The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-11-07
A Fine Showing.

8 meeting at the institution yesterday
morning. The report Of the Snperinten.
dent was submitted. Among other things
therein stated was that 1892 days
labor had been furnished on the State
House that no Improvements bad been
made on the prison buildings for want Of
funds, but that new hospital was imper-
ativelY needed. The advisability of put.
ting in electric lights was also suggested.
The death of the Rev. William Martin,
chaplain of the institution, was appropri-
ately referred to in the report.
The following figures are from the Su.
perintendent's report:
Total number of cnnvicts now in prison
884-white, males Sc, females 8 colored,
males 7S0, females %.
Discharged and ire>d by other causes,
$40.
The number out on farms ere as fol-
lows: Aughtry's, 3S; Sims, q; Seeger's,
120; State farm proper, %; Walkers
brickyagd, 27.-Total, 235.
At a meeting last night the directors
decided upon their annual report and al.
tended to some other matters.
An application was received for a
number Of convicts on lease for work in
the phosphate mines. This was refused,
as there are at present no hands to spare.
The board recommended for appoint.
ment BY the Governor as delegates to the
meeting of the National Prison Associa.
tion, to be held at Nashville, Tenn, on
the lIrh of this month, Major ThOs. An.
derson of Fairfield and Col. John Guig
nard of Aiken.
In their annual report TO the Legisla.
ture the directors suggest the erection OF
a pew hospital within the prison enclosure,
and it is stated that the present hospital
has bean pronounced unsuitable and mad
euuate by the chairman of the Medical
Association. The directors propose to
build a new hospital, probably OF brick.
The Legislature will be asked to grant
permission to the board to purchase
farm or which the conviets can be EN-.
ployed, the cost of the farm to be paid
out of The earnings of the penitentiary.
It is urged that the purchase OF farm
is more opportune now than ever before,
as the contracts for convicts on all the
plantations but one, now run on shares by
the penitentiary aud the owners of the
land, will expire with the present year.
The one plantation in which the contract
does not expire until later is the Green
Hill plantation of Mr.. John G. Seegers.
It is also the belief of the directors that
it will be greatly to the advantage of the
State to have the permanent improve
ment4 resulting from convict labor ex-
pended upon land belonging to the State
instead of private parties.
Although for the first time in three
years crop has been made on certain OF
the land carried on by the State on
shares, it has been but q partial crop, as
there was failure to get good stand OF
cotton at the start aud the crop is there.
fore late. In spite of this the excess OF
the receipts over expenditures for the
past year makes handsome profit, estI.
mated in round figures at about S35. 600.
The total receipts for the year have
been $3S, ,565 IS, and the disbursements
were S73, ,29S 81. This shows net profit
of s15, ,267 .O2, to which should be added
$6 1000 paid for machinery used in the
work or the canal, ETC., and debt of
$l4, ,162 49 from last year which has been
paid. This makes grand total of profits
Of $35, ,429.51.
During the FIVE months since June J.,
during which the penitentiary has had
the contract abandoned by Mr.. Hardin,
the earnings on canal work as figured by
the engineers are some $21, 900. The
earnings of the penitentiary on the canal
contract for the past month have been
$5, 400, which is about $4,000 in excess OF
the earnings on the same work for the
previous month, aud yet it is stated that
about one hundred less hands were en-
ployed.
There has been an average of 305 hands
employed on the farms, 2G5 on the canal,
46 in the shoe factory and lob in The no
siery mill.
The crops falling to the share of the
State will include about 300 bales of cot
ton, 1000 bushels of corn and a quantity
of peas, forage, etc.-Golum6ia Register.