The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-01-24

all around are the long roWs OF operatives
houses neatly whitewashed, rising one
above another. The church spire and the
top of the school house building are in
the distance.
All the work of building the new vii.
lage has been done by hands employed
by the company and under the direction
Of J. o. Haynes, ofthis cityss5Egho is boss
carpenter. By having the work done
themselves instead ofletting it to out
side contractors the company were able
to give paying employment to large
number of their village people who would
otherwise have been without it.
One vast new convenience will soon be
in operation for the Piedmont company,
in the shape of a branch railroad from
the depot on the Columbia & Greenyille
main line to the mills, distance Of
three quarters of q mile. By taking
sweeping circuit around the hills, com.
paratively easy grade has been obtained
leading the track down to the doors of
the mill and of the cotton storehouses.
The grading is all completed and the
track laid for about half the distance.
It will be completed and ready to haul
the machinery for the new mill which
has already been bought. The branch
road will be great saving in time and
labor and expenses, and is only another
example of the frequent and far reaching
steps in progress being made in aquiet
way at Piedmont under Colonel Ham.
mett's administration.
Piedmont has been called model fac
tory town. More than that hardly need
be said and it deserves that title. Presi.
dent Hammett, who founded the place
and has been instrumental in all it's
growth, who has had every house built
and every street graded, who has nurtured
every step in its progress and has seen it
develop from an Insignificant village to
a busy, thriving and prosperous towr,
has striven always to preserve high
moral tone in the community under his
charge. Those who know the people and
the place most intimately say thathe has
succeeded nobly in that good work. The
moral status is high, the churches are
prosperous, the circulating library is
patronized and the school we'll attended.
Thepeople, too, are contented communi-
ty, orderly and we'll behaved. This con-
dition of affairs has been the result Of
wholesome rules applied with frmness and
strictness but with kindness and consid-
GRAFTON withal.
To recall the vast influence of mills
like those at Piedmont on the country
about them it is only necessary to note
that the completed Piedmont mills will
consume $4,000 bales of cotton year;
that 500 bales have been bought the
present season at the mills, and that the
remainder of the needed supply was
bought in this city and at q few other
places in this immediate section at better
prices than at other points: that the
building of the mills has added more
than half million dollars to the taxable
values of the county, and that when all
the mills are running s220,OOO will be
paid out annually for labor and services.
The personnel ofthe administration is
as follows: Col. n. P. Hammett, presi-
dent; J..F. Tier, superintendent; q. T.
Mckinney, assistant superintendent; r.
D. Sloan, paymaster and assistant book.
keeper; E. P. Hammett, shipping clerk;
W. n. Hammett, cotton buyer; W. 2.
Thomson, outside manager.
A magnificent work has been done at
Piedmont. That work is largely mon.
ument to the energy and ability of one
man, and that man is Col. 81. P. Ham.
NETT.