The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-11-19
Piedmont NeHs,

Tho Piedmont Manufacturing Company
have Just finished their rock dam across
the Snluda, which is ore Of the best dams
in the United States. 1t is five hundred
and eighty feet and seven inches long. in
Guiding the abutments and breast ut head
gates, and has an overflow of two hundred
and seventeen feet and nine inches. The
base of the dam is sixteen feet. and is ten
feet at the top, where the overflow runs
and is twenty-five feet high. The entire
structure is Of solid rubble masonry, and
contains seven thousand cubic yards
built of granite and HotI'man's Rosendale
Cement. Tie abutments are about
thirty feet high, and have four flood gates
built in, each five feet wide by six feet
high. The gates are operated by worm
gears, SO that they can >be raised or low
cred al any time when required. VIM. +:
Lee, c. T., who laid of and superintended
the building of this dam, is to build one
next Spring for the Trion Manufacturing
Company on Chattanooga River. Trion,
Ca, which will be built much after the
plan of the above, except the rock used
will be limestone, instead of granite.
The many friends of q. r. Mckinney
were glad to meet him in Piedmont on
last Sunday. Zack is first class factory
man. He is now Superintendent of Trion
Mills, Trion, Ga, formerly boss weaver
and assistant Superintendent at Piedmont.
The operatives who worked under him in
Piedmont have lately made him hand
some present of gold watch chain in
token of their respect for him.
The Piedmont Company had the mis-
fortune of having one side Of their Pen.
stock (Which was a wooden strncture) to
blow out one day last week. It was built
in 1875, aud had served it's time we'll to
last so long. The Company will soon
have it replaced with new one. In the
mean time the mills mos. and p will be
run by their 800 horse power Harris-C Cor
lis Engine.
The rain last wesk helped the turnip
patches and put the ground in good 'or-
der" for plowing in wheat. I hope every
body will sow some wheat, if not enough
to do them. A little will be better than
none. Let us all try to make more wheat,
more corn and more oats, and raise our
own meat and less cotton, then we can
say what we will do and what we will not
do with some degree of certainty.
The health of our community IS very
good, in fact Piedmont is the healthiest
place in the United States, for the Census
Commissioner would not take the census
takers report of the number of deaths in
the census year until all the doctors and
President of the factory and several other
witnesses had certified to it think they
only had nine or ten reported as died, and
MIR. Porter said with the number of peo'
ple in the place there should have been at
least twenty or twenty. five deaths. Well,
now we can't help it If we don't die as fast
as the Yankees think we should. These
good people at Piedmont all work for
their living and vote the Democratic
ticket (the most of them) and have every
facility furnished them by the: Company
tor their convenience and health, and II
they don't die as fast as in some other
localities, or on an average with them,
why we can't help it, that's all.