The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-21
ANXIOUS FOR THE NEW ROAD.
The South Carolina People Want the
South Bound Built at Once.

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The South Carolina People Want the
South Bound Built at Once.
E. A Wen OF Meinhard Bros. g. Co. has
returned from a visit to Blackville and
Barnwel, S. c., and in an interview with a
MORNING News reporter yesterday Mr..
Well expressed his surprise at the fertility
OF the soil. aud the prosperity Of the people
OF that section, all Of whom are enthusiastic
for the South Bound from Savannah to
Columbia.
The merchants and planters along the
contemplated route are anxious TO be put in
close rail connection with Savannah
Tor the ocean steamship facilities
TINS port offers and the opportunity
which the road viii offer the people to give
them competing market for tine exte nsive
proiucts of one of the richest agricultural
societies OF South Carolina, and for the vast
acreage OF timber and turDentine lands I'M
developed between Savannah and Barn
well Besides, Mr. Well said that the road
from Savannah 10 Columbia will put
Savannah and the towns from Savannah to
/ Columbia much closer to the north, some
say 100 miles nearer, while il will put the
south western portion Of South Carolina
much nearer the state capital.
MIR. Wen IS confident that the road will
be built and that it will be a paving in
yestment. for, as be said, it is not like
taking road through an undevelOped
country, but into a rich agricultural region,
where the lands range in value from S25 to
500 an acre. "The road will be a big thing
for Savannah" he said. sit will lie a mu-
tual benefit to the country there and to the
city here."
While in Barnwell, for four days, Mr.
Well was the guest of Col. Mike Brown,
and more hospitable home than that pre-
sided over by Col. and Mrs. Brown, he said,
he has never seen, nor has ne ever met a
man who has his hands as full as
CoL. Brown has. "Why he is in every
thing" added Mr.. We'll, land / don't see
how ne can stand it. He is up by day
break and does not go to bed until nearly
midnight, and some one is always waiting
to see him. l don't see how one man eau
manage such varied business as Brown,
VINO Is the moving spirit in tue South
bound. He has the railroad running from
Barnwell to Blackville, is interested in the
Barnwel bank. has a big merchandise
store, has two plantations near Barnwell
and is interested in one at Springfield,
has an interest in a chalk quarry,
recently discovered, the chalk of which is to
be shipped or utilized to manufacture china
ware. | saw some of the ware made from
the product Of this quarry, and it was very
pretty. he has cotton gin, and has or
ganized cotton seed oil company, and left
last Wednesday for Charlotte, n. c., to
order the machinery for the mill, which is
to be ready for operation by Oct. /, next"
Mr.. Well said that he was driven by Col.
Brown over one of the plantations of the
latter where he saw some of the finest corn
he had ever seen. The state, the county
and the agricultural bureau each offer
cash premium for the greatest yield of
corn and Of cotton to the acre, and
Il g.
which aggregate about $500. His prize
corntield has 1900 stocks to the acre, and
looks as if it would be the banner cornheld,
although the competition is close, as other
farmers have tiue corn, and one planter in
that section made 200 bushels to the acre
last year.
Corn, Mr. We'll said, is mostly made, and
will be large crop, and the outlook for
cotton is splendid. If no damage comes to
cotton the yield viii be large aud the quality
very fine. He said that he has never before
seen cotton so well fruited as over in this
part of South Carolina.
Simon Brown of Blackville, the father of
Col. Mike Brown, has much of the enter
prise which is characteristic of the son, and
the old gentleman stoutly maintained that
his corn and cotton lis as good as Mixes"
Inc elder Brown believes in using the seed
from the cotton for fertilizer, and to a
while Mr.. Well was present, the latter says
that the only proviso made in the rent con-
tract was that no melons should be raised
on the land and no cotton seed sold from
the land but turned under the soil.
Mr.. Well was so well pleased with the
prospects Of Blackville that ne took $50
shares in the national bank being organized
there and Simon Brown took $50 shares,
the two controlling the stock, although Mr..
Well says he had no thought of that IN sub
scrlbing SO large an amount
Abiding to the anxiety of the people of
that section to get road through to Sa-
vannah, Mr.. Well says it has been costing
$40 per car for freight on melons to New
York from Barnwell, a sum too great to
encourage the melon industry, although it
is very large in that vicinity. With the con-
nectlOns to De made at Savannah and Column
bia it is expected to reduce the freight
tariff at least gao on the car He says the
trade of Bsrnwell, Blackville, Newberry
and Columbia will be tributary to Savan-
nah when tho South Bound is built, and
Mr.. w ell said that Savannah merchants. he
thinks, can also do business in North Caro-
lima OF the building of the road Mr.. We'll
entertains no doubt, and he predicts that its
stock will De most profitable invest