The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-04-21

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Warsaw, April Another railway
has been surveyed for Warsaw by the
Belts Milling and Lumber company. OF
Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Sumter.
s. c. They have chosen a mill site one
aile south of Warsaw. by The A. e l.,
and win there erect a band saw mill,
capacity 10000 feet per day. also plan
ing mills and dry kilns, and build a
village like the one they have i'm South
Carolina. buile two years ago, and
known as New Sumter. During the
last two years the Belts company q
been buying land in Dup1in county. and
have secured 1900 acres. Their rail-
way will be a standard guage. and be
as solid as the main line of the n. Z.
l.. and will go within n mile u n
half north of Kenansville. the county
seat. Warsaw will then have three
railways.
Two miles from here on the Clinton
Branch a spur leads to Il busy settle
ment widely known as the peirce fac
tories. and there are located the big
yest crate and basket industries in the
South.
In 1881 the late Lipman Aaron.
father of Hon. r. j. Aaron, was the
first shipper of ~huckleberries from
| North Carolina. and Thomas b. peirce.
with the aid of a hammer. Il saw and a
darkey made the crates for the buckle
berries. In a stray copy of h New
| York Herald Mr.. Peirce read that the
h~uckleberry was supposed TO he pots
onous and Il committee had been ap
!, pointed to investigate. He Immediately
Subscribed for the Herald SO as TO get
! the decision of the committee. which
was to the effect that the hu~ckleberry
was nutritious and paiatab1e: then
! Mr.. Peirce invested all the capital he
could in starting a factory. He got al
!. 10-horse power engine and veneer ma
chine and started with a canvas cover
ing, then built his first factory, 20x3O
! feet. He has just completed q new
factory. three stories and attic, meas
uring 1S0X66 feet and painted white.
1t looks like Il big cotton mill. and he
has two other factories, over 100 G
each for white and colcred employees,
and says the races never will work
satisfactorily together. and more than
that he believes the Creator never in
tended they should.
Three saw mills act as feeders to the
factories. in which he has three veneer
machines and engine of GO and boiler
of 6O-horse power. He turns out 1000
crates per day from the stump. and he
covers the entire procedure OF crate
and package manufacture and besides
! s1O0 man Of tho Tntl,C annpInuc farai1inS
over a radius of sixteen miles. On his
home estate of 800 acres he has 50
buildings. and he rents garden lands
to the cottagerS. Lately he bought the
land of the Auburn Lumber company,
with eight miles of tram road, and
woods of pine and poplar and gum, and
has isolated tracts for future need.
At the factory he has a lovely home,
with broad verandas, beautified with
vines and flowers, and near by is a
general store with fine trade. Cabbage,
lettuce. and strawberry patches show
further industry and thrift.
Mr.. Thomas b.. PIERCE was born AT
Warsaw, attended the Hillsboro Mill
tary Academy, and went with the jun
ior reserves the last year of the war
of the sixties. He then went to bust
ness college i'm POughkeepsie, n. Y,
and has sent his SOL there. After
starting his factory he went north fol
a year and worked i'm crate works, SO
he is a superintendent right, and he is
one of the most untiring workers In
the state, and a gentleman i'm all that
the term implies.
Besides the foregoing he is president
of the Carolina Fruit Package Com.
pany, a combination of numerous crate
companies.
Mr.. PIERCE will buy machines for the
manufacture of potato barrels. and
general cooperage. and will also buy a
brick plant and make many improve.
ments. 1t is worthy of note that the
Ieirce place is the oldest settled in tho
county, and there has never been d
death there. Every man who has lived
Oh the estate has had from a dozen &c
fifteen children and never lost n
There is NJ race suicide in this neck
of the woods as shown in Warsaw
township. where r. +. Pollock ha,
been married nine years and got eighI
healthy boys, and his neiGhbor J.. G.
Carlton, has nine boys and four girls
and another neighbor, David Drew, has
nine boys. How is that for solving Tn.
labor problem?
If those men were in Germany the,
would be pensioned by the emperor foi
producing so many soldiers.
Warsaw is a good shipping point
and is on the forward march OF prog
Iess. in u~pbuilding and in diferen
avenues Of industry.
1t ships from 1.500 TO 1900 bales O
cotton seed a season, and two TO thre-
cars of lumber per day. and from on
to two car loads of crates daily. am
last month received 1,243, 542 pounds o
merchandise.
The railway station is to be enlarg
ed with n handsome new waiting roon
and the berry shed to be extended. an,
I,odern signal service to be installe'
with the drop semiphore system. work
ed from the inside.
About a thousand dollars worth O