The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-11-02
Water Transit.
Published by Request.]
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SAVANNAH RIVER, June s, 187S.1
Cyrus II. McCormich;, Esq, Chicago.
DEAR S1n:-In letter just received
from Messrs. Gains g. Yingling, New
York, are the queries subjoined, which,
since they relate so nearly to your in
terests, refer to you, viz:
'Can you give us any information con-
cerning the Dorm gold mine? Is it for
sale ? Is it now worked? Docs it
pay ?"
Doubtless to the second query might
answer, no-now the Augusta and
Greenwood Railroad will pass by il !;
that, on the contrary, you will cary 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 Ander-
son Court House enjoyes one of the
happiest climates on earth. Equally
removed from the great agents of atmos-
pheric change, the ocean and the noun
tains, it is exempt from destructive
storms Of wind, rain or hail. Blessed
with sunshine and showers, throughout
the year it is the surest for crops. There
is just winter enough to keep insects in
check, while the pome egranite and the
fig do not require to be sheltered.
Through the operation Of an obvious
cause, the summer is attempered by a
constant set Of the air from a higher
elevation, through forests and over in
Vulnerable pcllucid streams. The nights
are always cool. Living Immediately on
the banks Of river, half mile wide, I
am never troubled by mosquitoes. No
where can there be found larger per-
centage of population of seventy years
and upward. Mr.. Lee, who sold to j..
G. Calhon his plantation on this river, n
few miles below me, was one hundred
and fourteen years old when last saw
him. He was then brisk, and expressed
himself to be more anxious than ever to
live. Mrs. Fleming numbered her
ninety eight years on this estate. My
nurse, "Aunt Peggy" died here, from
the effects Of q fall, aged JOG. Her
mother went to 115. Sevral Of my ten
ants, older than myself, still use the
hoe. am an octogenarian, with the
fEesh vitality of twenty-five. This is
thu country in which to grow old, COM
fort&bly.
Offourse you will add to your pos
sessions on the line, destined in the
early future to be one of the grandest
throughfares Of the continent. If you
enlarge hitherward you may reach the
peculiar, generous ':mulatto SOIL" ad-
mirable for wheat, and which produces
the finest upland cotton that grows.
The famous Able Correa da Sierra, many
years Portuguese Minister at Paris, was
transferred, in my time to Washington.
He said the district including Washing
ton, Ga, and the calhoun settlement"
Abbeville, S. c.. resembles the best Sec
ton of France. Gov. Chamberlain, with
a magnanimity consonant to his high
SoAsoAS "ho SoPtAoI AHIciicCe3 sdiu tHc
other day "South Carolina offers the
most inviting inducements to the immi-
grant. Her resources arc almost inde-
scribable. Her cotton, long staple and
upland, her rice and corn, her facilities
for production and manufacture, are alb
solutely unsurpassed. 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 domcstics in the
world.
In the spring Of 1923. at the breakfas
table, the Secretary Of War, as if think
ing aloud. said "I'm sorry can't spare
Lieut.. Talcott." "For what?" ask ed.
"Major Long ought to have an assistant
engineer to aid him in exploring st. Pc
ter's River" "Csn I take the place?'
"Yes. if you ~ish." The second night
was off in the stage to intercept Major
Long and his party at Columbus, Ohio.
We passed a few days at Fort Dearborn,
a dilapidated stockade, on the site of
Chicago. was taken in canoe up the
South Fork of Chicago River 70 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 antic;nata thet IN on obort