The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-09
FROM THE MOUNTAINS.
CLAYTON, GA, August /, 18

CLAYTON, Ga, August |, 1877.
DEAR ISTELL1GENCER am no news
paper correspondent, and not Aware that
you desire such communication as |
shall offer to you, but it has occurred to
me that you might want something from
the mountains to mix up with your very
numerous and interesting fence law COM
munications if so, you are at liberty to
publish this stuD.
Well, | shall be brief. Speaking Of
fence laws, some il slligcnt people in
this mountain country, arc in favor of the
change. Even here where there arc large
ranges for the stock TO run OH the noun
tain, they think it would be best to fence
the mountains ard stock, and turn out
the valleys and crops. / am not sure
that such MI Il mgcment would work
advantageously here, but III: sure that it
would in your County, and hope at the
election which / see advertised in your
valuable paper, to be held OH the 18th
inst, that the peoplc-the whole people
will turn out and vote to fence in the
stock and turn out the crops, th ) bcnc-
fitting the great majority of your citizens,
and more especially the laboring class,
whose interest should always be cared
for.
Your correspondent has recently trav.
elcd from Anderson c. IT,, S. c., to
Hiwassce, in Towers County, Georgia, by
way of Franklin and Nantchala river in
North Carolina, and has seen considcra-
bic of the country embracing these sec
tions. The crops through this entire
range are generally quite an average, and
in some sections even bctt than usual.
One man at 1iwasscc, told me that he
had few acres in corn, many stalks of
which were sirtcen feet high This looks
like iring. Wheat in Macon County, N.
c., and Towers County, Georgia, can be
bought abundantly at one dollar per
bushel, and there are five mills in these
sections for grinding it into -four There
arc two asbestos mines now being worked
successfully i'll this county, and several
mica mines are being worked in the ad-
joining county of Macon, N. G.
These mines employ quite number of
hands, and bring n good deal of money
into the country.
This county has several good mines i'll
it, which have heretofore been profitably
worked, even by the most simple machin-
cry. nm not sure that any Of them arc
now worked, as both capital and labor are
scarce here.
The people III this section very much
need the completion Of the Blue Ridge
Railroad to carry to market their numer-
GUS minerals, stock, apples, &c.
The apple, chestnut, and Potato crops
are unusually fine this year, and this
came near forgetting to mention. Can't
you get your Legislature, Gov. Hampton,
or some other man, to turn loose your
Penitentiary hands, and let them COM
pletc the Hue Ridge Railroad, the most
important ono, in my judgment, to your
State, as well as this section, of any other
road that might possibly be projected
l am interested in your people and State
as we'll as this beautiful mountain coun-
try, and desire the completion of this
Blue Ridge Railroad, three fourths of
which is already done from Walhaiia, S.
c., 70 tho North Carolina line, & distance
of about thirty five miles so let us 20 to
work and finish up this road, which will
make us NIL prosperous and happy.
This has been an unusually hot sum-
mer in the mountains, but you can al
ways be comfortable at night, and gencr-
ally find cool place during the day. I
don't know how you people "away down
the country" at Anderson can stand this
hot weather. I am sure it is very hard
on my old friend, Maj. w. w. Humphreys,
who is SO rery fat and stcm You ought
to send him up here in summer.
People rarely ever die here. One good
old lady, howevcr-Mrs. Joncs-lcft us
on the SOth of July, aged 81 years. MIS-.
Smith, Mrs. Price and Mrs. Coffee all
living in the same neighborhood in
Checharoo District, are aged respectively,
l05, 93, and SS years, and the two last
named are sisters. Mrs. Alex. Neville,
from Walhalla, and who is aged rs years,
came here on the 30th inst, to sec her
mother, the Mrs. Jones referred to, buried.
This is certainly remarkable longevity.
The husband of Mrs. Jones died some two
years ago aged about 90 years.
| could say much more, but must close.
l am, sincerely, your well-wisher,
PINNACLE MOUNTAIN"