The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-25
NO LEASE To BE MADE
a SECOND PROPOSITION FOR A.
AND y. c.. TURNED DOWN.
Governor ycOck Says This il Final.
Wreck on the Standardization
Crop viii be hort-Cfhe Raleigh
News Notes.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. G., September u.

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Raleigh, y. G. September p.
Today Walter ". Mills and Herbert
Fln!ayson met at the executive office
and talked over with the governor the
proposed lease of the Atlantic and
North Carolina railway. Interest CEN
tiers upon this matter now. The gov
ernor has re-appointed the old directors
on the part of the state. Director
Smith, Of Goldsboro. says this latest
proposition meets with much favor
in Wayne county and that he knows Of
onlv one man in GoldSbOro who op-
poses it, this man being the largest
private stakeholder there. There is o
growing belief that something will be
done o the matter. 1t is said that
the lease proposition. as now made,
is very favorable to the private stock
holders.
Shortly after noon. Governor Aycock
announced that after hearing Mills
and Finlayson he had decided that no
lease would be made. that his declina-
ton was positive and the matter ended
and that he is not expecting any other
proposition. He added there would be
no lease of the road. 1t is believed hat
a powerful influence in this matter is
the favorable repOrt to De made upon
an inland waterway from Norfolk to
Morehead City, which would make the
latter a notable port, as deep water on
the bar there can be secured very
cheaply.
A matter that was doubtless conSid-
cred in thedeclination to lease the At
lantic and North Carolina railway was
that if that road were taken by a pri-
Vate syndicate it would lose benefit
of tariff association fre1ghts. For ex-
ample the freight rate from New York
to New Bern via Goldsboro is said to
be the same as from New York to
Goldsboro. While the Atlantic and
North Carolina railway gets but little
freight out of such hauIs. yet it is fig
ured that points along the line of the
road gain greatly in low freights, which
were the Dad an independent system
the would lose. This is one of the
arguments made against the lease.
A charter is grantee to the Ingram
Lumber Company, of Taylorsville. cap
ital s25, 900.
State Treasurer Lacy has returned
from a tour in the interest of the
Raleigh and Pamlico Sound Railway,
during which he made three speeches..
at Drywelrs and Bailey'S in Nash coun-
tv and at Snow Hill in Greene coun-
ty. He says that at all these places
he found the interest great. EX-Sherif
Arlington, of Nash county, says very
few votes will be cast against h pro-
position to issue bonds in aid of the
road.
A Raleigh man has the contract to
furnish timber for a great bridge across
the NeuSe River at New Bern, for the
Pamlico. Oriental and Western railway
This road is to be 55 miles in length.
and will traverse Pamlico county, pass
ing through n of the finest trucking
sections in all North Carolina.
The state horticultural farm here, for
the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege has for a number of years been on
property west Of and adjoining the
state fair grounds, but this is now
abandoned, and Prof. Massey says he
is SEARCHING for a suitable place foc a
horticultural farm. He adds that there
is no suitable place near Raleigh. What
has been the horticultural farm is now
devoted entirely to poultry A man
named Jeffry from Canada, an expert, is
now in charge of the poultry farm and
is making it far more attractive than
ever before.
t seems from the best information
obtainable that the vote on the Ques-
ton of a d~ispensary here will be very
close indeed. Each side claims that il
! will be a winner
The farmers unite in declaring that
the cotton crop will be very short. and
most of them express the opinion very
decidedly that he crop will not exceed
60 per cent. of an average one.
There are now In the state school for
the white blind here " girls and IL
boys, a total of 143. There are in the
negro school for deaf mutes and blind
40 blind girls and % boys, 81 deaf girls
and 40 boys. The total at both instt
tutions is 294. superintendent Ray
says he expects at least so more dur
| ing the session. All the counties i'm
the state except five are represented
Columbus and Wake lead with IA each
Cumberland having II, also Guilfords
and Bunco~hn 10.
The supreme court devOtes this week
| to the hearing of appeals from the
fourth judicial district.
General John B.. Gordon is to be here
during the Confederate reunion during
| the state fair in October. He will wit
ness the review Of the veterans and
will also deliver an address.
Early yesterday morning there Was
another fatal collision on the Seaboard
Air Line, at a coal chute a mile this
side of Henderson. where the track is
straight for three miles. A freight
train was standing there when another
ran un behind, wrecking the caboose
and setting it On fire. w. E. Brown,
foreman of the bridge force, who was
asleep in the car. was burned to death.
Only small portions Of his body were
found. Another man is missing. Brown
was from Rich Square, \. c.. and had
been with the road about three a
having been promoted three months
ago. The engine which ran into the
cabOose ~NS number Sc, one of the new
ones, delivered only a few days ago.
The ~cOnvicts have finished extension
Of the Cape Fear and Northern railway
from Duke to Dunn and will now build
some side tracks and take out some OF
the curves between Duke and Apex.
The completion Of the road will be
] celebrated at unn next Thursday n
thousands Of peonIe will be there.
Infantry in Engagement With MorOs
Manila, September 21.-A detachment
| Of tho M ry--aioh+h ;nfonfry embark