The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-09-18

CALHOUN FALLS CITY.

CALHOUN FALLS OITY.
EDITOR INTELLIaENcER Some three
weeks ago I stated in an interview pub
lished in your paper that I would, from
time to time, furnish such information as
the public may desire to know regarding
the movements of the Western Carolina
Land and Improvement Company in the
development Of the new town (at the
crossing of the Georgia, Carolina &
Northern and Port Royal 81 Western Car
olina Railroads in Abbeville County, near
the Savannah River the name of which
is, and hereafter to be known as Calhoun
Falls, South Carolina.
Permit me to inform you, and the pub
lie in general, that during the past three
weeks no time has been lost in pushing
all preliminary work to q point where
permanent Developments will commence
very soon. The survey on the river Is
very near completed with very satisfactory
results, the Engineer Corps surveying and
plating the town are hard at work, and
when completed will be in keeping, if not
eclipse, any modern town lately started.
1t is contemplated to utilize the water
power by placing largo electrical plant
at or near the river, and furnish power to
any and all enterprises that will be located
in the town at q very moderate cost, so as
to enable manufacturers of all articles to
compete with those who claim to have SUI.
perior advantages in the way of cheap coal.
To argue that for convenience, relia-
bility and cheapness, water.power is the
most economic, would only be waste oi
time, and will here quote the opinion
of the highest authority IN the land on
such subjects. In an interview published
in the Manufacturers Record In March
last, Mr.. Thomas A. Edison, in speaking
of the numerous water-powers of the
Piedmont section and their great value as
factors in industrial development, said
that strong, unfailing water-power
within few miles of town, is the most
economic agency for generating electric
power, and for illumination of any now
known, hence it is very clear, and every
one familiar with the property will read
lily admit that nowhere in the South is a
spot to be found that can offer stronger
inducements to manufacturers than will
present themselves at Calhoun Falls, and
all will agree with me, when stating that
Calhoun Falls is destined to become a
large and prosperous industrial and COM
mercisl center in the near future. We
are living in q more advanced age; the
art of town building has become science
of late years, and the reason why the new
towns are eclipsing the old, arise from q
variety of causes. In the first place rail-
roads have entirely changed previously
established conditions; the old time viii
lages and country towns, with here and
there an exception, were located without
reference either to industrial or CONNER.
cial growth. The new towns are being
located with reference to their fitness for
accommodating manufacturing plants, for
sustaining trade and for home sites.
The result is that typographical fitness
is great factor in the selection of town
sites nowadays, whereas, formerly towns
grew by accident, and usually at points
least suitable for centers of population.
But the main point in favor Of the new
towns, next to railroad facilities, prox-
unity to raw material, topography and
cheap power, lies in the power of concen-
trated endeavor.
In the old towns there are cliques and
factions, feuds, riyalries and jea!ousies.
a. B. has outlying land at one end of the
town, and G: D. has an adjacent farm at
the other end. G. D. opposes every i'm
the enhancement of the value of the
In the new towns, however, there are
no such rivalries. As rule large acreage
is purchased by Company, due atten-
ton is paid to healthfulness, to drain
age, to attractions of environment, to
sites for industries, to areas for business
to convenient places to build
houses, ia short every feature tending
towards rapid growth and development
Is carefully considered by the manage.
ment.
The Company owning all the land in
sight is in q position not only to donate
free sites to manufacturers, but to take
stock in new enterprises. The new South,
or more properly speaking the awakened
South, is being built up by the enterprise
of her own people and leyel.headed inves-
tors from other sections of the Union.
More or less European capital is being
put into Southern lands, mines, mills and
factories, but Europe's real part in the
south's development has yet to be played.
Well. Informed Foreigners are already
pretty familiar with the South's merits
as q field for investment and enterprise,
but when this section comes to be as well
advertised as the West has been, Europe's
millions will need no urging to seek new
homes in this, the most favored region of
the new world. While the South has
scarcely been properly advertised in Eu.
rope, yet what was done by the Depart-
ment Of Agriculture in this State and by
others, in the shape Of attractive exhibits
at the recent Worlds Fair in Paris, has
aroused spirit of inquiry and investiga.
tiou among the better classes of foreign
artisans and the well to do farmers, and
has already brought oyer their represen-
1 3on {1,o f,,xy tc Ind
suitable locations for bodies Of colonists.
What has been undertaken and success.
fully accomplished in other sections Of
the South will also be carried out here,
and can see no reason why Calhoun
Falls should not become city with q
of at least ten thousand people
in five years hence. To some of your
readers this may appear very extravagant,
especially to those who are not familiar
with the progress Of the new South, but
let all doubling Thomases examine and
inquire into the phenomenal growth OF
some of the new towns started within the
past twelve months, such as Middlesbor-
rough, Kentucky; Fort Payne, New
johnson City, Cardiff, Harrison, Klmball,
Tennessee Buena Vista, Salem, GLASGOW,
Basic City, Clifton, Forge, Virginia !;
where in some of the above named towns
building lots have advanced from $40
to $4OO per front foot, where in ninety
days time time dividents of 80 per cent.
have actually been paid on Land Com
pany's stocks. All this may sound fabu.
ious, but nevertheless every word of it is
true and can be verified. The Western
Carolina Land and Improvement Com
pany is in position now to carry out their
Undertaking, and I have no hesltancy in
saying that with the association Of such
gentlemen as the Hon. Pat. and John G.
Calhoun, who are now interested in the
Company, and several other New York
capitalists who are to become interested
later, success is sure to follow the under
taking, and that before many months 9
city will spring into existence that will
astonish the most sanguine believers in
the enterprise. Trusting that you will
pardon me for attempting to monopolize
your columns,
I am yours.
Very respectfully,
o. GEIsBEaG.
Attention.