The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-31
CASTLE HAYNES NEWS NOTES
Trucking on Scientific Principles
Progressiyeness OF OF Squire BIo~-
sorn-Shipmcnfs OF Lime Rock.
Some Men WHO DO Things.
Especial to The Messenger.l

and has raised 100000 plants, many
OF which are a foot high. He VIII
have 30 acres in tomatoes of which
he expects to ship at least 20 car loads.
He has used used 1900 feet of lun.-
Der, and done the transplanting. and
is shipping lover lots" Mr.. Shoe
makers trucking methods have been
gained by 20 years of experimenting,
and he has two trained men with him.
and help IN from local supply. II.
b. Shoemaker's brother-in-law, f. G.
Sparks, is a very extensive trucker in
Salem county, New Jersey, and is
financially connected with the Castle
haynes enterprise, and the %intentio.,
is to prospect for, and secure and de
velop other lands in the Carolinas. ana
raise tomatoes, potatoes. melons and
otner garden products on scientific
principles.
AT Castle Haynes there are numer-
Gus patches" for tomatoes, potatoes.
lettuce, beans, peas and canteloupeS,
and between here and Wilmington @
mlies) development and improvement
are proceeding rapidly, showing pretty
home indications Of gardening success.
The daddy" of the Castle Haynes
district is Squire Samuel Blossom, who
located there b years ago, and he has
built the attractive village, including a
handsome mercantile house with hall
above for frOlics and entertainments.
inviting cottages, some of them cost
ing $1,000, and he built and decided
the Baptist church, a pretty ediiCa
beautifully furnished, and he is a di-
rector of and stakeholder in the In
dependent Mfg Company, now building
modern plants, and he has plotted Cas-
tie Haynes in avenues, streets and al
ieys to encompass a hundred acres,
n will build numerous cottages for
rent, with modern advantages. Squire
Blossom owns 1000 acres in one tract
n 500 acres in small farms in New
Hanover county and he has over 1905
acres in Pender county, valuable in
Sill and timber. He was born in the
Madeira Island group, off from For
tugal, and came to the United States
in youth, and ran the blockade for
the Confederacy during the war OF
the sixties. He made some money, and
invested it judiciOusly in New Han
over county, farmed it, and started a
little store, and his lands will bring
wealth as development is but begin
ming. Squire Blossom was magistrate
| 6 years, and postmaster off and on for
| fifteen years, and he is public spirited.
and held in high regard by old and
young, rich and poor.
Mfllwrights are busy at Ctstle
1 HavnaC cnmn1QtinU tho f0IIou-ii,r
plants for the Independent Manufac-
turing company who will employ about
SO men in the several departments:
The saw mill (%circular) will have "a
pacity of 10000 feet of lumber per
day and Herewith will be planning ma
chinery. The crate factory will turn
out $4,000 crates per season, and the
shingle mill is now making $1,000 cy.
press shingles per day, and the enter
prise will include vegetable baskets DIS
we'll as berry crates and gum timber
will be shipped.
The officers of the company are
President D. McEachern of Whining
ton, Vice President N. 81. Carter OF
Wallace; Ses. and Treas. r. N. SweC1
formerly of Wilmington; General Man
ager w. H. Shearin, Castle Haynes
Mr.. Shearin is also postmaster anu
manager Of the Castle Hayne Roci
Quarry with 20 men getting out ma
terial now for merchandising roads
Major r. n. Sweet is not only secre
tary and treasurer of the Independent
Manufacturing Company but is super
visor of building and the busiest mar
in the place, and he is well named, BE-
ing a cultured and entertaining gel
tleman. J.. S. Brock, the mill foreman
has been milling since youth and i,
we'll known in the milling world.
Castle Haynes ships about 100 ca;
loads of lime rock a year and from one
to two car loads of lumber per day, a
the Wilmington Wood Company ha;
a mill here, recognized as a branch o.
the Angola Lumber Co. With engine
Of IS horse power n W. boilers az
%gregating $50 horse power. circula
saw, edger and trim saw about 1,50t
feet Of lumber are produced daily FOL
the Hannah & Co. Box Factory OF
Wilmington. T. J. Rivenbark, thu
manager of the mill, began milling a.
a lad in Wilmington, but was born a
Wallace, Duplin county. He is an al
} around mill man, a member of the
Hoo-Hoos, and ever diligent and gen
ial in business.
r. c.. Carter, the railway agent, ha:
been at Castle Haynes a little over
year and began railroading in Soutl
Carolina years ago and is a native
SOL Of Florence and a fine young Dan
His father, J.. H. Carter, was for Owe.
So years with the A. c. L.. system
chiefly at Charleston and lately retir
ed to truck at Mars Bluff. The planta
ton on which is the Castle Haync:
Quarry, is owned by the Hanover Lane
improvement Company and they ar
subdividing the land in % acre tracts
desiring this suburb of Wilmington II
become a garden land.