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Title: Wilmington. Past, present & future, embracing historical sketches of its growth and progress from its establishment to the present time, together with outline of North Carolina history. Also a review of its manufacturing, mercantile, naval, and general business advantages, together with statistics ... To which is (!) added sketches of the principal business houses and manufacturing concerns of the metropolis of North Carolina
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Reilly, J. S
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Publisher: (Wilmington
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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representative establishment islocated in the center of the city traffic, the building being a three-story structure, 30x60feet in dimensions. Its capacity is 300 bushels in twelve hours, requiring the servicesof three assistants in its operations. The trade of the concern extends throughout bothNorth and South Carolina, and is in a healthy and prosperous condition. The variousmachinery and appliances in use are driven by an engine of 35-horse power. An amplestock is kept constantly on hand to meet all the demands of the trade. Mr. Oldham was born in Orange County, North Carolina, and has resided in Wil-mington for a period of eighteen years. He is an energetic business man, who, by hisenterprising ability and business policy, has done much towards furthering the best in-terests and reputation of the city, and while achieving material prosperity for himself,has gained the respect and esteem of the community. In all respects his establishmentis a representative industrial enterprise.14
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WILMINGTON—PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. 107 CHAMPION COMPRESS AND WAREHOUSE COMPANY, Corner Red Cross and Wafer Sfs. The City of Wilmington possesses facilities for the successful handling of cottonwhich are unsurpassed, if equaled, by any other Southern port. Cotton can be cheap-ly delivered here from all parts of the South, by means of the lines of railroads center-ing here, to the presses, while the largest sized vessels are easily loaded directly at thewharves of the compress companies, thereby saving very considerable items of expensein the matter of drayage and lighterage. Port charges also are less here than at otherpoints, and expenses generally much more moderate. First among the grand enterprises of which the people of Wilmington speak witha natural feeling of pride, stands the Champion Compress and Warehouse Company,entitled by its magnitude, and the important part it has played in the commercial pro-gress of the city since its inauguration, no less than by its extensive ope

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