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TUB CONSUMICION
of raw material is 50,000 pounds a month
nod tho production is 40,000 pounds of
vam per month. This manufactured article
solis in tho market for thirty cents a pound.
When tho proposed InorcaSo in tho o-.pacify
of tho fuotory is effeotcd tho daily produc
tion will be 2,000 pounds of yarn. The
entire property is valued at 8300,000 and
during tho psst four years 840,000 has been
-.expended ia improving tho water power.
A dam ?lino hundred foot long, of so'id
steno masonry, has been built at nu immense
e.Mt, and, if it wis needed, ton thousand
horse power could bo applied with little or
no further expense This dam baoks water
four miks, with a depth of fifteen feet
Tho base is forty feet thiele, and it is eight
foet thick across the top. A sixty six inch
turbino wheel is used under ? hoad of four
teen fcpt. Tho owner of tho property
claims that ho has improved und applied
tho water power ot a groat outlay of money,
under a charter from tho Stato, granted iu
1874, for thirty years, and that tho char
tering of
TUB COLOMBIA CANAL
\o Messrs. Thompson & Nuglc, under tho
conditions cited il) tho contract, will virtu
ally deprive him of his proporty. Tho
building of a dam across tho Cungaroo
Uiver, ho says, will back water ou his
works and completely flood him out. ile
proposes to resist to tho last degree in tho
courts what ho considers un invasion of his
rights. If tho Columbia Canul Company
would bring their dam nero's Croad Kivcr,
instead of tho Congarco, he contends, they
could obtain 25,000 horso power and not
interfere with him at all. Tho vote taken
by tho pcoplo of Columbia to Bccure
Messrs. Thompson & Naglo against any
dimagc that might result from thc building
of their dam across thc Cungaroo Kivcr, he
says, does not really amount to a row of
pins. To uso Iiis own words: "Columbia
isa bankrupt city, und a corporation which
bas nothing to lose can well afford to give
any amount of security. Tho whole diffi
culty ii that my factory does not pay taxes
to thc City of Columbia. If it was located
in Richland instead of Lexington there
would bo no trouble."
In conversing with Mr. Campbell, tho
Superintendent, [ osked his opinion us lo
thc feasibility of working
NEOIIO OPERATIVES.
Ho replied tjiat nt his factory he had
worked mixed operatives with great advan
tage. Tho negro was as cupable ol' in
struction io thc business as tho white mule
or fum?le, und could afford to work much
cheaper, us they could live so much cheaper.
The negro labor ho found was easy con
trolled, Ltid not bubject lo strikes. Labor
was vary abunduit, ho H.id, all theiropora
tives being from tho South, with thc ex
ception of ono boss ppinncr, who was from
tho Stato of Maine. Unimproved land in
thc vicinity of thc factory is worth about
310 to $15 uti acre. I asked Mr. Ol tn pb ol I
.what ho thought of tho
CLEM r ATTACH MENT.
Ho replied that ho thought it would
prove to bo a failure "You can't mike
yarn that will stand the test of tho marked,'
ho said, without skillful labor und attention.
It may answer for carding. It is in my
opinion nothing more than an improved
gin. I would like to seo men who h ive thc
money try it. lt ounnot hurt tho factory
mon in tlx slightest degree. Wo ?rc not
afraid of competition," Thc Saluda Fac
tory IIDH paid
A CI. BA lt 1'ltOEIT <>*' 10 PEU CENT.
during thc last year in addition, to what has
boen expended in improving tho property.
The cost, of tho new machinery which has
been ordered will bo 810,000, and it is
hoped that tho profits next year will increso
in proportion to thc increased capacity of
ibo establishment.
'a lie .Uloiidalfl Faotory.
This model little factory is owned by
I). F. Converso <fc Co., and is situated live
miles from Spir tan burg Court House, on
Lawson's Fork, a tributary of tho Puoolet
Uiver 175 horse power is used on three
turbine wheels, with n fill ol ?18 feet.
Mr. J.J. Hilton, of Mew York, is the
Superintendent, and both Mr. Converse end
and Mr. A. II Twitcholl, tho principal
owners, live on the premises in handsome
residences. The company is not incorpo
rated, and has u capital of 8150,000. Tho
factory is now maning 6,000 .spindles and
120 looms, abd manufactures sheetings,
shirtings, drill? and yarns from No. 0 to No.
12.
TUB CONSUMPTION
of raw cotton is ?1,000 pounds per day or
2.000 bales a year. Th?) production is
175,000 yards of cloth ?ind 15,000 pounds
of yuro per month. Tito factory employs
120 opcrutivos, all of whom aro white and
GO per cont, women and children, who re
ceivo on avcrogo of 07 cents pur day. Tho
highest wages per day is 81.50 and tho
lowest is 12j cents. Four hundred persons
ure dopoudont upon thc fajtory for sup
port. Thu operatives arc furnished by tho
company rout free, with neut, and comfort
able cottages ranging in sizo from throo to
four rooms. Thcso cottager, numbering
eixty, ore built around tho faotory, forming
a neat and pretty littlo village. Tho opora
tive.s arc all natives, with ono exception,
who havo been educated to tho business.
This class of labor is very readily obtained
from tho surrounding country. Tho ma
chinery usod is all American, and is mostly
from tho Lowoll, Mass., Maohino Shops.
Tho running exponaos arc $120 por day.
For tho month of January tho cotton used
was purohosod nt ll oonts por pound. The
total cost of producing tho manufactured
nrticlo wns 17 couts per pound and tho
market prioo was '?4 cents per pound,
which in nearly 33 per cont, incroaso of
vnluo created by tho process of monufuo
turo. Tho waste ot this faotory is estima
ted nt about 18 per cent. Muoh of tho
profits havo been expended in improving
tho place and adding new machinery to tho
fuotory; dividends of from 7 to 10 per oont.
havo boon declared nhd tho not profit has
varied from 10 to 25 per oont. Resides
tho cotton fuotory tho company hos in op
oration, run by tho samo water powor,
A OllIST MfLn,
a iii i-1 darts flouring mill and sevorul ootton
gian. Ti?o modo of ginning tho ootton is
both novel oud ing?nions, and is Mr. Con
VCISO'H own idon. The wagon containing
m -.
tho aced cotton ?8 driven dp nod weighed
on a platform scales. Tho cotton is then
thrown from tho wagon luton hopper, ind
passes up on an endless bolt toa second story
wbeuee it is fed into three 70 saw self
feeding gins. From there it passes to the
baling press. Tho jood pisses out from tho
gins on a belt to a small room adjoining
from which by means of a (rap door sr*
rangement h ls deposited back into the
finners wagoo which in tho mean lime has
been driven beneath tho trap door. By
tho time tho plauter oao get his seed and
drivo arouud to tho book door the cotton is
already pressed and baled for him. Last
year tho company ginned 700 bales and this
year they hsvo ginned over 1,200 bales.
Tho limo ocoupicd is 15 minutes to eooh
balo. '1 ho oompouy has also io operation
upon tho samo placo
A COTTON. BATTING MILL
which turns out about 1,500 pounds a
mouth. A wool carding mill is also at
tached, ia which 0,000 to 10,000 pounds of
wool is carded for tho country people. A
largo saw and planing mill is also in full
operation, and is kept continually busy.
The profits arising from theso several in
dustries were not included iu tho statement
concerning tho profits of tho factory.
Twenty additional hands aro employed in
these several deportments. Mr. Twitoholl,
willi whom I conversed, gave it as his
opinion th'it thc negro was not apt enough
to learn tho business properly. Tho whites
would not work in thu same room with a
negro, and as most of the work was dono
?nd paid for by tho piece, tho labor if
mixed must necessarily give very unsatis
factory results.
THE I'HOSI'ECT8
for eotton manufactures in this Stato ho
considers better thau it has been for five
years. There is a steady sud increasing
tomo demand, no accumulation of stocks
iud a good oxport demand. Tho Stato
?xemption from taxation on all new mill
properly bo thought would prove a great
nduccmcnt to capitalists to establish now
'actorics.
THU CLEMENT ATTACHMENT,
Mr. Twitoholl said, he thought, might bo
used to auvantage by two or thrco planters
.0 use up their own cotton, but it would never
itnount to anything more. It only dis
pcuscd with one intermediate machine, and
ibo storage room required for thc seed cot
:on would be enormous. "I don't think it
ivill succeed," ho said, "but if it docs it
will not burt thc large manufacturers one
particle."
Upon thc point of thc relativo cost of
stator power Mr. Twitched said: "It do
pends entirely on thc situation. I believe
: hat
V. MI bl. COULD BE HUN IN GUAULESTOM
jy steam just tis cheaply as wo run ours,
Charleston bas a cottou market all thc year
ound, whilo wc hove to buy up ull wc need
'or the year before it gets out of tho coun
,ry."
Thc goods manufactured at Hi?ndale arc
muled to Spartan burg in wagons and ship
led from that point principally to New
1'ork, Keston and Chicago. Tho demand
or the goods tu much greater than tin
ibtlity to supply.
The factory building is a very llsndsomt
i.'ucture of red brick, four and a ball
itotiuh high and 180 by 50 feet in di m cn"
ions ii waft originally started in 18G7
tod was under tho management nf J
'Jomar & Co. Mr. Homar died in 1870,
.nd after his death it was sold to th?
jre-ent owners, f he suoecss bas; boen sc
gratify inn that a new company to be known
is tho Clifton manufacturing company hat
?ccu organized, with Mr Converse us Pres
dent, Mr. James Anderson Vice President
nd A. II. Twitoholl St?creUrV und Trcasu
cr.
The parp?se of tho companv is to fi''*'
tart u compact yarn mill of 5,000 spindles
nd then open thc books (or subscription tc
larger enterprise of thu same kind. Thc
? pi tu I required to start tho first mill U
125 000, SI02.000 of which has been
tibscribed. This entire subscription wu:
tudu within tun duys, and tho whole of thc
tuck is held in thc county of Spartanburg.
f this adventure is successful, a factory ol
0,000 spindles nnd 300 looms will bo cs
tblishod. Tho factory will bc located or
lie Piicolct Uiver, at a pince known ns Ilur
cano Shoals. Tho work will bo commcne
d by the first of April next.
"As fur as I nm concerned," said Mr
'witchell, "I would put my last dollar ii
rjtton manufactures in thin State. When Un
Northern mills were le-siny ninney we torn
laking money* and now while, everything
? Looming upward we are of coi&St
taking handsome profits."
Kvcrything nt Clleodulo betokens goot
lanagemcnt and prosperity. Tho opera
ves aro said to bo nu orderly, thrifty set
ho ltavo laid up considerable money, am
i so i no coses havo bought land in th
icinity.
Thc Fingcrvlllc Factory.
This is a very small factory, owned b
lessrs. Johnson ?fe Finger, nnd is locatci
n tho Pncolct River, about ten milos fron
Ipartanburg County. It has in opcratiot
,000 spindles, 10 cards and 15 looms, an
uunufucturcs coarse yarns and sheeting!
L'ho production por day is 000 yards c
iloth and 250 pounds of yarn. Thirty-fiv
ipcrotivc8 oro omploycd, with wagt
iveraging 40 cents a doy. Tito capital ii
rested is ?8,000. Tho factory has been ft
?onie time running irregularly, but is no
milting U handsome, percentage of profit G
,ho capital invested. Tho wator power
rory oxtonsivo, obout 30 horse power heir
iscd.
Valley lairs Factory.
This is n still smaller factory than tl
tbovo, and is located in Lamson's Fo:
thout eight miles from tho town of Spa
;nnbuig. It is owned by Messrs. Whito
Pingor, nnd runs 500 spindles. Tho pr
luotion is 800 pounds of yarn por da
Phis mill hos also been running irregular
until rcoontly. Tho maohincry is old, b
despite this foot and tho great disadvnnto
af being situated in on almost inaocoss I
region, tho factory is paying n liondsot
profit on tho capital of 85,000 invente
Fifteen operatives aro employ ed, with wog
Averaging forty conts a day
I should say, without hesitation, that
fi cotton factory cnn moko a living
Fingorvillot?r Valley Fulls, there isoortuiri
millions in tho business anywhere else..
[TO BE CONCLUDED XN OUR NEXT]
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WaUu^UA, (GI* O.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1880.
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tisements.
t&f Job Printing neatly and cheaply executed.
W?*y Necessity compels ns to adhere strictly
to the requirements of Cash Payments?
Dr. Moorman
Will bo at Seneca City on tho 24th of
April, and romain ono day, for tho purpose
of registering lands offered for sale or root.
Dr. Mi represents tho influence aud wealth
of tho Atlanta and Charlotte Air Linc Rail
way, whoso owners aro making efforts to
fill up our section, with emigrants who aro
able to purchase, homes of their own.
This is a movement in tho right direotion,
and wo trust all who have lands for sale,
will register them with Dr. Moorman.
Railroad Mooting in Franklin.
Tho Reporter contains tho proceedings of a
railroad meeting at Franklin, N. C., on the
20th of March. Col. G. J. Forcacre and Mr.
Skipwith Wilmer wore present and sub
scribed $100,000 to tho stock of the Rabun
Oap Short Lino Ruilroad, which is to run
from tho Qcorgia Stato Line to tho Tennessee
State liuo. A survey was ordered, and the
lino of road is to bo located at once. Dr. W.
L. Lovo was elected President of the rond,
aud Iiiram W, Sibloy, of New York, Vice
President; YV. N. Allman, Treasurer, and
Skipwith Wilmer, Secretary.
Tho Daily Mercury.
This is tho title of a new morning daily,
published in Columbia by Messrs. W. B.
McDaniel, H. N. Emlyn, Edwin Forde, E. A.
Nelson and J. IJ. Harnett. Tho subscription
price is $6 a yenr. Theso gentlemen arc
first-rate printers, and have plenty of brains
and muscle. They can't li vc entirely without
money, but can very nearly do 60. The
Mercury is n bright, newsy poper, well-filled
with advertisements, and promises to bo n
success. Columbia bas threo daily papers,
all good. Wo regard this ns an evidence of
tho returning prosperity of that city, and
believe tho "boom" will continuo successful.
With street cars, a good city government
ar.d tho canal improvement, and its factories
in operation, that placo will soon range itself |
nlong-Fidc of Augusta, Atlanta and other
flourishing inland citicsl
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Meeting of tho Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee of tho County.
Tho Democratic Executive Committee of
Oconec County met at thc Court House on Mon
day. April 5th, 1880, and fixed thc third Satur
day in Moy for the meeting of tho County Con
vention at Walhalla for the purpose of electing
delegates lo thc .State Convention, which meets
on thc 1st of June next
A resolution WOR passed by thc committee Ihal
each Club in the County bc requested to hold a
meeting on the second Saturday in May for thc
purpose of reorganizing thc c'.ubs and e'ecting
del?gales lo the County Convention, and as thc
propriety cf nominating the ticket for Stale
officers will be before thc Convention, thc Clubs
aro requested lo discuss this question in their
club meet lugs, so that their delegates may conic
Into thc County Convention prepared to state
the views of their respective clubs on tho ques
tion.
Tho Executive CommUi?S further directed
their chairinnn to call tho attention of thc Club
Executive Committees lo ibo Important of a
thorough reorganization, and to especially re
quest them to bestir themselves rind get their
Clubs In working order for thc approaching
campaign.
Each Club is expected to send a full delega
tion to thc County Convention on thc third
Saturday in May, as other important business
besides Ibo election of delegates to thc Slate
Convention will bo before the meeting.
Thc Club representation in thc County Con
vention will bo as heretofore-one delegate to'
each Club and ono additional delegate to every
Len members or fractional pari, (hereof.
Thc following is a list of tho Clubs in thc
County:
Walhalla, Richland, Conncross,
Fairview, Pleasant Hill, West Union,
Seneca City, Damascus, Double Springs,
Kock Springs, Little Uiver, Center,
Seneca Uiver, Providence, South Union,
Bachelors' Retreat, Fair Play,
Westminster, Mount Tabor,
Holly Springs, Bethlehem, Salem,
Fall Greek, High Falls, Oooncc Tannery,
Toll Cato, Oconco Station, Flat Shoals,
Stump House.
W. C. KEITH,
Chairman.
W. J. STRIDMNO, Secretary.
Fish Culturo
A corrof-pondent has kindly sent, us thc South
ern Cultivator containing Professor Baird's re
marks on fish culture, which appears on our
fourth pago lilla week. Also an urtiolo on
.'Fish Culture as a Farming Industry," by Mr.
Fred. Mather.
Thc propagation of fish, or rather fish eui turo,
is receiving moro attention now than at any
former period of our history. This is right, tor
racily our homo market fish in this region aro
fast disappearing Tho Ooncral Government
furnishes tho different Slates willi Ibo spawn to
hatch out and Slook their rivors. The spawn are
le fl at certain localities for tho uso of the Slates,
and tho only expenso incurred by tho SlntcH is
tho freight on tho spawn to their respectivo
hatcheries. North Carolina has a hatchery nt
Morganton, Burke County, under tho superin
tendence of Hon. S. Q. Worth, ber commissioner.
Ho has been kind onough to hatch spawn for
South Carolina.
Hon. A. P. lintier, Fish Commissioner for this
Slate, instructs Mr. Worth lo what sections of
tho Stato ho wishes tho fish Bent whon hatched.
So any ono desiring fish for their streams or
ponds should write to Col. Duller at Columbia
and through bim obtain Ibo fish from tho North
Carolina hatchory. Tho fish aro sent froo and
At tbe expense of the Statei
Persons desiring any particular kind of fisb,
not at tho North Carolina hatchery, could pro
bably procure them by wriling to some friend in
Washington. Tho person procuring the de
sired fish from Prof. Baird, U. S. Fish Com
missioner, at Washington, can have thom sent
by express. Ia (his caso tho probability is the
person receiving tho spawn or fish would have
to pay the express charges.
It would be a work of supererogation for us to
urgo upon our readers to utilize tho culturo of
fish in our section. Wo havo tho streams on J
could soon construct thc ponds. Pish for tho
tablo is the best of food and is now in thc reach
of all.
Manufactures in South Carolina.
We have surrendered much of our space this
week to the very excellent article of Mr. J. K.
Blackman, recently published in thc Charleston
Arva and Courier, on thc subject of manufac
tories an I manufactures in this State. Our
object in re-publishing Mr. B.'s report is two
folds First to induce our own citizens to manu
facturo their own cotton, &0.5 nnd second to
show parties residing elsewhere and disposed to
such investments the inducements, advantages,
ko., offered in our immediate section for tho
conversion of colton into thread, cloth, &c.
From our knowlcdgo of tho subject wc arc in
duced to believe thal Mr. Blackman's report isa
correct nhd truthful statement and therefore can
bo relied on.
To our citizens wo say that by simply con
verting your raw cotton into thread or cloth you
very nearly double its value, (hereby adding
yearly to your own nnd thc Slate's wealth ono
hundred per cent. By co-operation you can in
each section or neighborhood erect small or
large factories according to your menus, and
whero water power is not obtainable j ou can
usc steam, cither power nnsweiing thc object in
view.
Wc would urge upon our readers the conside
ration of Mr. BlaoKluau's report, and Iben de
cide if lhere is any better or as good un invest -
ment for (heir surplus capital as in Ibo estab
lishment of cotton factories in their lllids.1, thus
not only increasing our population and giving
them employaient, but adding yearly to (hoir
own mid thc wealth of tho country. Don't say
you have uot sufficient capital. Join your
means with the means of your neighbors. Do
ns you do in your log rollings nnd OOi'U-shuck
ings. fall in your neighbors. Form compa
nies, und then if your location, waler power,
Sic, is such as warrants n large investment to
develop it, you can no doubt by investing in
il yourselves indrco these who havo ample
means, residing in other States, to join you.
As Colonel Hammett, President of the Piedmont
] Factory, said to Mr Blackman, if our own peo
ple will but put their money in cotton factories,
there will be no difficulty in inducing outside
parties to join th in, and thus raise whatever
amount of capital is needed for thc improvement
and development of suitable nnd desirably
located water powers, especially in a section ol
country offering and possessing thc inducement.*;
which our immediate section does.
To parties residing in oilier Stater, wc call
their nttcnlion to what is known as thc Pied
mont section, ns offering perhaps greater induce
ments than any other portion of (ho South foi
cotton factories. Thc lliohmond, Charlotte and
Atlanta Air Linc Railway, thc main linc ol
travel and freight from New York and New
Orleans, passes directly through Ibis section
(hus furnishing all needed railroad facilities
Besides Ibis wc have a linc of railroad t<
Charleston, with transportation by water to Nev
York, whiuli gives a competing linc.
Thc upper counties in this Stale afford mair
fine water powers. Oconco County possesse
as many or more limn any oilier County in th
State. Thc locality, local advantages am
motivo power of sonic of them moko Hiern vcr;
desirable for development. Their proximity t
tho Hine Ridge Mountains makes llicir wale
supply constant. In this County you can fini
waler powers ranging from a twenty to a fiv
hundred hor=o power and upwards. Mauy 0
these powers, with tho landa around them, ca
now bo purchased at mero nominal prices, n
from ono lo th" *c dollars par aero. Our winter
arc mild, slroani3 rarely ever frozen; both on
summer nnd winter climnto pleasant, our land
productive, producing all tho cereals ns well 11
coll?n. The average yield of cotton right nude
thu Blue Ridge for several years past bas bee
cqu,*:! to thc average yield per acre of the Stale
And there is no doubt bul that thc increase i
the production of cotton in these upper connik
will keep up with thc manufacture of it herc, s
that cotton factories erected here may rcasona
bly rely on their supply of cotton being" grow
herc. Wo therefore extend a cordial invitatio
to alt tlispoBcd to colton or other branches c
manufacture, desiring waler powers of differer
capacities, to visit our section of tho Slate t
soo, examiuo and judgo for themselves.
Lotter from Andorson County
Tho Storm Saturday Night.
SANDY Sr-tuxus, AXUKRSON COUNTY,
Amii. 6TH, 18S0.
This neighborhood was visited on last Satur
dny night by a storm which continued al) uiglil
except at. intervals of n few minutes, lt com
menccd nt half past fi o'clock P. M. The rai
fell in torrents, accompanied with vivid flnsht
of lightning with loud peals ot thunder ut s 1101
intervals during thc whole night. We had
continued succession ol hail storms. Thc olde:
citi/cns do not remember Ol' having wiluesse
such a washing rain. Thc ground, which ha
been prepared lor planting colton, is literal
swept away, making wide ronds through fiel?
thal never had been known to wash beloro. Tl
worst is, the guano has been washed olf wil
(he surface of the earth.
We ol' Hie Sandy Springs community hm
been peculiarly unfortunate. Not quilo tli 1-1
years ngo we were visited with one of the mn
elcstruclivc hail storms which destroyed ail ll
young colton nnd Stripped Hie fruit trees
bulli fruit ami leaves mid killed a great dca,
lilO lorest timber and many more arc still d,yii
Irom thc ell'eels ot the hail.
If this storm has extended over all thc coll
bell a high price for cotton may bc expect
next fall.
Wo have fruit enough left for ealing purpoi
if Jack Frost does aol pay us .mother visit.
Wo are about dono planting corn, but it loo
now like it never can come up. Thc ground
so run together and beaten willi hail wo Ihiuk
probablo that wo will havo lo plant over, wh<
there is any ground to plant in.
W. 0. SMITH,
Tho proprietors of Norman's Nickol t
logno aro sparing no pains in advertising it,
they fools satisllod that nil it needs is
introduction to thc people.
SVBSCIUBK FQU~TUH CQC MBA.
Sweet Potato Sood.
The following letter was addressed 16 a gen
tleman ni Newberry Court Houae (rom Wm. G.
LeDuv, Couim?88?oncr of Agriculture, Washing
ton, D. C. It will no doubt bo rend with imp
rest by our people:
DSPABTMBKT OV AORlCUI.T?BE,
WASIIISOTO.N, D. C., March ll, 1880.
SIB: At tho instance or Hon. 1). Wyatt Aiken
I send you some sweet potatoes obtained hist
year from Peru nud grown ia this district. It is
thought these will bo found valuable, not only
for their edible, but for their keeping quality,
as they came to us in barrels, and notwithstand
ing tho long voyage and crossing thc equator
arrived in excellent condition. Col. Aiken
assures mo that they will find suitable soil and
receivo careful attention at your bands, and it
gives me pleasure to scud them to persons (hus
oudorscd, because I shall have to rely mostly
upon your experiments and your crop for my
further distribution.
lu thus complying with the request of Col.
Aiken, I cannot forbear tho observation thal his
constituents may very properly congratulate
themselves on being represented by a gentleman
whose purity of lifo, independence of character
and Bignal ability have given force to thc earn
estness of his efforts, not only in behalf of his
constituents, but of thc agricultural interests of
thc United Slates. WM. G. LBDUC,
Commissioner.
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A Farm iii Western Texas.
Hans Micket, tho traveling correspondent
of thc San Antonio Express, has rondo a visit to
Capote farm, which was purchased by Major
Alexander Moore, nn ex-army officer, com
prising 20,097 acres, fronting on tho Guada
lupe Uiver on thc North, and running back
ten miles, taking in Capote hill. It is
situated in Guadalupe County, fifteen miles
Southeast of Seguin, und ten miles from
Kingsbury, u elution on thc Sunset Itailroad.
Major Mooic to< k possession of tho farm on
tho I Ot li dav of November, 1873.
Tho tir-t part of thc faun visited was a
field of 1.300 iteres. Herc were growing,
wheat, rye. barley, cots and alfalfa, ur Cali
fornia clover. In thc rear of the Hold was
a gang of men working on a ditch which
drains a number of springs near tho Caputo,
ami said ditch is over throe miles in length.
It is ilirec feet ?ide at the bottom, and ave
rages over I lu co and a half foot in depth,
ll is intended not only lo drain and make
available M me 700 or SOO ac es of very rich
land, but will ulso bo used f.r irrigating
puiposcs. At thc South end of Ibo field
were three breaking plows ut work just
finishing ibis year's breaking of new ground.
Each plow bud attached seven yokes of large
osen, and ibo plow was run len inches deep,
lu the field were three teams harrowing with
tinco horses in each team; two rollers, and
two two .horse grain drills, while two men
weie cowing oats broadcast. J?y Oie time
wc had mudo thc lound of Ibis field wc
traveled eiglit miles. This field comprises
the actual farming, or grain raising, thai
will be d' iio ihix season, hut it i? ibo inten
tion, which will, pia baldy, be UCCOIU?
nibbed by another year, tu ?rot ff otu 1.800 to
2.000 under cultivation, Porty miles of
fence were built within tho la>t fourteen
mouths. Thc entire farm is enclosed, an 1
there arc numerous cross or section fences,
making field pu8turcs--ono of which has
12,000 acres-farms, lots, etc. The corral
is a hollow square of sheds and stalls of about
five acres in extent, in tho cune of
which is a watering trough, filled hy a wind
mill. Tho stock is one of thc leading features
of ibo Capoto farm. Thero aro about 150
horses. 131 of which aro fine blood inures,
selected personally from r.omo of tho finest
stock farms in thc United States. They are
used as farm horses and for breeding tir-t
class draft and carriage horses. There uro
I0S luig i work oxen. In tho rear, on thc
South of Capote, is tho Mock rancho, having
2,800 head ofcuttlc. Thcroarc also twenty-nine
head of short horn and Devonshire hulls and
calves. Tho bog rancho is also located in thc
Southern portion of tho farm, and has on it
now over G.000 henil of line Berkshire hogs,
for whose special benefit lhere will bo planted
thia season fifteen acres of Jerusalem arti?
chokes. Tho goat ranch i pomprisos twelve
full-blooded Angora bucks, and some six
hundred nannies. Ilosl les tho obovo is a
large poultry .bouse, with several improve 1
breeds of chickens, docks, turkeys and pea
fowls. On (.'apote (aria mo Om pl lynd ell itu
average, about seventy-five men thc year
round. Everything is done willi military
precision. There are fiheen < r twenty IO
inches sulky phrws, harrows, cultivators, self
dropping corn planters, corn husker and
sheller, thresher und n portable eighteen
horse fleam engine, which is used for grind
ing corn, hurley and rye for food, v.l. ch is
mixed with out straw, threshm;*, und at
present is running thc saw mill, bot will .-oon
bo replaced hero by o station?r,? engine
Thc saw mill "M used to saw timber f .r homo
use, and will bc employed to convert thc
black walnut into lumber I ir shij mont Bast,
of which it ia estimated thai thero hi 07er
3,000,000 feet on the farm. Tho blacksmith
shop employs two skilled men. tho time of
ano being taken np in sharpening plows and
keeping tools in older. BosidoH t!?.< re ?ular
Held crops, a regular gardener i< employed
for tho raising of all kinds of vegetables for
the table use of tho proprietor of ibo hosne
and his large force of laborers; also, a fine
Dreh ard of all kinds of fruit?, and a vinci
yard is being planted thia -pring. Ali this
luis been done in fourteen months.
KC Y JVC 33 1ST Bl A. x j.
Married, March 31, 1880, ol thc residonft? of
Iso bride's lather. James Heard, Bsq . hy Ito/.
3. T. (tresham. Miss Anna Hoard, uf noonee,
und Mr. Thomas Scrliygs, ol' fairfield County,
?5. 0.
Married, ut the roddnilCO of Mr. IJ pp, on
ibo 1st of Amil. |880. nv Vt I'. Veiner, Mr.
James Pu I man lo Miss Josephine Lipp, all
il' Oconeo County.
On the the pnmo evening, by the same, at
the residence of .Mr. Hum:.loton Put man, Mr.
Brack Lipp to Miss Florence PiAO'tW, all of
Jcoreo County,
Married, March 18tll, 1K80, ul the rosidonco
>f Squire Bussell, Tligaloo Valley, hy Kev. li.
b, Sisk. Mr Jool M .Iones, of Oeoiicc, to Miss
Rtigcnia Bowell, of Franklin County, (la.
New Ad ccrliscMfints.
3VEOC?C3?L1 O ard..
Dr. ll. GTSLOJIJY,
HA VI NC located in Walhalla, offers his
professional services to tho oitizons of
tm.- and surrounding country*
fiwy* Office ai ibo rosidonco of Richard
La? is. Main Street.
April 8, 1880 21-1 mn*
Final Settlement.
NOTICE is horoby given that tho under
signed Executrix of the will of Johanna
Langmicr, doccusod, will nppty io ibo Probate
Court, on tho lOlh day of Mi y next for final
settlement of tho Estelo of said deceased,
and for a full dichnrgo therefrom as Exccu?
trix. C. BAUMGARTEN,
A'bni'ii?iiairi*.
April 8, 1880 21-lt "
Go to your druggist or merchant and call
for Norman's Nickel Cologno, which is des
tined to ho ono of tho most popular perfumea
?a tho United States.
rever and iluuc.
Tho true antidote to thc effects of miasma I?
Hosteller's Stomach Hitters. This medicino it;
one of thc most popular remedies of an age ol'
successful proprietary specifics and io in d^n-.
meuse demand wherever on this continent fever
and nguc exists A wine glass full threo limes
a day is thc best possible preparativo for cn
counttrlng a malarious atmosphere, regulating'
thc liver and invigorating ibo stomach. Tor
sale by all druggists and dealers geucrally.
Final Settlement
HPIIE undersigned Administrator of tho'
I personal estate of Lewis lt. Maret, de
ceased, will apply to Riobard Lewi", JudgO
of Probate fur Ocohoo County, S. C.. on tho
Sib day of May nest at his office in Walhalla,
fiir a final settlement of the said estate und a
discharge therefrom as administrator,
J, W. ST IU ISLING,
Administrator.
April S, 1880 21-4t*
JXolicc to Creditors.
State of South Carolina.
Oeoii?c Comity.
IN Til H MASTER'S COURT.
Jesse \V. Stribling, ns Administrator of tho
E?tntQ of \V. N. Craig, deceased, Plaintiff,
against S. E. Craig and others, Defendants
COMPLAINT mn Rr.ur.r.
np IIB Creditors ol W. N. Craig, deceased,
\ are hereby t equi red to provo their dc.
mauds before mo on tho 25th day of June,
1*80, and failing taila so may be barred of
all benefits under tho decree in tho nbovo
stated action.
RICH A KI) LEWIS,
Master Oeonco County.
April 8, 1880 21-lOt
Sheriff's Sale
OF
?^V virtue of nn execution to mo dirootod.
? I will sell, before tho Court House door
in Walhalla, S. C., oh Monday, thc 3d day of
May next, between the legal hours of salo
Ooo Tract nf Land, situate in Ooonco
County, near Pendleton village, supposed to
o intuit) sixty-live aeres, more ur less, adjoin?
ing lands ol Capt. Wm. Simpson, Bird
Abb itt nut) nthers, hoing that portion of tho
tract ol'land known as tho
'.;Wooiiwtaa'ia E"! usa (af iota,"
lvin/ in Oeonco County, and adjacent to tho
balance ol' said traci lying in tho County of
Anderson, S. (!.
Levied on as tho property of James Adgor
A fl > . nt ibo suit of Willis Wilkinson, Plain?
?i|?', vi. Ci"). H. Walter & Co. and James
Adgor ? t'.i . Defendants.
TERMS-CASU. Pu rel) asor to pay extra
for titles.
J. II. ROBINS,
Sheriff OeotlCO County.
April 8. 1880 i>l-4t
TAI
BU ut et? ? i-;.
TREASURER'S OFFICE,
April 8th, 1880.
.1 N accordance with tho Supply Bill, ap
proved December 23d, 1879, notice is hcroby
given that this office will bo open for tho
collection of taxes
SATURDAY, MAY 1,
and will remain open until May 3Ut. Tho
rato per centum nf taxes is n* follows:
State purposes, 4?? mills..
County purposes, 3 mills,
Past Indebtedness, \\ mills.
Selm i ls, 2 mills. .
Poll Tax, SI 00.
For ibo oonvenionoo of tho tax payers, ?'.
will bo ni tho following places nt tho timoa->
staled for tho oollcotion of Taxes:
Seneca Township, nt Seneca City, Thurs
day, May 13th.
Centro Township, nt Fuir Play, Friday,.
May 14th.
Tu git hm Township, at Westminster, Satur
day. May 15 th,
Pulaski Township, nt Fenton Hall's, Mon?
day, May 17th,
Chalugu Township, nt Mrs. Burkor's Tues?
day. May 18th,
WhitOWfitor Township, nt Wm. Rowland's
Wednesday, May 10th.
Koowco Township, nt High Fulls, Saturday,
May 22d.
And for tho balanco of tho timo during tho
month of May at my ollicoin tho Court IIouso
nt Walhalla.
Taxes aro pnyablo in tho following kinds,
of funds and no other:
G.dd and Silver Coin,
United Stmes Currency,
National Bank Notes,
And for County Taxes, Jury and Wit-?
nosso^ Tickets.
All information no to taxes frcoly givocihy
mail or olhorwiso.
TREASURER OCONEE COUNTY.
. Anni 8, 1880 2.U