The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-31

The work Of installing the new ma
chinery in the Waccamaw Land and
Lumber Company's mill formerly Chad
bourn Lumber Company. has about
been completed but the mill will not
be put in operation before April LIST.
|. The size of the plant in this city will
not be as large as at first stated, the
company having decided to purchase
a site where they can have more room
for a larger plant than one now own
ed by them. The engine at the present
plant is the same n as was used by
the chadbourn Lumber Company, but
all the machinery IS perfectly new and
the work of installing it has just been
completed. The company has already
lone some building and several more
buildings are to be erected between
now and April 1st. 4 wharf something
over TOO feet long will be built along the
water front.
Mr.. Clark, who holds the position of
general manager il the company, stated
to a representative of The Messenger
yesterday that tEey expected to build
| another mill but had not yet decided
upon it's location. Wilmington, Mr..
Clark said, was the point where they
would like to locate it by reason of
certain advantages in having it here,
but the price of property, he said, for
| bade it's location here. He stated that
the prices asked by property owners
| for all suitable locations were so I'M
18th +IoE ,,n11~ oon1i-
| ton would they think of paying
them. Unless a site could be
purchased for a reasonable sum, he
| said they would locate the mill else
! where. He said they were undecided
whether to locate the mill along the
! line of the Atlantic Coast Line near
| their timber or at some point on the
| Cape Fear below WilmingtoEs-
Mr.. Clark said the new mill would
| be several times as large as the n
| now owned by them. He said they
iShed to ecure a location large
| enough to build a very large mill and
| that they expected it to be at least
a year before they. got it built and
| ready to begin work. He said when
| they came here, after purchasing their
land, they wanted to get a smak mill
to start business Inc then take their
time in selecting the best location for
their main mill. It was for this pur-
pose, he said, that they purchases the
Chadbourn Lumber Company. Mr..
Clark expressed himself as thinking.
it showed poor judgment in property
owners holding their property at such
figures as not to justify a mafu-
featuring firm to purchase the same
and thereby cause them to go to some
other point. The proposed mill, he
said. would employ a large number Of
men and could not help but prove
a benefit to Wilmington.
The WaccanIaw Land and Lumber
| Company has had a force of men at
work for several weeks grading a spur
track leading from the Coast Lin into
their timber. About three miles have
been graded thus far and the men will
continue the grading until the rails
arrive. The company expected to have
the track built to- the timber by Apr1l
1st and everything ready to begin bus.
mess. The company owns over ZOO
600 acres Of land In Columbus ano
some Of the adjoining counties.
It is to be hoped that the company
car secure a suitable site in Whining
, ton and at a price they a afford &C
pay and thai they will locate theli
large mill here.