The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-01-01
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Pee 5xss calsslsaess
ns. Ep'rosf We are sojoying Christmas
holidays. bnt (nsl s.y they are duller than
usoal will ~ ssy sny,hing about the
hard times ss m have heard enough already
but will say ssmsthipg about the future,
and what thiat yill be the result IL cor
tain thing, tsrases.
u.;sn Some Sa. Snsi sr' ago tho people of
Si6O,000 TOT ,4rtanburs and AsheviIle
Railroad. Ahssetl2p v.s held, .uas4s.'
subscrif ton fsft haye. bs.o nskiag
some cslsuiafiops Of shst IL 1, costing the
ts1 payers OF onion % unity. have o,leu-
lated the in'eres, at 10 per cent per snuum,
com rousied, and asd at the cod Of the
fifteen ydsrs, we have paid in round num-
bers ($s3l .009) three hundred and thirty
one thousand aud nino dollars, and we will
bave pid q. the end Of twenty years, whe,
the bonis will be due, 10 round numbers,
| ($507. .p2) fve hundred and ninety seven
thousard, one hundred and ninety-two
dollars and still not cent Of thoss binds
paii-his amount being only the interest on
them compounded.
Nov, II the Treasurer of Union County, at
the ePl Of twenty years. had this amount on
hand the County cou!l build sp:enJid
| Gotten mill, at Union or SINE 9th err point in
the County, but. alas, it is gone. forever. l
also calculated the i5abtaafs arpoundei up
| t,f f,,-lp o.AGsn,n hoQ IN NJ
(S4,ls9,5S3) four Globhe hundred aud
eighty-nins$lhsastion 6ve hundred and
thIrty-.hreo dSSen Shieh, equally divided
among the ten townships. would be .$ils,-
o53, to each township, enough 10 build a
good cotton mill IN c,ch township, or build
a railroad from Union or some other point
to Lockbart Sh nl., or bu Id the largest
cotton mill 10 tlr South. Tax payers Of
Union, read thes, figures and think for
| yourselves. II , no wonder taxes are
high in Union; ant to n Id more burdens on
the taxpayers o Union, some intereste |
parties ore gettin; up boom for branch
railroad from Jo,esville to Lpckhart Shoals,
aud asking the taxpayers Of Piucxncy AMI
Jonesville townsh) rs, each to subscribe
twenty thousand dollars to hep build it,.
OF course they don't exi ect that Jonesville
will vote the tax, but they are hoping that
| pinckney will.
To the tax p'yp's of tie townships OF
Pinckney aud Jonesille, say. vote this tax
on yourselves. then{ny advice to you oil will
be to sell out as sech-cs possible, for in n
short time If the SSeriff does not sell your
property the trcas,hsr will. know it will
raise the value Of lanis near the Shoals, but
are all the rest Of the townships to pay
tribute to few VIII, happen to live near the
Shoals?
But they tell us it will raise The pricc OF
cotton. Well, if it vas t, do 50 it is more
than the mills in Spartanburg have done,
unless it was at certain times. Last Winter
/ hauled cotton t, Uuion an got the bnyers
to bi OH it. They offered me cnly 81 cents
for .he hest grade. shipped it to Chares-
ton and got 9.56 net, a clear profit Of over
one cent per pound above what was offered
right here at the mills.
NO, NY iriehusf RlpC'i HHiiS Cpiy' Phy
high price, fed SSlVa is1sM, in
>-1s,l -1tEs,rl--.--ss,s, - - .ssss 1h
here hut are IS S9!eke freight has to b,
other SStre manufactured goods as we'll a.
pf"xc raw materi,', therefore there is n,
OH tng of freight to our advantage, as alvo
savfa by interested parties.
caIsf6w Mr.. Editor, don't understand me n
NSsiug railroads and factories. wan!
opiEsholders TO build all they can, but d.
st8t think those should he made to he'll
who it will not benefit. Let us help bull
the road hy private subscription, and tn s
who it will benefit mos, should subscribe th
most. l will subscribe something out O
my little means Frien Is don't think, yo,
who live near the Sholls, that there is n for
tune for you in truck farms or pctat
patchis rr gardens. 1t might pay those VIII
think there is rnuch~ihoney to be made il
scllpg vegetables, etc. at factories, to 90 I
the communities netr the cotton Mills j
Spartarbnrs and find out there how tn
truck farms are paying there.
FARAHR.
, MukpxI At A WEpDING FEAsT.-Mcrider
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