The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 23, 1909, Image 4
COMING SOUTH
New Lawl of Promise for Miliioos of
CipiUl
HER GREAT RESOURCES^
, I
I
U?r UmlovHoiNHl I And*, Mint* tuid
Forwts Arc Atlr?ctin^ HnttwprlMing
Men of Mimuui and Thimo
Willing to Take Advno(a^< of Her
Possibilities in Farming.
"A greater nation through a greater
South!"
This is the tocatu that the South
la sounding today from Atlantic to
Pacific and from tho southernmost
everglades to the northern pines,
aaya the New York American.
The South wants men and money?men
that her vast resources may
he glvtkn over to cultivation ano
Industry, and money for entrpriso.
. that their products may feed the
markets of the universe.
She has produced a cotton crop
this year which will net about $ 1
> 009.000,000.
Her grain will 1111 800,000.000
bushels.
Her total agricultural products
will foot up nearly $2,600,000,000.
She Is mining 90,000,000 tons
of bituminous coal.
Her cotton mills nre using nearly
8,000,000 bales of cotton a year.
She commands the sulphur trade
of tho world producing uearly onehslf
of tho whole production of
the world.
Her ports aro second to New York
in their shipments.
She Is spending today $20,000,
000 In now cotton mills.
Nearly a quarter million of peo
pie are swarming into her rich
country to help win for her the
success that has been so long comiar.
Her resources are withal but
beginning to show their worth, for
she has lacked in capital and the
kind of labor noceaanry to bring her
boil and opportunities to their full
fruition.
Bhe has 4 0 per cent of nil the
timber lands in the United States,
about 02,000 square miles; quarries
that are rich in the most beautiful
and useful stone, marvellous ores,
and thousands of square miles of
the most fertile and greatest producing
farm lands in the world.
Everywhere the railroads are
Hushing colonies and building their
extensions, until five years hence It
is believed that every available mile
of her lands will be within easy
r^nch of some road.
Millions of dollars are being pnt
into her mines; other millions are
going into her textile advantages.
Along the line of one railroad alone
460 textile mills have been erected,
Her phosphate beds are being worked
to the fullest limit of thcU present
capital. Her tobacco crops are
enormous, and In every spot touched
by the tide of investment springs
forth a eolden return creator than
their Investors ever dreamed of.
With a population of nearly 28,
000,000, or about a third of the to
tal of the United States, ahe is putting
out in agricultural product
alone the equal of all the States iti
1800.
Nearly $2,000,000,000 will be
spent by the railroads during the
next ten years to add to her wealth
Everywhere the cry is going up foi
bettor roads, and every State is bend
ing its efforts to make the Southeri
roads the peers of those of any oth
er States.
"I do not believe that there i
any land on the face of the eart1
ttaat equals, acre for acre, the land
of the South. It is a, greater pro
ducer than the lands In the north
west, and?it is immensely cheapei
"Then, too, there is its faire
olimate and its easy markets; it
cheap freights, short hauls, imnied
ate sales, until you ha/? an idet
condition. Here, too, yoj have
land well watted by :;o r! w.iteri
whore artificial irrlgatic 1 may tj
reduced to a m; ilinuni to produt
marvellous r j t.'s Coai is at hu ?railroad
fajill*' ;s are go J and
tor hauls first class.
"You have water power for th
mills, which is cheapest; citica wit
all modern things close at hand;
wideawake population both on fan
and in city, until the situation woul
seem ideal."
Ilurlel of Leper.
The body of First Sergt. C. (
Mix, of the 72d Company, coast a
tiller? corpp, the only leper in tt
United States army, who died i
his Isolated quarters on the mil
tary reservation at Fort Screve
near Savannah, has been riven hoi
orabte tyurial in the National Cen
?tary at Heaufort, S. C.
Fatal Shooting Scrape.
A fatal shooting scrape ocrurrc
at Westvllle Tuepday night in whk
fX>c Uelk was shot and killed I
John Peach. The parties are whit
Th? Killing Is understood to be aboi
woman.
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GOOD BOY FARMER
HOW 1IA8COMU I'SIIKll WON THE
CORN 1TUZK CONTEST.
How He Propurxl His frVrtillzed
IIIh iktU, Cultivated i?u?]
(jiilhcn d His ('rop.
A Columbia dlspatoi saya the announcement
to tho effect that 1'khcomb
Usher, the Marl ?or > county
boy who raised 152 L^sludj on Ma
aero, had won tho 8tato prize In
tho national corn content has caused
a groat deal of comment here.
Many aro wondering Juat how he
did it. A glance at tho following
will irlvo hoiiio bloa as to just how
tho phenomenal yield wuu produced
:
Tho land on which the corn wa?
produced In In HrightBvlllo township
In Marlboro county and la a
aandy loam soil. There waa a subaoll
of 10 inches. The land sloped
to tho tfoutheust. The land wan
?rst cleared In 1907 and waa planted
In corn and peas. The same
crop was plantod In 1908 and 60
bushel* of corn was produced. Prior
to tha large yield cotton s??ed
meal and 1.00 pounds of nitrate of
soda wore lined.
The acre was well fertilized this
year. The following being used:
200 pounds of commercial fertilizer,
100 pounds German kanit, 3 00
pounds second grade Peruvian gua
no, 9 00 pounds cotton seed meal
I and 600 pounds nitrate soda. The
| land is considered worth $75 per
acre.
On March 2 0 tho land wns brok
en. It was subsolled with a HoyDixie
plow. There was no barnyard
manure used.
Groat care was exercised In the
selection of seed, which Is ono of
the most Important points about the
contest. Garrett's prolific corn seed
were used. This seed was secured
from H. K. Moore, who won the
State prize In 1908 by producing
137 bushels on ono acre and who
won third prize In tho national con
tost In 1908 with 125 bushels. This
corn hus boon used since 1900.
The seed were planted on April
1 by hand, in rows live feet apart.
There were no hills and only one
peck of seed was used. The seed
were carefully hand picked before
planting . No time w-rh spent in
germinating them. The cultivation
commenced on April 2 8, a Hoy-Dixie
plow being used. The ground was
stirred to a depth of 10 inches. The
acre was cultivated five times on
April 28, May 17, June 18 and
July 9. Tho corn was thinned by
hand, one stalk being left to the
hill, eight inches apart. Hand la
l>or was used in removing the weeds.
The weeds were tho rag weeds and
the morning glory, which were removed
in one day.
On October 13 tho crop was harvested.
The corn was pulled from
the stalk by hand. The stalks were
not cut and shocked. The corn
was husked by hand.
The boys corn club work was Introduced
in this State last serine
Only five counties could he organized.
Marlboro, I-.ee, Florence, Clarendon
and Newberry. The results have
already been reported In detail from
each of these counties. Prof. Ira
W. Williams, United States Farm
Demonstration Agent; O. B. Martin
and Prof. D. N. Harrow, of Clin son
college, are now actively engaged In
stimulating the work in various localities
of the State. With the co
operation of the different county superintendents
of education, the rural
school Improvement associations,
^ State Superintendent of Education
Swoaringon and Commissioner Watson.
Active efforts will be made
to organize boy's corn clubs in every
county. Means and methods will
be discussed at the coming meoting
of the State teachers' association,
and those in attendance will
g
learn definitely of the scope of this
' work for 1910.
This work has, up to the present,
been Independent of the contest
conducted by the State corn contest
j commission for both boys and men
j though many of the boys participating
in the above contest have also
participated In the State contest.
During the coming vear it is thf
*' purpose of the commission to combine
its efforts and prizes with th<
'' new work that has been inaugurated
1 under the direction of O. B. M.ir
tin.
There has beon a groat increasi
in the corn production in South Car
B olina in tho past several years am
the corn contest commission is o
the opinion that tho work of Mr
URher will encourage other boys o
the State In agriculture not only ir
producing corn but in all other linei
). of agricultural work,
r- One of the members of the com
ie mission in speaking of tho young bo:
n said, "Why he is a great man ant
I- does not know it. There are fev
n, boye that have done what he has
i- His record is most enveniablo. Hi
i- has demons!rated most strongly tha
the host way to farm and get re
suits is not on paper."
?d Bitten by Bull l>og.
:h Seven persons wore bitten by 1
>y rabid white bull dog which went or
e. a rampage In the lower part of Nov
nt York Wednesday night. Tho doj
was Anally killed by a policeman.
GREAT PLANT
It Be Erected Near Ridgerille by a
Cbicagt Syidicate.
nvvT rAOT imii i inun
ITILL LUdl miLUUDd
Will Ik) t'ned to MjuiufiM'tnre Nitro^uouh
Fertilizers From the Air.
It in A1.no Haiti That Georgia tV?nipany
will OtnNlrurt Tower Tlant
on Kdisto Itiver at Big t.Vxtt.
That u company of Georgia bual*
ntntH men 1b about to build on the
Kdisto river, bIx inlleB from Rldgeville,
u hydro-electric plant at a coat
of $1,200,000 and that a Chicago
ayndlute purposes to eroct at Rldg<*ville
or at aome point near thin
water power a $10,000,000 factory
for the manufacture of nitrogenous
fertilizer are atatementa contained
In a communication received by the
Rldgevlllo correspondent of 'the
NewH and Courier und by him aent
to that newspaper. The corroHpon
(lout states that thin communication
wa? sent to him by Mr. I). G.
Zeigler, who, It seems, haH boon the
moving spirit in the enterprise men
tioned. Here 1b what the Kidgeville
correspondent Bays:
Some time in the early spring Mr.
I). G. Zeigler, of the firm of D. G.
Zeigler & Co., engineers, of Jack
sonville, Fla., began an investigation
on the EJlsto river, six miles
southwest of thin place. Mr. Zeigler
had located a valuable water
power at that point on the Ed is to
river. There came at one time to
this place Mr. H. S. Marshall, of
Illinois, an engineer in charge of
a force. He made surveys on the
river and immediately after his surveys
those lands began to change
ownership at fancy prices compared
to their former prices. Mr. Zeigler
bought them and within a short
space of time, about two weeks,
sold them to a group of Savannah
business men, who have organized
a company to develop a hydro-electric
plant on the river just 6 miles
flrom Kidgeville, where they will
develop 23,000 commercial horse
power, electrical.
It is also learned that this development
will cost about $1,200,000
and that the company has been
chartered in Georgia to make this
development, capitalized at $1,600,000.
It is said that all stock ha*
been subscribed for and fully paid
up, and that construction will begin
very soon. The plant when
completed will bo one of the best
water powers in the Southern States.
This stream always affords an
abundance of water, and a head of
3 6 feot can be easily obtained. There
will never be any scarcity or shortage
of water. It is stated that this
same firm of engineers Is making
at present the following other wa
tre power developments:
3 6,000-horse power, on the Se
wanoe river in Florida; 8,000-horse
power on the Allapaha river in Florida;
8,000-horse power, on the Cu
noochee river, near Savannah; 17,
000-horse power, on the Satllla river,
near Brunswick, Ga.; 18,000
horse power, on the Flint river, near
Americas, Ga.; 6,000-horse power,
on the Abbey creek, near Dothan
Ala.; 3,600-horse power, on E.ible
Bridge creek, near Geneva, Ala.;-I
9,000-horse power, on Pea river,
nun r A KK/? v A In nn/< I) Add ?> . ..
uvm n wuv^ , nia.( aim o, vv ".mi; ni
power on Little river. In Vlabama
The above make a total ievelo,)
roent of 1,10,500 electrical ho.'spower,
at an estimated total cost or
twelve million dollars when completed.
It is also estimated that when a 11
of this power is put into use it witf
take the place of about four million
dollars that is being spent each
year by the people in the various
sections of the country where these
powers are situated for coal to make
steam power. This alone will be u
nice sum to be paid for the water
- i v wer, to say nothing of the other
expenses of a steam plant. It Is
? said that power will be furnished
from these plants for about $33 pet
' horse power per year.
It Is stated also, that Mr. D. G
- Zeigler has receive! from Wall
1 street banks offers of large sums for
" a number of the water powers which
he and his associates now control
i but that he has received a Rtill bet
" tor offer from a Chicago syndicate
' Those Chicago people have secured
t control of a process to extract nl
trogen from the air by means of ar
t electric current, and they have de
1 elded to establish a chain of fac
s torlos In the South for the manufac
ture of nitrogenous fertilizer, whlct
" Is said to be cheaper and more pro
f ductlve for the farms than any othei
' fertilizer on the market.
' The gentlemen above referred tr
had their engineer meet Mr. Zelglei
Inst week In Georgia and go wltt
' him over some of these water powers
The result of the Investigation I<
that they have offered to Mr. Zelg
ler ant his associates the capl
tnl necessary for them to use In con
i structlng the various plants. an'
l they will take power at a fair prle<
} In exchange. The syndicate wll
? erect at or neT e^ch one of the wa
tor powers a factory for the manu
SEVEN LIVES LOST
IN A POUR-fcTORY CINCINNATI ,
TKNKMKNT DKATH TRAP.
Tiio Houne Ablwie With Ef>?ry Occupant
Bleeping?Firemen Carry
Many Down Ladderr* Hafely.
In a Ore at Cincinnati that destroyed
a tenement bonne shortly
before daylight on Tuesday morning
seven persons were killed and
30 Injured.
The building was a veritable death
trnp. Tho one fire escape was renI
I t... * \ u a it
uj nit; IIuinitini int.'
emergency door, supposed to load
to Hafoty, and ordered kept open
l?y the tiro department, wuh nulled
shut.
The building Is a four-story Btruoture
with tenants on every floor
except the first. The hallways are
lighted by kerosene lamps and In
some way the lamp on the second
floor was upset and In a very few
minutes the dry woodwork In the
hall was aflame.
The blaze shot upward, making
it impossible for tho tenants of the
placo to get out by way of the stairs.
Some of them Jumped out of tho
windows and wore badly hurt.
There wore fifty persons in the house
at tho tlmo.
The flrst firemen to reach the
scene saved several of them from
the rear of the burning building.
The captain of engine company No.
4 carried down two bodies on tho
ladder and several women were
found huddled together on the fourth
floor. The bodies taken to the
morgue were so badly burned that
Identification was almost ImposHl
Mo. I
Patrolman Clark and Trlnklor.
who worn tho first upon tho scene,
nickod up a blanket from In front i
of tho building and yelled to the !
terrlflod people In the windows to
jump. Holding the blanket between
them, they called to a woman on
the second floor to Jump Into It.
Ah she Jumped to safety tho officers
called to a small girl who was
on the verge of dropping from a
window on the third floor. The girl
took one look at the outstretched
blanket and Jumped head first In-'
to. Both woman and child were
badly burned and were quickly rushed
to the city hospital.
Two officers carried many of the
tenants to Hafety over the neighboring
roofs.
OORPBE HOLDS Al'TO WHEEL.
Woman's Presenee of Mind Prevents
Tragedy on French Road.
Mine. Maurice, of Roanne, Franco,
has had the terrifying experlen e of (
driving in a motor car with hor dead
husband clutching the steering wheel
and a four-year-old baby In her lap.
She had gone for a drive with
her husband as chauffeur. Noticing
that the car was pursuing an erratic
course, she spoke to her husband,
uring him to he more pruden. There
was no response, for he was dead.
In an Instant the woman realised
the truth. She wns Ignorant of
he machinlsm, and could not stop
imp ear. nut wun remarkable presence
of mind she did the next beet
I thing. Lifting her baby up, she leanel
out of the auto und dropped it on
the roadway. Then, taking the
steering wheel, she headed the automobile
for a ditch, into whi h It
ran and capsized.
Mine. Maurice, who, with the
corpse of her husband, was flung
*Mit, fortunately escaped with very
slight injury. The baby was found
unharmed. The husband's death was
due to heart fnilure.
One Day to the Ideal.
It is beautiful to give one day
occasionally to the Ideal. One day
n which books and stocks and deeds
and notes, and interest and mortgage,
and all kinds of business and
trade are forgotten, and all stores
'nd shops and factories and offices
tnd banks, and ledgers and ac'ounts,
and lawsuits are cast nside, put away
?nd locked up, and the weary heart
and brain are given a voyage to
'alryland. Let us hope that such a
'ay is a prophesy of what all davs
I will t>e.
i In the nature of things a weddins
isn't a wedding if it proccods with
out a hitch.
i recurring or mis rertmaer. it is
atated that they will Invent In tho
i ten manufacturing: plants at least
- *r>0.000.nn0. and that work will begin
on them at once.
Mr. Zelgler Is very busy at presi
ent bringing the matter to a clone.
and Is accepting this offer an fast
p as he can consult with tho various
Incorporations. As each one of these
> water power developments has been
p chartered ar. a seoarate company, It
i |o necessarv for him to have a mooting
of each company and place the
s matter before the stockholders, and
- it will take some weeks for him to
'o this. Still, at tho same tlmo,
- 't la understood that the matter will
' >>e left to his Judgment, and as he
* la Inclined to neoent the offer, It
1 u'eans, annarentlv. that Rld?revlllc
- will have verv anon a ten-inllllon
- dn]]nr fertilizer factory.
f Bank of
(ft OONWA1
? OkpiUl Stock
rjfS Depo?it?
/K Total Amets
?jfjr
DIHKC
J. A. McDermott, J
T. McNeill, B. O. C
jm. tlebaum, Ilal. L. L
/V\ The oldeat Bank in Hon
ik olina. Asho< fated with, the r?
^ the paat decade. Our. |>olicy
the "Independent Republic."
/1\ to our cuNtoiuerH every . ream
/1\ tent with wiund banking. We
a als, Arum and corporall ohm.
D. A. 8PIVKY,
| Vlce-IVetiident.
BANK OF
Conwa
CAPITAL STOCK
SURPLUS
LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS.
SECURl 1 Y TO DEPOSITORS
I) IRIX
Robert B. Scarborough,
H. L. Buck,
Ueorge J. Holiday,
We <outime to jay 5 per cent interei
it youraccount
KOBKkT H. SCARBOROUGH, H
I'ltKHIWPNT.
THE WORLDS 6REATEST SEWIN6 MACHINE
Ifyoo want etthera Vibrating Hhottle, Ilotary
Bhuttloor A Hlnglo Thread [ Chain tUlle/i]
Bowing Much I no write to
THE NEW HOME SEWINQ MACHINE COMPANY
Orange* Mass.
Many aewtn* machine* arc made to sell regardless of
Quality, but the Now Homo is made to wcac.
Our guaranty never runs out
old by Mthorliod dealer* only.
POM 6ALB BV
lilJHKOl t. 'i.LlNS CX).?
Oooway, H. O.
I'KOKKHSIL.NAL CAKIXi
H. H. WOODWAKl)
Attorney and Councilor At Lav
CONWAY, S. C.
C. K. HT. AMAN U,
At form*) at I myi
(Conway, H. C.
K. li. MCAIUIItOIWH
OONWAY, 8. O.
Attorney at law.
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hiIU;K4)\ HKNTIHT.
(X)X\VAV, H. O.
ovrr limit of Horry
ri. if. iuiuioh.hh
rhyflf'*i?n him) SurtCdott.
CON WAV. S. O.
! 11. WO^KOUIt WAIT
Aftoriiev at I/?w.
OONWAY, 8. O.
( One Killed, Three Hurt,
i One person was killed, one fatally
; Injured and two others badly brula
i od when the automobile In which
they were riding turned turtle and
i plunged In a ditch near Atlanta. Oa.,
a few davs aero. "Dare Devil"
.Tones, an amateur driver, was killed
and Ralph Kaplan, an employe
of an automobile aeencv In Atlanta,
i was nio?t c/off->iioi v In lured.
Tf a m^n ha** a chance to do a
i lot of good In the world, he feels a
< grievance over It.
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150.000.00 A
250,000.00 A /
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tolling, C. P. Quat- ML
luck, D. A. Spivey.
*y and a pioneer in Kwitern Car- A
i|Mii ui uur vajuiii/ ivr m
Iihn been for the upbuilding of jc
With thin in view we extend ^
>nablo accommodation ronnissolicit
the accounts of individu- A
HAL. L IHJCK, &
Castiier. ^
' HOKRY,
y. S, C.
$ 50 000
10 006
50 006
110 006
riORS
W. R. Ileitis, ~
W. A. JohnHon,
' Will A Freeman.
f-t on yturl) dejoMte, tnove t-olioL
BUCK, HILL A. FRF.KMAW
VlCK I'BFBIPENT. .CA8HIBB
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a cxyrroN thkkbhkr.
Machine Invent^] to Nave Htaplo la
Unopened IU>11r.
A good deal 1h being said in the
papers about a cotton thresher gin.
which was invented by a citizen oF
Oklahoma and which has boon In
operation in that State thia fall,
with, it is claimed, much succewe.
A great many bolls of the crop
for several years only partially opened
and some inventive genius in
Oklahoma determined to save what
would otherwise be thrown away.
So he invented this threshing gin.
The bolls were fed into the gin, resembling
hickory nuts as they went
in. The machine promptly tore
them (to pieces and departed the
lint that had not been exposed to
the view of the pickers in the fields
In this way it is estimated that fully
twenty thousand bales of cottoe
have this year been saved in Oklaho,
ma alone.
This Is a considerable Item In tha
output of that State, and the invootlon
Is attracting the attention of
the cottou world. If It can be perI
fected In a way that will eliminate
the cotton pickers In the fields tho
American crop of cotton can bo
largely Increased at no considerable
expense.
PAYS SOCIAL PEHTS.
Gives a Party and Then Submits ts>
Fatal Operation.
Determined that none of her social
obligntlona shuold remain unpaid
at her death, Mrs. Alma DodsY>n?
society leader and lawyer, of Springllel
1. Mo., Invited all her freinls to.
a farewell jCard party and rocofv|
tlon immediately after being informI
od by her physician that she must
submit to an operation that would
probably prove fatal.
The party was held tho day before
the operation. Smiling and
cheerful, Mrs. Dodson was an admirable
hostess.
AV'rward, Mrs. Dods/vn calmly
arranged her personal effects and
rJob - -1 * 11 * - - *
uMi me ciorninf In which aim
wished to lie attired after death
She then went to the hospital and
the operation caused her death.
The Glamor of Distance.
It is often amusing to see how
poople will deceive themselves into
thinking that they pet better good*
by going away from home. People
will go to the big cities, join in the
department store mob to the low
of their time and temper, carry
heavy bundles about the streets and
into tho trains, and return with articles
that could be had juRt as well
at homo. Examined by the sober
light of aecond thought, they often
nrrtVn linnn'l-' ? * -
, ... Mucaimmciory, t)Ut bought at
a distance they can't be returned*
save perhaps by a prohibitive amount
of time and trouble. People do not
always stop to think that the raorchants
In their home towns hare
| made marvellous advances within ft
few years. They are as keenly alive ?
to the need of keeping up with the
fashions as anyone. They have reg!
ular clearance saleR to get rid of
old goods, and It is no more poaslblo
for them to carry back number
styles than it Is for the hig city
competitor. Therefore, why not patronize
the home merchant, who will
see to It that you get satisfaction If
the goods aro not what is represent,
od?