The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-05-15
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'hANtssi AZ QUE arglcles neEetoIore published
we have directed our remarks to the citizen
of the County; but we now venture the OPT
Mon to you. and will endeavor to give sub
stantial grounds for it, that the County o
Newberry is blessed by nature with certai,
elements which, by the aid of capital, will
render it worthy Of your attention for cer
tain important purposes: First, as an agri
cultural County; second, as a commerca
point; third, as finely adapted to manufac
turing
It possesses all the requisites mh:ci, hav
always built up wealthy aad powerful agri
cultural and manufacturing districts, to wit
A geographical position in The State fer
tility OF soil, peculiar ndaptability to til
cultivation Of cotton and the cereals, hume
rous streams Of waterfall OF which, wbe,
fully developed, will render the County par
ticularly attractive.
1t is cause for deep regret that thes
things have never been fully developed. bu
we trust that public attention may becom
80 enlisted that capital and capitalists ma,
be induced to come and see for themselves
1t is our desire to present only IL fair ant
moderate reliable account of its resource
and situation Capital is sadly needed. ant
| must come from abroad. We see clearly
and know we'll the advantages for, and the
profits which will result from, making thi
County manufacturing one It is pa.en
to us that manufactures will be commenced
here soon. and become wonderfully multi
piled in the course of few years
II many of the capitalists OF the Nortl
and Europe, whose dividends now are no
excessive, would change the locality and di
fectlon OF their investments 1t would. w,
,ncf l1,, I>.>
Newberry lies in the parallel of thirty-fouI
degrees North latitude. It is bounded
North and Northeast by Broad and Enoret
Rivers, aud East by q line running from
Hughey's Ferry TO point on SaIuda River
South by Saluda River; West by the Nine
ty-si1 road. Its Western border is about
thirty-one miles; its Eastern sixteen miles
The average extent of the County is said tc
be about twenty-four miles square. 1t con
taius about 36D, 900 square acres; every one
of which is worth S5 per acre. This will
soon be trebled
Newberry presents the most unbroken
body of cultivated land in any portion Of
the State. There is not 1000 acres III the
whole County which might not, by proper
agricultural industry, be brought into cult
vation; GO,OO0 acres are still in forest,
9O, 600 acres are III q state Of cultivation
while, probably. 100000 may lie regarded
as waste from improvident culture. Ac-
cordinS to the census of 1860, it supported
20, persons. and as there was Il larger
number of acres in cultivation then than ut
present, it may be put down, it supported
about one person to every Ave acres Of cul-
tivated land. The County of Newberrv, if
the land was properly cultivated and ma:
nured, could easily support 100000 souls.
AIiddlesex County, in Massachusetts, sup-
ports 216,0O0. The census of 1850 shows
of wheat made 79,375 bushels, of oats 100,
900 bushels, of corn 665 900, making a
total grain crop of S44, ,375 bushels-about
forty bushels to every person. This, it can
be seen at once, is actually too small for the
actual necessities of the people, hence the
importation of cereals. The cotton crop of
1850 may be set down IN round numbers at
10000 bales
Within the town of Newberry, up to the
1st of April, there was sold $500, ,O0O worth
Of goods and $4,000 bales Of cotton
There was raised in the County $4,000
bales of cotton. Within the circuit of the
entire County 100000 worth of goods,
wares and merchandise was disposed o.
Running through the Western part of
the County, for full thirty miles, winds the
Greenville and Columbia Railroad, which,
during the last year. under the skillful
management of j. O. Meredith, Superin-
tendent, young man Of rare and unusual
railroad ability-in rerHo, railroad man
with q railway head-footed up gross re-
ceipts to the amount of nearly 1916, 600.
being an increase of S13O, 900 over that OF
the previous year; 45,111 bales of cotton
passed over it from the up country, being
an increase of $4,000 bales; and 46, 900 per-
sons, being an increase of $4,000 over the
past year. There passed, also. from Sep.
tember l, 1868 to April 1, 1860, along the
line 5000 tons of fertilizers, over 1,COO of
which lies now scattered over the cultivated
soil OF Newberry
Newberry contains hundreds Of acres of
the most luxuriant forests, consisting of
ash, elm, hickory, oak, poplar. locust, pine,