Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FROM DENVER TO THE PACIFIC By H. K. Aiken. Deiner and Iis Kiivirons. Coming through Western Kansas ami eastern Colorado Into Denver Is like crossing the deserts of Arabia into the (iarden of Edeib The first are barren of everything much, ex cept barbed wire fences, wind mills, endless prairies with the little prairie dogs standing on their mounds, from which they appeal' and rear up on their hind legs like toy bears as the rumble of the train startles them. No fees, no streams. The prairies' now seem too poor to yield anything but a coarse grass and wild sun flowers. The Cat) miles from Kansas City to Denver is a cause of thankful ness that we do not have to live in Kansas. Denver is not in the mountains hut at the base of them. Iis elevation is 5,000 and odd feet but you reach this so gradually that the ascent is not appreciable to the eye. You read it on the station signs. Denver is the home of much wealth. People who make money elsewhere live in Den ver and spend it there. The city is modern and up to date. No one is too busy to answer questions and give information about their city. Not able among its buildings is the Audit orium, completed at a cost of $400,000 for the last Democratic .National con vention and in use today by the Nat ional association. The sun is hot and the shady side of the street is always cool in Denver. The Drown Palace hotel, our stopping place, is an excellent hostelry, well located in the heart of the city ami all white help. Have seen very few negroes anywhere here. William Watts gave his South Carolina friends a delightful ride over the city and his twelve years of resi dence here enables him to help you see it all. Off in the morning for Cripple Creek and Pike's Peak. Tuesday. .Inly fj, 1909. Among the Itoektes. Leaving Colorado Springs at 12 M. July Mh. we journey southward to Pueblo, 119 miles from Denver. This is second largest city in ('(dorado, and known as the Plttsbltl'g of the west on account of its smellers and steel works. It is the size of Charleston. S. C. The Arkansas river is spanned here by a double track steel bridge. Out of Pueblo the track swings into the west and ascends the valley of the Arkansas river. When a student of Geography, I never gave much at tention to this river, but is is a re markable and great river. What it has done in wearing a pass through these tremendous mountains has made it possible to visit this wonderland in a pullman. The track uses the river bank as the best obtainable grade and has blasted its bed all the way. from the gigantic (Miffs that confine the water in its rocky bed at the bottom of the canyon. At Concrete and Port land we passed extensive cement works. Florence is the heart of Col orado's oil region. The river is (low ing rapidly east and our train is speeding west. Ascending the swift, sparkling river to Canyon City, popu lation 8,000, you enter thO month of the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas. At Canyon City there is attached to all day light trains during the summer season, an open observation car. seating (*><? or Ti? people, for the ride through the Canyon and Iloynl Gorge. When we arrived the Devil was whip ping his wife and he gave her a good one for the sun continued to shine and the rain 10 fall. Our train was held for 6* or l<> minutes, rain coats were unpacked, hats left***behind and in a warm drizzle bare-headed and happy we rounded a long curve and swung into the celebrated Grand Canyon of the Arkansas. The steep hills between which hur ries the dashing green water give place to rock and following the im mense breach in the granite, the train seems to he penetrating the bowels of the earth. Clinging close to every twist and lurn there la scarce space for the track. This is the Grand Canyon, in miles long. The narrow est portion is the lloynl Gorge. The rock walls lower aloft here 2,627 feet. At one point the width is hut 120 feet and through thlfl giant spill-way passes a raging river and the road bed. bullt onl <?ver the water on a hanging bridge suspended from one of the side walls. Some power com pany. 1 suppose, carries its Hume along the opposite wall On a ledge blasted OUt Of the granite at a level of vom- eye. This flume is of wooden staves held together by wire hoops aho.it four inches apart so that the water runs through a barrel two miles long. Viewed from a little distance, it looks as much like ft boa constrictor sunning above the water as anything could do. Imagine u yellow snake a mile long and you have the picture I from the car w indow. 1 don't know what development this is but it was a mammoth undertaking. Look it up in some magazine article and let me know. Approaching Salida. near the western end of the Grand Canyon, there is a break in the walls through which fine views of the Sangre De Christo can be bad. These are noble mountains the mere name of which I don't think I ever paid any attention to before. It will mean far more to me in the future. Hiding for almost half a day with this snow capped range on your left there is pointed out to you Mt. Massive the highest peak in Colorado. 14.424 feet; Mt. Klbert. 14323 feet; the three Collegiate Peaks. Princeton. Harvard and Yale, altitude, 14,lflG, 14,375 and 14,187 feet. Ar mile post 292 from Denver, westbound, you see the Mt. of the Holy Cross. The Cross is formed of snow deposited in an up right and a traverse canyon. The upright part of the cross is 1,200 feet long and the arms about Ibid feet. in summer the snow on these mountains melts in patches only, so that the tops of them look like a black and white cow. We crossed the Conti nental Divide or backbone of this con tinent over the Tennessee Pass. Here the track pierces the top of the moun tain by a tunnel 2,572 feet long and at an altitude of 10,240 feet. At any thing like this height the air is de lightfully cool and invigorating. Bmerging from the tunnel and coast ing down grade the streams now run with us and we are launched upon the great Pacific slope. Passed through l?ngte river cans on and the canyon of the Grand river. The latter begins at the junction of the Kagle and Grand rivers, is It! miles long and surpassed only by the Grand canyon of the Ar kansas. At places the walls rise to a height of over 2,500 feet. What is a canyon? I can't tell you. You will have to come and see for yourself. The best illustration you ever saw of a canyon looks about as much like the real thing as an electric Street light looks like the moon. The lies lit) spot of Colorado. This is Glcntiwood Springs, half way between Denver and Salt Lake, 'it is oiu> of the favorite health and pleasure resorts in the WOSt. The Grand river Hows rapidly between the station and the Colorado hotel and pool-; on its opposite hank. This Hotel Colorado cost $350.000. As some one had spent so much to pro vide the facilities I thought it would be a shame not to glVO up a dollar for a lunch there. The service, fare and appointments were all that one could Wish. The dining room force consist ed of three or four white head waiters ami a corps of the neatest, cleanest, freshest looking pretty girls you ever siiw. They all wore a uniform of black summer silks, large white cuffs ami broad white collars, rubber soled shoes and the way they knew how to anticipate your every want and exe cute it faultlessly was a delight. The baths are all hot. sulphur and alkaline waters of varying temperature. Some boil up hot enough to cook eggs, others tepid. others only warm. The hath houses are of red sand-stone and equipped with every appliance needed. Our train stopped there three hours. At i'talinc we passed out of Colorado and into Utah. Colorado is a latge state. Haven't a ruler handy hut it must be as far from the eastern side to its west side as from I.aureus to New York. The Dip yesterday afternoon was not of special interest except for the view afforded of making a desert blossom by means of irrigation. At Palisade a peculiar formation of the desert s rim rock protects from the cold winds and the orchards of peach, apple cherry and other fruit are beau tiful. All kept alive by irrigation . ditches. 1 At this favored spot, which Is an oasis in a desert, lands now are two to three thousand dollars per acre that ten years ago went begging at ten dollar* the acre. iVuchet; are shipped in August and go to New York, by freiglit. The agent at a little station west of this replied to my question by saying "our last rain was' on March 9th", Grand Junction is , a city of la to 12 thousand. Here ! the Cummison and Grand rivers unite. It has a station costing $60.000. On the mesas surrounding it graze thous ands of eat lie and horses. It also has a huge sugar beet manufactory. Towns and industries like these fol lowed each other until night closed down and we retired to wake in Salt Lake City Saturday morning .Inly 10th, 1909. The Land of tin .Normans. ' A glimpse of Utah. A passing view. Of a land that was old When the West was nuw, Of happy homes in shaded delis. Whore a'.l is peace, And plenty dwells. On fountains high Whose wavering lines Arc marked with the shafts Of a thousand mines; Of 0 city beautiful. Historic and quaint. Where a sinner may live And yet be a "Saint." 1 Brigham Young was not the founder of Morinanism but he was tin* found er of Salt Lake City and the present State of Utah. The historian of the future may not rank him high as an ethical teacher hut if given just tiee he will right rank high as a brave man. a devout, courageous, able, and far-sighted leader who achieved much that his biased and effeminate critics would not have bail the hardihood to ntttempl much less accomplish. The Mormans were at first a community a cooperative colony like tin4 Shak ers, the Oneida community and others with which we of the east are famil iar. This was their inception and their religious views were grafted up on this basic idea, later. Along about IS 17 this colony was located in Illinois. Persecution and intolerance resulted in the assassina tion of Joseph Smith, the founder and first prophet of Morinanism. At that time tin- Missouri River marked the outpost of our nation's domain. De termined to seek a place of refuge, the remnant of the sect numbering 143 men. three women and two children, led by Brigham Young (who was a native of Vermont? marched more than one thousand miles over an Unexplored wilderness until they reached the Salt Lake Valley. It was three months since they left Illinois and in that time tiny had moved the boundary of the United states over and beyond (he present States of Ne I hraska. Kansas. Colorado and Wyo ming. Unyoking their oxen in slghi of the Great Salt Lake they planted the stars and stripes. Mexico then el aimed all this vast territory. \ few years later when it was pro , posed la annex the new Settlement Daniel Webster rose in the Senate (Continued on page Six.) Watch for the Oldest Watch In the sIlOU window of ll.bMINt. ft ICO I III! Its, the Jewelers. We are running a earnival for Veteran Walch? es ?villi prizes for the oldest Howard, Klgin, or Wal than)) both La<!)\ or jcntb iuaii's. We want to locate the oi.m-ST WATCH IN HKKVICK. See our window for prizes and rules of the contest. ( oiliest closes Fleming Bros. Jewelers. Laurens, S. C. NOTICE OF SALE Tito Oil Mill at Lnnforil, S. C. Will ho Sold at Laurens, s. p., Aug. -. i1hiv. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DISTRICT OF S<M III CAROLIN \. i\ district roi in. In (h<- Mutter of FARMERS OIL Mil.I. COM PA XV, Onukru)it.~ In llllltk ruptc). in obedience to an order und doc reo of salt- passed in the above stated case by his Honor, Jno J Rarl?, liefere?! i?i Dnnkruptcy, on July lOlli, li>09, l will sell a< public auction in front of the Court House door, nt Laurens Court House, in Laurens County, State of" Soutli Carolina, at the hour of Cloven o'clock in Hie forenoon, the property hereinafter described, In? longing <o the estate of the Fanners Oil .Mill Co.. Munkrupt. Said prop erty will be sold in six separate par cels, as follows: Parcel Xo. 1. Consist Ing ?>f "All (lint tract, piece, parcel or lot of laud, situate, lying ami being In the Town of l.anford. in the County of I,aureus and State of South Carolina, contain ing six (6) acres, more or less, hound cd on the North by lands of Will Powers, on tho ICnsI i?y lands of Mrs. J. W. l.anford. oil the Wosl by lliuhl Of-way of Charleston ,v Western Cart) Una Railway Coinp.inv. and on the South by lands of W. V Thomas, known as the Farmers Oil Mill Com pany's lot; also, all building!;, ma chinery, equipment i-nd ll.<tiircs there on situate, except the property i|e scribed holow in panels No. 2, ::. i 5, and G, used in the MUiuuf-n<*turiug of COttOII seed. oil. meal and oilier products and the ginning of cotton, there being situate on said lot an oil mill plant and a ginning system." < !onsisting of i ho foi l's reel Xo. 2. lowing: "2-1 Of,-12 R. No. 1741-1745; Feeders. No. IT ! I-1 7 I.V. Linter Condensers No I! Flues for ('mil inental Linter.-. 2-10(5-12 It. Linier 10(1-12 II. ir?:i7-ir,:;s; ibovc Condensers." Parcel Xo. II. Consisting ol llu lowing: "2 double deck 2-1 x 1(1 shakers 1 20 in. diamond bullet." Parcel Xo. I. <'onsh i in: of tin lowing: ?l oil Mill Press." tol lol Parcel No. ?*?. ('misi:,! ing of 11 lowing: "I lot of llngging and Ties." Parcel Xo. li. Consisting of tlie fol lowing: "Certain accounts and (dieses in :n (Ion. amount inr. to uhoilt $121.00.' Said property will be s?d?l in sepnr ate parcels in order to enable Ihe Court to adjust (he alleged liens there on, and all of Iii?1 said proper!) will bo sold free of mortgage liens. Middels on the property described above in Parcel N'o. I, will be required to deposit with the undersigned Trus tee a certified check on some reputa ble Hank in this State for one Thous and Dollars, payabb to M i Owings. Trustee. io InsurO ill" didder's i.i faith in bidding, und If the purchaser of said property does not con plj >vitli his hid within i? -?i iln? after ibe aui?*, tho certified chock deposited wit\ tli Truste?}, will iie Korfeifed lo tin cstaio ol s?id llankrupl, Terms of sale, CASH \i .1 OWINOS 'i i ustoe. of The l?ankrupl ?siute <>' I ; inoi Oil M l, Co Laurens 8, i .iniv J2th lOOn ..n-::t How about your Oxfords? This will he the greatest < I x ford Season ever, Black or Tans in splendid va ricty. It will be a (jucer pair of Feet WC can't lit and please with Oxfords in Button, Tie or Blucher st) les. All good leathers. The Manufacturers, who made our t ixfords, under stood their business. We've- (Ixfords built for style or built for comfort, There's oxford satisfac tion here, every time. you'll not have lo pay loo much money here, either. Ours are just right prices. $3i 3-5?? 4?oo, ,-;.<><i lo 6.or). Good Quality is cheaper here than at some stores, Copeland The ()ne Price Store Real Estate Offerings i:.".' acres ot lanii. houudod by lauds of Muusel Owlngs, Eva Jaoksoti, and Warrior Crook. Price ?;:<> |ier aero. 11acres of laud near Gray Court, hounded b) lands of K. T. Shell, W. Vi, Gray; seven room coitngo, line barn and outbuildings and tine past ure. Price $i!o per acre. ?J aeres in (own of Gray Court; nice building site. Price $r>00.00, L'uti acres of land near Durblll Creek chur< hounded hy lands of W. T. Parks d Laurens White; .', tenant houses -11 limbered, good state of culllvi i,w t, I'rleo $30.00 per acre. 37 acres land, hounded by lauds of .1. I!. Wells. Thomas Hurls, and others with live room dwelling, good out buildings; near EkoiU. Price $ I.". per acre. One at Watts Mills, with seven room cottage. 200 feet front and tut? feet deep, with meat market, Price $1.200. Sonn- valuable properly in town of Clinton. Nine business lots on Ilroad street, ranging in price from J.'aiO to jt| -?" per lot, Two lots fronting on Musgrove street, $300 each. One beautiful building lot fronting Mus grove street, price $2,000. One lot with benll(ifill residence fronting on Mnrgl'ove street, price $",,fi00. Sue me early if yon wish lo purchase, ibis is an exceptional opportunity. I Ml ?eres lau.I. <. half mile of I mil church, with a handsome dwelling, .; tenant houses and good outbuildings. Come (|llick if you want this place. Price $.",0 pei' acre. ... acre-, of land just outside of the corporate limits of the town of Cray Court, with one tenant home. Price $f?0 per acre. Two acre lot in the town of Cray Court, with v loom dwelling, nicely located. Price $2,fi00. One hllSillCSS lot. Co feet front I Uli feel deep, in town of f.iviv Court. Pi ice ?(00. One lot at Walls Mills, 2nd n-e; front by To feel deep, 1 room not I ago and mil buildings Price $ 1,00(1 one lot at Watts Mill*' coatnlnihK 2 acres Price $2f?fl ss a, res of (and io-;,r Bratblett';' church bounded by lands ot W. P. Harris ami .luo I tu roe tie. Seven room dwelling, ~ tenant bouses, good barn and out buildlhgU Price $20 per acre. One i room cottag* with hall -111(1 2 porches, on Garliugtoii a.venUo Price $l,lf>0 1 |ti rt'res ,,> land bounded by Will Martin and Oarrelt land., seven room dweilui).' ;; tenutit houses, good bam 11 ml Olli building: Price ft"'., per hei <?? 1 111 acres bounded bj lauds or V. ('. neli;.1.1- nut Mitchell Owens in 3 mil or .11 Laurens; ;' dwellings and '.?1 bUilditigl Price $3fi |i"( ;iei( ?I!* acres In ml near Owlllgs Station bounded by land of .lohn .lours ami Tom Urnmletl with dwelling ami out buildings price $!{fi.00 per acre. 100 acres land near Lull ford Stat ion hounded by lands of 1 >11II I'atter son. .lames I'nlcirou ami others with dwelling Mid il 'tenant houses Price $:!.">.00 per acre. I'd.res of land, with dwelling, good btll'll and out buildings, near Owillgtt. Price $3,500; terms made easy. i 11 acres bounded by lands of .left* Davis and Herber) .Mariin; good ten till! houses, ami good bit I'll ? Price $.'?(> per acre. 211 acres land near the Incorporated limits of the Town of Fountain Inn bounded by lands of Itobt, Ta\ lor, T. K. Nelson, ,11 ni Adams and others; dwellings and out buildings. Price $75.00 per aero, 100 aeres of land, with the room dwelling, I!-room tenant bouse, Rood out buildings, near Hickory Tavern. Sullivan township. Price $10.00 per acre. r?9 acres of land in town of Lntlfoi'd, with tenant hous, at $50.00 per acre. One lot at I.aureus Mills, with well ami 2 brick chimneys. Price $350. 80 acres of laud in one mile of the town of dray Court, with two dwell ings. Price $<I0 per acre. r?2 aci'CH of land in town of Nru.v Court, tlwelllng ami outbuildings. Pflco $50 per acre. !M8 tier OS of land iieur Itahuu < ?<?? k church, s room dwelling, I It roe tenant, houses. Price $32,50 pet aCro. :;ii acres ni land In H?ntel town ship, bounded b> land.'- ol Ituftip Dun lap. \<< I.? Christ inn and (Jen Craw lord ;? mill room cottagi'i ftood ottt biiildiuAS lino bottom land well tllu i' ie.i m a"ros lit cultivation Ouly $i2n per acr. . acres In Dial township, hounded by Ittmb ?>? Pini IDdlnhii Lud) BoD ml It <" Wallace. Price $1,300 I (il n eres ol land In (Iroenvlile coun ty. Itut.ioi i< wnship, bounded b> lands of Mary Snow and Taylor ,iu<t deign ioi. plnee; known as ihe Thomas Isen veil ,M.i,.ii ICiiol'ee river, six room dwelling, 2 good tenant houses ami store building Pi'loo $:t,000.00. 115 acres of land Dial township, known as tlie old Wham' homestead, with dwelling and out-buildings. Price $27.50 per acre. 127 acres land 'ti Sullivan township, U room dwelling, good out buildings 1 tenant, bouse. Price $!10 per acre. Hill acres of land in Youngs township, il room dwelling, two tenant houses, good barn. Price $2.250 547 acres land A mile- i.1 Laurens, bounded by landn Mr-, Burgess, Dob Brown, J no Madden ami others; ti ten ant houses; 7 h >rso farm in cull i vat ion. Will be cut into lots of loo acres each. Prit 0 ?20 per acre. JL N. Leak Real Estate, Stocks and Bonds. Gray Court, S. C. S LARGE PROFITS $ IN REAL ESTATE Suppose you had bough! REAL INSTATE five tk VI ^ or ten years ago? What would your profit have been now'.' ^ \\ hy not profit by the past and buy now Cor the ?35 future. Five scars from now there will he in ^* crease in values as large per cent as in the past five years, \ We have for sale lots with or without buildings and nice farms and will make suitable term?.. no \ Laurens Trust Co. J? C. A. Power, Mgr. Real Estate Department.