The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-05-02

1922 FSAA
ION, then was identified with the =
tensive FISH interests OF George Ives L
Son, of Newborn, and became manager
of their branch al Morehead; then the
Linn of Wade & Son was formed.
Stacey, as he is popularity known,
is bank director, director OF the Ice
4. 81, and commercially and socially IS
held in the highest regard.
r.. ". Taylor is building a scrcp
fish and Oil factory on Bogue Sound,
with engine of % and boiler OF 80 horse-
power, and the FISH press has arrived.
The plant, at a o Oh $4,000, will De
ready for business next week. NJ.
Taylor has a packing house at Nor
head and houses respectively at STAGE.
Marshaliburg, Atlantic, Harbor Islani
and Portsmouth, and his gasoline boats,
some OF them 80 feet IN length, are go
ing and coming every day; he also has
several fishing schooners. He handles
from 25 to $50 boxes of bunch fish per
day and has so men on land and water,
outside of fishermen, who work on their
own hook. It used to be that ice a
brought here from the state of Maine.
Mr.. Taylor organized an ice COMPANY.
capital 100000 capacity OF plant 10
tons per day, and he is secretary and
treasurer of one Of the best kept Ice
plants in the state. He is director OF
the Atlantic and North Carolina Raft
way, as appointed by Ex-Governor Ay-
cock, and director of the Morehead Tel
ephone Company, and president of the
Bank of Carteret. He has lately gone
into truck gardening and livestock
raising as a side business, and has 80
acres in cabbage and potatoes and will
follow with peanuts, corn, sweet pota-
toes. He has also leased the PiggOtr
farm, probably the best in eastern Car
DINA, as from 10 acres thereof have
beer taken in one season $500 barrels
of cabbage. He has Is acres in cao-
bage now, and 10 in white potatoes, and
will follow with peanuts and forage
crops and raise thoroughbred Berkshire
porkers. The Piggott farm has New
port river ON the north and east and
Calico creek on the south.
E. D. Arthur and G.. l.. Arthur have
power and sailboats that go to Cape
Lookout, a beautiful natural harbOr.
and the best naural fishing grounds in
the state. In one day they got 5000
pounds of sheephead, some weighing
twelve pounds apiece. They have .
and lotion sharpies, and the Iona
Arthur with a 9 horsepower Knox
engine, the pride of the fleet, and from
their packing house ship fish, CLAIMS
and oysters in season. e. D.. Arthu"
& Bro. have been established since
1880, and are known far and wide
They own valuable properties and are
first, last and all the time for the
growth and general advancement OF
Morehead. e. D. Arthur, who OWLS
the Newbern Hotel at the Morehea1
railroad station, rented it last week to
E. G. Boomer, from Hyde county.
E. F. Dryden & Co. have headquar-
tiers at Crisfield, Somerset county, Nd
and have had a branch at Morehead
City five years. In clans and Soft
she'll crabs they are away ahead, but
deal in all kinds OF sea food. Their
biggest clam business here this season
was 200 barrels in one day and l,JOO
barrels in a week, and they handle
5000 dozen soft she'll crabs in the sea-
son of eight weeks, and have packing
and buying houses, gasoline and other
boats, an oil and scrap factory Ct
Davis, fifteen miles from here. E.. f.
Dryden runs the business here and J.
H. Riggin, the senior of the frm
Twenty years experience) manages il
Maryland, where the business is huge,
for example-S0, 900 dozen crabs a sea-
son, 10000 to $4,000 terrapin a yea,
300 to 500 gallons of oysters a day AID
fish and CLANS besides.
There are a number of smaller deal
ers here, but the foregoing is a pretty
good and truthful fish story for More
head.
John F. Bell, noted house and boal-
builder, is now building a beautlfu!
$500 residence for w. E.. Headen, and
rebuilding and transforming residence
for M. c. Klein, and numerous cottages
are assuming comedy proportions.
The Bank of Carteret building, two
stories, with equipment of safe, furn!-
ture, etc, cost 1900 and is imposing
and pleasing and looks the solid insti-
tuition it is. The bank opened Sep
TENDER list, 1908, in a modest frame
and took up it's new home a ear ago
1t began with $4,000 capital, which
was increased to $40, 0Gv, and has about
$4,000 in deposits, also undivided
profits and surplus funds. The cashier
is Charles V. Webb, a native son or
Morehead City, who for ten years was
with the Southern Express Company,
became accountant of the bank, then
cashier two years ago, succeeding his
brother, w. M. Webb, who resigned to
become, as now, shell fish commits
sioner. Cashier Webb is a thorough
inancier and a deservedly popular gen.
tleman with all classes.
Morehead City has a number OF
''self-made" men, and j. B. Morton is
one of them. He was born at New
port, left school when 8 years old, and
with an OK toted wood for the rail-
road. He became a clerk in stores,
and started store for himself at Kin
ston, then became assistant agent for
the Atlantic and North Carolina Rail-
road at Newbern. For seven years he
clerked at Morehead, then was formed
Morton & Webb, and for the last ivs