The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, July 31, 1914, Page 7, Image 7
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liy request we publish the
ins report of Mr. T. M. Bel
veyor, to the Supervisor of La
county as to the boundary 1
tw^sen the counties of Lancas
Kershaw:
Having been called upon
amine all evidence as to the i
cation of the County Line t
follow-(place pointed out to the
Ik. sur- their survey as the old Ha
mcaster Mr. Bob Mungo was with
ine be- shaw man of 50 to 60 y
ter and lives in a few hundred yi
line and about one mile
to ex- ner at Lynches river, he
true lo- the Byrd statement as to
)etween Mcllwatn-ltagsdale line
A AAV
m time of XT
rrlson ford. INO 3
Z'r.; IZ peddlers
or** the' cor- glmg wit
corrobrates Or <Cooke
the Halle- t . ,
here aud kind.
A UVl AV^llil
mount of misrcprcscntatioi
of alum baking powders,
h chemicals, or pretended
d-up certificates, or falsel
, can ch^wlge the fact that
am* >
i by the> 1 MU
no jug- |
analysis,
loods of j ^ l)a N
and bar
int Yourl
fs to paint your home, you
us. and it"-i>nvs hottnr
louse
v tenant houses
r?of nnini
.Lancaster ana nersnaw ana
port whethor the lust line,
survey, is correct, and, if. not,
facts as to why it is not cori
Therefore, I hand in the fo
report, after surveying in p
the lines from Hammond's sp
Lynches river.
There being little dispute I
the Russell Place and Catawb
I did not go farther west tha
mond's spring. Mr. P. T.
it) re- aiso as to this being th<
Wilson men had always shown 1
to give true corner,
rect. Take the two lines of t
llowing survey." before mentlo
art all from Hammond's spring t
iring to road, and then from co
Bethel church to Lynches
>etween their report they say of
a river, these Mnes, from Hainino
a Ham- to Salisbury road, we rui
Twltty degree given In the Act
> place old i /
hiui as the Rov
he "Wilson - J'
ned; first _jUtS
0 Salisbury olsil t
rner near viai '
1 rlver 1,1 tiiahc
the first of " " K
nd's spring free 1
l the exact _?_M
(of 1892), ptirH
rjat Baking Pow<
been Sound by the
examinations to be ol
ist leavening eflicie
Erom alum, and of abs<
y and wholesomen
1
tier
ofli- I Buck
[ the ' seed Oil
ncy, Lamber
>lute ,
I tec iroes
ess. I h
SELL THE BES
Lead.I Lewis' Pure Lead,
I, Lo\ve~"Brr*$.' Mixed P;
t's Varnish aijd Oil Stains
> with the ajf)ove to repai
ptuxii.
>T.
Kelloggs' Liniints,
Pratt &
i. Our guarannt
your homo
says he dug out and made a
here since the war, but doi
know whether or not there ei
an old spring here. Whether
this is the old spring place,
for in 1820, is very doubtful
main spring for the Hammom
was south of the house and no
however, this is the spring ca
In the Act of 1892 and callec
the Haile-Ragsdale-Mcllwain
under which the Act was pres
spring while on the second
bh not Bethel church to Lync
eer was they say, we gave one-foi
or not variation. They found no
called Now, if one of their lln
as the red. without any variatioi
i house could not be correct with
t north, degree variation given, or
lied for But, as a matter of fact, 1
I for in have given one degree v
survey, each line, since the deg
umably taken In 18!>2 or earlier
lino from
hes river. Rova
irth degree _ /.
corners. for makll
es was cori.
the other k.
one-fourlh
vice \ersa.
they should
ariatlon on the spot where Beth<
rees were stands, or about oppo
Mcllwain-Ragsdale ?
1 Baking Powder is indis
lg finest and most economic
?1 church now river. I also talk
site the Halle- of Kershaw town
#orner where counties, ami even
I free if i
pensable \
cal food. I s,bl? Pa
, f Heine
| ;iii<l fine
oil with a number on liaild
i citizens of both
LT OI1P frtlrl mn tltm . i 1
lot satisfactory. Why list
inters and ii?nore\our guai
mber the $35.00 Avhite Sc
; assortment of/AHuniinuii
Our daily stjpply of frcs
en to irresponrantee?
iwing Machine,
u Ware always
*h groceries are
based.
Here I found coming; from
place, the Wilson-Dwight-i
trial line struck 228 feet to tl
of (north of) the new Corm
established (75 feet south o
mond spring) and indicated
of the needle of over one a
tenths degrees to strike the
corner instead of one am
twelfth degrees as in their
If they run north 74 east, ac
Should the Wilson mm
Russell cornered on the Mcllwali
Colcock Haile cornerstone, tie
lie west church, 608 feet south of
nr they did corner, and have rui
f Hani- east, Riving one degree fc
change since the year 1802?the
md six- tion to a small fraction of
>ir new as I have found from a i
1 one- manual, and from the a<
report, vey or hundreds of lines i
cord'ng tv years of practical exnei
,-eyors luive Pieces of Delph and ci
a-Rngsdnle- f?un(lar
Bethel Mills gives N.
where they corner in 1820 sv \fs
a north 07 one-half degrees \ V 1
>r variation 1820 gives us exactly
true varla- same as Haile-Mcl
a degree? survey with one do?
government Pince 1892.
dual resur- ()n tjtjs from h,
n my twen- j ?nches river, it is
rienre (anil . - -
rockery is now had never yet lie
any the new He
i E. from this Eynches river was
eilly. Four and thillR ,5ke correct,
variation since The Act of IS!
N. t57 E.?or made to confirm t!
Iwain-Ragsdale Itugsdale survey, ji
;rce variation been governed by
ii would be ft greal
Bthel church to county to t
impossible to actual line
ard a single man b( St
te and corner on
i correct, or any>2
was evidently
lie Haile-Mcllwainmd
taxpayers have
this for 16 years. 1^ L J
t tnjustice to Lan I
ake an Act based
run by .Messrs.
: that money can bdy.
COME TO SrEE US
SNETT-TER
I,
RYCo.
to the Act, this will Rive N. '
decrees E. insteadof N. 72 11
grees as called for lu their rc
The next line from Han:
Bpring the Act calls for N. 4 8
the 'Wilson survey' calls for
the same degree. Had they m
same mistake with this line
did with the trial line, just m
between two known corners
Ragsdale - Mcllwaln - Haile
thev would have struck the Sj
75 6-10 1 might add) I have made
-12 de- of locating old and disp
(port. should they have done
unond's have, continued their coin
B. and to Lynches river, they
exactly struck Lynches river at <
ade the few yards of the old corn
as they Harrison's old ford, wl
entitled Mcllwain-Ragsdale corm
of the again, had they started a
survey, line on Lynches river wltl
ilisburv Mcllwain-Raesdale ssrvei
ji specialty 0110~t.em.11 ol tlio
utpcl lines et'' or rouI(l have tak
this. and sketch like this
rse thus on The new "Wilson
would have above the line of cont
ir within a Kershaw, where I find
ler place at met, the junction of
tiere Haile- each place, was taken
ered. Or, line. The old settlers
t the exact informed, disputed o
1 the Haile- forks of roads. Ion
f. 11 mp?n Haile-Mcllwain-Raesdi
data I obtain- ?
en down, in a Practical land snr\
construe this Act
,, as to cut Lancast
survey' was 2 000 acre8 of x
ention, even in ,, .. ?
two old roads Respectfully
these roads at _ _ T M. B
as the orginal ,, ~w?, bave 1
, I am reliably ^'essrs- ^ llson, C(
ver these two are \ery smart J
iK before the ay be tbey are b
lie Riirvev iof surveying, and
hi itagsnaie old. I
cynrs ? ana to so '
of the legislature ?i
er of
' submitted.
EL.K. Surveyor.
10 doubt but that
jlcock and Dwiglit fl II
gentlemen, but it I I I Uy
etter up on theory I HUi
a thousand other 1 B
e ^fou Seen Fl
I
lorence? I
road about 150 yards south
point they located as a new
(20 feet south of creek.)
As a matter of fact, they
the Sallsbu'7 road 140 to 1
N. or the Stone corner place
by the Haile-McIlwaln-RaRsdi
vey. This place was pointed
me by three men who were v
Haile-Mcllwain-Rafssdle sif"<
these three men. J. S. L. Bar
Kurt Rollftv nnd S (' finrdnpi
of the at Harrison's old ford) an
corner south 66^4 west?with
fourth degree variatiou?
struck have struck the Salisbury
50 feet than 3 0 yards south of
d there that Haile-Mcllwain-Itagsi
lie sur- a'tnatter of fact, comer a
out to 500 yards south o? their ?
.rlth the Now, since the report
>v and son-Dwlght-Colcock survt
ton, Al-|that the Act of the legl
r could 1 is nroau muhlv Kuoo
id have run Leaving Kershaw,
only one- survey" soon got a\
they would north of, all eontentioi
road more J- C. Broom, 60 3
the corner lives five miles east of
dale did, as in Kershaw county, st
it, and over about one-fourth mile
jwn corner, I his father, Wesley 1
of the Wll- e<J, always claimed
sy, admits Never heard anyone s
islature in far north, and the gem
>1 nnnn din was "iipw lin#?" was a
the "Wilson thi?Rs- U?an they
vay above or 0,(1 and disputed
i of .he line. j
rears old. who
Kershaw, and Very
iys new 44mr'is Baltimore Ameriei
north of what I The Phrenologii
troom. deceas- feeling the bumpi
as the line, i ean tell you exact
ay line was so ni&n you are.
eral impression Mr. Dolan?Oi I
1 wrnnp n!nco vp more av an oi
are up on locating |
lines.
T. M. B.
True. If liot
an.
at?Yes. sir, by rp i ,
i on your head 1 lilKC llC
:ly what sort of a
belave it wud give fort, lvCC
wot qorf nxr n
, waste no time. She is \
r into your home, she will
;p you cool, and the cheape:
re ry beautiful.
give you cornst
cook you can
not be mistaken as it was jut
of h large oak and at the inte
of, br just south of a smal
leading out westwardi Thei
ment of this corner is also
borated by Dr? McDowell of K
who also was present at ti
survey.
Prom the .corner near I
Rock creek, they measured
a new road that circles a hill
~ * n t v., 1 r?V, i ,,n
it south Haile-Mcllwaln-Ragsdale
rsection i ha/e dealt principally wit
1 road vey in my report, and tl
r state- made the difference in t
corn)- survey," and the Hail
ershaw. Ragsdale survey, plain to
me of man, and any college ir
years of actual practical
langing in running old and disput
around judge if I am correct,
instead Leaving the descriptio
Kill OO ?v. - c , o n n 1 ?.
survey. I His land was bounne
h that sur- Lancaster county line
link I have was about one-fourth
he "Wilson upper edge of his j
e-McIlwain- farther east Mr. Mori
the average hundred-acre tract of
lan of ten easier county, calling
experience county line on south s
ed lines can only leaves about ?
says, in Lancaster coi
n, gi ven in The last six or eigh
i 1_ 1? I Vtii'lioc I rnoil
d on north by whimmen me woil
, but new line
mile north of WTTl
lace. A little _ ** **
eon has a one j Yr . F. STE
land in Lan-1
; for Kershaw For what does
dde. New line iouslv?
even acres, he First, for econora;
inty. that congress tn t
t miles next to has spent $352,00
tlia \\7 ilonn rn. ?
re is.
niid, voi
0 IS
IVENSON? ma tic, v
1 he stand notorSt()VrC
IS
y. Do you kuow
he last two years' i. -j ,
0,000.00 on creeks l
i cannot afford to be \vith<
alveless and wickless. T1
one of the wonders of the
o cost yon less money, giv
:>ut her. Autole
Florence Oil
s world. Guare
out less lieat,
ui iiicnou i 111 otiai^iu u |> a
Mr. Barton says Haile-M<
Ragsdale did. I measured b<
tances and found It 4 5 feet
rkound the hill.
Then, measuring down th
bury road, the "Wilson !
placed a corner 608 feet shor
stone corner of the Haile-Rj
Mcllwain survey?that is,
north. This stone corner wa
ed out to me by Mr. J. S. L.
nit' mi t?i io:??, ami ruii
Ilwain- yond the Halie-Mcllwa
3th dis- survey (of 1889 and 1891
farther inn up the old plats am
Lancaster and Kershaw ?
e Salis- all the most substantial
3urvey" old people, 1 And some fa
t of the wish to state briefly,
ipsdale- First, taking the cc
father Hanging Rock creek, and
s point- creel: Itself has bee
Barton, Mr j ^ Robinson ahowei
IK Ilill-H OB- "J ..... . .
in-Ragsdale port to various ones
2) and tak- "When we Rot within
d maps of lynches river, liowe
ounties and !evident that our line 1
evidence of the line shown on J
ets which I ?f the line of the nu
veys, and it so cont
rner near river one-fourth
I find that 'y above the point
in changed. Atlas? though several
[j nio on tho (^ ^ locftlit) stilted tli?tt
kiipuii te- ann rivers anil nar
, which says: helped the people (
three miles of one penney. Sout]
\er, it became 0f that money act
was then north ion would be 4S.<
dills' Atlas and had put that on
>re recent sur- stead of in creek
inued, striking rivers every man
mile apparent- would have a go
shown in the During that term
residents of government has cc
t our line, even i.oo. We woud hav
uors f i nis nas not
if the Fifth district 1 ?
h Carol'na's share Jr "
iordlng to popuiat1)00,000.00
If they : a.
our post roads in- .
s and habors and
in South Carolina + ir 1
od road at hand. tilllJlj
our whole State
>st only $20,00,000 i . i
e about two and a KlicHCIl
;ive you loss trouble than a
rantee behind every one s
you don't have to go ii
when you have a Florgnee,
,ny stove made
sold. And just
i that old hot
neither do vou
wno was wnn me nuue-ru
Mcllwain survey, as stated
Mr, Archey Vincent also poln
v this same stone corner as sho
. * by C. H. Ragsdale, one of tht
mentioned surveyors, who stt
> this same stone corner in
J which county a man was kille
being not long after the H
Ilwain-Ragsdale survey,
pointed out this same stone
to me as beinbg told it w
iK?u?ie- Rroun(i as near as he couh
above. ol(1 creek run, and by acti
ted out it was to 150 yards s
wn him bridge as it now standi
? before whpn he was a boy the
irted at around south edge of
locating bridge and west of the c
id?this or near where a little br
aile-Mc- bottom and there crosse
Others Under a bridge, running i
i corner P(ige of bottom back et
as nresent channel near 1
rt where the "7" L"m.uue" , ",l
ml measure h?d pointed o
?K?:nal line. I asked
Ho ^itii could And, black and
> creek run'countle8' If thl8 8tate
bottom at I rect? erery single
ild road toaccordinK to what th
llh ^Lrd#11 the oI<* settlers ha<
H tho rnJ; I the"- lives. Different
?n?,?S that they did not bel
istward to that locality has made
ar? rock. -?*?' "V
u wuui iufu half as much
ut as the orgi- j ag it takes to run
everybody 1 government and ii
white, of both used to benfit our
ment was cor- dumped into cree
? man said not habors, and almc
.lr fathers and been seen in Sou
d told them all have just passed i
ones remarked . house carrying $
ieve anyone in,the senate will ad
such a remark i Says cut down "t
been made by | Tillman calls it 8
for our roads |
i the whole State i
istead of Its being Jiave to
roads it has been
ks and rivers and :
at none of it has** }'OU Will
ith Carolina. They ,
i bill throught the , . ,
80.000.000.00 and; to stand
Id to it. Stevenson j
hat steal" as Ben ; A . i
ind build roads in ] tO get I
wait 011 the fire/to start as }
it at once, savm^-that fue
I while you are waiting on
lot. Come and >nvesti?at<
rou get the heat |
1 and that heat
the other stove
J, it won't cost
Haile-Mcllwaln-ltagsdale corn
location of this stone, under j
and there being no large
north the one near this ph
gether with the positive state
. Mr Barton tha tthls was the c
that C. C. Halle. Surveyor, sh
to the others the ddy or surv
that they began here and m
northward to locate the corn
the creek and did locate it
measurements from this
ier. 'i ne w p u8sery corroborate:
i cedar, mpnt &nd adds that he Kr
walnut be a fact as well as he
ace, to- others tell me they know
ment of true.
orner? i This canal, where the
owed it lR waH cut aince the war
ey, and to 187 5. Measuring froc
ensured ?ei here, according to <
er near <toeg not miss corner
by the church very much,
corner, j *
i?ome?n? *^nanTea *??
t this sta^- Among ^ lt the
' ?* ,0 M:&BlKeOjored). ?'
bridge n?*5 dozen ot ? Threat! t
about"^^no , Mr W. t- u haa
n o\d chan- MUe8 t. t across
al ??n? \^he, river.
n ineir section, the farmers' doors
those question- i what doe atho
lowing names: this? Give Steven
Bird, Charles , he will do his bes
Mungo, Alex the Fith district o
A perhaps a put the farmers t
ion the map also.
jays his faster. I t
lived for ifHy | _ m _ Lynches
creek |Ua CiyA
laid) one mile 11 U? U1A k
That Harri-1 _
farmer say about:
son a chance, and J
t, not only to "put |
n the map," but to ;
>f the fith district
Adv. |
Sixty-Six^ J.
thing to see for yourself.
B. Mack
orel?
(whether correct measurem
not ) makes this stone unq
ably the Hatle-Mcllwain-H
corner of 1892. Mr. Neal
was also helping with the H
Ilwatn-Ragsdale survey and s
roe that the stone corner
Haile-Mcllwain-Ragsdale con
* i ** under, or by, a cedar and r
south of a large walnut, nearl
site, or but little north of
*v church and awav south of ne
ents or owuiiu, curuer ut-ur o?
uestion- "as never been constderei
agsdale oldest people of both co
Bennett further north than the s
nile-Mc- fo?nd by Haile-Mcllwa
tatea to ,n tl?elr survey. The older
of the P'e d'd claim a large roc
lor was sand, on east edge c
?ot far 'n front of church,
ly oppo- Mcllwain-Ragsdale in t
Bethel dirt not corner on this ro<
w stone a n]c.e granite rock, whi<
d I find 8?n's fordl or 8,Kns
unties any could be 8een when
' _?OI. and that the corner of
ln-Raf?Hdale Ker8haw county was o
set of or 500 yard8' hft woul
k set uj in the new W1,8?n corn
?f road and ' ^
but Haileheir
survey
ek. This is |
ih stands 2 I
of old road, 1 Thia it a preacriptio
he was young 'or MALARIA or C
Lancaster and Five or tix doeea wil
ne-fourth mile, *' taken then as a toi
d say, south of return. It acta on
er on Lynches Calomel and does n;
n prepared eapecially m
:hills a. fever./
11 break any case, and# I
lie the Fever will noI I
the liver better than
>t gripe or aickcn. 2J& _____________
?y he
QUALITY STOl
YOUR TRA1
RE WANTS
nc
4 of "Wilson Survey.*' Mi.
Pm Halle of Columbia was laso
and, If necessary, others can
to this corner.
Distances cannot be count
court of justice, against the
fact of a corner, and, especi
when the three other lines fi
tawba river to Salisbury ro
measured show over 450 yar
of distance; and this gain on
si I at a r\ f !oaa than 1 R mil
Richard 10 reet out or ttie I
, about 6 inches square,
tpatifv at?ne Haile-Mcllwaln-Ra
I uered on is a black rock
?d in n *2 inches in diameter ai
knowJ;farther north
ally so,; Poss Lanier, the very
om Ca-|t,er. who lived right by
ad re- perhaps the best inforn
ds gain th,a section of the state,
a whole forA hla death (in pres<
iWill Croxtonl. that the
ground and
while the
gsdale corabout
8 to
id 247 feet
he
oldest set- *
corner, and
led man in
told me beBnce
of Mr.
comer of
Be&f Cold Dri
f When yo
_ ' Horton. W
nKS carry. Wh<
ting the ve
doing your
J *JL X
m. Jk VX X.
u want something nice to eat
e buy the very best quality
en you send your orders here j
ry best the markets affords. 1
trading here, why^ot give us
L/JU
come to Edwards &
in every line that we
rou can ''..pend on getf
you are not already
a trial and see if yon
Starting from this new ca
the "Wilson Survey," 608 fe?
of the true Hatle-Mcllwaln-R
survey, they passed through ?
about 300 yards north of th<
Mcllwaln-Ragsdale survey anc
Lynches river by actual meas
yards (straight across) nortt
place Halle-Mcllwaln-Ragsda
nered, and about 600 yards r
where Plnckney struck Lynch
nier of Lancaster and Kerahay ?
it north a black rock under a cec
axsdale tbis tall rock In front of
Cershaw never knew where this
i Haile- waa until It was shown
1 struck Barton. The deed of Ge
ure 560 ?? the members of Bea
i of thejCBethel) church In 1865
ile cor- J for a rock corner a
lorth of posed. In substantiatic
es river fabt that no corner was e
nnrlli nf Klanb rn/tli T
ounties was It is ^ re
ctaiKsh. I Soda Wat
black rock nor more plea
me by Mr. of knowing thi
iorge Miller yQur gensc
; dowTot splendid Soda
* was sup- trial will aurel;
>n of that
ver claimed
AC ?A VI f Ik
freshin^y?Jid aaUgfying to tak
er to quencTTthe thirst. Then
sing: drink and you have the
it it won't "go to ypur head" <
;s, your temper, or/your dignit
here in all the proular flavors
y result in manyfluture calls.
, , , t gei a
:e a drink of
* is no purer elsewhere.
satisfaction U8jng the
or make you
y. We have something t
>, and a first . ,
can eat and
j thing that 3
oeuer grade of oOods from us
There is one ming sure, whe
> very best gcktte no one can e
;hat is inferior. yWTien you bu
enjoy it that article is cheap,
rou cannot eat /your money is
i than you are getting
n you get accustomed
ver change you off on
ly something that you
When you buy somewasted.
We buy our
iu nis survey.
This place was shown me
Charles Byrd and his broth<
Loth of whom were with th<
when the Haile-Mcllwaln-H
survey was made. They sho
a mulberry in their field that
ways been pointed out to thei
the County line and that the;
right by this mulberry and
the chain right close by It.
l 4 also showed me just about wl
by Mr. Ussery, J. H. Robinson,
sr. Bill, oldest men, and to Mr. J
) crowd de" of Kershaw county
;agndalo Maglll family, who live
wed me corner with all the fact*
had al- *otten from everybody sli
tn as on PUte began.
passed ' Again, the oldest rec
carried corner, given in Mill's
They South Carolina, publish)
lero the calls for a corner oppos
CI iw IT XJ,
two of our
r. T. Trues- KTV^l
r, and the lNtl.W
? right by
i they have
nee the dlsmetory
thof Wc deliver ord
ftd in 1826,
ilte Miller's
T CANDY. KITCP
Gus Beleos, Prop.
era to any part of city.
goods from
IEN | in the Unit
guaranteed
funded. W1
Phone 95 ! get it to
rn
the very best Xnd most up-toed
States- Everything you bi
to give you entire satisfactic
hen you get in a hurry for som
you at once. Yoi
wadnc jp. u
date wholesale houses
ay from us is strictly
m or your money relething,
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