Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-26

South Carolina by railroad, and will be salts
fed with nothing less, advocating subscrip-
ton of 100000 by that county, and request
ing the corporators of the Greenville and
French Broad Road to open books for SUBJ
scription Immediately, and, as soon as the re-
quired amount is subscribed, to organize said
company and proceed to locate the road.-C1-
lumbia Union.H Herald.
M1N1o1A.-Among the cheering signs of
prosperity in our State is the progress made in
the enterprise of the Little River and Cheraw
Railroad, and the Cheraw and Chester Rail-
road. Senator Dunn, from Horny, who has
been the moving spirit in this business, de.
serves great credit for the vigor and persever-
ence with which he has labored to bring this
public enterprise to successful accomplish
ment. Some seven or eight years ago, imme-
diately after the close of the war, Senator
Dunn settled at Little River, where a village
had already been located, and which is direct
ly on the sea-coast, some thirty miles above
Wilmington. Acquainted with the manufac-
turing interest of the North and West, the Sit
ustion at Little River struck him as peculiar
y adapted to the establishment of manufac.
turing town. We hope one of these days to
visit the locality and give to the public cor.
rect and exact view Of the prosposed town of
Miniola, which is AN Indian name, meaning
running water" like Minnehaha, "laughing
water" Minnesota, "still water" and other
pretty names of that character. Miniola,
running water, seems to be particularly ap.
propriate name for manufacturing town.
This town will have beautiful harbor, with
bar of nine or ten feet of water, and with
climate similar to Wilmington or any of our
other seaboard towns. A canal only four
miles long will connect the Waccamaw river
with Little river and Miniola and open up all
that splendid timber country through which
that river passes. The canal, we understand,
will also have q natural fall of some sixteen
feet, yielding water power of at least Eve
thousand horse power, capable of running
several large manufactures. The Little River
and Cheraw Railroad and the Cheraw and
Chester Railroad will connect this town with
several of the richest and most Aourishing
counties Of the State, and will lay down at
the doors of the various manufactures any
amount or character of raw material which
our State can furnish. Cotton manufactures,
rice mills, furniture manufactures, manufac-
tories for agricultural implements, and for
anything in which wood of any description
would largely enter, would find abundant ma.
terial and market and soon make this little
seaport town the rival of its sisters along the
coast. Besides, the Atlantic and Seaboard
Railroad, which, it is said, will surely be built,
will run directly through Miniola, with a
depot there, so that freight, say from Chester,
could 60 right through to New York by rail
without breaking bulk, or by steamer from
Miniola. We understand that there will be
no trouble, as soon as the roads are built, in
inducing Northern and Western capitalists to
establish factories and import skilled labor,
There is already great enthusiasm all through
the up country on the subject Of these rail-
roads and nearly three quarters Of million
in lands and money have been subscribed.
From what we can see of the inside working
of this scheme, it seems to be distinguished
success, and one of those enterprises which
this State needs above all others. With
good climate, a good harbor and bar, five
thousand horse power canal, with communi-
cation by water and rail North, East, South
and West, with fine undeveloped back coun-
try, and with fresh, vigorous population,
under the impulse of new ideas and new en-
terprises, we cannot see why the town of Min
lola might not, before very many years, be-
come an ornament to the State Columbia
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