The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-09-22

Five Acres around castle
Haynes and Three Thousand Acres
Near Burgaw Have Been Divided
Into Ten Acre Farms-FTrst Farms
Will Probably be Sold This Fall.
Immigrants to be Brought to East
crn Carolina From Several Foreign
COuntries-Electric Line VIII Prob
ably be Built to Castle HAYNES Later.
The plans of the Carolina Trucking
and Development Company have to a
certain extent been made public. A
meeting of the executive committee
was held yesterday afternoon and the
plans of this company formed to de-
velOp the east talked over.
A representative of The Messenger
called upon Major E. w. Van C. Lucas,
president Of the company, yesterday
and he talks most Interestingly of the
plans, TO be carried out in the develop
ment of the great trucking belt. Hugh
MacRae and Company, which firm IS
principal stockholder in the newly
formed corporation, owns or has OPP
tons on not less than 25O, 900
acres of land. These figures are not
surmises, but facts. This land is To-
Gated in a radius of so miles of Will
mington and is located in New Hano-
yer. Fender, Onslow, Columbus, Bruins
wick and Bladcn counties. In purchas-
ing this land great case has been ex-
erted in two particular respects, the
o and c,earness of the title. Only
such LAND. as is suitable for truck
growing and with an absolutely clear
title was purchased.
The scheme for developing the truck
ing belt in this vicinity is of gigantic
proportions. For a year past q force
or attorneys, civil engineers and soil
experts have been busy purchasing,
surveying and testing the soils of
lands purchased
Every farm is placed upon a map
which shows the exact kind of soil to
be found and when a purchaser desires
a farm with a certain soil he has only
to refer to the soil maps and if The
Soil is to be found in the territory the
map will show on what farm it is to
be found. This in itself will be OF
wonderful advantage to purchasers.
The lands purchased will be divided
into farms of 10 acres. This does not
mean that no person will be sold a
farm larger than ten acres; they
will be sold as much as 20 acres.
Purchasers will be advised to purchase
10 acre farms and put the entire farm
under cultivation. Trucking is very
different from other farming, a very
few acres yielding large returns, and
again n man can only look after a
small farm. 1t is not the intention of
the company to sell the land merely
for the sake of ~disposing Of it at a fair
gain, but they wish to sell it to far
mers who will develop it and bring the
land to the very highest point of pro-
duction. Their idea is not what they
may may make during the next year,
but the returns that will come as the
land is developed and it is only by
bringing in a certain class of people
that these results can be brought
about.
Major Lucas states that it is the i'll
tention of the promoters to brinS in
.~colonists from the northern and west
ern part Of the United States, but they
also wish some foreigners. He has
spent considerable time during the
past summer studying the immigration
sQuetion and conferred with those hav-
ing charge of such matters in Wash
ington and also New York city. Major
Lucas says they will probably bring
in Swiss, Dutch, German, Italians,
Welsh and possibly French immi-
grants. There are no class of farmers
he says that surpass the italians from
northern Italy. AS intensive farmers
they have few superiors and Major
Lucas thinks that if a colony of them
would locate in this vicinity it would
cause others to come, for the first COM
ers would to an extent advertise the
advantages of the trucking belt. A
few settlements OF foreigners of other
countries would likewise attract Jheh
oWR people.
The First Colony.
The first section to be settled will
he in the vicinity of Castle Haynes.
where about 5000 acres has been lald
off into farms of 10 acres. Another
settlement of about 5000 acres this
side of Burgaw has been divided into
10 acre farms. The first farms viii
probably be sold at Castle Haynes dur
ing the latter part of this fall. A saw
mill has been erected on the land OF
Hugh MacRae ana Company near Cas-
tie Haynes and will be used to turn
out lumber for erecting houses. Sew
eral houses will probably be built in
a short time. Next summer vii
be a busy time with the Carolina
Trucking and Development Company,
as they will have the and widely ad-
vertised by that time and hope as n
consequence that many farms will be
purchased and they will bring in a
number of immigrants.
The company now has land sufficient
to keep them busy for several years.
1t is their intention to place colonisIs
on 100000 acres and this would mean