The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-08-15
South Carolina Real Estate, Planting and
Mininu Company.

To the People of the State of South Carolina ::
At the last session of the Legislature of this
State a charter was obtained by the South Car
olina Real Estate Planting and Mining Com
pany, ''for the purpose of securing foreign and
domestic capital in the purchase and improve
ment of lands and other property, and for the
working of the same" or, as it is more fully
expressed in the fourth section of the charter,
"The said corporation shall have power to pur..
chase acquire, hold, use, work and dispose of
real estate in any of the counties of this State,
to work and operate mines to work and operate
farms and plantations within the State, and to
dispose, generally, of the products of the
same"
This company has been duly organized under
the charter, and fifteen responsible citizens Sc
lccted BY the stockholders as board of direc-
tors, by whom one of their number, the Hon.
William Aiken, gentleman of the highest
repute, both at home and abroad, has been
chosen president. At a recent meeting of the
board Of directors, it was resolved that the un-
dersigned be appointed a committee to lay
before the people of the State prospectus of
the company, and to solicit donations of land,
or subscriptions to the capital stock of the
company, in cash or in lands, in shares of one
hundred dollars each.
In presenting this enterprise to your favora-
BILE consideration, we are not unmindful of the
preiudices against untried experiments, and if
your experience in the past, of your condition
in the present pointed us hopefully to pros
porous future, we might shrin'. from the task
of attempting to introduce Il population to
build up our waste places and restore US to our
wontcd material vigor and vitality. But what
are the facts of the case? Seven years of con-
tinued exertions have well nigh exhausted our
energies, and failed to revive us as State or
resusctate us rs q people. The present condl-
ton of the civil affairs of this Commonwealth
is lamentable in the extreme, and if allowed to
continue forbodes naught but irretrieyable ruin
to our people and the State. To avert such a
destiny is one of the prime motives of the or
ganzaton of the South Carolina Real Estate,
Planting and Mining Company. Our efficiency
to improve the condition of ourselves and our
people will depend upon the means placed at
our disposal.
Combined effort is the popular idea of the
times. Stupendous projects are, undertaken
and successfully accomplished thereby; CO.
operation surmounts obstacles with apparent
case, that individual enterprise would not dare
encounter Throughout the South combina-
tion is daily cllecting mighty results for the
public. veal Shall we not make an effort to
accomplish as much for Cur down-trodden
State? Do not our depleted treasury, our
abused credit, our debased officials and the
general depression of our people convince us
that change is imperative?
There is vast amount of unoccupied land
in South Carolina The proprietors would
enrich themselves by deciding moiety of such
lands to any company that would settle upon
a thrifty, honest, industrious population; for,
be they farmers, mechanics, tradesmen or
miners, they would enhance the value of the
adjacent lands by every Improvement made
upon their own. In addition to this, they
would also share in the profits derived from
sales to Immigrants, the working of lands that
may be placed under cultivation, or such other
operations, as mining, spinning yarns, &c, that
may be determined on by the company as be-
ing to the most advantage.
Any parties disposed TO aid this laudablc en-.
tcrprise, by donations or subscriptions of land
to the capital stock, will please address either
of the undersigned
GABRIEL CANNON, Spartanburg.
w. w. HARLEE, Mars Bluff
WIN: NJ SHANNON, Camden.
w. NJ. LAwroN, Charleston.