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/ / THE LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District, of S. C. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE The Ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY A HP EEIDIY. -o- WE GUARANTEE RELIABILITY of Every Advertiser Who Uses the Columns of This Paper. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. -o -o—o- Mewsoauer in all that the Word implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16. 1894 HAFFNEY, S. C,., FRIDAY. MAY 6. 1904. $1.00 ^ YEABS 5 r « ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦ ♦ ■ *♦♦♦♦♦< > ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦-♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦ < SOUTH CAROLINA TIN MINING. t J. C. Qarlington in the Columbia State. •-♦-♦-♦-♦a ti.at the English smelters would en-(light on the tin situation showing (yielded commercial quantities of tin ^surecl.^ 0‘-eJs being tak^n out by rgo ^wn^or any^other calamity which English smelters would en-j ngnt on me uu suuatiuu ouwTT.^f, j. ^ gage to take the entire output of the how anxious the government has been also had it not been for an impression means of a tram car from ArWh . . mines on a basis of 70 per cent. di^nvcr this metal in naving nuan-1 of mismanagement which it was diffl about 65 feet, and at this delthcross | take hi^ thaT the^end o^thcfda^ho / It has long been known of all th^ States of the union east of the Rocky 1.11cv.^ # I iiiinc:n iru c* ^ t. — i mountains South Carolina leads ^[superiority of this ore can he readily titles, how eagerly ~ — ... • i i • * i . . t . , ., for oaoh bulle-lseen when it is known that the Eng- sought for it and how that millions of tant owners in England. ✓ the vein seems to hear uniformly that day. the production of gold, . V runs 9 ner cent and the best dollars have been sunk in the vain “The occurrence of tin in North and about $6 per square yard. From the Working thus crudely, the profits the government assay omce ^ | efforts to mine it in the Black Hills j South Carolina has been recognized end of the tunnel to a shaft which from a dozen laborers is about $500 miners' 3 have ! cult to overcome in the minds of dis-[sections have been run both ways, but J has earned more than the expenses of - — - - the ■ t '~ 1 — .-! xl.. j — tin from gives the indisputable figures. In 1 monazite and several other valuable minerals, this State ranks first, but it now seems that in the matter of tin production South Carolina is des | tined to occupy the unique position \ of furnishing more tin of a higher grade than any other locality has heretofore furnished in all the world. Very little has been said or written about the tin development of Chero kee county, for the reason that the property is owned by a man who is able to work it, who is working it. and that not one dollar of the stock is for sale, or likely ever to he. About two years ago, after a heavy wind storm, Capt. Samuel S. Ross went out into a timbered section of his farm to ascertain what damages, if any, had ben done to the timbers. Finding a large tree blown down with its roots sticking above the ground, he observed a black rock, resembling anthracite coal, imbedded in the red clay. Pulling this out, Capt. Ross was struck by the extraordinary weight of the rock and determined to have it examined. Acordingly, it was forwarded to Clemson College and learned , efforts to mine it in : of Dakota, where it is imbedded in for many years, and, in fact, efforts granite, where labor is high and trans- at stamping tin ore from ledges of portation difficult. He was much im- coarse granite similar to the Black pressed with the Gaffney rock, and ad- Hills tin ore were made many years vised Capt. Ross to continue his work ago, but it was found difficult to i on conservative lines until he was ^ stamp the rock on account of the con- sure of the extent of the deposit. 1 siderable percentage of mica. Lately The report came from England that; Capt. S. S. Ross of Gaffney City, S. G\. .jthe ore assayed 72.42 pure tin and discovered particles of cassiterite ly- tieretofore found in this country ing in clay on what seems to he a scarcely as high as six per cent. | residual material, from a wide gran-1 Dr. David T. Day of the geological 'te dike now thoroughly decomposed, survey, who has since visited the j Capt. Ross showed these to Mr. mines four times, wrote as follows; George S. Barrows of the Welshach j after a recent visit- Light Company, who was visiting in TakinT the lode deposits of tin;and Mr tia. n.a-s the world over, they would not aver-l s n X“f^e °g[ an 000^^1 o B f age more than from 2 to 3 per cent. ] pr e ac « a , The metallic tin; therefore, they are only mined where labor is cheap. The writer found opportunity, just one | year ago, to visit the deposits, and dipt. S. S. Rom. mines in Cornwall only yielded when | T ,— —. tin was higher in price, but while f. dvi8ed Cai,t - Rof ! s ^ work , tho df! I> (,K - ; thev now run less than 2 per cent., i \\ s on as economical a scale as possi- cheap labor and well-developed mines b ‘ e “ ntil something as to the amount keep In existence mines that would i ° fRn ™ uId be determined. This never be developed, considering the ...j ' oss ias succeeded in doing present price of tin and the low grade J' 1 l rare economy, persistence and xl„ rpLr. .r..„ot aimniv pomps forethought, with the result of send- after considerable correspondence he °f the ore. The great supply comes learned that this had been abandoned, from deposits which are not lode de- r»ll Kiif o5mr\1v tin nl5ir»Pr« was promptly pronounced cassiterite. This is the purest of tin ore. ' e^owing to the scarcity of the ore in , . v this country, he low grade of that oh- ' n the Straits Settlements and on the x_•—li„ .«.«MhUnrv tav rm islands of Banca and Billion. Here posits at all. hut simply tin placers ing quite a large shipment in a profit able manner to Swansea, as above stated. Meanwhile considerable ex- j citement has naturally been aroused, I but no further large body of thor- •lohn L. DanlHs, .Mlnlnjr KiiRilUer. every time the sun goes down. It is no wonder the property is not for sale. Even if Capt. Ross did not have ample means to equip the mine for working by the most economical i methods known, so long as his profits run a thousand dollars every two days he lias no need to advertise for part ners. I have written this article without suggestion or reward, or the hope of it, but simply because I do not be lieve that the people of this State real ly appreciate what they have. There are mines of wealth lying around us untouched. There are possibilities for development which if discovered at all must come by accident. The world knows that we lead in the man ufacture of cotton goods, because in the dark days after the war a few- in trepid spirits blazed the way and dem onstrated the practicability of cotton manufacturing in South Carolina. There are resources here still un touched and our people are oblivious to them. Even now from this tin mine in Gaffney there is going to be exhibited in the St. Louis world’s fair a nugget of tin ore weighing 1,000 ’ pounds, the largest the world has ever known, as well as the purest. But it will be placed in the North Carolina ing, and crude monazite boxes, he witn me smeiiers at nuic, v^i«»™cx.., ..... __ „ collected several hundred pounds, and England. In June last the ore that the Black Hills of South the question arose as to how to get had been so crudely washed out of would probably have succeeded, as j 0 p 0 ',i i )y Capt. Ross and his associates i This was discovered by an agent of oughly decomposed granite where the has already reached 65 feet, calcula- exhibit, for the reason that South Car- tin ore is simply in clay has as yet tion shows $50,000, as the miners say, olina has not even provided a shelter been discovered, with the exception of one lode in the vicinity of Bessemer City, N. C., which is also being devel- ’■ mm** Mm m m.' Kfiillfe pate*. cVj iif J U V ■W fi fo \ i iv \ mm i H, m i * .y ’ ' ^ - 1% fL K r m Jim mm* i ii » : 1^11 AA XjPJ .. -4, , MM* .m Wm m, i- “in sight.” for it. Here is a subject that the sci- The placer mining is also progress- entific world has been exercised about ing. This dirt yields only about $3 for a year, tin in South Carolina, and per square yard. At present all of the not a corporal’s guard of South Caro- work is being done by hand. Even linians outside of Gaffney can tell the North Carolina State geological the pump which keeps the mine free anything concerning it. And, strang- survey. The many other lodes of tin water is run by a big buck negro est of all, our own State geologist has ore recently found in North Carolina near the South Carolina border ant! in the neighborhood of Kings Mount ain are of the same nature as those known for many years, that is, hard pegmatite (coarse granite), contain ing irregularly distributed masses of tin ore. What percentage any of these lodes will yield is not known, and the proposition of mining those lodes is by no means so fascinating as sim ply washing the tin ore from a clay | bank, as in the deposit near Gaffney j City. There is every reason to sup- j pose that this tin mine near Gaffney City will yield paying quantities of tin for at least several years, and plans are being developed for work ing it far more cheaply than hereto fore, although the present workings are extremonly profitable. As to the | likelihood of finding other decom posed veins from which tin can be washed with water, it is difficult to make any reasonable prophecy, but considering the large number of lodes of tin ore which have lately been un-1 covered, it would seem that the pros pects of finding other decomposed lodes is considerable.” Coming down to figures, the “profit ableness” of which Dr. Day speaks, may he reckoned in these figures; Gross amount received from one car- ■Ml The Siulce for Working Placer Depoxitrt. mm The Shaft and Working Tunnel. tin ore assayed, there being no smelt- the red clay of Cherokee county was many of the ores will run slightly And it was a fur- shipped to England, and the report, above 2 per cent-, on the average of I * 1 1.1- c. “day and night and Sundays” with not yet visited the only successful tin sufficient relays. The jigger, which mine that has ever been operated separates the oYe from the clay and within the borders of the United load of ore shipped abroad, $10,000. j t ii e kaolin, which is found with it in States of America located within the Cost of mining said car and transport-( the vein, is run by hand. Everything borders of his own State. J ing it to England, less than $2,000. j s made, however, with a view to at- The English manufacturers have Net profit on the first car shipped, taching steam, which can he done at just advised Capt. Ross that they more tlmn $7,000. a day’s notice. Capt. Ross is about have made a small shipment of the This deposit is located about one ready to put in the necessary machin- manufactured product of his mine in mile north of Gaffney. The mining is ery, but as he expressed it to the the shape of block tin vessels, and being done on the side of a small i writer, he is determined to avoid the these are awaited with considerable stream which furnishes an abundance | mistake of many who have under- interest. of water for washing the ore, by | taken mining operations in this part means of a dam which makes a res-; of the country, by putting in piles of Quick Arrest, ervoir holding 4,000,000 gallons of wa- machinery before they know what J. A. Gulledge of Verbena, Ala., was ter. Capt. R’oss owns three miles of they have, and as a result after a few twice in the hospital from a severe this stream and all of the land for fitful months the vast fortunes which case of piles causing 24 tumors. Af- half a mile around the deposit. It is the owners saw staring them in the ter doctors and all remedies failed. impossible as yet to determine the extent of the deposit, hut the vein has been prospected for some distance face are represented only by black. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve quickly ar- smokeless smokestacks pointing heav- rested further inflammation and cured enward. Capt. Ross has determined j him. It conquers aches and kills pain. and yet its dimensions have not been ! that if the tin gives out, if the prices 1 25c at Cherokee Drug Co. ' THS0U3H0UT THE PALMETTO STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST OF PASSING EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Happenings All Over the State Taken from Our Told to Ledger Reader*. tive at Newberry was quite ill. As 1 there was no train at that hour, Miss McClintosh, in company with Messrs. B. Miller and J. E. Richard, made I the trip of forty-eight miles in ex- ! ictly four hours. The run is consid- ‘■roil remarkable considering the hilly j country. Landrum had a destructive fire Tuesday night. The store of Hamp- ton Bros, was burned. It is not known how the fire originated, but it caught from the interior. The general opin plus profits over and above the divi dend paid out. For more than a year the company has not had a represen tative on the road, for the reason that the unsolicited orders have taxed them to the limit to fill. Many orders have been turned away. The increase in stock is for the further enlarge ment of the plant. Mr. James Meehan, a Columbia boy now with the Alderman Lumber con cern at Aocolu, prevented safe crack- j ers from getting in their work at that place Friday night and securing sev- j TH[ TARHEEL STATE RECENT EVENTS OF NOTE IN NOR^H CAROLINA. ion is that the store was robbed and | J •' "T\7 ° — Exchanacs and Tersely « k '‘n set on fire and the flames were ^ a ' / h ‘ ms f nd . t do,lars - Tw ‘> men se- iot discovered until the building was , 1 the company about '<m» far gone for anything to be saved. JV* %vee ' 8 as * J( »iler makers. The building was owned by Mrs. Paul H : ' vo , 1 [v d stea, *'*y f° r about a The secretary of State Monday Bomar of Marion, Ala. Hampton | weck a n<l then commenced making in-1 chartered the Darlington Security n roH . had insurance on their stock. ? ulr . Ie f about the a,no >int of money Company, capitalized at $6,000; the though not enough to cover the loss. ke P t in the ^ afe - Th ey secured the * -—i— /-I. ™....„,, J assistance of one of the negro em- Monday afternoon at Manning, j V^yes, but another negro who was Company of Marion, a drug concern, capitalized at tiu*”*court approached, while pretending to enter $5,000; and to the Farmers’ Oil mill ^ " ^ ^ unt y’ Xl^ourt was in i into the scheme, gave It a way to Mee- O' .^‘ ,ren “ county ’ session, Magistrate S. M. Youmans shot han and the other while men Pi-May M usually killed Lawyer John R. I 11. .x? e.o TUOS- Keels. Sheriff Gilreath. of Greenville. Tues Youmans fire,I five shots, all I>°f lted ‘ n v the f fe ; a suard was put out, and when the two white men and *•» day morning received information of taking effect, and immediately gave j ,,,u ’ auu wm5,, llIe wum,- meu ami a double shooting at Pilgrim colored himself up to the sheriff. The quarrel; the n es r ‘> came up with their safe church in Greenville county, Sunday was over a business transaction but j cra(!k ^ n l’ tools, they were halted. The The details received by the sheriff letulla of the tragedy are lacking, the ne ^ ro started to run and was shot in were meagre, but It was reported man slayer refusing to make any the leg and captured, as were the two that Mitchell and Will Kennedy were statement, and bystanders were too white men - shot by Dock and Kush Gaylord, all excited to talk rationally at the time. colored, and that Will Kennedy died # ,l « x i Made Young Again. Tuesday at his home in Laurens conn- l " ‘ aplul stock of the Sumter , “One of Dr. King’s New Life Pills ^ I -h’Phone Manufacturing Company each night for two weeks has put me will he doubled, the same to be Issued in my ‘teens’ again,” writes D H A record breaking run was made to the stockholders. The growth of Turner of Dempseytown Pa They’re in an automobile from Columbia to this enterprise has been phenomenal, the best In the world for fiver Rtnm Newberry Sunday. Early that morn- New buildings have been completed ach and Boweir Pu^lv veaetaSK' ing Miss McClIntoah at the College and new machinery Installed at a Never gripe. Only 25cat Gherokee for Women received word that a rela-< cost of $50,000, paid out of tho sur-. Drug Co. Items of Interest Concerning Our Neighbors in the Old North State Culled Expressly for Ledger Readers A charter has been granted the Gastonia Furniture Company, of Gasto- nia, with a capital stock of $50,000. mainly held by Rufus M. Johnson. The State also charters the Char lotte Day Nursery Association, no cap ital stock, also the Lawing-Robbins Furniture Company, of Charlotte, with a capital stock of $10,000. Revenue Collector Hare, of Raleigh, made a raid in Johnston county re cently and found Mrs. Boh Eason making whiskey in her kitchen in a 60 gallon distillery. It has been in i operation for a long time. He de- ! stroyed the still. Her husband fur nished the supplies and manufactur ed the whiskey. He sold it. Governor Aycock Tuesday morning fixed June 15th as the date for the execution of three murderers—Adam Hunt, of Person county; Arch Lip scomb, of Greenville; and William R. Munn, of Cumberland. These are cases in which appeals from findings | and sentences in lower courts have j been affirmed, making it necessary for new dates to be set for hangings. , The Southern’s depot at Hunters ville Mecklenburg county, wU burned to the ground Monday night, in addition to the building a large lot of merchandise was also consumed. Just how the building caught is not known. There was no fire in the of fice, and it is thought that it caught from a passing engine, or was struck by lightning. The burned building was a frame structure, and burned quickly. The contents were also of the inflammable kind, and this a ided to the fury of the flames. At 3 o’clock Monday afternoon on petition of John P. Cuyler, of Raleigh, in behalf of himself and other stock holders of the Atlantic & North Caro lina Railway, through his counsel. W. I H. Day, filed a bill of complaint and exhibits and moved for the appoint- I ment of a receiver of the property and assets of the railroad. Judge Pur | nell set the application to be for hear ing on its merits May 21st in Raleigh, j and that in the meantime the said railroad, its officers, agents, attorneys and servants, be enjoined from mak ing any change in the present status | of its property or franchises, other ! than necessary in paying the neces sary current operating expenses in j the proper operating of it. Mr. Isaac E. Gray, a very well-to-do farmer and ex-Confederate soldier committed suicide near his home, a few miles south of Monroe on Satur day evening. The particulars of the desperate act could not be learned further than that he simply placed the muzzle of a double-barrel gun to his forehead and managed somehow to push the trigger. He always had a little money and had some when ho committed the rash act. He had pre viously, however, deposited it with the Savings, Loan and Trust Co., with the understanding that his tw’o daugh ters should draw it nut in equal por tions as they respectively attained the age of 18. The old fellow seemed to lx in very good circumstances and why he should, have deliberately end ed his career is hard*’ to tell. Sheriff J. Henry Reed of Asheville, had a narrow escape from death Tues day night about 7 o’clock. He walked into a restaurant and there met a friend who w f as under the influence of liquor, and who asked the sheriff to loan him a quarter. The officer told him that he wouldn’t do it; that he would go off and get drunk, and the sheriff positively declined to ex tend the loan. The man cursed him f, r liar, whereupon the sheriff replied, “No, I guess I’m not.” With out a moment’s warning the man lunged at the sheriff, holding in his hand an open knife of an ugly char acter. A Although taken unawares. Sheriff Reed struck with the quick ness of lightning and as the knifo blade touched his breast the assail ant caught a powerful blow on tho side of the head from the sheriff's fist. The sheriff's quickness was all that saved him. // .-fa A hotel clerk’s smile is as meaning- 1 less as a woman's no.