The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-11-17
The Anderson Fair.

The following extract is from an editorial of
the Greenville Enterprise, and as it presents
the views of an outsider we publish it in our
columns, feeling assured that all will read it
with pleasure and profit:
We had occasion last week to pass over the
Greenville & Columbia Railroad to Anderson,
thence by the Blue Ridge to Walhalla Arri-
wing at Anderson on Thursday morning, we
found the streets lively with crowds of people
collected to witness the displly of the Agricul-
tural Fair. We had the pleasure of inspecting
the exhibition which was in the large brick
depot OF the Blue Ridge Railroad-a building
not used as yet for the road but admirably
adapted for public hall from its immense size
and numerous windows, which give plenty of
light. There WAS fine assembly of ladies and
gentlemen in the hall. Admission, rs cents.
A sight OF each other, and the pleasure of
greeting friends and conversing with them, was
worth more than the money besides the cheer
ing sight of agricultural products of fine quail
ty, and the specimens of domestic manufacture
and art by the hands of the fair sex besides
some agricultural implements, &C., &c. The
display is said not to have been as large, how
ever, US it was last year but enough to give in
terest to the OCCASION and to encourage the
competition of all desrous of exceling.
We were much pleased to see the Tile max
ing machine exhibited by b. f. Crayton, ESQ.,,
WHO intends shortly to set up the business Of
making tiles for understanding land We wish
him great success in the undertaking, and hope
that he may find Il large demand for the tiles
They will be adapted for covered drains (alikc
for swamp and up-lands.) The practice OF
draining clay up-lands and all wet places by
covered drains, las much increased of late years,
in the best farming countries. 1t promotes the
fertility and deepening of the SOIL and renders
the land more capable of resisting the effects OF
dry weather as well as wet weather. This is
one of the signs of progress, and Mr.. Crayton
himself IL very successful and practical agricul-
turalist, us well Us merchant, has, in this enter
prise shown public spirit and his usual sagacity
i'll promoting improvements that not only add
to his success, but serve to influence others to
keep up with the advancing knowledge.
There was on exhibition u churn, fixed to
operate by turning crank, the invention OF
Mr. w. Il. Browne, of Anderson County. We
think it will rival if not surpass any of its pre-
decessors. 1t deserves, and probably will, OBJ
tain patent, and beat all the Yankee rival
churns.
We were pleased to see that not few of the
good men and true of Anderson County as
well as of its most intelligent and lovely ladies,
were in attendance at the Fair rooms. 1t shows
that the earnest attention of the best people,
and best thinkers of the land, is becoming more
engagaged in the greatest of all employmcnts
Col. K. f. Simpson, Major George Scuborn, of
Pendleton, were among the active men of the
Fair. All the citizens perhaps of the town of
Anderson, were out of coursc--not least among
them, b. +. Crnyton and Mr.. IIoyt, editor OF
the Anderson IufcHgemcrr.