Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-06-19
A German Colony.


u tlaMont below Columbia:
of our readers, perhaps, arc not a.
ware of tho fact that We have colony Of
aornians already located and at work in Rich.
\ lind District. The colony is as yet a very
4 small one, Il is true, but it is nucleus to
which additions, to any desired oxtont can
be- added IT is called Germantown, and is
situated on the Wateree river, twonty.fiye
4 miles east of Columbia, and fifteen miles from
i Mo South Carolina Railroad. Il consists Of
b four thnilies Of Germans, and, at present,
b saspabets nineteen persons. It is under the
\ Slirecslon aud auspices of DR.. II. Leidng of
q Che frmsof Kerrison & Leiding, of Charles
S sons sIhe Germans commenced operations
tho first Of November last by building five
dwellings, cottages suitable outhouses,
digging two wells, and clearing, for cultiva.
Stion, over two hundred acres Of land. They
prefer 20 work uplands rather than take the
fisk of bottoms. They have hired few ne
& and these make the effective force
B ,gnrk In tho felds---twolve iaborers.
During November they sowod thirty acres
sof wheat Ind twonty acres of rye. Since
then they have added eight acres Of Irish 20.
three of sweet potatoes thirty of oats;
eyenty of corn; thirty five Of COW peas and
itteensof cotton. Besides ibis, there are two
acres ct garden lots, with tho vegetables Of
the latitude growing in them. They work
SIX horses. ThcIaggrcgate lands in cutiva-
zion isstwo hundred and thirteen acres-ncar.
81 eighteen acres to each hand
It is the purpose of Mr.. Licding to increase
this colony by immigration from Germany
$3s5 and hc is hopeful of the most complete sue.
q cess
We see no reason why there arc not hun
l sdred suoh, or larger, colonies already in South
Carolina. If farmers and land owners will
prompt az se!le protecting libcrality,
such colonies will spring up rapidly all over
s$s s$s tlso State.
sstsf Mr. Leiding suggests the following six
points as important for those desiring to give
& substantial encouragement to these move
nents: '
81. Get such labor as the country now al
ready has. If they succeed, they will induce
others, their friends or relatives to immgratc
from Europe.
& Put up q comfortable little house in q
..4 /, healthy locality for each family
Turn over to the laborer fifty acres of
d good land for cultivation and furnish him
with amule, COW, and SOW with pigs.
Furnish him with bacon, corn and prov.
SENDER for siS or eight months.
aas d 50. Pay him SO or $40 a month as part of
Id ais earnings; and then interest him in the
81 proceeds, (afterS having deducted his
s. wages and lis suppoFtJ
8. Give him written agreement, that af-
IS ter one year, aud within five years, you will
81 sselE him the house and land at stipulated
sipsico,
L Mr. sbieding, is, himself, German by
birth, though q confederate by adoption and
sei Vice; and he speaks on the subject with
more than usual knowledge of what the
German immigrants need and desire to make
tffsssA. earN fnrstoro and contcnted
There arc several agencies that arc ready
and md anxious to furnish aborers oyfamiics at
reasonable terms. We believe ab64o $40 a
~ band l$7 for commission and S13 for trans.
rortation from New York to Columbia) is
$about the sum necessary to advance in order
ES; ~ SECURE, such labor
Two lots Of laborcrs have already arrived
ssas ssa Newberry, under the auspices of Society
Ss there, che lie Of which there Should be in
\ assssy other district in South Carolina.
Our fslends may perceive that we are in
Earnest 81 I'M our advice to encourage immigra,
la tion into our State. We consider it the only
sSF Sfance for xhar sto rooo, ~, eo.. 49,