The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-02-19
THE RAILROAD.

ual antipathy to railroad companies,
yet very few will deny that railroad is
Il great benefit to any section. The Pick
ems Railroad Company was not month
old before the motives of its corporators
were impugncd.
We have had many inquiries recently
in regard to tho proposed Dummy Line.
This idea has been abandoned. The
word dummy" was left out of the char
ter, and the road will be of standard
gauge. The charter provides that the
road shnll run from Pichens to tho Air
Line railroad with permission to extend
it to the city of Anderson by the most
practicable route.
Railroads run on tho line of nee essity,
because shat is the only line upon which
they can make money. They generally
como by the invitation and aid of the
people Or section to be benefited, but
sometimes they come like the break
ing forth Of water. Settlers bring rail
roads and railroads bring settlers.
obliged to offer some inducements to the
other. If Pickcns and the section north
of it had twice as many settlers as they
now have it would bc but few months
until the railroad would be completed to
the Court House. But we have to deal
with facts as they arc. The people will
be benefited more than the railroad in
this instance, so they have to seek the
railroad and not the railroad the people,
This made the organization of local
company necessary. 1t should require
no argument to show onr people that q
railroad to Pickens is the best invest
mcnt they can make at this time. When it
comes, rs come itM i'll sometime, the won
der will be that it came no sooner. The
amount of cotton, guano and mcrchan
disc hauled on wagons to and from tho
railroad i'll the last year shows what an
immense saving the enterprise would be
tt tho farmers in each year Of the future
forever. AS the Democrat says, "let us
get together and build it.
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We learn Of II country boy who work
cd in an ovnporatOr during the autumus
of his thirteenth fourteenth and fifteenth
years, attending district school dun ing
the Intervening winters. His total earn
ings were about $3.50 The winter of
his fifteenth year he attended business
college, from which he was graduated
with honors. The autumn of his six
tecnth year he became principal of the
business department of 81 tiourishing
school, and is now filling the position
with honor to himself and satisfaction to
all concerned. This gratifying result was
possible to this young man only because
he made tho most of his opportunities.
There are thousands of men, yonng and
old, who spend their time and strength
III prOclaiminS what they might do if
they had this ones chance or that ones
money. ARC Nou acquainted with any
such! Did they make the most Of the OPP
portuniticS they have hauI In spite of
all that may be said about the udvan-
tnGcS OF those possessed of wealth and
iNilucnco, the fact remains that no coun-
try on earth offers such opportunities to
tie young man---or woman--of braiui
and pluck, aS our own America. The
"Hr;lSliEg monopoiist,' about whom we
hear 80 much, Gould, Eockcfcll,I, Ar
mour, and many others, began IN rvv.
crty and rose by hard work and shrewru
foresight. You, young reader, have the
benefit of the past experience Of thou
sands of successful men without cost
Will You use it, Any young man who
has sound mind in healthy body
ought to be ashamed of spending his
time III lamcnting over the things he
might Go if he only had some other
luan's money. There's weak spot
somewhere about the individual who per
mits such fancics to blind linn to present
possibilities. FIX.