Newhanover County NcArchives News.....GLYNN COUNTY... May 21, 1881
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Brunswick Advertiser & Appeal Vol. VI Number 46 May 21, 1881
GLYNN COUNTY,
Its Railroad Facilities-Town-Soil-Climate-Industries and Inhabitants.
Cary W. Styles, is Waycross Reporter.
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   Mr. J. Wilder is another enterprising citizen, and is offering advantageous 
inducements to the turpentine interests of the country.  He has a large 
distillery in the city, and in addition to the manufacture of his own crude 
turpentine, obtained from his extensive farm, six miles up the road, he 
proposes to purchase the crude from the country and distill it here.  He will 
pay the highest cash prices paid in any market on the Atlantic coast, and will 
protect his customers against the frauds so common in the weight of barrels.  
Mr. Wilder is well known as a gentleman of the highest integrity, and one who 
deals fairly and liberally.  He is also agent for the Palmer barrel, which is 
made in New York out of Western wood, and sold here at a lower price than a 
Georgian will a similar barrel made out of Georgia wood…

TURPENTINE INTEREST.

   Mr. J. Wilder has a farm of 8,000 acres at the six mile crossing of the B. 
& A. and M. & B. railroads.  This farm affords 27 crops, 270,000 boxes, works 
45 hands and yields 200 barrels of crude turpentine to the crop.  Mr. Wilder 
paid one dollar per acre for the lands he purchased, and that is about the 
price of lands in the vicinity.  His neighbors get turpentine, and obtain good 
prices from him at his still in Brunswick.

Additional Comments:
The above are excerpts, regarding Jesse Wilder and his turpentine farm and 
trade, from an article on Glynn County Georgia, where the town of Brunswick is 
located.  The newspaper's, "Brunswick Advertiser", name had changed to 
the "Advertiser & Appeal." 

"...a gentleman of the highest integrity, and one who deals fairly and 
liberally..."  Thirty-three years later, after his death, the "Wilmington 
Star" would echo these sentiments, in two lengthy obituaries, regarding a well 
respected and loved, unpretentious business man. 

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