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Rminslnrii I in* I nvc 'in;-: l.vn<jastj ? I k i:H NKVV;-. JULY 31, 191 i \ i. "V ' 7 WVTMI S-~4K.I ?.< and Lane By request we publish the fc lug report of Mr. T. M. Belk. rqrqr. to the Supervisor of Lsnc rfljlnty as to the boundary lln twesn the counties of Lancastei aster Counties >llow- place poU<M4 out to meet ?ur- Uair nnnr li the old Henri Murtar Mr. Mm* wee with e be- shew eat 0ft 6# to 60 ye a r and Hres Hi liir'littqdnd yen II M _ -- - 1 (IIIJU The i Um? of i xt iaon ford. WO Am ?h'0 peddler, of a?_ of the elimr with Fact* Rema n ount of miflpeprcsentatioo 1 " alum bakfitg' powders, n< chemicals, or DretendM* ar t I Pai a jug. I lalwtic | tit YourH oase l\?l 9U1W Having been called upon t amine all evidence aa to the tn cation of the County Line bet Lancaster and Kemhaw and t port whether the last line. W survey, is correct, and, if, not. to facta as to why it is not correc Therefore, I hand in the folk report, after surveying in pai the lines from Hammond's sprii Lynches river. iuv u? anovt .one mile or d ex- ner at Ljru^a river, ha co le lo- the Byrd statement as to t! ween Mcllwaln-Rags^ale line h< o re- also as to tils he lax the i rl!son men had always shown hli ? give true dbraer. :t. Takd the Aw a lines of the twing survey;" before mentions t all from Htupmond's spring to Dg to road, find then from corn Bethel church to Lynches r the cor-1 *? 0 . . rrokrates I Or Cookedany kind, < place old Royi d;W,fl?Hat 1 has b Salisbury clal CI er near Ivor. In hflnhafi up certificates, or falseho :an change the fact that il Baking Powd< een found by the ol laminations to be ol I A??^l ? ods of ^ pays and barns. er in. Buck L< the seed Oil, to paint your home, your t F and it pays better to ge WE SELL THE BEST sad, Lewis' Pure Lead, K Lowe Bros.' Mixed Pair enant houses <v t good paint. eUoggs' Linits, Pratt & There being little dispute bet the Russell Place and Catawba I did not go farther west than mond's spring. Mr. P. T. T says he dug out and made a s here since .the war, but does know whether or not there evei an old spring here. Whether o this is the old spring place. < for In 1820. Is very doubtful a main sptlng for the Hammond I wir annlfi of (ho tin n no and nnt n weon their report they nay of th? river, these lines, from Hammond Ham- to SallSDnry road, we run 1 witty degree given in the Act (c prina while on the fdjPond lit not Bethel church to Lynchc r was they say, ws gave one-fourt r not variation. They found no c tailed Now, if one of their lines s the reel, without IHy variation, lotme could not bh Correct with o iort h Hmtp* vaH Ml m or I von nr v 8 flf8t Of " I*? spring free fr the exact r 1892), purity iu from ? liver. Royal degree _ ornere. for making wan corthe other l. ne-fourth ivo wvuiuy ?I1IV1CU< Dm alum, and of absoli and wholesomenei Baking Powder is indispe ; finest and most economical I zy Lambert's lie , 8Sw tee goes v free if not nsable I food. Slble Pam1 Rememt 3 Varnish and Oil Stains, rith the above to repaint ; satisfactory. Why listen ;ers and ignore our guarai >er the $35.00 White Sew Our guaranvour home i to irresponltee? ing Machine, however, Ihla is the spring calie In the AeVof 1892 and called f the Halle-Hagsdale-McTlwain su under which the Act was presur based. Here I found cooking from Hi place, the WITsoti-Dwlght-Co trial line struck 228 feet to the of (north of) the new comer established (75 feet south of mond spring) and indicated ci d for Hut, ak a mailer of fart, th< or In have'given g*o-- tlogree var irvey, each line, jfnmr the degre nably taken In 1 dat or earllei. Should tha Wilson nurvoj ursell eornered on the Mrllwnln-l ilcock Hailc cornOTsione, near west church, 608 feet south of wl they did corner, and have run Ham- east, giving qjio degree for tr.nge since the year*18!?*2- the t.r ?y should iation on the 8Pot where Bethel es -.' ere stands, or about opposit Mcllwaln-Ragsdale *or rors have pieces of Delph and cro< Rngvlale- f?und. Bethel Mills gives N. 62 Vi 1 here they corner In 1820 supposed north 67 one-half degrees of vai variation 1^20 gives us exactly N ue varia- same a^ Haile-Mellw: church now river. I also talked e the Haile- of Kershaw town cl Tier where counties, and every o ;kery is now hal never yet heard say the new line ; 2. from this l^ynchea river was < lv. Four and ,hiQ* ,,ke c?rre^. -iatlqji sin<?- ^*he Act of 1892 [. b.E. or nu-de to confirm the :iin.l(:irs<l:i1.< ' RS'lale KUI-VPV and - auu nne a i with a number on hand. * Itizens of both ne told me they ti,p u i. xi I a single man TI1C DeSl TJ and corner on correct, or anywas evidently Hal le-McIl waintaYnnv^rc hn VD V ssortment of Allummuia Our daily supply of fresh lat money can buy. COME TO SEE US. Ware always groceries are or me nceoie 01 over one nni tenths degrees to strike their corner Instead of one and twelfth decrees as In their rf If they run north 74 east, acoo to the Art. this will give N. 75 degrees"K. tnsteudof N. 72 11-1 grees an called for in their repc The next line from Hamm spring the Act calls for N. 48 E the 'Wilson survey' calls for ei the same degree. Had they mad 1 hi*- non 10 a smau fraction or a now as I have found from a go one- manual. aoB from the actu sport, vey or hundreds of lines in rd*ngity years of practical experie 6-10 I might add) I have made a 2 de- of locating old and dlsput irt. should they have done U ond's have continued their course . and to Lynches river, they wo tartly struck Lynches river at or e the few yards of the old corner ^ ^ survey with one deare vernment s;??-e 189*> al resuriuv twpn- 1 ,lne froin Beih nor land "chefc river. It is im specialty Klve one-tenth or the ds ed lines eJ* or could have taken iis. and Khorl sketch like this. > thus on The new "Wilson s\ uld have above the line of contenl within a Kershaw, where I find ti Dlace at met. the junction of tin f variation 'J ?n Koverned by thl 1* would be a great ti lei church to <oun^ *? *ah< possible to i;' ;1'eiftoal Hne. itn I obtain- ,Iu^? Mcllwain and down in i urart'ca> >?nd survey< onstrue this Act of . as to cut Lancaster irvey was j.OOO acres of land. Lion, even in ? , _ ,, vo old roads Hespectfully si ese roads at _ J- BEL [8 for" Id" "years'! f* l\l ujustice to Ran M M m l Wj e an Act based run by Messrs. Ragsdale?old. jrs? ana to so ? the legislature a** * * ** county out of jbmitted, ,K, Surveyor. | NETT-TERR : yco. I same mistake witb this line as did with the trial Tine, just men between two known corners o Ragsdale - Mcllw&in - Halle sti they would have struck the Salt) road about 150 yards south o point they located as a new c (20 feet south of creek.) As a mailer of fact, they a the Salisbury road 140 to 160 N. or the Stone corner placed they Harrison's old ford, whei tined Mcllwain-nofcedale cornerc f the aftain, had. they started at irvey. line on l^mchea river with t sbury Mcllwaln-Ragsdale survey, f the at Harrison's old ford) and orner south < west?with c fourth decree variation?th truck have struck the Salisbury r > feet than 30 yards south of tl there that Haile-Mcllwalm-Racsda re" Haile- each place, van taken a? )d. Or. line. The old settlers, 1 the exact informed, disputed ovei he Haile-! forks of roads, long (I mean Haile-Mcllwain-Ragsdale have run Leaving Kershaw, tl >nly one- survey" soon got awa; ey would 'north of, all contention o oad more J- C. Broom. 50 yea te corner I Uvea five miles east of K le did, as in Kershaw county, saya aKniil nto.fnnrth mll? % the ordinal xt s ?i, 4ve_n? am reliablv Meaara. Wilson, Cola r these two are W "mart gen before the "* * h? th** are bett survey. ; of aurveying and a he "Wilson Mnrv .^,*n they are y above or oM ?"d dl?P?ted 11m >f the liMe. ira old, who lershaw. and Very Tr \ new line is Baltimore American. n?-*K /v# 1 Th? PhyAnnlnvie* doubt but that ww >ck and Dwight f f tlemen, but It HOYTA er up on theory AACIV C thousand other up on locating es. T. M. B. lie] If not, V _Vaa .1. W? Yon Seen Flo raste no time. She is ver rence? 7 beautiful. u/ vuu iiaiiu-iuvn nui- ir vey. This place was pointed o ms by three men who were wit lullo-SSvIiwalu-RasBuie survey these three men. J. S. L. Bartoi bert Bailey and S. C. Gardner; not be mistaken as it was Just, of a large oak and at tho inters* of. or Just south of a small leading out westward. Their ment of tbls corner Is also < borated by Dr. McDowell of Ken i ou* .a uiaivw vi i?cvf cvmvr at, ut to I 500 yard* south of their ow h the | Now, since the report of Hiui bon-Dwigni-Uiicock surrey, l. Al- thnt the Act of the leirlsli could 1892 Is presumably baaed south Haile-Mcllwaln-Ragsdalp s >ctlon have dealt piinclpally with road | vey In my report, and thin state- made the difference In the orro- survey," and the Halle-1 nhaw. Ragsdale survey, plain to th (uiu o*er wuw-ivu. %u iuHe ui n corner. t his father, Wesley Bit the Wll- ed. always claimed i admits Never heard anyone say ature in *ar north, and the generi upon the "new line" was at urvey. I His land was bounded that sur- i-anraster county line. I lc I have *'*8 about one-fourth no "Wilson , upper edge of his pla Vfcllwain-\ farther east Mr. Mdtgoi e average hundred-acre tract of 1 Kjm. dereas- fwlln| the bumps o m the line, i can tell you exactly line pas so man you are. tl impression : Mr. Dolan?Oi belj wronfl place. | XA mofe av an oidea on north by ^"himn|en me wolfe 1 jut n#w line f-? lile north of iiiua ce. A little ; _ wnu d ha I a one Wl F. STEV and in L.an- ; m your head i Take her i what sort of a are it wild give I fort, keep ] i wot sort ar a, ? 1 find, vou c IS ENSON? : matic, rah nto your home, she will gi vou cool, and the cheapest < annot afford to be withoul sreless and ijrickless. The Lve you comcook you can t her. AutoFlorence Oil ^ who also was present at tun *?rvwjr. - ?. ? . Prom the corner near Ha Rock creek, they measured ai a new road that circles a hill in of measuring straight up a hi Mr. Rnrton savs Halle-Moll Ragsdale did. I measured botl tances and found it 45 feet fn rknund the hill. Then, measuring down the burv road, the "Wilson Su * or map. &n^ .vny college raai . pears oj .actwi) practi^a?t e ngiux in running old and disputed round judge If 1 am correct, stead leaving the description. U, as the Act of 181*2, and eolnp wain- yond the Haile-Mcllwain^ dis- survey (of 1881* and 1892) irther iujr tip the old plats and Lancaster and Kershaw cou Sails- all the most substantial ov rvev" old noonle T HtiH ?nm? i of ten easier connty. caning i xnerleqfe county line on south aid lines can^onYy "leaves about sen says, in Lancaster count given in The last six or eight i brick be- Lynches river I read th -Ragsdaie Port to various ones, ^ and tak- "When we got within tl maps of Lynches river, howeve nties and evident that our line w? ldence of ?' the line shown on Mil < whifh i of the line of the tnorc ror 111?baw For what does h e. kfjlly? g'h w>.- h* First.- for- economy. tv. that congress is the miles next to has spent $352,000,0 e Wilson re- and rivers and harbo: A hich says: helped the people of I iree miles of oac ponncy. South i r, it became of that money accon s theu north ion would be 48.00C Is' Atlas and had put that on ou I recent sur- ?? ? ? e stand notor- StOV is O] D? k?OW ;1 rlast two years ^ nnfppd to < 00.00 on creeks I anieea ?0 < rs? This has not ' .he Fifth district o r?H to ^T-Vi ^axol'na's share 8 iuiu lu oAV ling to populat- rl My guara, le of the wonders of the v ctfet yotrtess money," give1"? e you less trouble than any ntee behind every one sol< t rorld. Guarr stove made i. And just placed a corner 608 feet short c atone corner of the Haile-Ragi Mcllwain survey?that la. f north. This stone corner was ] ed out to me by Mr. J. S. L. Bi who was with the Haile-Ragi Mcllwain survey, as stated a Mr. Archey Vincent also pointe this same stone corner as showi by C. H. RagsJale, one of the t mentioned surveyor*, who start >f the wish to state briefly, idule- First. taking the corn nther uanKinp Hock creek, and I point-- Hip creek Itself has been irton. j h. Robinson showed i *dale- ground as near as he could 1 ibove. 0j,j rreefc run. and by actual d ?.ut it was 130 to 150 yards sou l him bridge as it now stands. *Ll?re when he was a boy the t al around south edge of bo ve>?. ?nd it so eon tin i*t near .the rtTer one-fourth ml find that 'J above the point sh< changed. though several no on the locality .stated that o vhere the bpre coincided with I measure others had pointed out ith of the n*l line." I asked c He said could flnd. black and w reek run ' POUntiea, if this statem< ttom atir^?_J?d single r iied, striking rivers every man in lie apparent-1 would have a good own in the During that term ot residents of . government has cost ur line, evenj.oo. We woud have a what their. naif as much t as the ergi- as it taUces to run tl K My body 1' government and Inst te, of both I used to ben fit our it snt was cor-1 dumped into creeks nan said not | habere, and almost -* ? - " South Carolina I ^0 think, } road at hand. M ir whole State ! only $20.00.000 kitchen wl A>out two and a , or our roads | ae whole State have to W8 ead ot Its being \U tads it has beeniB and rivers and you Want none of it has \ ? - rou don't have to go in t len you have a Florence, n< it on the fire to start as yoi at once, saving that fuel a :hat old hot either do you i get the heat md that heat mm namtj aiuue lurunr m iuv which county a man waa killedbelng not long after the Hail Ilwain-Ragsdale anrvey. 0 pointed out this name atone c to me aa betnbg told it waa Halle-Mcllwaln-Ragsdale corner location of this stone, under a < and there being no large w north the one near this plac< gether with the positive atatem< Mr Barton tha tthis was the cor: bridge and west of the old "~m or near where a little bran *"Mc" bottom and there crossed tthers un<ier a bridge, running ale orn?r edge of bottom back east '||e present channel near lari W. D. Ussery corroborates t *? tbpnt and adds that he knoi alnut a jaot #s wejl aa j,e |( * toI Others tell me they know t mtof true tlCI* I TKIa ponol u1 V? oeo tHn Kr road to w wurni iflwr lall the old settlera bed 1 the road : their U*** Different OB vnm , th ** * they did not ballet ward to tiiat loc*Dty has made st n rocks ?1"?** 11 mu#t hav? b< his state- "oaeone far away from k* thu to Amon* the names of th< . nl ed- I submit the follow hi- to be M C- Q^dner. John I ni to ne Bird Bm Blrd Rob jy Mungo (colored), and iMuen uo been seen In South told them nil have Jest passed a t ies remarked house carrying $80, re anyone in the senate will add ich a remark m,vi cut down "that reu made by Tillman calls it and their section, the farmers' doors. t>se question- What doe sthe fs ring names: this? Give Stevenson Slrd, Charles will do his best, i tun go, Alex the Pith district on t perhaps a'not the farmers of Carolina. They til throuffht the x_ * ... ,o<io.ooo.oo and stand ^ to it. Stevenson I steal" as Ben i. ^ i i build roads In to get hot xmer say about JLL ii. i a chance, and } OU anyth. sot only to "put he map." but to the fith district hile you are waiting on th Come and investigate, ing to see for yourself. f e other stove 3 it wont cost I that C. C. Halle, Surveyor, shov to the others the day or survey that they began here and mea northward to locate the corner the creek and did locate it b measurements from this c (whether correct measuremen not,) makes this stone unque ably the Haile-Mcllwaki-Ra| corner of 1892. Mr. Neal Be was also helping with the Hall TI-.-l- D...4.1a ansa.. %*! ??oi I?A|4 | # ' "J is, was out since the war at anb to 1875. Measuring from < sureil ,|ej here, according to old nfh? does not comer at y lIie church very much, omer ts or Second, corner near Beth stion- bas never h?*n considered, rsdale old0*t PttPlf of both cour innott further norfh than the stoi e-Mc- found by HaHe-Mcllwaln ?_ in their surrey..The older s< out 18S6 dozen othera old chan- Mr- w- T. Threatt saj est data. Miles T. Threatt. has 11 Bethel* ywirs or more across L} (and I believe he sail el church frona Lynches river. t find in son's ford, or signs o lt.p_ _n" could be seen when he le corner and that the corner of L -Rae< dale Kershaw county was one S S ?: 500 yaLd?.- ^ would, [on the map also. ps his father, i ved for fifty t ~ ^v^.No: Six-Si That Harri- _ f old road.1 This Is a prescription i i was young MALARIA or CHI ancaster and or six doses will b -fourth mile, * taken then as a tonic My. south of Mora. It acts on the Adv. | x*Sfc J. wptred aapeciaUy ILLS * FEVER. | peak any caae, and the Fever will not I liver better than B. Mackc ? .< m. *4 well iiwaiu-ncifvuciio oui ?c/ ?uu ?m?i me that the atone corner of Halle-Mcllwaln-Ragsdale cornet under, or by, a cedar and not aouth of a large walnut, nearly atte, or but Utile north of E church and away aouth of new of "WlUon Suryey." Mr. Ri Hallo'of Columbia waa laoo pri and, if neceaaary, others can t to thfft corner. Dlatancea cannot be counted pie did claim a large rock . the aand. on east edge of f*r rtffbt ln front of church, b Mcllwain-Ragsdale in the iwKoi did not corner on this rock, tjfn*!* nice granite rock, which chard to 2 ^ f*et out of tbe *n .about C inches square, w JJJr. '! stone Haile-Mcllwaln-Ragn 7 inesed oa ht blaak rock al i_ .112 Inches in diameter and 111 * ..^k net up in!lue n*w WU8on corner road and: ! ut Hallelr survey This Is stands 2 >und and bile the Sale rorhont S to 24? feet *Y*V | on Ltjrncties | *UU uun noc I _______ J ?, 1 / r? ./%n rv npc or uuco. a* THE Q When 700 i , Horton. Wet IUAUTY STORJ YOUR TRAD t mot something niee to cat, c ? >uy the vwj bMt quality in E WANTS E * ? t? Ekhraitft * ??T Ma??krt ? court of justice, against the k fact of a corner, and. eapeclaJI when the three other Uaea frei taw ba river to Salisbury road measured show over 4SO yards of distance; and this gajn on a i distance of leas than 15 miles Starting from this new corn the "Wilson Surrey," 60S feet of the true Haile-Mcllwaln-Rag surrey, they passed through Kei 1AA nnla nnrtli nf tKa 1 nown \y go, Poss Lanier. the very ol a Cm- Uw. *ho lived right by co i re. perhaps the beet informed gain this section of the state, tol a hole f?re hie death (in present | Win Craxton). that the < or of, Lancaster and Kershay cou north : * black rock under a cedai ;sdale j Ibis tall rock in front of cl -sha* . never knew where this bl jaiia. i was until it was shown m Idest Mt- * *10 I ner, and I man tn Id me base of Mr. corner of nU?> wu lt ig ntp iiJJrt I nice Soda Water lack rock nor more ple&sii A hv Mr. a/ lr?iA<mfk<* fVa^ Best t^oia urin % eshinc and satfcfying to take j to quench the thirst. There ii iff drink and tou have the h KS tarry. When tine the very doing your tra _ _ don't get a be1 a drink o? , ^ _ i no purer ! ttoewiwe. T1 , i;, #, ri? ? to using the v< you send your ordm boo you bast the maifcat affords; If j ding hare, why lstginoi a tter grade of goods froan us tl iero is one tUagSm, wken ; ary but goods no owe osa evw i eu d^?d?i|ik. trtri nd mmitym $< " Mcllwatn-Ragsdale surrey aad a Lynchea liter by actual meaaur yarda (straight aeroaa) north c place Hatle-Mcllwaln-Ragadale nered, and about 609 yarda not where Plnckney a truck Lynches In hla survey. Tbla place was ahown me b] Charles Byrd aad his brother, both of whom were with the t when the Halle-Mcllwain-Raa truck ! Burton. The deed of Geor b 550 to the members of Beave :t the > (Bethel) ctoureh In 1885 cor. J cell for a rock corner as -th Qf posei.. In substantiation river feet that no corner was eve north of black rook. I refer r Mr Uesery, J. H. Robinson, ts Bin oldest men, and to Mr. J. 1 rowii dell of Kershaw county, [sdale Maflll family, who live i ' n" VA AUVVTIU^ VUOV V?!LfJ loae your senses, dot? not splendid Soda he was sup- trial will surely : of that r clalmod to W. D. o of oar , NEW i?ht by IV TV VII v KV W /UUI UVOU VI your temper, <f your dignity, ire in all the pmdar flavors* a result in many future calls. CANDY KJTCHI tlMMWJ JVU Wb have something tha ; thing that you ' goods from tb in the United MtnntMul (A t is interior. Wten yon buy i joy it tkad srtftds Is cheap. f i cannot sat, your monoy is tfi ? ?ny bast and mart up-tarts States- Iwj lb tap yon boy n; fhmyom bnf M*> ' r M, tf : from ? is itiNHy \ survey was made. They showe a mulberry In their Held that hi ways been pointed out to them the County line and that they p right hy this mulberry and ci the chain right close by It. also showed me Jusi about whet Halle - Ragsdale - Mcllwain- s struck Lynches river, this beln d me corner wun ail u? recta t id al- Cotton from everybody ilno as on Put* began, aased | Again, the oldeat recor irried corner, given in Mlll'i HI They South Carolina, publlahed >e the calls for a corner opposite urvey house; and Miller's house g the given up by the old citizens bey bare 9 the dl? to^y thof We deliver order In 1826. ? Miller's place is i to be at Gas Bdeas, hay. s to any part of city. funded. Whei Pheoe 95 wU1 get it to yc EDV i 70a get to a httry for aometl >u stone*. x Yosra ^ARDS & HC VB SELL SHINGLES AND 1 tntfy, >RTON BUCK. j 1 I - j8