Onslow County NcArchives News.....JACKSONVILLE (1905) January 7, 1906
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News & Observer January 7, 1906
New Bank, New Graded School, New Court House, Three New Churches, Lumber 
Mills, Livery Stables and Shipping and Manufacturing Progress.

	To the Editor:  Owing to the situation of Jacksonville, which is 
practically at the head of the navigation of New River, and the center of a 
rich and easily developed section, its growth, while rapid, is on a well 
established basis.  The past year saw sold and shipped, 2,000 bales of cotton; 
the three lumber mills each cut an average of 20,000 feet per day and two 
other mills are to be erected in the near future.  There are two cotton gins, 
one having a capacity of 30 bales per day.  There have been erected two 
stores, one brick, the other wood, one up-to-date, twenty-room hotel, and four 
new residences; a brick court house costing $25,000, with fire-proof record 
rooms and all modern conveniences.  On September 1st, 1905, a bank was 
organized and has done well.  Besides two livery stables the town has three 
sales and exchange stables selling from 100 to 150 horses and mules each year, 
while wagons and buggies shipped to the town in car lots.  Three churches are 
erected and one other contracted for and material on the ground.  The Graded 
school voted for in 1905 is in operation in a comfortable and commodious 
building, with an enrollment of 150 children in the charge of Professors Acker 
and Burton.
	Mercantile business has greatly improved farming implements, 
cultivators, disc plows, manure spreaders, etc., and gasoline engines save 
labor of running saw for the cutting of firewood.  In every way the progress 
of the town has been gratifying to its inhabitants.
	E. R. HARGETT, Mayor.
	Jacksonville, N.C., Jan. 3, 1906.

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This was an excerpt from a multi-page report on various towns & cities of 
North Carolina.

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