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Iff" i&:- . ! ' '?r W - ~ "\ 1 ' % ' , pJ . " -. \ Wje Cfterato Cfjrottide \ - , , f 1 ' M ?n8 Not In Mortals to Command Success, but We'll do More. Sempronlous. We'll Deserve It." . VOL 11. CUERAW. CHESTERFIELD COUNTY. S. C.. SEPTEMBER 19, 1907. MO. 47 CHER AW WILL Bl DIS1 / Establishment of Boat Line tion of One of the Tot* What It Means in For 12 or 14 years have sev- \ eral of Cheraw's business inen 1 toiled to establish a boat line t between this city and George- I f n U7 n anil initKin AA r* ? ><< lUn-- I vw >? U ttuva Wltuill VV/ uojro lU^l' J fondest hope will be realized; ( for by that time, if do bad luck | happens, the "Merchant," with i a capacity of 3'iO tons, and the t Ohio," with a capacity of 176 t tons, will commence plying be*- 1 tween these two towns on regu- t lar schedules. The estab'ishment of this boat line means that the present freight rates from the northern and western 1 markets shall be reduced about ( 25 per cent. ? ft was about 16 years ago t that congress made its first i appropriation for the survey of J the Pee Dee river between here I and Georgetown preparatory to t the cleaning out the channel. 1 The appropriation remained at i Washington for several years t until Congressman D. E. Finley i and some of the business men s -of Cberaw got busy and then c ... . the surveys was made. That was f ' 1 - atwut wu years ago./iracticsd- i 1 y nothing rfesnlted from this t survey, which was merely a \ prelinary survey. After several c years wait the matter of clean- c ing out the river was revived r and about two years ago an- t other survey was completed. When the result ot this survey i reached the war department, an t order was given for the dredge t boat. "The Great Pee Dee," r $nd for the past 12 months this ( boat, with four snaggers, has 1 wvuu nuiniUg UU ILIO I1VC1 ttUU I the work will be completed 1 within two months so that boats r o? five foot draft will be able to f make the trip up down tba river r with ease. r 8 BOAT EVERY OTHER i>AY. . The distance from Cheraw to v Georgetown by river is 172 c miles and it is figured that the c two ' boats, which hav# been \ purchased by the Cheraw and o Georgetown Steamboat com- c pany, will be able to give Che a r&Vv boat service every other fc day. The boats purchaeed are r in excellent fix now, the Mer- c chant having recently been overhauled, and the Ohio being only t about six years old. y The Oheraw and Georgetown y Steamboat company was organ- r izsd in Cheraw about six months I ago and the following gentlemen a constitute the board of directors: f, Messrs. H. P. Duvall, JtL E. t Clement, W. T. Thrower, Wil- v liutn Godfrey, D. 8. Matbeson, c R. T. Caston and M W. Duvall, p all of Cheraw. Mr. H. P.. fc 1 Duvall is president and Mr. G. e iw. Duvall, cashier of the Bank oi Cheraw, is treasurer. The capital stock is $25,000 and a and a movement is on foot now s to increase this amount to possi- v bly $50,000, a Mr. H. P. Duval) has only n _ :COME J "RIBUTING POINT. ? fl to Georgetown is Realiza- Cl rn's Fondest Hopes-? v i Freight Rates. * own where he completed ar* t< angements with the Clyde line C md the Baltimore Steamship I ine for connections. Mr. B. M. n Munnerlyn, who is the agent at tl Georgetown for these two com- p sanies, will also he the acrent tl 'or the Cheraw company and ie ihe Pee Dee river boats will use e he same wharves and ware-' e louses as the Clyde and BaltiJ r nore lines. tii if NOT THE FIRST BOAT LINE. n] The establishment of a boat 8 ine between Cheraw and 01 Georgetown is no new thing by p my meaus. Shortly after the L var and prior to the war. Che- st aw was a great distributing n loint for all of Chesterfield, tt Marlboro and Lancaster coun- d ies in this 8tate and Anson, s? Jnion and Richmond counties u North Carolina. Cheraw at ~ hat time was one of the most mportant towns of the Pee Dee ection. Farmers hauled their :otton and produce to Cberaw rom every section of the Pee bjMiU*?MMI %4 wa? UO* (.<. I luusual sight to see 60 or 60 L wagons of cotton arrive io this E tity loaded with North Carolina iotton. It was then thai Che- ^ aw was such a banking . own. , F But what put a stop to the mportance of Cheraw as a die- ^ ributing point was the consiruc;ion of the Carolina Central rail- c oad between Wilmington, N. G j., and Charlotte, N. C., short- S y after the war. This road fed q he North Caroliua counties that iad depended for years on Cheaw and it was not necessary or the fanners and business ? nen to bring their stuff to (Jbeaw to ship. For this very rea- C on the steamboat service be- g ween Cheraw and Georgetown ** vas discontinued and when a I I :nannei is not used it soon be- i< :omes clogged up and that was C vhat happened to the channel >f the Pee Dee. All of this logging has now been cleared .way and the channel between " lere and the oceau on the P< iver was never in a better v* ondition. a' The town of Cheraw has not p> >een before the public tor muny B 'ears until the last three of four ui 'ears. The extension of the & nam line of the Seaboard Air of jine between Hamlet, N. C., d] .nd Columbia was responsible b or the bringing of Cheraw to bi I c . mi ue ironi again. mis extension ^ 7?8 completed in 1899 and com- 8t aencing at once many enter- is rises sprang up which have 8? een paying handsome dividends ti very since. CHERAW's RAPID GROWTH. Until 1899 there was only one w moke stack in Ohemw arid it bi vas a cotton gin. Now, ttiere F re manufacturing enterprise ot c< nany kinds, among them biing st 20-ton oil mill of the SJuth a Ltiantic Oil coniptin\, a large lacing mill owned by William lodfrey & Co., tobich usee 250 orsepower; the biggest veneer ictory in theStkte, being styled tie Clement Rose Manufacturing nmpanp, wbicb turns out ibe erv highest grides of veneer nd I ruck crate*. Tbc^ business f this enterpris i atone amounts ;> probably $10),000 annually. Ither enterprise s are the Pee )ee Chair facto-v which has a lost complete plant equipment; ne Cheraw Door und bash comRiiv. ounilHliaad J9.fi 000 V> ?I T~ y-v|?vv,j ae Pee Dee Iron works, which [ i daily turning but saw mills, ngines, etc. Mr. E. D. 8piith, rbo is manager jof these works, ecently invented a truch to be sed in dry kiln^ and this truck i now considered the very best q the market.. The Evansheridan <k>ncrejte works is anther large and] paying enterrise. The W. L. Clement lumber compary is now conducting an immense plaiting till plant which will manufa<:lre 100,000 feet of lumber aily. This mi! 1 will use band iws andwiil require 400 horseSTi lTEMCNT OF T1 TUtf* 11 A1317 rt A MMML* OAlin V Loc?t?d mi Charaw, S. C. . J A S?pt?mb*r oans and Discoi jt$288,850.79 demand Loans... 10,000.00 Overdrafts, ter lporary 2,086.16 tonds and St ocks owned by the Bank 4,850.00 urniture and Fixtures I '. 933.02 :eal Estate . ...... 17,392.16 >ue from Bank.'* and ' Bankers-. 15,021.13 urrency 2,895.00 fold 35.00 ilver, Nickels and Pennies 1,893.86 hecks and < 3 a s h Items 4,326.21 Total - $343,283.33 r ATE OF SOUTII CAROLINA, I 3UNTY OF CHE 3TERFIELD. j Before me ca me G. W. Duvall, C heraw, S. C., ^ rho, being duly sw oing statemen b is a true conditio ooks of file in : said bank.v Sworn to ar d subscribed bef< JOT.orrect Attest: R. T..Castoi , ) Edward Mc [ver. V Directors. M. "Vf. Duva 11, ) wer. The Jlrasington Brick orka make 5 ),000 bricks daily cd these bricks with the outut of the J'. A . Watson & Co. rick works, 10,000 daily, are 3ed in and n iar Cheraw. The tevens Lumb er company is anther large concern here. It perates a large planing mill esides 'doing a large lumber uainess. Th^Chesterfield aval Stores irianufacturea )irit8. This "apiritine" plant the most complete in the r>uth. Capt. J. D. Barden is le local man ger. v i NEW BA K BUILDING, mi t>/_c ni l:_l xdp jdhdk jui v^ueraw, wiucd as organized many years ago, as only recently bought the old inlayson corner lot on the >rner of Market and Second reels and is now constructing beautiful bank building t L. 'LJ ' out of a handsome shade of L granite which is gotten out of a ai quarry io this county. This C building will cost about $26,- rc 000 wtien completed and will M compare favorably with any tl: bank building in 8outh Carolina, <x excepting of course the sky- ai scraper in Columbia. m A hnllf. 10 OOO huloa nf rrittnn nl are marketed in Cheraw annual* rc ly, much of which is Marlboro w cotton. Mr. R. M. Pegues is n< the largest cotton planter in tnis tt section. His modern farm, fo which embraces about 6,000 tl acres in Marlboro county, will rc produce at least 1,000 bales this tc season. Mr. J. A. Watson, who r< lives only five miles north of Cheraw, will market 800 hales. These two gentlemen, therefore; furnish about one-fifth of the 11 cotton marketed in Cheraw. 11 a COTTON MILLS HEEDED. c< Cheraw needs some cotton F* mills and it begins to look as if 18 one or two mills will be con- ^ structed here shortly. There is 81 more than 1,000 horsepower to 0 be secured from the mill ponds near Cheraw to say nothing of ? ii HE CONDITION OF C< >f cheraw, :: . mi tht oIom of bualnM* r 17th. 1907. g > * utoi tmiPH i , Capital Stock Paid in $ ?,000.00 ? Undivided Profits, e less current expen- b ses and taxes paid 35,082.99 w Due to B&nka and * Bankers * 5,661.22 h b Individual Deposits c Subject to Check 178,093.28 h Cashier's Checks 733.62 D n Notes and Bills Re- v discounted k 73,712.22 ^ Total _ $343,283.33 ? o g Uashier, of The Bank of Cheraw, orn, says that the above and fore- c fi of Said Bank, as shown by the y G. W. Duvall, w Cashier. tl >re me, this 19th day of Sept. E. F. Mulloy, +- f Notary Public. | | ? it \ n ; vi the great falls on the Pee Dee a river one mile nortb of the S town. II any cotton mills are established here, it is believed that steam power will be used although the water power is B available. The Gheraw people fc are anxious to take stock in one gi or ,two cotton mills. They hi realize the amount of business a d mill will / bring here and then w they know that investments in T cotton mills generally turn out fc to be good investments X -It is doubtful if any city in e< South Carolina enjoys better 01 railroad facilities than does Che- cc raw. There are four roads here, w coming from every direction. The main line of the Seaboard between New York and Tampa, (j( over which many passengei and |e freight trains pass daily, is the 0j greatest feeder to the town. Then there.is the Atlantic Coast ice which connect* F.orence ad Wadesboro, N. C. The hesterfield and Lancaster railtad, which was constructed by [r. A. H. Page in 1900, leads trough the best ot Chesterfield >urity for more than 40 miles ad it is understood from the management that it is a matter F only a short while before the tad will be built into Charlotte here Cheraw can have M5onection with the main line of >e Southern railway. The >urth road entering Cheraw ia ie Bennettaville and Cheraw )ad which connects the two >wds in the name ot the >ad. A DISTRIBUTING POINT. The establishment of the boat ne on the Pee Dee river will lean more tor Cheraw than the verage man will think. On ac3unt of the decrease in freight ites, it is understood that many * irge concerns will make this )wn a distributing point. It is lid that the Qihbes Machinery Dm pan y ot Columbia will stablish an auxiliary Warehouse ere and this city will be the istributing point for eastern lorth and South Carolina. This cmce.n has 12 men on the road raveling four Statates and it is aid that the company will cary large stocks of boilers, euines, machinery, etc., here. The warvee on the river here /+ + ? aVe been' about completed; Oy A " CCOUnt of thfl nnmtmni fraak. V/ ... ? r- vww ?i wu' V ts, the depot will be up on the luff, fully 600 yards from the rharves. Freight will be pulld by cables pulled by a 75 orseyower engine. The bluff as been graded down and the construction of the cable track as been about completed. The price of real estate in and ear Cheraw has advanced larvelously during the past ten ears. Five years ago a piece f property near the city limits fas purchased for $1,100 The wner is now refusing $3,000. ome farm property near the .ty was bought for $1,400 five ears ago and the present owner rould not now take $10,000 for he same yroperty Cheraw has about 3,000 souls nd it is oue town in 8outh 'aro'una that has a brilliant mire betore it. It will not be lany years before this town fill be recognized as being mong the leading cities of tbe tate. J. EL Godfrey. The jury in the sensational lair case in Columbia has uwd Mrs. Ethel W. Blair oilty of the murder of her usband The verdict as renered is that ot manslaughter ith recommendatio'n to mercy, he jury was out 13 hours be>re the verdict was reached, he majority of the jury favor 1 murder but in order to get te man to sign the verdict a )mpromi?e to manslaughter as agreed upon. ? H Thomas R. Patton, of Phila>lpbia and a life long Mason, ft $1,000,000 for male orphans f the Masonic Fraternity. The Chronicle for all the news I J