The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 21, 1916, Page 2, Image 2
"SOUTH CAROLINA RICH FIELD.
Commissioner Points Out Advantages
and Opportunities.
When it comes to opportunities
for the intelligent tiller of the soil,
there are but few sections of the
world that offer as many and in as
great variety in the same area as the
State of South Carolina. I 'do not
write this broad statement inadvisedly
or because I happen to be a
South Carolinian in charge of the agricultural
activities in the State. I
write it in the knowledge of conditions
in most of the counties of Europe,
and of the soil, climate and
rainfall conditions Drevalent in every
other section of the United States,
and because the statement is sustained
by an analytical examination of
Federal agricultural statistics.
In elevations the State varies
from 2,000 feet above the sea level
to the low-lying coastal plain affording
almost every conceivable variety
of soil sloping downward from
the mountain sides to the sea and
abundantly watered by their flowing
streams.
With a mean annual temperature
of 63 degrees, a summer mean of 79
and a winter mean of 46, conditions
4A fom Aiie PiviorQ
QAdl'UV Similar LU CllC I a. in uuo xMiiviw
of Southern France and of California
in the vicinity of Los Angeles exist.
With an average annual fainfall
of 48.70 inches and a summer average
precipitation of 16.94 inches,
conditions are produced that mean
the growing successfully of almost
any crop. In no soils can better
yields or quality of cotton be obtained,
in no soils have larger yields
per acre of corn ever been obtained
on this or any other continent, and
in no soil are better tobacco, fruit,
forage, melons or small grain grown.
When I am asked about opportunities
usually I point to Federal figures
for after all to the man with the
business head it is only money that
talks.
Census Shows Progress.
The Federal census shows the value
of farm property in 1900 was
$15*3,591,159; in^l910 it was $392,128,314,
or an increase "of 155 per
cent. The value of farm land in
1900 was $99,905,800 and in 1910 it
was $268,774,854, or an increase of
169 per cent. The average value of
all property per farm in 1900 was
$989, while in 1910 it was $2,223,
or an increase of 124 per cent. The
average value of land per acre in
1900 was $7.14, while in 1910 it
was $19.89, or an increase of 178.6
per cent. The value of crops in 1910
was $140,000,000 (now more than
$162,000,000), and this represents
an increase of 28.4 per cent in one
year, the greatest increase shown in
any State in the Union. In millions
of dollars this increase in 1910 over
1909 was $31,000,000; over 1906 it
$63,000,000, and over 1900 it was
$88,685,000.
In 1910 South Carolina outranked
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in volume of production, though her
area was so small, every Southern
State except Texas and Georgia, and
in value per square mile in territory
she outranked both of these
States, her value being $4,518,
against $1,369 for Texas and $3,373
for Georgia. Among all the ranking
States of the Union, South Carolina's
value per acre was next only to Illinois
with $5,122 and Indiana with
$4,736. None of the Southern States,
except Georgia, came up to the $3,000
mark. The fact that a little
State like South Carolina could jump
in 1910 from- the rank 21 in production
among the States of the
Union in one year's time, to the rank
of 13, and be one of only three
Southern States standing in the list
13, or better, shows pronouncedly
the nature of the opportunities offered
by resources of soil and climate.
War Losses Recouped.
If there were other evidences
needed to show what South Carolina
can do agricultural}' when she has to
do it, an examination of the results
of her activities at the end of the
year 1915, following the year of disaster
to cotton caused by the European
war, would afford that proof.
Notwithstanding the tremendous
losses of 1914 the producing classes
so handled the situation in 1915 as
to recoup most of those losses and be
$42,000,000 better off than they were
at the end of 1914. There is scarcely
a country in existence where so
quick a turn could have been made to
diversified crops for money purposes.
It was done, however, on the same
total cultivated acreage that the
State devoted before almost exclusively
to cotton and corn, and that
total, by the way, was a little smaller
than the total of both 1900 and 1910,
upon which the above census figures
are based.
This State is simply bristling with
opportunities for the intelligent tiller
of the soil no matter whence he
comes, and it gives him the opportunity
to work with the soil if he
wants to do it every day in the year.
I know of no other country where
so many and varied opportunities
can be found all at the same time in
a like area. Intelligently directed
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16'000 Solidiers Ordered Home.
San Antonio. Texas, Dec. 18.?National
Guard organizations aggregating
16,000 troops were designated by
Gen. Funston to leave the border service
and return to their respective
States to be mustered out of the federal
service. He acted in compliance
with war department instructions.
The organizations will move homeward
in three groups to facilitate use
of rolling stock. Cars are now being
assembled for regiments including the
first group and the movements from
various border points will begin in a
few days. Gen. Funston estimated
it would be January 1 before all units
in the last group had started.
The First Virginia Regiment is the
only Southern organization included
in the movement, it was announced.
HAVE YOU RECEIVED GOLD?
Europe is Sending Enough Precious
Metal to Give $5 Each,
What becomes of the river of gold
coin whose current is now setting
strongly toward these United States
from the old world is told by a contributor
to the Scientific American
supplement. So far, in the current
year alone, gold to the value of $500,000,000,
or $5 apiece for every man,
woman and child in the United
States, has found its way to our
banking houses or to the government
treasury building, and a very large
proportion of this, we are told, has
been melted down into bars and ingots,
to reappear ultimately in a new
dress as. Uncle Sam's coin?eagles,
half eagles and double eagles.
The fact that such a transforma-j
tion is possible is a striking illustra-!
tion of the absolute value of the precious
metal, as distinguished from the!
vicarious value of paper money. AI
ton of Bank of England notes, no
matter how great their value, would,
lose it all if reduced to paper pulp; j
whereas a ton of gold is worth the (
same whether in ingots, stamped asj
sovereigns, or coined into $10 gold
pieces.
"Not only have the gold payments
come from Europe," says the article
in question, "but gold has poured
across the border from Canada so
fast within the past weeks that a recent
shipment of $20,000,000 had to
be divided between the New York j
assay office ana tne rnnaaeipnia;
mint in order to give employes of
the former institution a chance to i
get caught up with their work. So
far it has not been found necessary
or expedient to make shipments to
the Denver mint, as was suggested
when the unusual quantity of gold
began to arrive."?Literary Digest.
PINCH OP PAPER COST.
Felt in England Even More Than in
This Country.
Newspapers publishers in England
are feeling acutely the increased cost
of white paper incident to war time.
According to a special cable dispatch
to the Herald from London, published
yesterday, it is understood
that the price of the Times soon will
be placed at three half pence instead
of one penny. Other London newspapers
have in contemplation similar
increases to tide them over the war
crisis.
The situation in England is exactly
like that which prevailed in this
country during the Civil war period,
when newspaper prices went from 2
cents to 3, 4 and 5 cents.
The pinch of paper cost is being
felt in.this country almost as keenly
as in England. London dispatches
indicate that the newspaper situation
there is resolving itself into a question
of the "survival of the fittest."
Is that to become the., situation in
this country?
At a time when publishers with expiring
contracts are considering how
soon they will be compelled to increase
their prices to the public, the
preferred and common stocks of paper
making corporations continue to
soar. "It's an ill wind that blows nobody
good." On the surface the present
prices of stocks in paper manufacturing
companies would seem to
indicate belief on somebody's part
that thnQA nnrnnrfltinnc are in fnr a
period of handsome profits.?New
York Herald.
The Reason.
"Were you seasick coming over to
England, Nellie?" asked Mrs. Tinker
of her new maid, who came from the
Emerald Isle.
"Oi was turrible sick comin' over,
but nivver a qualm did Oi have goin'
back, mum," replied the girl.
"Indeed?" said the mistress. "And
how do you account for that, Nellie?"
"Shure," said Nellie, "an' Oi nivver
wint back, mum."?Exchange.
efforts produce results and those results
in South Carolina at least can
be measured in money more surely
than in the garden spots of California,
for instance.?E. J. Watson in
Aalanta Georgian.
NOTICE.
All persons are forbidden hunting,
trapping, or tresspassing on our land.
P. M. KEARSE,
J. O. KEARSE,
L. W. RITTER,
Nov. 27.?3t.
TAX NOTICE.
The treasurer's office will be open
for the collection of State, county,
school and all other taxes from the
15th day of October, 1916, until the
loth day of March, 1917, inclusive.
From the first day of January,
1917, until the 31st day of January,
1917, a penalty of one per cent, will
be added to all unpaid taxes. From
the 1st day of February, 1917, a
penalty of 2 per cent, will be added
to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st
day of March, 1917, until the 15th
day of March, 1917, a penalty of 7
per cent, will be added to all unpaid
taxes.
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For State purposes 6 1-2 mills
For county purposes 7 mills
Constitutional school tax 3 mills
Total 14 1-2 mills
SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES.
Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills
Binnakers, No. 12 3 mills
Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills
Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills
Colston, No. 18 4 mills
Denmark, No. 21 6 1-2 mills
Ehrhardt, No. 22 9 mills
Fishpond, No. 5 2 mills
Govan, No. 11 4 mills
Hutto, No. 6 2 mills
Hampton, No. 3 2 mills
Heyward, No. 24 2 mills
Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills
Hunter's* Chapel, No. 16 8 mills
Lees, No. 23 4 mills
Midway, No. 2 2 mills
Oak Grove, No. 20 4 m'ills
Olar, No. 8 9 mills
St. John's, No. 10 2 mills
Salem, No. 9 4 mills
Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills
All persons between the ages of
twenty-one and sixty years of age,
pvppnt Confederate soldiers and sail
v"wvr w
ors, who are exempt at 50 years of
age, are liable to a poll tax of one
dollar.
Capitation dog tax 50 cents.
All persons who were 21 years of
age on or before the 1st day of January,
1916, are liable to a poll tax
of one dollar, and all who have not
made returns to the Auditor are requested
to do so on or before the
1st of January, 1917.
I will receive the commutation
road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from
the 15th day of October, 1916, until
the 1st dav of March, 1917.
G. A. JENNINGS,
Treasurer Bamberg County.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that on January
3rd, 1917, the undersigned will
apply to the Probate Judge of Bamberg
county, S. C., for letters dismissory
as administratrix of the estate
of J. A. Hunter, deceased.
MRS. J. A. HUNTER,
Administratrix.
Nov. 29, 1916.
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FARM LOANS
We have money to lend on
improved farm lands in Bamberg
County at 6 per cent, interest
on long terms. Loans
not to exceed fifty per cent, of
value of property. For further
information write or apply to
SLOAN & SLOAN, Attys.
311 Palmetto Building,
COLUMBIA, S. C.
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