The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-30
BIDS FOR THE A. & n. C.
TERMS OF THE DIFFERENT
PROPOSITIONS MADE.
More Opposition to a Lease Than has
Been Made PubIic-a. & VI Corepe
..i1eady for its Opening-Investisat-
ing Deposits OF MarI-Crops DAM
aged by Hot Weather.
Messenger Bureau,

railway. The truth as 20 these ap-
pears to be as follows. The Philadel-
PM syndicate is in with its bid and says
IL VIII put UP a guarantee. but has not
yet done so. Its bid is something like
D per cent for a SO year term 1t is
not yet known whether it will COM
piete its offer. The Atlantic Railway
company has put UP a guarantee of
100000. and so has r. s. Rowland OF
Asheville. The local syndicate has not
YET filed its bid, but IL il does so il will
probably be on Monday. Howland's
proposition is not SO good in point of
rental as that of the Atlantic railway,
and averages a little over 1 1-2 per
cent for something like 90 years. be-
ing for a term which will end III the
same time as the lease Of the North
Carolina railway to the so
that both these leases would fall in to-
gether. Howland's proposition is to
pay the rental and interest on the
bonded Indebtedness, taxes and the
cost of maintaining the organization or
the Atlantic and North Carolina rail-
way. 1t does not cover any
of the road. The lease to Rowland is
said to be a valuable n because it is
not doubted that ne would at once
proceed to develop hat section and the
road as we'll; hat he is able to do
these things and that in order to make
any money he would nave to do them.
The proposition made by the Atlantic
Railway company is for an extension,
and the rental rate is something like 3
per cent on a so year basis. 1t is de-
clared that there is really much more
opposition to any a at all thar has
been made public. That is not by its
stockholders, but by people living
along the line of the DAD There is
considerable inquiry for stock of the
road, and there must be some specula-
ton in it. The highest sale reported
officially is said to have been during
the present week at SIS a share.
Thirty years ago the stock sold for az
low as SIS 4 share. 1t is declared that
the stock is really worth SIS a share.
No one can tell what may happen dur
ing the next few days. what new bids
will be made. What changes proposed.
or what bids withdrawn.
The hot weather and dryneSs has
ended. Both did much damage to
Wake county crop some farmers
claiming that during the past six days
at least Il thousand bales of cotton
were cut eff daily. The hot winds
We're causes OF damage, which really
G1lGSlC III 10 VI NA"pS' LII N"NIs$
the damage was done. but really
of it in 6 or Z days. A week ago
the lawn in the capitol was as green as
paint while now it looks as if it had
been scOrtched. 1t vas a costly week
for this immediate section.
Bets have been made by some dem ,
ocrats that they will carry this con !
.gressional district by 5000 majority.
They are very s%anguine as to the
.oe,lf- &c Tho election
State Treasurer Lacy is up in the
mountain section on a little tOur in the
course of which he will go to Bakers
vile. :
1t is announced from democratic |
headquarters that Francis D. Winston |
will speak at MoOresville on the night
of the 7th of September instead OF at
StatesvilIe. /
Among today's arrivals were Junius F,
Davis. Wilmington; w. ]. Thomas, !
J.. L. Scott. Burlington; c.
E.. Foy. New Bern; Thor;a s. Pitt
man, Henderson: c. Alphonso Smith, !
Chapel Hill. i
President Winston of the Agrlcul- !
tural and Mechanical college an
nounces hat all students u be vac
before admission there. This
Is imperative. ;
h annual meeting of the North
carolina Literary and Historical Soci-
ETY. is to be held here on the evening ,
of the 18th Of october.
The postmaster here is notified that
The pay of 1913 rural free delivery mali
carriers is raised to 500 a year.
president Winston, of the Agricul- !
turaI and Mechanical college SAID TO-DAY
everything was in readiness for
the opening Monday. He says every
will be full. The entrance exam
will be held Tuesday and
A very large proportion
OF the old cadets will return. The col
lege is in great need Of q dormltory
and really ought to have one suttlclent
to accommodate 200 students. Another
thing which ought to be done at the
is the placing in Pullen Memo |
rial Hall of a portrait of Mr.. Stanhope
PulIen. who did so much for the 20
lege and for the city of Raleigh.
"a gentleman, by the name Of Came |
a Canadian, is here making a spe-
cial investigation Of the deposits or
beds Of mari in Eastern North Carolina.
1T is strange that there has been sucn
a limited use of his very valuable fer
tiizer in the state. OF course there Is
local use OF it by farmers on
whose lands it is found, but there is no
use, as in New Jersey for exam
pie. The deposits Of a are in q
number of counties and some Of them
are very large and rich. The smallness
of the output of mari is only equalled
by the smallness Of that Of phosphate
rock, OF which also there are a number
deposits in the Eastern part Of the
state. 1t has always been a puzzle why
little phosphate is mined in North
Carolina, that coming here to Raleigh,
for example being from near Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.
The Governor today pardoned Rus
ILL DIac--on n uhifo man ne Halifax
county, who was sentenced to nine
months labor or the public reads for
larceny and who has served six months.
Over thirty excursions nave been to
Raleigh this season and the end is not
yet. There was a large n today from
weldon, mainly of white people. OF
course the capital and the State mu-
scum are special attractions to most OF
the excursionists n really a surprls-
ing number of them go to the hospital
for the insane and the ~nenitentiary, the
being a marked attraction. Many