The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-01-28
lUUIS TeSpeCtIuIIN,
LEVI BROTHERS.
Manning Land Improvement Company

In our issue week before last We suggest
ed the idea of organizing land improve.
ment company in this town. We made the
suggestion because we believe that such an
institution would improv, the town, and at
the same time be Il profitable investment.
Since then we have mentioned the matter
to several persons who we thought might
start the ball in motion, but they do not
seem to be satisfied that the project would
pay, Of course an investment Of any kind
would be rs fiat as pancake if the invest
ors simply invest their money and do not
push forward their investment, but if they
will invest and push like members of
other land improvement companies 4
great many pieces OF property in this town
would soon change hands and where empty
lots now are, beautiful residences would be
built and the town walked up from its
lethargy The Darlington land improve
ment company at its last annual meeting
a few days ago declared a dividend of forty
per cent, and the stock cannot be bought
for any price.
Darlington. few years ago, was no bet
ter off than Manning, but when her citizens
saw that they were standing in their own
light by keeping their money locked up in
vacant lots, they went to work and pulled
together for the welfare of the town, and to-
day it is one of the most thriving towns in
the State
The same cen be done with Manning if
the citizens will only pull together for her
welfare, but as long as some push forward
and others pull backward or remain passive
" inactive the town cannot thrive. To
make town everybody must show a deter
nination to help, and oNce the improve
ments begin, the desire becomes contagious
and everybody will improve.
Now to begin with, help is needed and
by forming an association for the purchas-
ing. building, and selling of property, it
would give the town practical help, and ut
the same time advance the interests of the
helpers.
4 land improvement company should be
organized here 1t has been done in many
other places, why not here? We have yet
to see where such an institution has failed
to pay. They not only pay handsome divi-
dends, but they cause cverybody's property
to enhance, and they build up generally.
1t was through these associations that the
towns in the up country built up so rapidly
and it was through such organizations that
large cities in the Great West were built in
nlarvelously short time.
While we DO not expect that a land i'm
provemcnt company, if organized here
would make large city out of Manning
We do believe, however, that if such an i'll
Stitution IS started and properly managed
Ia less than two years the towu will increase
| fifty per cent, and rs it increases, our
chances for manufacturing industries le-
come greater and more sure, and We further
believe that unless the people of this town
! do interest themselves about its welfare and
prosperity nobody else Will dc 50, and in
stead OF i. i:c, wjle-awake. growing, and
prosperous town, in less than ten years the
town will not be large enough or have Il
population great enough to furnish pail.
bearers for the funeral Of those that remain.