The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-04-11
PROGRESS AT
Wonderful Development OF the Coun-
try-Mammoth Enterprises I'm Ope-
alton and Others Contemplated.
The Work OF Mr.. j. r. Council.
Especial to the Messenger.)

county, and by beautiful Lake Wacca-
nav. is progressing like other lovely
f1fsgions in North Carolina, and the int
proyements in contemplation viii
thousands of dollars.
The Waccamaw Land and Lumber
Company having secured 22o,O00 acres,
are building a railway going in a
southerIy direction, then turning west
ward to Wilmington.
E. Nelson, of Detroit, Mich, the
president of the company, is a great
developer, and has cement interests in
California, as well as large interests in
different states. At Wilmington the
company is building a band saw mill
with capacity of $4,000 feet of lumber
per day, and dry kiln capacity of co.
q feet, the mill to be running in MAJ.
J. +. Council has sold an option on
1000 acres, and DIR. J.. r. Jackson on
LOO acres, all e Wananish, to an
improvement company, who have
promised to expend S25O,000 in develop
ment.
AAS O'0"NAA 1'N1 ia 90
anish, will become a corporation, CAPT
tai 100000, as J. 2. Council has sold
an interest in his works to members of
the Consolidated Naval Stores Com
Dany, and the Wananish enterprise
will become a veritable monopoly, pro-
tected by the Council patented inveu-
lions. In manufacturing tools and im-
PIGMENTS for %turpentine operations the
nJIfnuf now rnaDhnc G1(n ono q VnaT
and is another illustration of the axiom
that from small acorns great oaks
grow. Where 7. 7. Council was born
is now named Council Station in Bla-
den county, but there was no railway
then.
On the farm he started a little black
smith shop, added carriage building,
and drifted into making edged tools.
The business grew, and he invented
machinery, and took boys from the
farms and trained them to mechanism
they are men now and with him yet.
-Four years ago he moved to Wanan-
ish, choosing it as a very healthy. as
we'll as beautiful location. There lie
built pretty cottages, plastered in and
1 painted out, for the employees who
Ahaye their homes free of rent. The
factory built of brick measures 35XiSO
feet and could not be better lighted
and ventilated. The machinery i'll
cIudes engine of so and boiler of co
horse power, D FORCES, power ham
mers, the Council patented machines.
which no other works have, and there
are exhaust fans for dust, sparks, etc,
in fact it Is a model establishment. TEIr-
ty-tiVe mechanics are at preeSnt en-
plOyed, and the manufacture Is ship
per. w the United States and Next
co wherever the turpentine industry is.
By the A.. {. l.. track is The hand
some Council mercantile house &1O,UGU
stock n offices, pOstoflce and lonS
distance telephones. A broad carriage
way leads past the tool works, ami
comedy cottages, and the Council plan
tation, with fields as level as a floor,
IL berries, asparagus. potatoes an:l
other %epicurean delights.
Trim barns, and paddOcks, and wire
fences cause admiration and then the
big white modern Council home, like
Il hotel, stands monarch of all it sur
veys,' the plantation backed by the
many hued foliage Of forestry, auI
fronted by o feet of pier, reaching
out into the placid and beautiful Lake
Waccamaw, which is seven miles long
and five miles wide.
The Indian name of Wananish is
Ouananiche, signifying, Land Locked
Salmon, and as formerly it is a fisher
mans Mecca. A few mornings ago MI.
Council went to the LAKE to fish for
bait, then for fish, and came back with
f.: pounds of bass and crOppies before
dinner time.
At Council, on the Seaboard railway,
he has control of about ten thousand
acres, and there has game preserves,
and usually he invites friends to a
hunting party at Thanksgiving. His
last party killed 16 deer and other
same. Twenty years ago deer became
scarce, and Mr.. Council got his neigh
bOrs to agree not to kill any for five
Years, the result of which was that
the increase from II doe and her Off
spring was % to 80 deer in five years,
and turkeys. quail, and squirrels also
reward the nimrOds.
The Council boys with athletic love
for sport are diligent in other appllca-
tons. and J. T, Council, their father,
has every reason TO be proud Of them.
Jesse X. Council, II years of age,
lis running the farm at Wananish
and cleared $1,000 last year.
X. Clyde Council is running the edge
tool works by fire and forge. James
r. Council is in Il good position with
Southgate & Co, of Norfolk, Va. Wal
ter W. Council, the great football play
CT. has proven a diligent student at
the University of Virginia, III Z. Is.
Council, with a good head on yours,
shoulders, is postmaster and merCaD~
tile manager at Wananish. They get
there" when it comes to business or
sport.
Facing the lake and within tagging
distance Of the Council home 4. L.
Smalley, of Plaintield, n. J., is COM
plotting an elegant $1,000 residence
with lovely level fields reaching back to
the woods, and j. San Wright. OF
Boardman, has bought 40 acres from
Mr.. Council and is planning an Idyliic
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