The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-11-03
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TROTTER'S SHOALS.

SAVANNAH klFER, june ., 1909
Cyrus II. McCormich., Esq. Chicago.
DEAR SrR:-In a letter just received
frem Messrs. Gaines & Yineling, New
York, are the queries %subjoined, which.
since they relate SO nearly to your in
t~ercsts, | refer to you, viz:
"Can you give US any information con-
corning the Dorm gold mine Is it for
sale? Is it. now worked? Does it
pay
Doubtless to the second query ! might
answer, no-now the Augusta and
Greenwood Railroad will pass by it;
that, or the contrary, you will carry out
your original intention of building there
to escape the horrible winters Of the
North. You will soon realize that the
region embraced by Aiken and Andcr-
son Court House enjoys ono Of the
happiest climates on earth. Equally
removed from the great agents of atmos-
pheric change, he ocean and the noun
tainS, it is exempt from destructive
storms of wind, raii or hail. Blessed
with sunshine and showers, throughout
the year it is the Surcst for crops. There
is just winter enough to keep insects in
check, while the pomrgranitc and the
fig dc not require to he sheltered.
Through the operation Of an obvious
cause, the summer is nttempcred bv q
constant set of the air from a higher
elevation, through forests and over in
Vulnerable pellucid streams. The nights
are always cool. Living Immediately on
the banks Of n river. half a mile wide, ]
am never troubled by mosquitoes. No
where can there be found n larger per.
centagc of population Of seventy years
and upward. Mr.. Lee, who sold to j. c..
Calhoun his plantation on this river, n
few miles below me, was one hundred
him. He was then brisk, and expressed
himself to be more anxious than ever to
live. Mrs. Fleming. numbered her
ninety-cight years OF this estate. NV
nurse, Aunt Peggy died here, from
the effects Of a fall, aged Jog. Her
mother went to lis. Several Of my
tenants, older than myself, still use the
hoe. | am an oc%togenarian, with the
fresh vitality OF twenty-five. This is
the country in which to grow old, COM
fortably.
OF course you will add to your pos
sessions 81 the line. destined in the
early future to he one Of the grandcst
thorouGhfarcs of the continent. IL o
enlarge hitherward you may reach the
peculiar, generous ''mulato SOIL adj
mirable for wheat, and which produces
the finest upland cotton that grows.
The famous Able Corrpa On Sierra, many
years Portuguese Minister Mt Paris. was
transferred, in my time. to Washington.
he said the district including Washing
ton, Ga, and the calhoun settlement"
tAbbcvllle, S. g., resembles the hest sec
ton OF France. Gov. Chamberlain, with
a magnnnimity ~conSonant to his high
culture and superior intellect, said the
other day "South Carolina offers The.
most inviting inducements to the immi-
grant. Her resources are almost indie
~scr,bablc. Her cotton, long staple and
upland, her rice and corn, her facilities
for production and manufacture, IRE ab-
solutely unsurpassed. X X X For
she is Massachusetts. Alabama and Iowa
rolled into one. She has great variety
of climate and soil" He might have
added that her colorcd people are the
best laborers, the best domestics in the
world.
In the spring of 1923, at the breakfast
table, the Secretary Of War, MS if think
ing aloud, said Pm sorry l can't spare
Lieut.. Talcott." "For what ?, l asked.
major Long ought to have an assistant
engineer to aid him in exploring st. Pc.
,ter's River" Can l take the place ?"
."Yes. if you wish.'' The second night
] was off in the stage to intercept Major
Long and his party at Columbus, Ohio.
We passed a few days ut Fort Dearborn.
a dilapidated stockade. on the site Of
Chicago. was taken in a canoe up the
South Fork of Chicago River to n flooded
prairie. whence the water flowed in one
direction to the Gulf of st. Lawrence.
in the other to the Gulf Of Mexico. |
did not then anticipate that il 80 short