The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-29
Especial to The MeSSenger.)

NPNN-o ~ IN SANSoNAS~A't
Raleigh, N. c.. September 24.-This
was Dunn's greatest day. That lively
town was overlooking with people from
|Harnett. Cumberland, Sampson. John
|ston, Wake and other nearby counties,
the attraction being the celebration of
the completion of the Cape Fear and
Northern railway, forty miles long,
from Apex to hat point.
A special Seaboard Air Line train left
Raleigh this morning and with George
r. Gill as engineer made a run through
in fine style, the road being an admir-
liable one. On his special train were
Aycock, State Treasurer Lacy,
attorney General Gilmer and State Su-
|perintendent Joyner- and nearly two
hundred business men. At Cary TWO
Gears were attached filled with business
men Of Durham, including Venerable
Washington Duke, Julian S. Carr and
Representative Jones Fuller. John G..
|Angier, superintendent Of the Cape
Fear and Northern road, was in charge.
The road is owned by a syndicate, J. B.
Duke being president and w. A. Erwin
During its four years existence there
has never been a derailment or serious
accident. 1t is unique in another re-
Ispect, every dollar of expense has been
met in ash and there are no bonds.
The company has a thirty thousand
dollar saw mill plant at Angler and at
Duke, reached by a two mile siding, is
o., Ill Iv.-- N.Y. .
which is we'll under construction. The
company is spending a million and a
lQuarter dollars there. The mill will
have thirty-five thousand %spindles,
twelve hundred looms.y The spinning
department now under roof is two
i~stories high, 125 by 465 feet and the
weaving department to be under roof
in sixty days, is n story. 1913 by 465
feet. Eight warehouses to hold five
Thousand bales of cotton are ready.
The company is building three hundred
houses for operatives and by the next
tcotton season will have these occupied
by thirty-fve hundred people n the
mill in operation with steam power.
Later there will be electric power from
ISmiley's Falls on the Cape Fear river,
Ia mile and a half distant, furnishing
eight thousand horse power all the year
round. The company's store with au-
ditorium on the secon floor, seating
fifteen hundred is under way. The COM
|pany owns five thousand acres there
1t has set apart space for other mills,
also for a public park and is building
"a graded school and churches.
The distance from Duke to Dunn is
only four miles, this piece of road hav-
ing been completed only three days.
It may be stated now that the road will
be extended from Apex to Durham
After inspecting this great mill, the
party went to Dunn and there We're
speech making and barbecue galore.
State Senator H. L. Goodwin, was mas
ter of ceremonies. The prayer was by
Rev. W. B.. Morton, the address Of well
|come by Dan Hugh Mclean, and
speeches by H. L. Cook. of Fayetteville;
Senator Herbert E. Norris, Of Wake;
Jones Fuller, of Durham; W. A. Erwin,
Governor Aycock introduced by u
|ty superintendent j. D. EzzelD, John
&C.. Angler, John A. Mills. President of
the Raleigh and Cape Fear railway,
land George B.. Patterson, of Robson.
Every feature of the day was delight
full. Barbecue was served to thousands
lin a grove.