Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-02-04
Total.

Some of the most important enterprises
organized during 1885 in South Carolina
were as follows:
In Columbia 900 cotton press and an
oil mill that cost about $4,000 have been
built. In the same city $4,000 fertilizer
company has been organized, and $4,000
company has built a large factory to man.
ufacture on an extensive scale Vienna bent
wood furniture, the only establishment of
the kind, we believe, in the United States.
At the Halle gold mine $4,000 has been
expended for new machinery; at Green
vile 500, 900 company purchased, improv
ell and put in operation, a cotton mill, and
at the same place, a 500, 900 wine manufac-
turing company has been organized; West
minister has $1,000 flour mill Gaffney's
$4,000 lime works, and Chester S., 900 flour
mill; Beaufort fine machine shop and
foundry, while smaller enterprises have
been started in other places.
The Record, which has been accused at
times of giving too rose-tinted a view of
material matters in the South, but whose
interest it hasalways been assuring, goes on
to say:
Since 1880 the South has added over 10,-
400 miles to her railroad mileage, the build
ing of which, added to the investments in
old roads and their improvements, fO0ts
the railroads of the South and their equip
ment, according to statistics compiled from
Poor's Railroad Manual, being over 81, ,240, >
OOO, ,OOO against S679,S0 1928 in 1880. The
assessed value of property in the South not
withstanding the fact that the assessments
are much less than the actual cash value OF
the property, and that large amount of
manufacturing property that has been crea-
ted since 1879 is not represented in the tax
assessment, owing to exemption laws, shows
an increase of nearly 81 900, ,00O,000.
In manufacturing we have seen the num-
ber of cotton mills increase from $50 to 1853,
and the number of spindles and looms from
1889 and 1922, respectively, to ,46O,697
and 81 7,004-a gain Of about 100 per cent.
Cotton seed oil mills that in 1880 numbered
40, with capital of S2, ,j04, 300, now number
l45, and their capital is $40, ,450. In 1880
the South made 397 ,301 tons Of pig iron ; in
1884 it made 657 ,599 tons-a gain of 26O, 29S
tons. Three States-Virginia,A Alabama and
Tennessee-that in 1880 produced 17S,O0G
tons of pig iron, in 1884 produced ISL ,744
tons-an increase Of 303, ,73S tons, or $500
tons more than the net increase in the
United States, the production IN the whole
country outside of these three States being
less in 1884 than in 1880. In 1880, 6,O4S,5 81
tons of coal were mined in the South, and
in 1884 the output was 1O,S45,O5l tons. The
amount of phosphate rock mined in South
Carolina in 1880 was 100, 900 tons, and capital
invested in the business was 3,493, 300;
while now the capital is over $G,5OO,OOO
and the amount of rock mined largely over
900 tons. In agriculture great progress
has been made, and especially in the diver
sifcation of farm products and in the in
crease in grain and live stock raising. The
production of corn has increased from 334,
100000 bushels in 1870 to 499,0O0,0O0 bush
els in 1854 gain of 1Gj,00O,0OO bushels
els-and of oats, from 42,00O,OOO bushels to
7S,OOO,OOO bushels-a gain of 3G, ,O0O,0 600 bush
els-while in tobacco fruits and vegeta-
bles, the grasses, ETC., the increase has been
equally satisfactory. In 1880 the live stock
Of the South was worth S439, 900, 900 at pres
ent its value is S629,GOO,OOO, or a gain of
Sl59,900,0O0