prin
cipal varieties handled and there are the
best varieties for all kinds of building
material and house finish, and are par
ticularly well suited to the foreign de-
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About five years ago Mr. e. c. Holt,
member of the prominent family of cot
ton manufacturers, and grandson Of Mr..
Edwin NJ Holt, (the father of the cotton
mill industry in North Carolina), was
looking about for the best location for
large and modern cotton mill. 1t was
known that he had several cities in
mind, and each of the cities offered to
take as much stock in his projected mill
as he wished if he would locate the mill
in their city. After considering the ad-
vantages offered by half a dozen cities,
Mr. Holt decided to build his large and
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To the Editor of glad
Wilmington
opportunity publish which, if capt.
a in other parts OF the would assure the rapid growth
of ndustrie
It must be admitted that great
appreciation of them by people
Everybody
minor those which will furnish finished
lumber, exported
facilities this
the perhaps the best in America
u1iedthe transportation unsurpassed
of heato mil
@ 800 ei,; 49, 49, boo+ +d me- Is anouest;onab1v tho
of the river
ti lands s id enter the ety with tracks running through
commodous the
increasing year by government Improvement
is about
annual business Fifty
Richmond
the trucking interest has been phenomenal increases
ILLUSTRATION the fact being fifteen million
quarts OF shipped Last
Wilmington
with sa@st
of Of
tures that would not be
be
Of them ought make goods than aost OF &
State produces the sixty million
to
of in of
IL Wilmington.
other c1ts
the best IN
paid in State improve
splendid hosp1ta mas peeh
1t-an a new life begun in the CITY,
to residence 1t
of features
anywhere With great river sweeping
seaside requiring
paraleling
be find home
ALFRED MOORE WADDELL,
Wilmington, North Carolina 4, 1902.
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up-to-date cotton kill, 'the Delgado," in
Wilmington.
The advantages of Wilmington, which
determined Mr. Holt in selecting a city
i'm which to build his mill, has brought
other industries to the States chief sea-
mort and has caused many others to turn
their ewes to Wilmington as the ideal To-
cation for business, manufacturing, ship
ming. trucking or for making their homes.
1T is easily the most charming city on
the South Atlantic Coast, and is grow
inc RAPIDLY as a wholesale, shipping and
manufacturing centre 1t is on as sure
a foundation as any city in the South.
ITS harbor is commOdous, with q depth
of water 22 feet from the city to the
ocean 1t is the natural outlet of large
section of country. 1t is the chief naval
STORE market and it does a large export
Grade chiefly in naval stores, cotton and
humber 1t has six lines of railroad and
steamship lines to nearby points and
IN New York. Cuba and the West Indies,
and South America affording the very
best and cheapest transportation facln-
ties.
Wilmington experts more cotton than
Cha rleston. 1t has a greater number OF
Wholesale grocers than either Richmond
Norfolk. Charleston, Savannah, Atlanta
Mobile or Galveston. Most of its whole
sale houses are conducted by men OIL
push and enterprise who have Deen
drawn to the city by the superior ad-
yantages offered them for growing ana
profitable wholesale business.
Wilmington has about $1O,000,00O OF
taxable property. 1t has four banks,
whose combined CAPITAL, surplus and de-
rosits exceed $500, eco. They are Wen
overwhelmingly managed--and
source of strength and help to every
sound industry and business in the city
and surrounding country. It's two saw
fues banks alone have 81 ,000 900 in capt.
tai, surplus and deposits. Saving bank
deposits grow steadily as the wage-earn-
ing population increases.
Wilmington is the central and banking
and business city of the magnificent
x1ucking industry in the garden spot OF
the world In one year more than To-
COC COO quarts of strawberries are shipped
from wilmington and the surrounding
country There are thousands or acres
of valuable handicapped specially 10
the growth of early vegetables ana straw
berries. There are better opportunities
offered for energetic, pushing Young men
in North Cardinals chief seaport tnan III
any other city on the Atlantic seaDoard'
CLIMATE.
The climate is exceptionally line during
the whole year and always delights Doth
summer and winter visitors In winter
it is tempered by its nearness 10 inc
warm waters of the Gulf stream, wRlle
in summer cool, southwest breezes ploW
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THE COTTON INDUSTRY.

The trade in cotton here is of very
great Importance, and Wilmington
stands today well up in the list of cotton
exporting ports of the country, notably,
as we believe, the fourth place. Will
mingtOn is the natural outlet for wide
expanse OF territory, being well served
by the railroad system centering here.
There are two congresses at Whining
ton, one of them among the most impor-
tant and complete in it's equipment in
the world. Ships are loaded up there
and dispatched to all parts, notably,
Liverpool Bremen and tshent. Most of
the cotton coming there goes foreign,
some, however, supplies the home manu-
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LARGEST WHOLESALE TRADE IN THE SOUTH
Fifty Wholesale Grocets Dealers Hardware Drugs, Dry Goods
Furniture, Boots and Shoes, etc Doing an Annual
Busine of $kOOOO,OOO.

and the operators are becom-
ing more expert each year.
CAPE FEAR TRANSPORTATION
The improved means of transportation
from Wilmington to Fayetteville is an
event showing progress. Some of the
very finest river steamers are being built
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THE FISHING INDUSTRY

THE FISHING INDUSTRY
This is one of Wilmington's growing
and profitable industries. In addition to
many smaller concerns, an enormous
business is being done in two large fish
cries on the Cape Fear river, recently
established, known as the Cape Fear
Fisheries and the Atlantic Fisheries
Company. Several hundred thousand
dollars is being invested and enormous
numbers of fertilizing fish are being
caught and converted into oil and fertili-
zers.
THE LUMBER INDUSTRY.
In no line has Wilmington shown
greater activity of late years than in the
lumber industry AS a lumber market
it. has splendid advantages and furnishes
the material for all kinds of lumber pro-
ducts. There are seven or eight large
establishments driving to their utmost
capacity. Beside the great lumber plants
in the city there are hundreds of mills in
operation throughout the adjacent terri
tory. Much of their product is shipped
to Wilmington or marketed through its
dealers, and a large quantity of it is
manufactured in Wilmington and shipped
to all parts of the country. During the
year 1901 the amount of lumber shipped
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are also two paint factories doing a
large business through wide range of
territory and an extensive house devoted
to the business of wood distilling and re-
fining. One of the largest fertilizer
plants of the South is located in the vi
entity, and there is also another a few
miles distant, which, however, has it's
headquarters in Wilmington. There are
two ice plants which render the city
totally independent for its supply of this
vital necessity. There is one of the
most extensive marble and granite works
to be found in this section of the South
Other articles made in the city and in
the vicinity are beats, barrels and coop
erage crates for shipping, packing cases
and boxes, house finish, store, bank, and
hard wood finish, brick, upholstery, car
riages, harness and saddlery, CONNECTION
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Wilmington is the Business Centre of the Great
ing Section of the State

mand. Lumber timber and shingles are
shipped from Wilmington to the West
Indies and South and Central America,
the ships returning loaded with mOlasses
fruits and other products of these coun-
+,.;n
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BANKING CAPITAL, SURPLUS AND DEPOSITS, So 100000

Its Manufacturing Establishments are Multiplying
and the City is Recognized as Offering Every Adj
vantage for Profitable Manufacturing Its Gil
mate is Ideal, Being in the Sub=TropiCal Region,
Coast. It's Soil Fertile Labor and Fuel Abund-
ant and Cheap, Death Rate AbnormaIly Low.
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for the service. They will compare ia
vorably with any river steamers between
New Orleans and New York