The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, October 10, 1918, Prosperity Proclamation Edition, Image 5
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Main Lumber Yard, Capacity 4,000,00<
EEISTO RIVER pany was organized in 1912 with a
paid in capital stock of $100,000 and
LUMBER COMPANY began immediately to build and re
build their plant, buying timber, but
History of Big Lumber Plant at Em- (iid i(not beSin operating until April,
bree. South Carolina. 1913.
When this plant began operations
The Edisto River Lumber Com- it employed one hundred men, in
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Outside View of Planing Mill and Finishing Plant, Rattery Three Ii
Train of Logs Ready to be Hauled. Front View o
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Residence of J. A. Wyinan.
Bamberg is fortunate in having others are shown in other parts of
business men who believe in building this paper. Xo town tiie size of
fine homes. The cut above shows Bamberg can boast of finer residences
one of the nicest homes in the city, nor better laid off residential streets,
the residence of .Mr. J. A. Wyman, 011 They are well shaded and graded. To
Railroad avenue. This is but one of locate in a better place cannot be
the many beautiful homes in the city; done. Come to Bamberg.
ANALYSIS (jiLKXDALK SPRING. Iron Sesquioxide and alumina 0.082
? Silica 1.200
Analysis Xo. 17,670. Sample of
water?Spring S. \V. of Bamberg 3 16.420
miles, in Bamberg county. Marked: PARTS PER MILLION*.
Glendale Spring. Actual Ammonia 0.116
Grains per (2) U. S. gallons of 462 Albuminoid Ammonia 0.056
cubic inches: Xitrogen as Xitrate 0.700
Sodium Chloride 0.770 Xitrogen as Xitrite Trace
Potassium Sulphate 0.326 This appears to be a good, pure
Sodium Xitrate 0.234 water, free trom objectionable organCsndiiim
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Carbonate 12.652 ted. R. .M. BRACKETT,
.Magnesium Carbonate 0.514 Chief Chemist, Clemson College.
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Basin Adjoining (Uendale ]
> Feet, Showing 3,250,000 Feet.
creasing in 1914 to 2T?0 men and in ins to the railroads in freight ap1
<iito o<H> to 350. Since beginning proximately $225,000, and paying to
operations this company has manu- employees in round figures $650,000.
factured from the raw timber along This company at the present time
the North Edisto river, Orangeburg employs 350 men, running from the
county (from pine, cypress, ash, gum best skilled mechanics and overseers
and oak), 50,000,000 feet of raw to common laborers, having weekly
material into finished lumber, pay- payrolls of $2. )(), and expending in 1
Lilns, 110x20, Drying Space of 00x110.
parts of the South, the present man-; and loaders sufficient for skidding,! i:
agement has no limit for employees loading and transporting .">0,000 to t
who show by their daily duties that OO.OOO feet of lumber in the raw or t
they have the ability to do things. log state to their mill plant daily. t
They own and operate sixteen They also own their own electric;
miles of logging railroad, together light plant, waterworks and commiswitli
rolling stock, steam skidders sary store, with which they furnish
f Hough Lumber Sheds, One 20x140 and One 00x140.
GLENDALE SPRINGS. G. A. PUCKER.
? ,t. A \eat and Complete Grocery
Tlie tamous Glendale Mineral Store.
Spring, which is located some four
miles from Bamberg, is situated in ^r- G. A. Ducker is serving the
an ideal spot, surrounded by the ,p.e0I)1? ?f Bamberg with a complete
ot staple and fancy Groceries, as
large p.antation ot Col. John P. Polk. weu as doing a large business in talkIt
was accidentally discovered sev- ing. machines. He is the local agent
eral years ago during a verv dry here tor the Victor and Star phonospell.
While working in the vicinity graplll.s' two ?f 5.he wo1rld's leadillg
. , , , , . machines. The Victor line needs no
ot the place where the spring now further comment; it stands for the
Hows, a laborer 011 Col. Folk's place best in its line and when you are
heard some rumbling of water under thinking ot buying a machine, call
ground, and tins led to the spring arou"d and l,ave "acker
heing discovered. Col. . oik at once 0,1 t.l,e ,"any models,lle has rls'1'
had the water analysed and the gov- ,ere 111 "amberg to show you He
eminent gives it a record of being one ke? ,s a complete line ot records and
or the ten valuable springs in South wl" 0,( el',any "leSe you n aj select
Carolina Ducker carries one of the most
'This water is heing bottled by Col. complete of Toys and Novelties
Folk and is heing used in Bamberg, t0 toulld the.c y' ?The
as well as I eing shipped all over the Braph accompanying this aiticle
state and toadjoinS e i S'T ?'e vvf"
a water of decided medicinal values, fs,to,ck,ot f,??duL' ? ^ J"? ^
and. contrary to most mineral waters tei,a";? H.? keep* lk s?f, n?e"
is most delightful to the palate, being st>le a ,d w 11 make yo r lslt a p'f ^
entirely without taste. It should be' "rf w,"le ftr adl,ns J,1'!'
ach<!tronIdes'6 The m a[ m/'fooi alwa?fta,'es fpleasure'in helping
of this artfcle shows the spring and 'u"her the lnterests of tlle commUQ"
tlie basin just above the spring, where ' 5 'Th ?ro.vth ot this business has
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hotel and pleasure surroundings. * * a&0' e ?1)enecl a ver>
______ I COL.
JOHN F. FOLK. ' was persuaded to run for and was i
1 elected to the office of treasurer of 1
Col. Folk came to Bamberg in 187S this county, which office he held for i
from Colleton county and attended 12 years. He retired to private life t
Wofford college from IS79 to 1881. and continued his business on the t
He returned to Bamberg and entered farm. His farming interests became c
the mercantile business about 1882, so large that it required his entire 1
and very successfully conducted the time to carry on the business of his s
business for six years. During that 4,000 acres of plantations in this c
time he made many friends, and he, county. Col. Folk does not believe (1
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Side View of Saw Mill. Lath Mill and Log Pond.
tliis local territory of from $10,000 | factored by them into the finished
to $l-?,Ooo each month, the payroll [ products of lumber. Their timber
part ot which is paid out in weekly j holdings, located on the Xorth and
payrolls. , South I'M is to rivers in Bamberg and
They are at present cutting from | Orangeburg counties, are now suf">0,000
to GO,000 feet of lumber i ficient to hold the capacity of prodaily,
or from 1,100,000 to 1,400,000 J duction for the next eight to twelve
feet monthly, all of which is manu-1 years, during which time they will
Front View of Dry Kilns.
heir mill and mill village with elec- necessaries of life,
ric light, high pressure water for They have the usual saw mill
ire protection, and their commissary camps and small houses for their
o accommodate their men with the employees.
Loading Logs in Woods With Skidder.
Interior G. A. Ducker's Store.
small establishment. By excellent I chandising, he has now one of the
nanagement and knowledge of mer- nicest businesses in Bamberg.
11 the all cotton method of farming. ; with a part of the acreage devoted
le is this year raising a great deal of to food crops this county need not
train and stock, for which he expects ever suffer from lack of food or fail
o realize as much if not more profit to do its part toward winning the
lian on his cotton. He is only one war. Col. Folk is a believer in the
>f th? many large planters we have future of Bamberg county and is allere
in Bamberg who are making a ways willing and anxious to do his
access of the diversification method part toward making the county and
>? farming. More will see the wis- town bigger ana uener in mausiry
loin of this way of doing things and and commerce.
<Jlendale Mineral Spring.