The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-02-12
For the TIMES,
a Farmer CT Farming and Railroads.

PEA RIDGE, Feb. 6.-I again ask space in
your columns to give you some of the news
ON the ridge. We farmers are very busy
now, sowing oats and cleeniug off land.
We intend te SOW great Il any more oats
this year than usual; but there is ono mis-
take we make, and that is. sowing our poor-
est land in oats. We ought 10 SOW soms of
our best land, then if we fail in making q
crap of cats We can plant it in corn or peas.
The most news ! hear Oh the ridge is the
removal Of Scott aud Morgan, aud the Jones'
vile pnd Lockhar Shoals Railroad.
Some are abusing Gov 1illman for remov-
ing Scott md Morgan; but if the reports 10
true he could not have done otherwise.
criminal cin be found against them they
should be restored, but if guilty of fraud
they should suffer the penalty of the law.
1t is very hard now for the people of Union
County to believe that those gentlemen have
acted dishonest, and they will no, believe il
until it is proved.
MIR. Editor, if you wiz permit, / will
give the readers Of Pinckney and Jonesville
townships q fow facts and then ask some one
to crack the nut. What figures ! shall give
is from an official In Jonesyille Farmer 8
article a week or two ngo, he mentions tho
prosperity Of the people Of Spartanburg
County. 1t is true that there is greN deal
Of wealth in that County. They have over
100 miles of valuable alroai and II or Is
cotton mills. besides ice, wagon and buggy
and canuins fac ories, with all those flour
ishing towns from Gnffneys down 10 Pacolet,
These figures obtained recently from an
official Of Spartauburg. Now, my friends,
who advocate that II we vote this $4,000
subsc H. ton TO the Jonesville ani Iockhart
Shoals Railroad that it win reduce our
taxes. why does it not do it in Spartanbura
County? That is ali stuff to preach anything
of that kind.
Now, with those railroal Is and all those
cotton mills and fact o"ics, yet the people OF
Spsrt.nburs county pay more taxes on
their properly than we do, save the 81 mills
we ply on those S. & A. II. II. bonds, viii III
is clear loss to us. We are yaying III
mills on the dollar this year; take 81 from
IN, leaves 133. SO you can sea our poor
Job Turkey county pays mill less taxes on
the dollar than Spa, tanburg. | am inclined
to think il we had tho Rail- Dads IT Spartan
burg In Uhion, the IL or 18 cotton mills at
Lock hart Shoals, and all the faciori,s and
the other property in Spartanburg, it would
not decrease our taxes. Why is this 80. 1t
docs look TO me like il ought 10 decrease
then. Ii is because they have voted too
many raj road bonds to pay interest on. L can
give no other reason. hen tax payers of
Jonesville and Pinckpey townships, be
careful how you cast your votes on the 16lb,
for that $4,000 to Joncsyillc aud Pinckuey
is the same as 100000 to Union county.
What would the peGpe Of Union say if they
were asked TO subscribe 100000 TO some
Railroad? A mans life woul not be sac
10 como to Union county and ask for that
amount; yet it is n little thing 10 ask $40, 900
from the people of Jonesvillc and Pinekney.
There is yet o good deal of grippe on the
Ridge, and sane desths. Mr.. Willie Sweat
do1 last Thursday morning of puepmon q,
and was buried at Fo,ter's Chapel yester-
day. lie was moral young min, and the
'bsresyed family have the sympaihies Of the
community.
Mr.. Editor, / had Other things 10 say but
my letter is already toe long.
FARMER.