. Wilmington up-to-date : the metropolis of North Carolina graphically portrayed . ve every inducement to offer in the way offresh and desirable goods and lowest prices. It will be the aim of this THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. 53 young house to attract patronage by carefully considering the interestsof their patrons and not only to gain it but to hold it firm also buy peanuts, produce, etc., offering the best current appeal to our readers that they should consult the terms and pricesoffered by this young firm, and visitors from out of town would do wellto pa\- a visit here
. Wilmington up-to-date : the metropolis of North Carolina graphically portrayed . ve every inducement to offer in the way offresh and desirable goods and lowest prices. It will be the aim of this THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. 53 young house to attract patronage by carefully considering the interestsof their patrons and not only to gain it but to hold it firm also buy peanuts, produce, etc., offering the best current appeal to our readers that they should consult the terms and pricesoffered by this young firm, and visitors from out of town would do wellto pa\- a visit here before placing their orders elsewhere. They willbe met with courteous treatment and liberality in all transactions, nodoubt resulting in business relations botli of a pleasant and profitablenature. ALEXANDER SPRUNT & SON,Cotton Exporters and Proprietors of the Champion Compress and Ware-house Company, Office, Cor* Front and Walnut Streets* We offer here a few facts relative to the enterprise of Messrs. & Son and the Champion Compress & Warehouse Company,. which was founded in 1866. The senior member of the firm died in 1884, but the enterprise has ever since been continued by his sons, Sprunt and William H. Sprunt, without change of title. Thefirm are cotton exporters, shipping cotton from here to Liverpool, Bre-men, Ghent and other European ports. The firm have agencies invarious places abroad and their own offices and staff at Liverpool,Ghent and Bremen. In this country they have their buyers at all im-portant centers within the cotton belt, buying and shipping the stapleto Wilmington. Of course the number o! bales shipped by the firmvaries according to circumstances, but we believe a conservative aver-age would aggregate from 225,000 to 250,000 bales annually. Thefirm are the proprietors of the Champion Compress and WarehouseCompany, which, however, has been incorporated with the followingexecutive officers: James Sprunt, president; W. H. Sprunt, vic
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