The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-05-12

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Newport a junction, as several miles
would be saved, also miry, spongy land
evaded, and a direct and clear way Sc
cured to Richland.
The dividing OF Carteret county is
being re-agitated, and. with a part of
Craven county, and with the old canal
as a line, the suggestion is made by
Morehead City people that Newport
would be the geographical county seat,
Il the other county would have Beau.
fort Or some other point as the seat of
government Newport, on the A. 81 n.
G., a four passenger trains daily, and
two freights, and from it's truck farms
is becoming an extensive shipper. Last
season it shipped $500 barrels of white
potatoes, 1000 busneI baskets of beans,
LOO crates of cabbage, and 239 bales
of cotton, with many bales in reserve,
and has shipped this year 1000 bush
els of last years crop of sweet pota-
toes, and 1903 tobacco crop was 300, 600
pounds, 1904 crop 100000, but this
year will greatly exceed those outputs.
From Newport also go 80 to 80 car
loads Of lumber, and 800 cords of wood
and many barrels Of oysters.
About $4,000 pounds of merchand-
Use came in last month, and 4O6 tons Of
fertilizers last year.
A lot has been bought for a new and
Odern style railway station (much
needed and another telegraph wire is
being added, and the pretty village is
on the onward march of progress; with
its neat cottages packed by spacious
gardens, the streets lined with shade
trees, and level farm fields rich in
fruit trees n vegetation, it is a love-
" and healthy habitatiOn, peOpled by
North CarOlinians ever hOspitable and
in kindly vein.
A beauty spot in Carteret county is
the Newport fruit farm, located at the
village, and seen from the cars. The
farm encompasses Is acres, IS in orch
ards n gardens, and at the barns and
on the pastures are Jerseys and Hol-
stems, n the poultry yards have hum
Greds of barred IND white Plymouth
Rocks. The Dear orchard has 1,50O
trees, Keifers, .eCOntes and CARRIERS,
granting 20 bushels to the tree, some
giving s bushels, the Keifers being the
most prolific. The peach orchard has
1000 trees-EIberton, Belle Of Georgia
and Carmen varieties, producing about
10 bushels to the tree, and Red Asker,
Yellow transparent, and winesap ap-
pies are picked 3 to 5 bushels to the
tree; there are two acres in strawber-
RES, and r~aspberries and ~blackberries
were started this ear
The vineyard gives about so pounds
to the vine of scuppernOng (black), Del
aware, Concord and Ives seeding
grapes.
In the vegetable gardens are pota-
tOs, beans, peas, cucumbeTs, watermel-
Ons and canteloupeS, and celery does
splendidIy. The herds include Jerseys,
HoIsteins and Polled Angus, and the
focks include Southdown sheep. The
barns, packing house, and tool house
are kept as neat as a good housewives
kitchen, while the summer cottage of
the owners George n. Ives and Son, Of
Newbern) is redOlent with roses in Il
and bloom. About a quarter of a mile
away the Ives have another vegetable
farm of 80 acres and two story house,
and a beautiful grove centers the fields
and rows. After feeding all the stock
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grass are sold, and the potatoes II
beans go west in car lots and the
fruits make dessert for North CAROLYN
ians.
There are hundreds and hundreds of
acres here. which can be made equally
as productive and beautiful, but many
of the owners have little money and
are only getting out of h woods, so
to speak.
/. l.. Morton, the superintendent of
the Newport fruit and stock farm, is a
native son of Newport, and began with
the Ives estate nine years ago, and cef-
tainly has proven not only a success
full grower, but having a place. for
everything in its place, he has proven
an economist and made the Newport 4
model farm. Mr.. George n. Ives, the
proprietor, has been of ~incalculable
benefit to this region, as his place has
been as an experiment station n test
farm and proven excellent as an exam
pie; his introducing the latest tools, Ill
plements and machinery, by being fol-
lowed, has not only increased cult1Va-
ton and crops, but has improved the
people mentally as we'll as financially.
A good combination enterprise is that
of Y. u. and A. o. Newberry, who nave
live stock stables, Garage repository
and blacksmith and wagon shops. They
handled many head of horses n
mules last season. and always. have
some very stylish roadsters, A. o: New
berry being a great lover Of horses,
while Y. Z. delights n mechanism and
keeps the anvil chorus ringing. They
were born and raised here, and own d
farm, and established only about three
and one-half years ago; their success
has been rapid and has every indca-
ton of permanency.
Newport handles many horses and
mules and L. c.. Carroll, who camohere
from Pender county three years ago, is
building big business. Last season he
disposed of three car loads of live stock,
oa1 hu 1n00i mr.