The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-05-19
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What vvo lavSAtow and What We
VIII Have.

VIII Have.
Those who have not visited our little
town for the last year, or even for the last
few months, would be surprised at the
wonderful and marked improvements that
have been made. Our people arc deter
mined no longer to bc behind other thrifty
and busy marts Of thc world, and in order
to reach the goal of material prosperity
unusual efforts and strides arc being made.
1t has been proven (and to our dctrimcnt)
that If We are to enjoy the full benefits Of
association, business and social relations
with the outside world, we have to 20 into
our pockets and bring out the cold, hard
dollars, as we'll rs to write, talk and think
of these matters.
We have one of the finest counties i'm
the State 1t cannot be cXccllcd in its pro.
ductivcness, climate or health. And lust
around us ut our own door, SO to speak, VIC
have one of the finest villages to be found
in the South. 1t is attractive, quiet, and
surrounded with the finest scenery that can
be imagined. We have six stores that do
general mercantile business, livery Sta
bic, drug store, high school, hotel, beef
market, two newspapers, three blacksmith
and wood shops, three churches, Baptist.
Methodist and Presbyterian, all with good
Sunday schools. The amount of business
done Ivy our merchants is marvellous.
Plckens is the only convenient market be-
tween the Air Line railroad and Brevard,
N: G., distance of thirty-fvc or forty
miles, and the larger part of the country
between this place and Brcvard is SUPPLIED
with goods by our merchants. People
from the country see and realize the bene-
hts or living here, and are buying property
in town or within easy reach so as to have
q OHU UO ,tDCr nft
churches And our merchants have 80 apprc-
cialcd the patronage of the people that
they are making greater efforts than ever
before to so enlarge ard increase their bus
mess as to merit a continuance. New
stores and residences are being built on ev-
cry side, and the ring of the carpenters
saw and hammer keeps things in a buzz,
and ere long we predict the vacant places
will be things of the past around Pickcns
Six sawmills are now located within hear
ing OF the town, turning out thousands of
feet of lumber every day for the use of the
town and railroad. Two brick mills are
almost at our door moulding from IL, 600
to $4,000 brick per day. With all these
facts before us, is it not enough to make us
feel good, and to strive to hold fast to that
which we have and to look forward to that
which
WE WILL rAvE?
If responsible men arc to be believed,
we will soon have one of the ncatcst and
hest court houses in The State for the mon
ey. Thousands of Shovcls of dirt are be-
ing thrown every day on the Pickcns rail-
road which, when completed, will Join us
to the busy world. 1t is in tic breeze too
that stock company is forming for the
erection of one o: the finest hotels i'm the
South on the top Of CLASSY Mountain,
which Is two miles cast of town and i'm
half mile of the railroad. 1t is talked too
that people arc watching our efforts, enter
prise and thrift, and many contemplate
casting their lot with us. The doors are
open and we will welcome ali who wish to
come IN. But forgetting for the time be
ing the things which we lave and will
have, let Us not be forectful Of the future.
we have made wonderful improvements
ana accomplished much in the last twelve
months, and we must now bend our encr-
Sics to get those things which