The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-25
THE SHOPS.
The improvements Still Going On
Our People Taking Much Interest

In Them.
Daily our people visit the shops and witness
progress in settling up the machinery and IN
repairing the engines and cars, while addi-
tional tracks are being laid and much other
work Is being done on the yard.
This Is now the station at which the en-
gines and traInmen on the passenger trains
are changed. and this is the place where the
train men on the freight trains lie over during
their "of days.
The shop people, train masters, and the
tralnmen together with their families make Il
very considerable number OF our population
even now. Owing TO lack of houses num-
Der Of families have been unable as yet TO
move here, but rs fast us accommodations
can be had for them the remaining families
will come TO Ahbeville.
Some of the heads OF families desire to BUY
lots and bui Id houses OF their own, but we De.
liere the larger proportion prefer 70 rent
that railroad employees may be ordered To
duty in other places, and because OF other
reasons requiring many or them 10 move.
they 90 not want 10 own the houses;
In due time, however, houses Will be pro-
vided for all who desire 10 rent, and Such
others who wish TO bny land and build thclr
own houses will find citizens mere ready
to lend money TO such as can furnish part.
The town will build up In the direction
Of the shops, and there will be q reasonable
demand for vacant lots lying on the west slae
OF the town. and until that demand IN satls-
fed building lots vii! com mand good prices.
The shop people desire TO build In the al.
rection of the village and not too far from the
shops. BY living between the village and
town and their places OF business. They will
be In good distance from the school ana the
churches.
In order to bring the shops and the town
closer together, and In order 10 open up new
lots for sale II Is quite likely that the town
and Judge Cothran will open continuation
OF the Moseley Ferry road from the branch 10
the Shops Judge Cothrun will give the right
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will do the necessary work. BY opening this
street the distance from the shops Will be
greatly reduced. and will IN large measure,
do away with the necessity for building busi-
| ress houses at the shops TO compete with the
stores and other business houses IN town..
Some idea Of the amount OF money wbicn
the g.. O. & N. will pay out here may be had
| from the amount which WAS paid out about
the 18th of this month. We learn that the
pay roll for shopmen and trainmen was
IS 800, and that that amount was paid out al
may be supposed. that amount turned loose
| in little town like Abbeville will be felt III
| many lines OF business. The advantages O.
having the snops In town are felt In variou:
Real estate on the west side of town Is on
boorp, but OF course the pendulum will swing
back and prices will rccede from present 6g
ures, or else there will be done but litnitett
amount Of building. AS business PROPOSE
tIon the Press and Banner believes the wis
man will sell his Improbable or unprodnct
i've real estate when a fair Ouer mas Ueet
made, Hon. w. II l'arke has acted on thi
plan and he has made we'll out with sinai
| Quantity OF land, rea lizing about $20O An acr
for five or six acres which has not hereiofor
been profitable. There Is nothing like takin
things at the ioodtide. There Is much un
productive land around town, ana If the own
ers wish to realize fair price for IT, now
the time to sell. Land will never be highe
In Abbevile than 1t Is to-day. and II will u
all probability be only little time unit
there will be more land than buyers. B.
selling now the town will be built up and pei
manent good will result 10 the town, but
the present movement IN that direction
suppressed our town cannot grow.
1t Is TO be hoped therefore that those VIII
have spare lands, and who may wish TO rea
ize on them, will be wise enough to make
known that they will sell at reasonable rs
ures There are thousands OF building lots Il
the town and the fact that there Is u dema II
for twenty-five of them need not send tn
prices OF all to ten times The former prices
At present few men who are solvent anu hop
O remain so, can afford to buy an acre OF oil
fe Id land, or dozen gnlleys.
With a few exceptions, there need be n
doubt that land is held at higher figures L
day than 1t will ever command in the life {
this generation. Let Abbeville keep her hea
square on her shoulder and continue To NOV
right straight along. We have big debt O
us and we need AS many people and as man
houses rs possible 10 help pay 1t.