The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-24
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
RECORD THIS YEAR Is \ MOST
EXCELLENT ONE.
ceiyed CharterS-NasOnic Lodge
GrOninG-Liquor Element Humbl1d
by Their Defeat.
MeSSenge" Bureau.

Raleigh, y. G. November 21st.
h industrial development in this
state this year will make a grand
showing. Already 19 cotton mills
hay been chartered. with an author
ga capital stock of $4,000, 600. No
less than u lumber or wood working
CORPORATIONS have been chartered with
q total of capital stock of more han
%~3.5ON.000. These are scattered all
over the state. Some of the largest
of these lumber companies are the
Fleetwood and Jackson. $500, 900: the
Croatan $10G.o"O; the F. Jewell Com
pany. 100000: the Fitzhugh, $780,
900: tn Albermarlc, 100000: the
NewIand, $4,000: PamlicO and
Neuse. $125.OOO. In the way of fur
niture and wood working concerns
some OF the largest are the Caswell,
SI25.OOO; Crabs, 500. 1000; Carolina
Single. 100000: Oak Furniture,
$125.600; New Hanover Shingle.
100000; southern Car Company.
S250.OOO: EurGav. 100000; Atlantic
Coast Supply Company. $500. 900;
Eastern Arm and Pin. 100000. Car
olina Spoke and Handle. $125.OOO.
Along other lines. charters have
been granted to Electric Power
Plants. the High Point. Thornton,
Concord. Cleveland and YadKin with Il
TOTAL capital stock Of S~5.215.OOO. Char
rers arr grantee to fertilizer COM
paui-s at Red Springs, StatesvilIe.
Clayton, and Spring Hope. ,capitaI
$~260.O00 Four insurance companies
hav" been chartered. and two steam
boat lines. the Petersburg. Norfolk
and Weldon and the Virginia and
Carolina.
Whiskey distilleries have been char
tered IT five places, with q total
capital of 100000. and turpentine re
tiueTics with d capital of $500. 900.
Among other charters are those TO
Brev1rd Tanning Company. $500. 900;
Carolina Mica. $125.OOO: Enterprise
Gold Mine. 5000. 600: Salisbury Pink
Granite, S300.O0O: Yadkin and Vir-
giHia Copper Company, $75O.OOO: Yad-
kin Land Company. S~1.0CO.OOO: Yad-
kin Mines Consolidated Company. 81
G00.000. These are merely a few Sc
lected from a very large list.
In the course OF an interview Grand
Secretary Drewry of the Grand Lodge
of MasomS said that h number of
subordinate lodges is now 343. the
reports coming in to him show a gain
in membership in every lodge and he
says the total viii be nearly 1000.
which IS far ahead of that in any
preceding year. Many lodges show
" gain from 10 to 10 and some 30
to 80.
Speaking Of the Masonic Temple to
he built here. Secretary DreWry says
the cash i'm hand is $4,000. the 500
900 Of first mortgage bonds are spOk-
en- for and of the 100000 of the second
mortgage bonds. $4,000 are already
taken. and yet the has Wis
tied only % lodges. Architect Bryant
who is to construct the building. is in
Philadelphia. securing valuable in
formation bOu such structures. 1t
may be that the first story of the
temple Will be built of granite and
the remainder of concrete, which 1s
now so much used in such structures,
and which resembles stone.
The late majority of the board of
aldermen here. which opposes a dis
pensary. and which fled in the face
of the people who voted for the dis
pensary is very much humbled by its
defeat last night. One of its mem
bers said that when it elected its
men as ~dispensary commissioners they
ought to have fixed their terms and
that it was a fatal mistake not to
have done so. The men who will be
elected will be the ones the diSpen-
sary people had wanted all the while.
one liquor man says that maybe when
the aldermen meet again they Will
change back so thai the liquor ele-
mont Will again he in the saddle.