Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-21
Of the Yorkville Enquirer
LETTER FROM PENNSYLVANIA.

McKEAN COUNTY, Pa, Aug. IA, 1873.
In this, and the FIVE adjoining counties, there
are the finest tracts of hemlock timber in the
United States. Hemlock is quality of tim
Der that you do not have in South Carolina,
so far as have observed, although you would
be better off if you did have it, in lieu of much
that you have Hemlock grows tall and
straight, with thick, coarse bark, and the bulk
of limbs near the top. At a distance it looks
like pine, and, indeed, is species of coarse
pine. The bark is valuable for tanning pur-
poses, being worth six or eight dollars cord
Hemlock lumber is used in all rough work,
such as barns, stables, sidewalks and bridges.
Lately it is more worked into houses than
formerly, owing to the growing scarcity Of
pine. 1t is now worth about ten dollars a
thousand.
have been in nearly every State of the
Union, but 1 never saw finer timber pros.
pect than right here in Northwestern Penn
sylvania. The forests of hemlock are grand.
The trees are so straight, so tall, so graceful in
their motion before the wind, so noble. They
inspire one, and puny man feels insignificant
when buried in the dark recesses of these for
ests.
am not sure but that these extensive for
ests have something to do with cooling the at
mosphere. To-day is one of the warmest of
the season, but the mercury marks only 76.
1 hear people complaining of the heat, but 1
enter no complaint myself: Every breath is a
luxury. The cool breezes playing with the
tall hemlocks come to ones lungs laden with
sweetness and perfume. The reader should
bear in mind that this is the most northern
section of Pennsylvania, and, owing to its ele-
vation and forests, the coolest.
But if thepeople do have delicious summers,
they pay for them roundly in winter. The
great law ofcompensation governs in this as in
other matters. We are, none of us, allowed
to plant ourselves down on an acre of ground
and call it paradise Something will be the
matter with it.
The traveller, in journeying through Penn.
sylvania, is struck with the rapid advance.
ment of the people in material prosperity.
They are growing richer rapidly. The last
census throws light on this subject, showing
that Pennsylvania jumps ahead in wealth at
the rate of about sixty millions Of dollars a
year.
The Pennsylvanians are workers, not idlers.
The majority of the men of the State put in
ten hours of each day in digging wealth from
the soil, and hence the rapid accumulation.
Wealth can be created in no other way. Gold
in its first analysis is sweat. The man who
makes two blades Of grass grow where one
grew before, is, after all, the greatest benefac-
tor. We are so apt to lose sight Of this-so
apt to look down upon the humble producer
and up to the aristocratic, but useless consum-
er. mean the consumer who does not pro-
duce anything. The negro who raises from
the soil bale of cotton is more useful to the
community and the world than the income
idler who fares sumptuously every day and
counts the idle hours as they pass.
have no patience with the maudling sen.
timent which frowns upon the useful, and
smiles upon the useless. Let US measure a
man according to his works, and if he does
not work we will not measure him at all, for
he is not worth it. MEMO.